[IRCA] VOA Botswana 909, tonight's DX goodie

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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Moepeng Hill, BOTSWANA - VOA relay, 600 kW coming in this afternoon on 909.


Man "This is the Voice of America, Washington, DC signing off.", marching-band 
rendition of Yankee Doodle.


Fair signal, first time heard here at the house.  Logged years ago at an 
Orleans, MA beach site.


9 NOV 2017 at 2100 UTC / 4 p.m. EST.


https://app.box.com/s/724khhz6khcx72b0if8x1n39iztwc5ji


No UK interference and minimal WABK slop at the time ... so go get 'em!


Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA, USA
(GC= 41.6931 N / 70.1912 W) (= 41° 41.59' N / 70° 11.47' W) (grid FN41vq)


Receiver: Microtelecom Perseus
See http://microtelecom.it/perseus/


Antenna: Cardioid-pattern SuperLoop: 9m vert. by 20m horiz. (peak 90 deg., null 
270 deg.)
See http://www.bamlog.com/superloop.htm for similar antenna type.
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[IRCA] Alberta TPs for 9 November 2017

[Nigel Pimblett]

  Not quite as bad as yesterday.  That's about as far as I'll go in 
praise of this morning's session.   Weak talk form 1116 4BC at 1326 
means it wasn't a total shutout.  Quite a number of carriers from the 
more common DUs, but no trace of anything Asian.


73,

Nigel Pimblett
Dunmore, AB
Perseus SDR with Wellbrook Phased Array
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Re: [IRCA] Trumpets on 900, other Spanish unIDs

[Tim Tromp]

Saul,

I hear a "W Radio" ID in Spanish in your "A" clip, about six seconds in.
Your "D" clip is WKDA, calls are given right after the "Radio Luz" ID.  I
wonder if they are the source of the horns in the other clips?

73,
-Tim


On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 11:27 PM, Saul Chernos  wrote:

> 900 Oct 27 at 2257 EDT: 900 A has possible ID in Spanish on my south
> antenna.
> Could be Cuba, Mexico, Domestic... 900 B has more Spanish and gets
> intriguing as
> it goes along – trumpet or other horn sounds repeating loop-like over and
> over.
> 900 C has more trumpets. The trumpets / horns, in particular, puzzle me.
> Has
> anyone heard or seen this reported?
>
> 900 Oct 16 at 0725 — Possibly Mexico but could be domestic US. Might hear
> Radio
> Luz at about 12 seconds of 900 D.
>
> Both at: http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?11652
>
> Other Spanish-language unIDs that are proving vexing are posted at:
>
> http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?11651
>
> Any comments are appreciated, with thanks..
>
> Saul Chernos
> Burnt River ON
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[IRCA] Trumpets on 900, other Spanish unIDs

[Saul Chernos]

900 Oct 27 at 2257 EDT: 900 A has possible ID in Spanish on my south antenna.
Could be Cuba, Mexico, Domestic... 900 B has more Spanish and gets intriguing as
it goes along – trumpet or other horn sounds repeating loop-like over and over.
900 C has more trumpets. The trumpets / horns, in particular, puzzle me. Has
anyone heard or seen this reported?

900 Oct 16 at 0725 — Possibly Mexico but could be domestic US. Might hear Radio
Luz at about 12 seconds of 900 D.

Both at: http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?11652

Other Spanish-language unIDs that are proving vexing are posted at:

http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?11651

Any comments are appreciated, with thanks..

Saul Chernos
Burnt River ON
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Re: [IRCA] early TA hets on car radio

[R. Colin Newell]

http://jerseyshoresdr.hopto.org:8073

This Jersey Shore WebSDR with FLAG or ALA100 is showing a fair bit of TA
audio AND some loud LW stations already.

