Re: [IRCA] Sept 27 live TP report

[Nicholas Hall-Patch]

>Nothing like yesterday.
>In bed?
>Stay there. ;-)

>774 and 1566 in audio.


Thanks for being the canary in the coal mine Colin.

 It wasn't quite so bad on Gabriola Island; nearby Georgia Strait water
helps I guess.  NHK2 on 909 and 1089 for example, though both were weak.
954 and 1143 also delivered reasonable audio at times, but except for 1566
the big guns seemed a little subdued.

best wishes,

Nick


On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 1:18 PM, coffee_canuck 
wrote:

> Nothing like yesterday.
> In bed?
> Stay there. ;-)
>
> 774 and 1566 in audio.
>
> Colin Newell - CoffeeCrew.com - VA7WWV - Victoria - BC
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[IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 9-27

[d1028gary]

Despite Colin's negative report this morning's session did have some 
interesting moments, including some unusually good signals from the middle band 
Japanese. Overall Asian propagation did suffer a major drop off in comparison 
to yesterday, but 1134-JOQR had its best signal of the season here late around 
1340. 
  
Early on around 1250 only the usual regular 1566-HLAZ had much energy, with 
good signals at the beginning of the Japanese program. Other Asians were very 
slow to come out of the noise, with the NHK big guns on 594 and 693 finally 
managing fair peaks around 1315, and 1503-JOUK reaching a poor to fair level at 
1320. 1566-HLAZ continued to be the only vibrant Asian until around 1335, when 
the relatively obscure station 1134-JOQR began a pretty impressive run to rise 
above the Vancouver splatter for about 5 minutes. Reaching fair to good peaks 
at times, the female announcer's hyper-level Japanese speech cut through the 
CKWX splatter quite well, reaching its best level of the new season (1134 is 
usually dominated by KBS here). 1053-JOAR also made a fair appearance in the 
Jammer's shadow, hitting equal strength at times. Late on around 1345 both 
603-HLSA and 738-BEL2 reached threshold levels, but neither signal went 
anywhere since the band quickly collapsed. Except for the middle-band Japanese 
signals the session was pretty much of a clunker, but probably typical for late 
September in a lean solar year. 
  
1134  JOQR   Tokyo, Japan   Japanese female speech rising above Vancouver 
splatter to reach fair to good peaks; its best signal of the new season 
https://app.box.com/s/fb1r7icnjrt1fkhgj4bics6hqt6fas1i   
  
73 and Good DX, 
Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA) 
7.5" loopstick C.Crane Skywave + 
15" FSL antenna 
  
  
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Re: [IRCA] Sept 27 live TP report

[Derek Vincent via IRCA]

--- Begin Message ---
That's because the DX moved to the south and started early 10:00Utc start 
time.I had audio and carriers mid band and up using a amplified CB antenna. 
Then at 13:40Utc it went dead.

What was the two signals on 855khz?

This was a day to be at the coast.

Thanks

derekvme...@aol.com
 


> On Sep 27, 2015, at 6:18 AM, coffee_canuck  wrote:
> 
> Nothing like yesterday. 
> In bed?
> Stay there. ;-) 
> 
> 774 and 1566 in audio.
> 
> Colin Newell - CoffeeCrew.com - VA7WWV - Victoria - BC
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[IRCA] Navtex

[Chris Black]

Just wondering if anyone in the group uses SeaTTY software for Navtex.

Thanks
Chris
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Re: [IRCA] Navtex

[Chris Black]

Thanks Mmartin for getting back. BTW, I used to live in Mission Viejo way 
back in another life. Bet it's grown! Am now sitting out the "seventh inning 
stretch" of this game in an antenna restricted community in Redmond WA. I 
managed to sneak in a few antennas, a Wellbrook loop and a couple of long 
wires but it's a far cry from my previous location on Cape Cod.


Anyway, would like to get back to some of the utilities I used to do a few 
years ago. Have some questions on setting up SeaTTY for Navtex.


NORMAL - how to set and when/why change
AFC local deviation -  ?
AFC global deviation  - ?
AFC on or off -- probably ON?
SQL on or off and what number (default is 50 but not sure what that means)

I am using an Elad SDR in CW mode, which I recall works best for data modes.

Also just curious where does the 1,700 for center frequency (default 
sub-carrier) come from? is that SITOR B specific?


Any other tip, tricks or comments MOST appreciated.

best 73 de Chris
Redmond WA



-Original Message- 
From: martinfo...@cox.net

Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2015 11:24 AM
To: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Cc: irca-requ...@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Navtex

I use SeaTTY for NAVTEX/FAX/DSC/RTTY. I haven't tried any other software.

