[IRCA] New station heard

[James Renfrew]

Jim Renfrew, Clarendon NY

APR 2 2017

1160   WOBM   NJ   Lakewood Township   - ID in  the mess mentions "1160 and
1310".  WSKW seems to be the dominant station with "Classic Country", and
also WCCS "1160 and 101.1"  Not sure of the WOBM format, seems to be talk.
I've heard WOBM so many times in Newfoundland that I figured I'd heard it
many times at home, too.  My logbook doesn't lie - it's new here.  I
remember when there were only TWO US stations on 1160 - Utah and Chicago.
I've heard WSKW before, but usually in the afternoons.
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Re: [IRCA] DXpedition to Masset 24 - 30 March 2017

[Nick Hall-Patch]

I've been caught by this as well Walt.   WRTH A16 supplement lists 
them now as 1100-1600UT in Korean.


best wishes,

Nick


At 03:58 02-04-17, Volodya S wrote:

CHINA 1017, 1557-, CRI Mar 26 Clearly a language service at first with
excellent levels, then faded, but at end of program, I could clearly hear
'CRI' given a number of times.  PAL only lists Jilin with CRI programming
and in Korean, but only between 11:00 to 15:00 UTC.  Off by an hour here.
Interesting that there was nothing over the 16:00 TOH, though!   Time pips
and presumed ID not until 16:00:50 UTC.  A bit late!. (Salmaniw,Masset, BC)


Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
Canada 


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[IRCA] DXpedition to Masset 24 - 30 March 2017

[Volodya S]

 I just returned from a one week visit to my DX cottage near Masset, BC
on magical Haida Gwaii, off the north west coast of North America.  My
cottage is located on the ocean, and is 70 km due south of Ketchikan, AK,
the nearest city to my QTH.  On this visit, I started with my usual ALA 100
LN permanently mounted in a large diameter aimed NE/SW, and my favourite
antenna, the 750’+ BOG aimed to the NW.  After several days, and especially
when a large geomagnetic storm hit, favouring signals to the south (ie
Australia/NZ), I also added my DKAZ aimed at the east coast of Australia,
and a due north mini-Beverage of about 450’ in length, in case there were
any Euro openings.  Conditions were definitely challenging, owing to the
solar conditions.   Nonetheless, it was fun hearing 4MK 1026 from Australia
at armchair level during the peak of the storms.  My receiver set up, are 2
Perseus SDRs, with one dedicated exclusively to Mestor (timed recordings of
the entire MW and LW band), while the other is for live DXing.  An AOR
7030+ receiver is also used, primarily to record interesting programs (like
the several Indonesians on the tropical bands).As always, lots of fun,
especially with the near zero noise floor.  Now, if I could just get
internet access!   Having just returned from  Masset, please let me know if
there are any errors or omissions/corrections.  Returning home this time
was a 3 day journey, leaving Thursday afternoon to catch the overnight
ferry to the mainland, then another full day and night on the same ferry
coming down to the north tip of Vancouver Island at Port Hardy, and another
6+ hour drive home to the opposite end of the island to Victoria!  73,
Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC







AUSTRALIA 1008, 1454-, 4TAB Radio Tab Mar 27 Briefly at fair/good level
with racing play by play, then faded. (Salmaniw,Masset, BC)



AUSTRALIA 1233, 1400-, 2NC Mar 27 What an amazing morning.  One of those,
'what happened to my antenna?'.  Almost total absence of the normal TPs.
Instead, DU is present, but not super strong.  There are some unusual
stations, such as 1233, which I don't usually associate with DU with ABC
fanfare and news.  Good reception. (Salmaniw,Masset, BC)



AUSTRALIA 1296, 1405-, 6RN Mar 27 In parallel to just mentioned 1233, so
it's likely an ABC station.  There's also another station cochannel,
though, so either 4RPH, Brisbane or Newstalk, Hamilton NZ.
(Salmaniw,Masset, BC)



AUSTRALIA 1611, 1417-, Vision Radio Network Mar 29 More returning to
'normal' conditions with predominantly Asian conditions, ecept that all 4
antennas seemed to be close to identical in receiving signals this
morning.  It's as if there was a scatter service for the signals.  No one
antenna was 'best' across the spectrum.  They all worked rather well.
Today was the best X-band opening.  Audio on most of the channels.  1611
had it's usual number of stations, all off frequency.  1610.896 (fair
strength), 1610.930 (fairly strong), 1610.983 (weaker), then a smudge
between 1610.994 to 1611.004...presumably a number of stations thre,
1611.013, and 1611.023 (medium strength).  Mostly English talk, so I'm
assuming Vision Radio Network here, was the dominant station(s).
(Salmaniw,Masset, BC)



