[IRCA] TP 18 Mar Victoria version.
Definitely a Japanese morning. The big guns delivered, and there were quite a few second tier stations also, though most of them popped up briefly around 1350UT pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 594 JOAK 1414UT, 1426UT, and other times 774 JOUB 1410UT 828 JOBB 1353UT Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 747 JOIB 1410UT 873 JOGB 1349 and 1353UT 972 HLCA 1332UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 693 JOAB 1415UT; sure helps to null CBU-690 however 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) 567 JOIK //594 1412UT 612 4QR woman DU English intonation 1404UT; clinched with "ABC news" 1405UT 666 JOBK //594 1350UT 702 NHK2 //774 1410UT 729 JOCK //594 1352UT 837 JOQK //594 13351UT 846 NHK1 mumbly man, but definitely //594 1349UT 864 female pop vocal 1354UT, no idea, but likely Japan judging by all the others at this time 891 JOHK //594 1404UT 909 JOCB //774 1407UT 954 man talking, Japanese intonation 1326UT 1008 man talking, Japanese intonation 1350UT 1089 JOHB //828 1409UT 1242 JOLF pop vocal //1332 1353UT 1332 JOSF pop vocal //1242UT 1353UT, woman talking, Japanese intonation 1422 man talking, Japanese intonation 1403, likely JORF? 1566 man talking 1408UT, Chinese intonation Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 648 819 918 1134 1179 1269 1314 1593 seemed to be Asian; 1017 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 17 Mar Victoria version.
Despite the K5 and K4's in the previous 18 hours, that was a reasonably fair Asiatic morning. The upper band was pretty dead however. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 594 JOAK 1413UT 747 JOIB 1349UT 828 JOBB 1323 UT Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 567 JOIK //594 1320UT 738 Taiwan Fisheries 1410UT; //1143 a few minutes later 774 JOUB 1422UT 873 JOGB 1410UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 972 HLCA 1323UT 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 as 603 1322UT 585 JOPG //594 1353UT 603 HLSA soft music, woman talking //558 1322UT 693 JOAB //747 1421UT 702 NHK2 //774 1335UT 729 JOCK //594 1359UT 837 JOQK frantic man //594 1321UT 891 JOHK /594 1419UT 1143 Taiwan Fisheries woman talking //738 1415-16UT 1566 woman talking 1329UT, possibly Japanese, therefore HLAZ? 1593 classical piano, not //774, 1337UT; assumed CNR1, though not normal programming for them either? Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 657 666 711 846 864 909 954 1287 1422 1575 seemed to be Asian; 1548 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 12 Mar Victoria version.
The dire predictions don't seem to have had much effect on reception; still pretty reasonable. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 594 JOAK 1355UT 1575 VoA powering in at 1411UT with woman in ?? (Khmer listed) Fading somewhat by 1430UT when VoA ID was heard Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 603 HLSA woman in Korean //558 1415UT 774 JOUB 1423UT 972 HLCA 1436UT 1386 NHK2 //774 1418UT 1422 JORF woman in Japanese 1419UT 1566 HLAZ? and ??? two stations mixing; pop music and maybe Chinese talk, then more sedate Chinese talk by man also assumed HLAZ, along with a grumble on channel 1416UT 1593 NHK2 //1386 1425UT, with CNR1 Chinese man trading places (//6175 earlier) not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 558 HLQH 1415UT //603 567 JOIK //594 1414UT 1503 JOUK //594 1423UT 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) 666 JOBK //594 1418UT 747 JOIB //774 1412UT 945 CNR1 man and woman //6175 1429UT 1206 man talking,Korean? 1413UT (off channel) 1242 woman talking, Japanese intonation 1419UT 1314 woman talking, Japanese intonation 1414UT 1323 woman talking, Russian intonation? 1415UT 1332 female vocal 1414UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 612 621 639 657 693 702 711 918 1017 1215 1287 1359 1431 1485 1494 1512 1539 1548 1557 1584 seemed to be Asian; 585 612 1548 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 11 Mar Victoria version.