Martin Foltz
Mission Viejo CA


Message: 6
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 08:44:05 -0700
From: "Chris Black" 
To: "IRCA" 
Subject: [IRCA] Navtex

Just wondering if anyone in the group uses SeaTTY software for Navtex.

Thanks
Chris


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Re: [IRCA] TP DX 27 Sept

[coffee_canuck]

My entire sesh was 1305 until 1335 -

Watching the Fish-Barrel was like seeing and ebbing tide. Clearly there was a 
sunrise enhancement.

Audio at times good on:
594, 603, 747, 774,828, 891, 1017, 1053, 1287, 1386, 1566...

Hints of plausible audio on 531, 558, 567, 603, 702, etc...

Not a wash out but nothing like yesterday -

How quickly we become spoilt. 

Receivers: Drakes, Icoms, Kenwoods, Etons, etc.

Antenna - Wellbrook enhanced loops and flags.

Colin Newell - CoffeeCrew.com - VA7WWV - Victoria - BC

> On Sep 27, 2015, at 12:20 PM, Nicholas Hall-Patch  wrote:
> 
> Different conditions on Gabriola Island from both Colin's and Gary's.
> 
> Things were reasonably dull until around 1340UT; only HLAZ was consistently
> fair to excellent in strength,  but things livened up for about the next
> half hour or so, finally throwing in the towel around 1415UT
> 
> A couple of  Chinese sounding males showed up on 945 and 1593,
> unfortunately at different times, so no // possible.
> 
> 4QR-612 had ABC news at 1400UT, but not much else DU action except for the
> big carrier and tiny audio on 1017.
> 
> 1242 had some fairly vigorous showings, as did 1287.
> 
> 909 and 1089 had weak NHK2 stations, and finally heard some Japanese on
> 1053 after the jammer quit at 1402UT, and the session finished off with
> Japanese talk on 1332.
> 
> 1062 seemed to have a Filipino, but mostly pretty weak.
> 
> Except for HLAZ, which was strong even after the switch to the Chinese
> program, things were spotty, but at least there was DX there.
> 
> best wishes,
> 
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[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

[NOAA WWV]

:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt
:Issued: 2015 Sep 27 1805 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
#
#  Geophysical Alert Message
#
Solar-terrestrial indices for 26 September follow.
Solar flux 120 and estimated planetary A-index 4.
The estimated planetary K-index at 1800 UTC on 27 September was 1.
Space weather for the past 24 hours has been minor.
Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level occurred.
No space weather storms are predicted for the next 24 hours.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Trends -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Date 26   26   26   26   26   26   26   27   27   27   27   27   27   27
UTC  0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100  0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800
SFlx 120  120  120  120  120  120  120  120  120  120  120  120  120  120
A-in 77777764444444
K-in 21011121111111
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Re: [IRCA] Navtex

[James Renfrew]

Chris,

I had to change laptops a couple of years ago (catastrophically, because of
a car accident), so I lost my SeaTTY program.  I haven't replaced it yet.
I should.  It's a great way to snag very unusual receptions on the edge of
the MW band.  Chile, Argentina, Hawaii, etc  I don't exactly remember the
settings, but, yes, there is that 1700 offset.

Jim Renfrew

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Chris Black  wrote:

> Just wondering if anyone in the group uses SeaTTY software for Navtex.
>
> Thanks
> Chris
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Re: [IRCA] [ABDX] 1710 possible

[Les Rayburn]

A Part 15 signal on 1710 KHz in the US would be illegal regardless of 
power level, correct? If I'm not mistaken, Part 15 only allows 
transmissions up to 1705 KHz.


Many amateurs operated Part 15 CW beacons on LF frequencies in the 
1980's and 90's called "Lowfer" beacons. We also deployed Part 15 
"Medfer" beacons on the high end of the AM band before the X-band filled 
with stations. It wasn't uncommon for these 100 mw CW beacons to be 
received out to a thousand miles or more.


Strangely, I've never logged a pirate or any other station on 1710 KHz 
since the fishing buoys disappeared several years ago. Not from lack of 
trying...I check it at home and in the car often.


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Maylene, AL
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Former CPC Chairman for NRC/IRCA

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On 9/27/2015 12:19 PM, neilkaz wrote:

Their website has a link for streamed audio which I checked and it works.

If a part 15, perhaps they are running more than legal part 15 power as I 
suspect a few here in the US do.

Your noise floor with the DKAZ aimed N is so low, that getting a part 15 via 
skip wouldn't shock me.