On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Mark Connelly via IRCA <
irca@hard-core-dx.com> wrote:

>
> Subject: early TA hets on car radio
> At 3 p.m. EST (2000 UTC) as I was pulling out of the Market Basket store
> in Bourne, MA, I popped up 730 WJTO, a station I regularly tune for Bob
> Bittner's unique twist on oldies / nostalgia.  Besides some back chatter
> from WACE's fire 'n' brimstone preacher (via early skip), there was a 1 kHz
> het, most likely from 729 Spain (though South Africa would be more
> interesting).
>
> Other spots on the dial had hets too, of course the 1521 Saudi biggie
> against 1520 WIZZ/WWKB and 1503 (Iran maybe) against 1500 WFED/WFIF.
>
> Sunset is about 4:25 p.m. EST / 2125 UTC.
>
> I am running 4, 5, and 6 p.m. Perseus captures to see if anything
> worthwhile bubbles up.
>
> Wondering if things will swing auroral since talk on the local TV weather
> showed Northern Lights pictures from last night, I think from Mt.
> Washington, NH.
>
> Mark Connelly, WA1ION
> South Yarmouth, MA
>
>


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[IRCA] early TA hets on car radio

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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At 3 p.m. EST (2000 UTC) as I was pulling out of the Market Basket store in 
Bourne, MA, I popped up 730 WJTO, a station I regularly tune for Bob Bittner's 
unique twist on oldies / nostalgia.  Besides some back chatter from WACE's fire 
'n' brimstone preacher (via early skip), there was a 1 kHz het, most likely 
from 729 Spain (though South Africa would be more interesting).

Other spots on the dial had hets too, of course the 1521 Saudi biggie against 
1520 WIZZ/WWKB and 1503 (Iran maybe) against 1500 WFED/WFIF.

Sunset is about 4:25 p.m. EST / 2125 UTC.

I am running 4, 5, and 6 p.m. Perseus captures to see if anything worthwhile 
bubbles up.

Wondering if things will swing auroral since talk on the local TV weather 
showed Northern Lights pictures from last night, I think from Mt. Washington, 
NH.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA
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[IRCA] 1530 Shakopee

[Forrester S]

Noted on OC. Will check in again if it continues.

Todd
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Re: [IRCA] 1540AM ZNS-1 Bahamas Anyone catch this one?

[Stewart, Joseph R]

Getting to the table late with this reply (as usual)...
The one and only logging I've ever managed on ZNS-1 was several years back when 
they had a DA malfunction and were running non-directional.  Even then it was 
weak here in southern Missouri, buried under all the other crap on 1540; their 
webstream came in handy that evening to verify what I thought I was hearing.

Randy Stewart
Springfield/Battlefield, MO
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[IRCA] propagation

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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Material below my text relates to 160m / 1.8 MHz but possibly relevant to MW BC 
as well: East Coast sunset - Australia sunrise long-path / grey-line 
propagation.

Recent China 1521 receptions in Canada and the upper Midwest / Lakes area US 
aren't exactly the same phenomenon but those still show that some unusual 
openings have been occurring.

Last night the thought was that conditions were going to be highly auroral, but 
TA's - admittedly dominated by Spain, Canaries, Algeria, Egypt - were in at 
fairly good levels.  I thought I might get lucky again with South Africa on 576 
but just RNE Canaries / Spain.  1521 around -0100 UTC had Spain, not China.

Because of recent wind damage to the south antenna transformer connections, I 
was on the east antenna that somewhat subdues Latin America, e.g. 750 Newfie - 
YVKS shoot-out east antenna versus typical ton-of-bricks YVKS south antenna.  

Last night Brazil was noted topping 610 and a bit on 760 jumbled with Colombia. 
 But in general not that much exciting or unusual from the south.  Probably 
more auroral tonight.

I should have the south antenna operational over the weekend.  I think it's 
going to be subfreezing out back even during the day tomorrow.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA

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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 19:25:45 -0500
From: "John Kaufmann" 
To: 
Subject: Re: Topband: Good Conditions Last Night
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Another sign of things looking up on Topband: I worked VK6VZ on long path
at 2128Z today, right at my sunset. Steve peaked 569 from the ENE and he
also worked at least a couple other W1's. I also had partial copy on VK6LW
CQing around the same time but Kevin was right at the noise and not quite
strong enough to make an attempt at a QSO.

73, John W1FV



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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 15:51:31 +0800
From: "Steve Ireland" 
To: "Topband reflector" 
Cc: "Phil Hartwell" 
Subject: Topband: Good long path opening from VK6 to NA
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"

G?day

It has been a pretty poor season here so far, with conditions after VK6 sunset 
into North America at/before sunrise well down on last year. However, this 
morning the band opened well into eastern North America.