Well, they were predicting a geomagnetic upset. But, not yet. Still pretty lively this morning. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 774 JOUB 1422UT 1575 VoA powering in at 1439UT with man in Burmese per announcement at 1430UT; exactly the same as yesterday Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 567 JOIK //594 1436UT 594 JOAK 1417UT 774 JOIB 1405UT 972 HLCA 1430UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 603 HLSA ballad 1431UT, along with another station; ID'd a couple of minutes earlier //558 1548 4QD man talking to another man on phone, DU English, 1432UT. Still pretty good on north Flag; high angle of arrival? 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) 531 JOQG woman talking //594 1427UT 558 HLQH //603, usual ballads 1427UT 612 JOLK looking for parallel for 1548, instead, man talking //594 1432UT 621 woman talking, Chinese intonation 1407UT; brief visitor, then gone 639 CNR1 woman //6175 1436UT 657 N. Korea with orchestral music and woman operatizing, 1420UT; only up for a couple of minutes, but grabbed //3320 666 JOBK man talking //594 1438UT; hum on channel also. 945 CNR1 //639, woman talking 1424UT 1098 CNR1 //1593 1425-6UT, woman and man 1242 woman talking Japanese intonation 1426UT 1287 woman talking, Japanese intonation 1419UT 1422 man talking, insistent sounding Japanese? 1433UT 1503 JOUK music //594 1435UT 1557 man talking, Chinese intonation 1434UT 1566 man talking Chinese intonation 1429UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 693 702 711 729 738 864 828 837 918 1206 1323 1386 1494 1539 seemed to be Asian; 1611 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] Live DX spotter / chat system *show of hands*
That is why I wondered if #mwdx chat was still functional somewhere. It's years since I used it, but I remember it being entertaining and helpful for trading real time TA tips across the continent when there was an openingbut that was during the last sunspot minimum. Regarded as being old stuff now? Certainly my software for it is rather out of date, and nothing seems to work. best wishes, Nick At 00:04 2019-03-12, ri...@kotalampi.com wrote: I would recommend chat system such as Whatsapp or Signal. It's much more interactive than watching a web site. 73! Risto, W6RK -Original Message- From: IRCA On Behalf Of Mike Sanburn Sent: Monday, March 11, 2019 12:21 PM To: Hard-Core-DX ; Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America Subject: Re: [IRCA] Live DX spotter / chat system *show of hands* I like the idea---I have used similar on the ham bands in the past. Mike Sanburn From: IRCA on behalf of R. Colin Newell Sent: Monday, March 11, 2019 9:12 AM To: Hard-Core-DX; Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America Subject: [IRCA] Live DX spotter / chat system *show of hands* Last week someone posted a "wouldn't it be great if we had a live DX spotter chat window web site 100% dedicated to SWBCing and/or MW DXing ?" You know, a place where you could quickly sign in and post an alert that you're hearing HCJB on 9560 khz or Voice of the Voyager on 6160 khz... or there is a great TA opening to the West Coast... Show of hands: Who would use a system like this? I have some free server space and some ideas about domain names that could be fun... Anyway... hands!? -- Colin Newell - Editor and creator Coffeecrew.com <http://www.Coffeecrew.com> and DXer.ca <http://www.DXer.ca> - Ham Radio VA7WWV | Twitter @CoffeeCrew | Victoria - B.C. Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] Live DX spotter / chat system *show of hands*
First rule is to see what's already available. bcblog had its last submission less than two hours ago. Does anyone know what happened to #mwdx? Even ye olde DXFishbarrel can help http://www3.telus.net/public/shallpat/test/display.htm Obviously most relevance to the northwest DXer, but if the thing is lit up like a Christmas tree in the evening, checking for TAs anywhere in America might be productive, and if it's lit up at your local sunrise, it may mean that conditions are good overall, and that switching on the radio would not be amiss. best wishes, Nick At 17:09 2019-03-11, Mark Pettifor wrote: Would this be similar to the BCB / SW / etc. log pages at dxworld? (Ex: http://dxworld.com/bcblog.html) Besides AM DXing, I've been wanting to do more SW DXing, and a quick page for alerts for both would be great for that. I think maybe there's 4 people in the entire world