73 KAZ

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From: "Tim Tromp kilok...@gmail.com [ABDX]" 
Sent: Sep 27, 2015 12:02 AM
To: IRCA Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America 
, abdx 
Subject: [ABDX] 1710 possible "CHIM FM", pirate?

A bit of a mystery tonight in Michigan.  I was tuning around the band and
found a stronger than usual signal on 1710.  Religious talk and Christian
pop music from what I could tell with a decent signal but horrible
distorted modulation (at times it sounded better using the FM mode on my
Perseus).  There have been occasional mentions of Canada between songs.
Strangely I've also heard what sounds like current weather conditions read
by a female robo voice, similar to the TIS stations that rebroadcast NOAA
weather radio, but this doesn't sound like one of the usual TIS stations
that now populate 1710 from the East.  This is sometimes given between
songs for about 30 seconds or so.  0500 UTC now and still going.  A bit of
Googling returned a hit for CHIM FM out of Timmins, Ontario:

http://www.chimfm.com/

Note the reference to 1710 AM.

I have no confirmation or ID yet (that I can understand anyway) but
everything seems to point to this station (signal even seems best on the
North D-KAZ).

Anyone know what's going on here?  If it's a Part 15 station then I
shouldn't be hearing it from here.  Is anyone else hearing this one?  How
about you Ontario guys?

I also found this thread on Radioinsight interesting:

https://radioinsight.com/community/topic/chim-fm-possibly-making-an-unlicensed-return-to-terrestrial-airwaves/

73,
Tim Tromp
West Michigan

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[IRCA] TP DX 27 Sept

[Nicholas Hall-Patch]

Different conditions on Gabriola Island from both Colin's and Gary's.

Things were reasonably dull until around 1340UT; only HLAZ was consistently
fair to excellent in strength,  but things livened up for about the next
half hour or so, finally throwing in the towel around 1415UT

A couple of  Chinese sounding males showed up on 945 and 1593,
unfortunately at different times, so no // possible.

4QR-612 had ABC news at 1400UT, but not much else DU action except for the
big carrier and tiny audio on 1017.

1242 had some fairly vigorous showings, as did 1287.

909 and 1089 had weak NHK2 stations, and finally heard some Japanese on
1053 after the jammer quit at 1402UT, and the session finished off with
Japanese talk on 1332.

1062 seemed to have a Filipino, but mostly pretty weak.

Except for HLAZ, which was strong even after the switch to the Chinese
program, things were spotty, but at least there was DX there.

best wishes,

Nick
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[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

[NOAA WWV]

:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt
:Issued: 2015 Sep 28 0010 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
#
#  Geophysical Alert Message
#
Solar-terrestrial indices for 27 September follow.
Solar flux 128 and estimated planetary A-index 4.
The estimated planetary K-index at  UTC on 28 September was 2.
Space weather for the past 24 hours has been minor.
Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level occurred.
No space weather storms are predicted for the next 24 hours.

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Date 26   26   26   26   26   27   27   27   27   27   27   27   27   28
UTC  0900 1200 1500 1800 2100  0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100 
SFlx 120  120  120  120  120  120  120  120  120  120  120  120  128  128
A-in 77776444444464
K-in 01112111111122
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[IRCA] AM BCB DX….Recent ELAD Captures…2 NEW STATIONS

[Robert Ross]

Hi Guys:

 I continue to record TOH Time Slots every hour during the Evening hours 
(1900-0700 EDT). Unfortunately I haven't found much time to review the said 
recordings. However…….I have found a few New Stations and some other 
interesting stuff on the recordings I have reviewed this past week or so.  I 
have a Lot of Stuff still to review, so hopefully more goodies will be found 
there….

RECEIVER………..ELAD FDM-S2 SDR

ANTENNA ………100 Foot Longwire

AM STATION LOG TOTAL………..1607 Stations Heard

73ROB VA3SW

Robert S. Ross
London, Ontario CANADA

**
1300  WAVZ  New Haven, CT.  Sept/17/15  0059 EDT EE   FAIR
ID By Male DJ @ 0059 EDT as "ESPN RADIO 1300 WAVZ". Spot for
Mike and Mike. Into Sports Talk ESPN IDs and Promos.

NEW STN 1 KW
ROSS, ON.
***
1240  WATN  Watertown, NEW YORK  Sept/18/15  0600 EDT  EEFAIR
ID by Male DJ @ 0600 EDT as "AM 1240 WATN - Watertown". Into CBS
News @ 0600 EDT.