CHINA 1017, 1557-, CRI Mar 26 Clearly a language service at first with
excellent levels, then faded, but at end of program, I could clearly hear
'CRI' given a number of times.  PAL only lists Jilin with CRI programming
and in Korean, but only between 11:00 to 15:00 UTC.  Off by an hour here.
Interesting that there was nothing over the 16:00 TOH, though!   Time pips
and presumed ID not until 16:00:50 UTC.  A bit late!. (Salmaniw,Masset, BC)





 GUAM 801, 1438-, KTWG Mar 27 I initially thought this to be Rhema with C
style inspirational music.  Fair level.  The bands are best (what there is
of them) in the lower half.  Japan is very modestly present with the first
tier stations only (594, 693,747, 828, etc).  A weird morning! Rechecking a
few minutes later, at 14:44 and very nice signal now.  Same genre music.
One of the strongest stations of the morning from DU.  I went back and
listened again to 801 at up to 15:00 UTC.  At the TOH, a child gives an ID
in American accented English.  I now believe this is the 10 kW KTWG in
Agana, Guam, rather than Rhema.  I went back to the Perseus overnight TOH
wav files.  First het noted at 09:00.  I see LSS at Agana is about 08:30.
First weak audio noted at 11:00, and better each hour until 14:00 when
reception is very good.  At 13:58, they mentioned 'Through the Bible'
program, and then a PSA about being a good Mom (limitingTV time, and not
screaming at your kids, etc.). Everything with American accented English.
Excellent reception through that hour, but not one voice announcement,
unfortunately until 15:00, when reception was starting to fall off.  Thanks
to Chuck Hutton for confirming my suspicion. (Salmaniw,Masset, BC)





ICELAND 189, 0501-, Rikisutvarpid Ras 1 Mar 26 Very nice 

[IRCA] TP 1 April Victoria version

[Nick Hall-Patch]

Not an entirely foolish morning. There was a short but definite lift 
around 1330UT, and a lot of carriers that were s close, but 
mustn't let the imagination run away too much




pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, 
at least briefly):



beginning to move into the foolish realm



Reasonable audio  at  times during the period (much of it 
understandable by a native speaker, though often battling w/splash or noise):


747 JOIB  English lessons 1323UT, mostly in the muck, but a good peak here
972 HLCA emotional male ballad followed by woman and man in Korean 1315UT
1566 HLAZ choral music 1336UT;   Chinese program  also made an 
appearance at 1351UT, but quite poor; however, the only audio left by then also



not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or 
noise could be understood by a native speaker:



594 JOAK man in Japanese 1319UT
774 JOUB woman in Japanese 1339UT
828 JOBB English lessons 1308UT
873 JOGB English lessons 1316UT //828




Burbles in the splatter and noise (if lucky, language might be 
guessed at by cadence of talk, or parallel established by changes in 
talk or music)


558 HLQH soft vocal music //603 1325UT
576 man talking, DU English inflection 1309UT
603 HLSA soft vocal music //558 1325UT
702 2BL man talking after bits of ABC news fanfare 1300UT
1242 man mumbling, perhaps Japanese, too much splash to tell  1324UT
1332 vocal pop music 1328UT, any talk was too murky to tell, but 
could have been Japanese





Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or 
ravaged by splatter)


567 864 1044 1134 1179 1224   1314 1386 1422  1494 1503 1575 seemed 
to be Asian;

 612  639 891 1098 seemed   DU



best wishes,

Nick



Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
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Re: [IRCA] TP DX Report March 29 Rockaway Beach

[Volodya S]

Pat, no, nothing propagates in the heights of summer.  When Petersburg was
on AM, I could occasionally hear them, but they're gone now.  No, it's only
CBC 860 Prince Rupert and 930 KTKN that propagates during the day from
about April to SeptemberWalt

On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 7:19 AM, Patrick Martin  wrote:

> Walt,
>
>
> No sign of Sitka or Juneau during the day in the Summer?  I figured with a
> water path, you would get those as most of AK was audible even in the
> Summer during the day. That was before Barrow or Kotzebue though. When I
> lived up there, 18 states were on the air and a few AFRTS stations. Kodiak
> on 960  was the strongest with 250w.
>
>
> Patrick Martin Seaside OR KGED QSL Manager
>
>
> 
> From: IRCA  on behalf of Volodya S <
> can...@gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2017 10:27 AM
> To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
> Cc: Mark Connelly
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] TP DX Report March 29 Rockaway Beach
>
> Mark, at least into Masset, the bands are devoid of any daytime signals
> from Spring to early Fall, except for 860 CBC Prince Rupert and KTKN 930.
> Even on this trip from 16:00 or so until our local sunset, the AM band was
> pretty silent. A big difference from my last visit in January.  Winter is
> another story of course!  73, Walt
>
> On Friday, March 31, 2017, Nick Hall-Patch  wrote:
>
> > And one more data point Markat PEI early last November, we tried
> > chasing down trans-Pacifics at local sunrise.   A big problem was various
> > primarily British signals still occupying the 9kHz channels, not
> strongly,
> > but delivering audio; signals travelling across the pond from the
> > transmitter in broad daylight. Those didn't quit until nearly 20 minutes
> > after local sunrise in PEI.
> >
> > best wishes,
> >
> > Nick
> >
> >
> >
> > At 16:51 31-03-17, Mark Connelly via IRCA wrote:
> >
> > Australia 1548 in at Nick's end 3 hours after sunrise is kind of like the
> >> mirror image of what happens here on the East Coast with some TA
> stations
> >> coming in 3 or more hours before sunset at shore sites.
> >>
> >> In the NOV/DEC stretch several years back, Saudi Arabia 1521 was
> received
> >> at East Harwich, MA at 1 p.m. EST / 1800 UTC and on another occasion
> right
> >> here in South Yarmouth (former QTH of Chris Black, N1CP) with carrier at
> >> 1730 UTC, good audio by 1800.  Earliest Cape Cod sunset is 4:10 p.m.
> EST /
> >> 2110 UTC.
> >>
> >> The extreme case is Cappahayden, Newfoundland where the old Norway 1314
> >> blaster was audible all day on skip in late autumn.  Of course that's
> >> dealing with much less distance (and more power) than TP routes from
> most
> >> of western North America.
> >>
> >> It does say that quite a bit of a path can be in daylight while some
> >> degree of skywave propagation is supported.
> >>
> >> Azores 693, another now-silent TA, was all day to Cappahayden but that
> >> was actually GROUNDWAVE (about 1240 miles / 2000 km), a similar
> distance to
> >> the Turks and Caicos to West Dennis Beach, MA reliable-groundwave run
> >> enjoyed in 530's high power days.
> >>
> >> I wonder if any Asians make it Alaska or Hawaii via groundwave.
> >>
> >> Of course a chunk of Alaska has "all day" skip reception during its
> >> lengthy winter when the sun barely gets above the horizon.
> >>
> >> Mark Connelly, WA1ION
> >> South Yarmouth, MA
> >>
> >> <<
> >> A belated thank you to Craig and Walt for their DXpedition reports
> >> for this date. I'll round it out with a report from Tofino
> >> BC, using a NetSDR and ALA100 pair.
> >>
> >> First noted Tonga with quite a good signal, island music and talk
> >> before 0600UT.
> >>
> >> Then, after 1300UT quite a lot of Japanese, including NHK1 on 946 and
> >> NHK2 on 1386 in addition to the larger guns, but 1593 was CNR1, and
> >> maybe Tagalog on 837, and Korean on 657then there were commercial
> >> Japanese such as 1242 1314 1332 1179 954 918 etc. In addition,
> >> there was a preacher on 1611, but couldn't hear anything definite
> >> for // on 1629; just a rumble. This all lasted until about 1400UT,
> >> when all Asians, except the big guns, wandered off, leaving a number
> >> of down unders, and by 1440UT, it was all down under, most not too
> >> strong, but some of which just wouldn't quit.
> >>
> >> DUs continued popping up erratically until well after 1530UT; figured
> >> that everything was over by 1550UT, but no, 1116, 1548 were still
> >> there, just not regularly, but heck , 1548 particularly just wouldn't
> >> go; at 1631UT, it was as strong as the 1550 domestics (admittedly,
> >> not strong there), and finally sailed away, I think, at 1700UT with
> >> the ABC news fanfare heard weakly, three hours after local sunrise,
> >> with the terminator out past Hawaii by this time.
> >>
> >> So, actually, not a bad morning. I'm surprised that DUs didn't make
> >> more of an 

Re: [IRCA] Slightly OT - Icom product announcement

[R. Colin Newell]

Is that ICOM HAM fit-bit available in a pocketwatch version? 