who use the SW logger at dxworld... Mark Pettifor Goshen, IN On 2019-03-11 12:12 pm, R. Colin Newell wrote: Last week someone posted a "wouldn't it be great if we had a live DX spotter chat window web site 100% dedicated to SWBCing and/or MW DXing ?" You know, a place where you could quickly sign in and post an alert that you're hearing HCJB on 9560 khz or Voice of the Voyager on 6160 khz... or there is a great TA opening to the West Coast... Show of hands: Who would use a system like this? I have some free server space and some ideas about domain names that could be fun... Anyway... hands!? -- Colin Newell - Editor and creator Coffeecrew.com <http://www.Coffeecrew.com> and DXer.ca <http://www.DXer.ca> - Ham Radio VA7WWV | Twitter @CoffeeCrew | Victoria - B.C. Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] 1548 carrier
4QD isn't that frequent a visitor here Todd, but they were heard here this morning with audio, among the 1550kHz splash. They are about 10 Hertz high from 1548.000kHz, and some people can hear the difference in the BFO pitch, especially if you tune say to a 200Hz beat note, then check a channel that is dead on frequency for comparison. best wishes, Nick At 13:51 2019-03-11, Todd S wrote: Using the best of my Modified 2010, I was able to listen to a carrier using LSB. Signal was in from approx 1320-1355. Carrier was in with slow fades, then steady and a choppy fast fade in and out then gone. 4QD is the most obvious suspect. Todd Skaine ICOM 7300 wth a Superloop 2 Modified 2010s barefoot Toyota car radio ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TA traces in Victoria
carriers noted in the 0300-0430UT time period: 882 909 1089 1215...no chance of audio, but the TA season isn't quite done yet...barring the various geomagnetic upsets Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 10 Mar Victoria version.
Still pretty lively, with a brace of weak Chinese, plus something unusual on 1296. A nice lift around 1430UT, near local sunrise. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 774 JOUB 1422UT 828 JOBB 1342UT 972 HLCA 1439UT 1557 Taiwan woman in Chinese, strongest signal on the band at 1433UT 1575 VoA powering in at 1438UT with man in Burmese per announcement at 1430UT Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 567 JOIK //594 1406UT 594 JOAK 1438UT 774 JOIB 1443UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: the above passing through 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) 603 HLSA ballad //558 on Korean KiwiSDR 1437UT, but someone there also with Chinese? talk 738 man talking, Chinese intonation, 1349UT; ~30Hz with harmonics modulating a carrier on the channel 756 CNR1 //981 at 1343UT 873 JOGB //774 1408UT 891 JOHK man //594 1352UT 981 CNR1 man talking //756 1343UT, fading down as 756 faded up 1017 woman and man talking, possibly Korean? 1349UT, not //NHK2 1143 woman in Chinese? 1425UT; just a rumble on 738 at this time 1296 the morning mystery: woman talking, Chinese? intonation, then flute music as intro to male/female vocals 1428-1433UT; best on north Flag 1377 CNR1 man talking, CNR1 news sounders 1431UT //639 1503 JOUK //594 1429UT 1566 man talking, Chinese intonation 1434UT 1593 man in Chinese? no parallels 1414UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 558 621 675 693 702 711 729 837 846 909 918 945 1098 1188 1269 1287 1323 1359 1458 1494 1539 seemed to be Asian; 576 585 1548 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 9 Mar Victoria version.
As Craig mentioned, things started looking up this morning pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 567 JOIK //594 1349UT, brief peak 594 JOAK 1434UT 774 JOUB 1346UT 972 HLCA 1427UT Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 747 JOIB 1349UT 828 JOBB 1350UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 603 HLSA //558 on Korean SDR 1433UT; heard earlier also and //558 heard here 639 CNR1 man and woman in Chinese 1415UT 1566 HLAZ 1355UT man in Chinese 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 //603 ballad 1345UT 612 man and woman DU English intonation 1439UT 666 JOBK //594 woman talking, 1435UT, much splash 702 NHK2 music //774 1435UT 711 man, rapid talk; Korean intonation? 1435UT 873 JOGB 1429UT //774 Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 657 675 693 738 864 891 918 945 954 981 1098 1323 1593 seemed to be Asian; 738 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 8 Mar Victoria version.