NEW STN GRAVEYARDER # 163 Heard  1 KW
ROSS, ON.
***
1440  WZYX  Cowan, TENNESSEE  Sept/18/15  0259 EDT   EE   GOOD
Male DJ with ID @ 0259 EDT. "Local News, Weather, Sports and more - 
Your home of the Eagle Radio WZYX Cowan, Tennessee".
Into FOX News @ 0300 EDT.

RELOG   5 KW/66 Watts Nights
ROSS, ON.
***
1470  WBFC  Stanton, KENTUCKY  Sept/18/15  0300 EDTEEFAIR
Female with Ad for "Papa John's Pizza @ 221 S. Main Street in Stanton".
ID by Male DJ @ 0300 EDT as "1470 WBFC". Also ID as "THE CROSS - 
1470 WBFC". Into Religious Music.

RELOG2.5 KW/25 Watts Nights
ROSS, ON.
***
1600  KGYM  Cedar Rapids, IOWA  Sept/18/15  0300 EDT EEFAIR
ID by Male DJ @ 0300 EDT as "Sports Radio  1600 KGYM - Cedar Rapids".
Into Sports Talk.

RELOG   5 KW
ROSS, ON.
***
1160  WSKW  Skowhegan, MAINE  Sept/18/15  0558 EDT EE  GOOD
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[IRCA] Sept 27 live TP report

[coffee_canuck]

Nothing like yesterday. 
In bed?
Stay there. ;-) 

774 and 1566 in audio.

Colin Newell - CoffeeCrew.com - VA7WWV - Victoria - BC
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Re: [IRCA] [ABDX] 1710 possible

[neilkaz]

Their website has a link for streamed audio which I checked and it works. 

If a part 15, perhaps they are running more than legal part 15 power as I 
suspect a few here in the US do.

Your noise floor with the DKAZ aimed N is so low, that getting a part 15 via 
skip wouldn't shock me.

73 KAZ

-Original Message-
>From: "Tim Tromp kilok...@gmail.com [ABDX]" 
>Sent: Sep 27, 2015 12:02 AM
>To: IRCA Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America 
>, abdx 
>Subject: [ABDX] 1710 possible "CHIM FM", pirate?
>
>A bit of a mystery tonight in Michigan.  I was tuning around the band and
>found a stronger than usual signal on 1710.  Religious talk and Christian
>pop music from what I could tell with a decent signal but horrible
>distorted modulation (at times it sounded better using the FM mode on my
>Perseus).  There have been occasional mentions of Canada between songs.
>Strangely I've also heard what sounds like current weather conditions read
>by a female robo voice, similar to the TIS stations that rebroadcast NOAA
>weather radio, but this doesn't sound like one of the usual TIS stations
>that now populate 1710 from the East.  This is sometimes given between
>songs for about 30 seconds or so.  0500 UTC now and still going.  A bit of
>Googling returned a hit for CHIM FM out of Timmins, Ontario:
>
>http://www.chimfm.com/
>
>Note the reference to 1710 AM.
>
>I have no confirmation or ID yet (that I can understand anyway) but
>everything seems to point to this station (signal even seems best on the
>North D-KAZ).
>
>Anyone know what's going on here?  If it's a Part 15 station then I
>shouldn't be hearing it from here.  Is anyone else hearing this one?  How
>about you Ontario guys?
>
>I also found this thread on Radioinsight interesting:
>
>https://radioinsight.com/community/topic/chim-fm-possibly-making-an-unlicensed-return-to-terrestrial-airwaves/
>
>73,
>Tim Tromp
>West Michigan

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Re: [IRCA] Navtex

[martinfoltz]

I use SeaTTY for NAVTEX/FAX/DSC/RTTY. I haven't tried any other software.

Martin Foltz
Mission Viejo CA

> Message: 6
> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 08:44:05 -0700
> From: "Chris Black" 
> To: "IRCA" 
> Subject: [IRCA] Navtex
> 
> Just wondering if anyone in the group uses SeaTTY software for Navtex.
> 
> Thanks
> Chris

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Re: [IRCA] [ABDX] 1710 possible

[Tim Tromp]

Mystery solved.  With a little help from some underground radio friends,
I've learned this was a test transmission originating somewhere around
Timmins, Ontario (roughly 480 miles NNE).  The transmitter was 35 watts
into an inverted L antenna.  The testing is for CHIM-FM's future 1710
transmitter that they reference on their website.  The test broadcast I
heard wasn't officially CHIM but rather the person tweaking their
transmitter from what I gathered.  It's unknown if CHIM plans on running
the same output power when 1710 goes live.

Here's a clip of what I heard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6GENjxJsfs

It's on again right now at 2358 UTC as I type this and the op hinted he
might boost it up to 50 watts tonight.