Jeff VY2ZM was 569 at 2100Z (14 minutes before sunrise here) peaking a couple 
of minutes after my sunrise at 599, during our QSO.

After a internet message from John W1FV (MA) to try for a QSO, we worked easily 
? after a number of years of trying ? at 2127Z with reports of 559 both ways. 
At the end of the QSO John peaked 589 and I was then QSOed by Roger N1RJ (ME) 
56-79 and Dick W1ZC (NH) 579.

Long path QSOs with the USA on 160m only occur rarely from here ? I?ve had 
about 15 in 22 years ? but really get the adrenaline going when they occur. 
This was a really good opening ? and the A Index was 32 and the K index 6.

What a strange band is the topband!

Vy 73

Steve, VK6VZ
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[IRCA] CO TP 11/9/17 Anemic

[C B via IRCA]

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This morning's listening session resulted in a DU het on 1611 and Asian hets on 
693, 774, 828, 1242, 1386, 1422 and 1566. All hets were pretty weak.

Best of DX,

Craig Barnes
Wheat Ridge, CO
Drake R8A NW and NE Conti Superloops, SW KAZ w/Vactrol, Quantum Phaser, FLG 100
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[IRCA] ZNS

[Jerry Kiefer via IRCA]

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 ZNS has a two tower array with a broad lobe going south and a null to the 
north to protect 1540 in New York.
Jerry Kiefer
Orlando

 




Thanks to a mostly-water route, reception is fairly common.

The foreign language station on 1540 is CHIN Toronto, also often heard in MA.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA

Per Wikipedia "ZNS-1 is the oldest broadcast station in the Bahamas. It has a 
News/Talk format, and broadcasts on AM frequency 1540 kHz and FM frequency 
104.5 MHz."

<<
I'm in Charleston SC. They are the dominant station on 1540 here.

Years ago when I lived in KC, I heard them a couple of times on my TRF
during KXEL Sunday morning SP. I think they ran classical mx overnight
back then (late 60s).


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[IRCA] S. AZ TPs, Nov. 9--decent

[Steve Ratzlaff]

Conditions were much improved this morning, especially low band, from 
before sunrise and somewhat after sunrise. Several reached decent 
level.  Many low and mid band hets at almost-audio levels. Sunrise 1347 utc.


531 Japan? 1346 utc traces of audio

558 Japan? 1332 utc traces of audio

567 Japan 1347 utc male/female talk very poor

594 Japan 1349 utc male/female talk poor (sync det); 1410 utc talk very 
poor, last station heard


666 Japan 1405 utc male/female talk very poor

693 Japan 1334 utc male/female talk very poor/poor

702 Japan? 1351 utc traces of audio

747 Japan 1336 utc male/female talk poor (sync det)

774 Japan 1337 utc male/female talk poor (sync det)

873 Japan 1309 utc male/female talk very poor

891 Japan 1355 utc male/female talk very poor

972 S Korea 1310-1408 utc male/female talk heard a number of times, very 
poor/poor


1134 Japan? 1342 utc traces of audio

1566 S Korea HLAZ 1340 utc male talk very poor/poor

Steve AA7U

near Sahuarita, AZ

R75; west DKAZ + FLG100 preamp


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Re: [IRCA] test

[Mauno Ritola]

I like it. I have my sent mails in Thunderbird's Sent box in case I want 
to check them. Enough to Inbox even without my own ones!


Best regards,

Mauno


Russ Edmunds kirjoitti 9.11.2017 klo 15:08:

Using gmail, you won't. That is the way they have it configured. Somebody
must have thought that was a good idea. Wrong !

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On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 10:11 PM, Bob  wrote:


Thanks everyone, I'm not receiving my own posts for some reason,

Bob Young
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Yes.

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Re: [IRCA] test

[Russ Edmunds]

Using gmail, you won't. That is the way they have it configured. Somebody
must have thought that was a good idea. Wrong !

Russ Edmunds
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> Thanks everyone, I'm not receiving my own posts for some reason,
>
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> > Yes.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
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