Pretty much a big gun morning, reduced somewhat by the fact that NHK2 signed off at 1440UT. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): nope Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 594 //567 1443UT with jazz, then Japanese talk by man 747 JOIB 1424UT 774 JOBB 1430UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 567 woman in Japanese 1404UT; weaker at 1443UT //594 972 HLCA 1430UT 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) the above, passing through Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 603 693 702 819 828 891 981 1566 seemed to be Asian; 891 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 6 Mar Victoria version.
Shrinkage of signals is the best way of putting it. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): nope Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): and nope not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: too much to ask for 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) 576 2RN folky vocal music, barely there, but //585 with a slight offset, 1445UT 585 7RN vocal mx // with even weaker 576 1445UT 612 4QR woman talking //1548 on Brisbane KiwiSDR 1446UT; also note earlier and weaker, //702 at 1412UT 702 2BL man talking //612 1412UT 1566 woman and man talking, Chinese intonation 1354UT; reprise but weaker at 1426UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 594 747 774 1593 seemed to be Asian; 891 1017 1098 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 5 Mar Victoria version.
More DU today, but otherwise, it was big guns acting like very little guns indeed. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): nope Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): and nope not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: too much to ask for 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) 531 island style vocals and bass line, then man talking across the hour, maybe DU English?? 1353-1404UT; PI? 603 woman talking, 1359-1401UT, but nothing on hour, suspect NZ judging by other DX heard on the lower band 612 two men talking, DU English intonation 1354UT 828 man talking, Japanese intonation 1432UT 1017 island choral music 1403UT, likely Tonga 1566 man mumbling, possible Chinese, in and out from 1425-1431UT 1557 man talking, Chinese intonation 1433UT 1593 CNR1 man and woman talking, Chinese intonation, pip on half hour, bits of CNR1 theme music 1430UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 594 747 774 972 1494 seemed to be Asian; 657 702 756 1098 1116 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TA carriers
TA carriers starting to appear just after 0400UT in Victoria. 1089 and 1215 the "best"; still nowhere near audio. Others such as 855 882 999 etc. weaker, but poking up from time to time. best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 4 Mar Victoria version.
mostly the big guns popped up for brief moments...and not much sign of DUs on the lower band. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 594 JOAK 1425UT Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 828 JOBB English lessons 1425UT 972 HLCA 1440UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 774 JOUB English lessons 1425UT 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) 603 woman talking, perhaps HLSA, but sounded a bit more brisk 1435UT 1548 man talking, DU English intonation 1448UT 1575 man talking SE Asian language? 1442UT briefly 1593 woman talking, Chinese intonation 1435UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 639 693 747 918 945 981 seemed to be Asian; not much else seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 3 Mar Victoria version.
Lively in spots this morning; still no upper band action, but a mix of DU and Asia on the lower band. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 774 JOUB 1440UT Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 594 JOAK 1446UT 972 HLCA 1438UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 612 4QR woman in DU English 1429UT 693 JOAB woman in Japanese through 690 splatter 1455UT 747 JOIB 1430UT 828 JOBB Portuguese news 1359UT, NHK mention 1017 Tonga likely; choral ballad 1434UT, man in island languageÉ 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) 567 ballad not //594 1354UT NZ? 567 JOIK //594 1419UT 585 7RN //621 1440UT 621 3RN woman talking //585 1440UT 675 light instrumental music, only on west Flag 1450UT; NZ? 963 female pop vocal 1426UT; NZ? Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 1323 seemed to be Asian; 657 738 891 1098 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 2 Mar Victoria version.
On the dull side would describe things adequately, though 954 was an odd addition to a thin field. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): no Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 594 JOAK 1451UT 612 4QR man and woman in DU English 1443UT 954 JOKR two men in Japanese peaking briefly 1447UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 972 HLCA man in Korean 1411UT 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) 774 JOUB //828 man sounding Japanese 1455UT 828 JOBB as above 828 woman singing comical sounding song faded over apparent JOBB at 1436UT 3GI? no parallel Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 747 1575 seemed to be Asian; 594 702 891 1017seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 1 Mar Victoria version.