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

> On Apr 1, 2017, at 5:30 PM, Theo  wrote:
> 
> I wanna strapless model.
> 
> Oh, darn... it's past 12 noon.
> 
> Theo
> 
>> On 4/1/2017 4:29 PM, Bruce Portzer wrote:
>> 
>> News about an Icom ham transceiver announced earlier today (4/1).
>> 
>> http://www.icom.co.jp/fb/170401/
>> 
>> OK, it's in Japanese but Google's English translation is entertaining.
>> 
>> It's probably the ultimate ultralight :)
>> 
>> Bruce
>> 
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[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

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:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt
:Issued: 2017 Apr 02 0005 UTC
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#  Geophysical Alert Message
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Solar-terrestrial indices for 01 April follow.
Solar flux 101 and estimated planetary A-index 16.
The estimated planetary K-index at  UTC on 02 April was 3.
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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UTC  0900 1200 1500 1800 2100  0300 0600 0900 1200 1500 1800 2100 
SFlx 86   86   86   86   91   91   91   91   91   91   91   91   101  101
A-in 23   23   23   23   32   28   28   28   28   28   28   28   20   16
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Re: [IRCA] Slightly OT - Icom product announcement

[Theo]

I wanna strapless model.

Oh, darn... it's past 12 noon.

Theo

On 4/1/2017 4:29 PM, Bruce Portzer wrote:


News about an Icom ham transceiver announced earlier today (4/1).

http://www.icom.co.jp/fb/170401/

OK, it's in Japanese but Google's English translation is entertaining.

It's probably the ultimate ultralight :)

Bruce



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Re: [IRCA] Slightly OT - Icom product announcement

[R. Colin Newell]

Yea... April 1 

And I heard 100 Russian LW stations this morning...

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

> On Apr 1, 2017, at 4:46 PM, Steve Ratzlaff  wrote:
> 
> That's a good one, keeping in mind the date and all.  :)))
> 
> 
>> On 4/1/2017 4:29 PM, Bruce Portzer wrote:
>> 
>> News about an Icom ham transceiver announced earlier today (4/1).
>> 
>> http://www.icom.co.jp/fb/170401/
>> 
>> OK, it's in Japanese but Google's English translation is entertaining.
>> 
>> It's probably the ultimate ultralight :)
>> 
>> Bruce
>> 
>> 
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Re: [IRCA] Slightly OT - Icom product announcement

[Steve Ratzlaff]

That's a good one, keeping in mind the date and all.  :)))


On 4/1/2017 4:29 PM, Bruce Portzer wrote:


News about an Icom ham transceiver announced earlier today (4/1).

http://www.icom.co.jp/fb/170401/

OK, it's in Japanese but Google's English translation is entertaining.

It's probably the ultimate ultralight :)

Bruce



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[IRCA] Slightly OT - Icom product announcement

[Bruce Portzer]

News about an Icom ham transceiver announced earlier today (4/1).

http://www.icom.co.jp/fb/170401/

OK, it's in Japanese but Google's English translation is entertaining.

It's probably the ultimate ultralight :)

Bruce



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Solar flux 91 and estimated planetary A-index 28.
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[IRCA] WKY 930 OKC flips from Indomable to ESPND

[Glenn Hauser via IRCA]

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** OKLAHOMA. 930, UT Saturday April 1 at 0453 UT, Spanish here is still WKY, 
but it`s sports talk, not music! Long string of promos, jingles from ESPN 
Deportes, national feed giving times in Pacific and Eastern, and who cares 
about the Great Center of America, let alone the Mountains?? During otherwise 
Spanish, the letters ESPN are always pronounced in English to avoid invoking 
images of penises, altho such a macho connexion would seem to be apt. How much 
coverage of women`s sports is there, anyway?