73,
Tim Tromp
West Michigan


On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 1:19 PM, neilkaz neil...@earthlink.net [ABDX] <
a...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> Their website has a link for streamed audio which I checked and it works.
>
> If a part 15, perhaps they are running more than legal part 15 power as I
> suspect a few here in the US do.
>
> Your noise floor with the DKAZ aimed N is so low, that getting a part 15
> via skip wouldn't shock me.
>
> 73 KAZ
>
> -Original Message-
> >From: "Tim Tromp kilok...@gmail.com [ABDX]" 
> >Sent: Sep 27, 2015 12:02 AM
> >To: IRCA Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America <
> irca@hard-core-dx.com>, abdx 
> >Subject: [ABDX] 1710 possible "CHIM FM", pirate?
> >
> >A bit of a mystery tonight in Michigan. I was tuning around the band and
> >found a stronger than usual signal on 1710. Religious talk and Christian
> >pop music from what I could tell with a decent signal but horrible
> >distorted modulation (at times it sounded better using the FM mode on my
> >Perseus). There have been occasional mentions of Canada between songs.
> >Strangely I've also heard what sounds like current weather conditions read
> >by a female robo voice, similar to the TIS stations that rebroadcast NOAA
> >weather radio, but this doesn't sound like one of the usual TIS stations
> >that now populate 1710 from the East. This is sometimes given between
> >songs for about 30 seconds or so. 0500 UTC now and still going. A bit of
> >Googling returned a hit for CHIM FM out of Timmins, Ontario:
> >
> >http://www.chimfm.com/
> >
> >Note the reference to 1710 AM.
> >
> >I have no confirmation or ID yet (that I can understand anyway) but
> >everything seems to point to this station (signal even seems best on the
> >North D-KAZ).
> >
> >Anyone know what's going on here? If it's a Part 15 station then I
> >shouldn't be hearing it from here. Is anyone else hearing this one? How
> >about you Ontario guys?
> >
> >I also found this thread on Radioinsight interesting:
> >
> >
> https://radioinsight.com/community/topic/chim-fm-possibly-making-an-unlicensed-return-to-terrestrial-airwaves/
> >
> >73,
> >Tim Tromp
> >West Michigan
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[IRCA] One for the RFI win column - improving ones radio love life.

[R. Colin Newell]

We have been in our new house for just over a year - it is the result of
over 10 years of saving and searching for the perfect place --

Perfect in that it is town and country, has underground utilities,
does not have any industry near by and is quiet electrically.

What I discovered after moving in is that there was a neighbour
using BPL network devices which delivered quite the clatter all over the
bands.
I had no idea which neighbour this could be - and when you think about it,
it could be anyone within 1/2 km or so.

Anyway - I started by e-mailing my 1st neighbour that was in the path of
the radio interference. He replied almost immediately and said, "Yea, I use
a BPL device to reach a part of my house that my wireless network does not
reach - but I am rarely in there so I will turn it off and let's see what
happens!"

He switched it off and the problem vanished. Yay! Problem solved!

It's not every day that things turn out this way.

One for the good guys!

Good DX all.

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Re: [IRCA] West Coast TA watch - SEPT 27 (UTC)

[Mike Stonebridge]

Many carriers up here Don. Spread across the band from 153 to the high 1400’s. 
Several producing audio with 1413 being the best, with two men talking in what 
sounded like Russian. Only snippets of audio from 189. 1215 produced very poor 
audio at time, otherwise just a carrier. The remainder of the audio producers 
were too low to get the language. All these were heard in the period from 0245 
to 04:10 when they started to fade down.

Mike in St Isidore, AB with Perseus and an EWE.
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[IRCA] Sept 27 - Ultra Early TPs/DU

[R. Colin Newell]

Carriers on 621, 891, snippets of audio on 1017...  0640 UTC

Drake R8 - W/NW Flag
ICOM IC-R71A Wellbrook ALA100 N/S

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Re: [IRCA] Sept 27 - Ultra Early TPs/DU

[Nicholas Hall-Patch]

>Carriers on 621, 891, snippets of audio on 1017...  0640 UTC

On Gabriola, quite good audio at times on 738 and 1017 in that time period,
solid carriers on NZ frequencies 1386 1008 1107 1179,   Given that this
site hasn't been productive for DU's on past visits, either conditions are
very good, or the westerly DKaz is doing a better job than the Flags used
in the past

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 6:39 AM, R. Colin Newell 
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> Carriers on 621, 891, snippets of audio on 1017...  0640 UTC
>
> Drake R8 - W/NW Flag
> ICOM IC-R71A Wellbrook ALA100 N/S
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