0457 UT local ads including a Dodge dealer in Midwest City, Goodwill Industries 
(in Spanish they should say benevolencia or buena voluntad); PSAs for how to 
impress girls, drunk driving. I keep listening for the ToH ID at 0500 UT, which 
says ``WKY, Oklahoma City, 930AM, WKY``. The call letters are pronounced in 
English, altho they don`t have to be (but doble-ve ka i griega is a bit more 
cumbersome, less so doble-u ka ye). 

No mention of ``La Indomable`` which has been its brand for eight+ years 
alrleady, and back to ESPND. Recheck at 1435 UT, still Spanish sports talk, no 
music!

Radio-locator.com still has its format as ``Regional Mexican``, i.e. frenetic 
oom-pah-pah music, a staple on our dials for years. The website still exists 
under the old name
http://www.laindomable.com/
but all the Noticias on the homepage are about sports, notably including 
European soccer games. How much of an audience in OK is there for that, in 
Spanish to boot?? But it still plugs at least one DJ program, outdated? `El 
Show de Mandril`, L-V 7-12 am (meaning before noon?). Will have to wait until 
April 3 morning to confirm whether that still exist. I suspect not, as radio 
stations have this all-or-nothing mentality about formatting. Or is this a bad 
joke for April 1?

Newspaper ad from November, 2014, DJs presumably jobless now:
http://www.w4uvh.net/WKY930AM-ad.jpg

If you search on ESPN Deportes you get stuff about the cable TV channel, 
finally leading to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN_Deportes_Radio
which shows affiliates in only 18 states, of course not including Oclajoma. It 
links to website
http://espndeportes.espn.com/radio/index
which turns out to be a File Not Found. Grrr.

Also nothing recent in radioinsight or radiodiscussions concerning WKY 

DXLD archives: see
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld9004.txt
at the beginning of 2009y for reports on when La Indomable started, after some 
shorter-lived format attempts on 930. Refers to ESPND being on KINB 105.3, 
apparently a related station, so what`s on 105.3 now? Sports talk in English, 
at 1518 UT April 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Re: [IRCA] TP DX Report March 29 Rockaway Beach

[Patrick Martin]

Walt,


No sign of Sitka or Juneau during the day in the Summer?  I figured with a 
water path, you would get those as most of AK was audible even in the Summer 
during the day. That was before Barrow or Kotzebue though. When I lived up 
there, 18 states were on the air and a few AFRTS stations. Kodiak on 960  was 
the strongest with 250w.


Patrick Martin Seaside OR KGED QSL Manager



From: IRCA  on behalf of Volodya S 

Sent: Friday, March 31, 2017 10:27 AM
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
Cc: Mark Connelly
Subject: Re: [IRCA] TP DX Report March 29 Rockaway Beach

Mark, at least into Masset, the bands are devoid of any daytime signals
from Spring to early Fall, except for 860 CBC Prince Rupert and KTKN 930.
Even on this trip from 16:00 or so until our local sunset, the AM band was
pretty silent. A big difference from my last visit in January.  Winter is
another story of course!  73, Walt

On Friday, March 31, 2017, Nick Hall-Patch  wrote:

> And one more data point Markat PEI early last November, we tried
> chasing down trans-Pacifics at local sunrise.   A big problem was various
> primarily British signals still occupying the 9kHz channels, not strongly,
> but delivering audio; signals travelling across the pond from the
> transmitter in broad daylight. Those didn't quit until nearly 20 minutes
> after local sunrise in PEI.
>
> best wishes,
>
> Nick
>
>
>
> At 16:51 31-03-17, Mark Connelly via IRCA wrote:
>
> Australia 1548 in at Nick's end 3 hours after sunrise is kind of like the
>> mirror image of what happens here on the East Coast with some TA stations
>> coming in 3 or more hours before sunset at shore sites.
>>
>> In the NOV/DEC stretch several years back, Saudi Arabia 1521 was received
>> at East Harwich, MA at 1 p.m. EST / 1800 UTC and on another occasion right
>> here in South Yarmouth (former QTH of Chris Black, N1CP) with carrier at
>> 1730 UTC, good audio by 1800.  Earliest Cape Cod sunset is 4:10 p.m. EST /
>> 2110 UTC.
>>
>> The extreme case is Cappahayden, Newfoundland where the old Norway 1314
>> blaster was audible all day on skip in late autumn.  Of course that's
>> dealing with much less distance (and more power) than TP routes from most
>> of western North America.
>>
>> It does say that quite a bit of a path can be in daylight while some
>> degree of skywave propagation is supported.
>>
>> Azores 693, another now-silent TA, was all day to Cappahayden but that
>> was actually GROUNDWAVE (about 1240 miles / 2000 km), a similar distance to
>> the Turks and Caicos to West Dennis Beach, MA reliable-groundwave run
>> enjoyed in 530's high power days.
>>
>> I wonder if any Asians make it Alaska or Hawaii via groundwave.
>>
>> Of course a chunk of Alaska has "all day" skip reception during its
>> lengthy winter when the sun barely gets above the horizon.
>>
>> Mark Connelly, WA1ION
>> South Yarmouth, MA
>>
>> <<
>> A belated thank you to Craig and Walt for their DXpedition reports
>> for this date. I'll round it out with a report from Tofino
>> BC, using a NetSDR and ALA100 pair.
>>
>> First noted Tonga with quite a good signal, island music and talk
>> before 0600UT.
>>
>> Then, after 1300UT quite a lot of Japanese, including NHK1 on 946 and
>> NHK2 on 1386 in addition to the larger guns, but 1593 was CNR1, and
>> maybe Tagalog on 837, and Korean on 657then there were commercial
>> Japanese such as 1242 1314 1332 1179 954 918 etc. In addition,
>> there was a preacher on 1611, but couldn't hear anything definite
>> for // on 1629; just a rumble. This all lasted until about 1400UT,
>> when all Asians, except the big guns, wandered off, leaving a number
>> of down unders, and by 1440UT, it was all down under, most not too
>> strong, but some of which just wouldn't quit.
>>
>> DUs continued popping up erratically until well after 1530UT; figured
>> that everything was over by 1550UT, but no, 1116, 1548 were still
>> there, just not regularly, but heck , 1548 particularly just wouldn't
>> go; at 1631UT, it was as strong as the 1550 domestics (admittedly,
>> not strong there), and finally sailed away, I think, at 1700UT with
>> the ABC news fanfare heard weakly, three hours after local sunrise,
>> with the terminator out past Hawaii by this time.
>>
>> So, actually, not a bad morning. I'm surprised that DUs didn't make
>> more of an appearance at Rockaway judging by that
>> performance. However, they weren't really pounding in, and domestic
>> interference after sunrise is fairly weak at Tofino, so it might have
>> been a signal to interference issue, plus equipment difference.
>>
>>
>> best wishes,
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> At 15:11 29-03-17, Donald Barnes via IRCA wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> >Thankfully, this morning exhibited a bit of an uptick in propagation
>> >conditions. Japan remained the star of the show. I listened from
>> >1320 until about 1500.
>> >
>> >567 

Re: [IRCA] Radio Club(s) Convention Station Tour

[Patrick Martin]

Great news Mike! Looking forward to them.  See you in August.


Patrick


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From: IRCA  on behalf of Mike Sanburn 

Sent: Friday, March 31, 2017 6:17 PM
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] Radio Club(s) Convention Station Tour

Tnx. I would hope there is an open access road for a nice photo op or two.

Sent from my iPod

> On Mar 31, 2017, at 5:22 PM, Dennis Gibson  wrote:
>
> It is. It's north of town and east of the Reno Stead Airport.
>
> https://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2=39.678056~-119.801667=o=15=Point.39.678056_-119.801667_KKOH___
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On Mar 31, 2017, at 2:05 PM, Mike Sanburn  wrote:
>>
>> Their stick is a ways to the North I believe, but I was tentatively thinking 
>> of that for Saturday morning.ms
>>
>>
>> 
>> From: IRCA  on behalf of 
>> ma...@durenberger.com 
>> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2017 1:45 PM
>> To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
>> Subject: Re: [IRCA] Radio Club(s) Convention Station Tour
>>
>> Mike: 'Beggars can't be choosers' etc but it would REALLY be slick if we
>> could see the transmitter site!
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Mark Durenberger
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Mike Sanburn
>> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2017 2:27 PM
>> To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
>> Subject: [IRCA] Radio Club(s) Convention Station Tour
>>
>> It looks like we are set for a studio tour of KKOH 780 this August at the
>> IRCA/NRC/DecalComania convention.  'Gonna try to arrange a couple more.
>> Make plans to join us there now!! Registration details are available in the
>> various bulletins as well as on the I.R.C.A. website:
>> www.ircaonline.org  Have a great weekend---73
International Radio Club of America
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>>
>>
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