Not too interesting this morning, though it wasn't a complete washout on the upper band. Lower band mostly peaked early pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): back to normal Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 747 JOIB 1401UT 774 JOUB 1358UT 972 HLCA 1411UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 594 JOAK 1456UT 828 JOBB 1402UT 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) 567 JOIK //594 1403UT 873 JOGB man //774 1404UT 1557 man talking, Chinese perhaps 1435UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 603 639 1566 seemed to be Asian; 576 585 612 1116 1098 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 28 Feb Victoria version.
An odd morning today, totally Asian despite the geomagnetic rumblings, and completely dead on the upper band. Best signals were from 1435 to about 1500UT, with a complete collapse around local sunrise. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 747 JOIB 1446UT 774 JOUB 1448UT 972 HLCA 1455UT Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 594 JOAK 1436UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 702 NHK2 man and woman //774 1451UT 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) 567 JOIK //594 1442UT 585 JOPG woman talking, then choral music 1453UT //594 603 HLSA ballad 1457UT //558 on Korean SDR 612 JOLK complete shock (expecting 4QR with today's geomagnetism) with man talking //594 1436UT 828 JOBB never amounting to much 1459UT, but pips gave it away 873 JOGB man //747 1456UT 945 NHK1 woman talking //594 1453UT; pretty weak, but definitely parallel; likely JOIQ Muroran? judging by northerly locations of most other Japanese heard, so pretty fair DX... Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 711 1188 seemed to be Asian; nothing seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 27 Feb Victoria version.
Not earth shattering DX this morning, but at least the big guns were performing reasonably well, and there was a hint of China and Taiwan pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 594 JOAK 1451UT 747 JOIB 1410UT 972 HLCA 1445UT Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 612 4QR man in DU English on phone 1437UT 774 JOUB 1406UT 828 JOBB 1429UT 1566 HLAZ 1456UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 567 JOIK //594 1416UT 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) 603 woman talking, maybe Korean, followed by ballad 1415UT, likely HLSA 639 CNR1 near imaginary audio, but woman and man talking //6175 1455UT 702 2BL man talking //612 1430UT...soon replaced by.. 702 NHK2 man and woman //774, 828 at 1433UT 1422 male pop ballad 1450UT 1503 JOUK //594 1457UT, interval music 1557 woman talking, Chinese intonation 1458UT 1593 CNR1 on the edge of readability with 5 and 1 pips, and bits of CNR1 news sounders 1500UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 558 585 693 909 918 945 1242 1287 1314 1332 1386 1431 seemed to be Asian; 621 756 891 1017 1098 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 23 Feb Victoria version.
Another step up today, with a decent sunrise lift. Interesting that the upper band Asians were best on the north Flag, while the lower band Asians (and DUs of course) were better on the west Flag. This has been a general tendency, but very marked this morning. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 594 JOAK 1449UT Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 774 JOUB 1506UT 1422 JORF 2 women in Japanese 1509UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 567 JOIK //594 1448UT 603 HLSA 1503UT usual ballads; noted earlier //558 747 JOIB 1453UT 828 JOBB 1448UT 1503 JOUK //594 1512UT 1557 RTI 3 and one pips on hour, peaked at 1456UT with man in Chinese 1593 NHK2 Japanese woman //774 o/CNR1 1514UT 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 ballad //603 1451UT 585 JOPG //594 1457UT 612 4QR //702 1454UT 693 JOAB //774 1451UT when 690 splat let up 702 2BL //612 1452UT 756 man and woman, DU English intonation 1453UT; RNZ? 1386 NHK2 //774 1504UT, erratic fading 1566 man and woman talking, maybe Chinese 1512UT 1575 man SE Asian language? 1457UT 1593 CNR1 woman //6175 at 1507UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 657 666 702 729 972 1242 1332 1404 1458 1494 1584 seemed to be Asian; 576 621 882 891 909 1017 1098 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TA
TAs poking their noses up again, carriers 1215, 1053, 999, 1386 at 0315UTand with a bit of imagination, there's a buzz on 1575...the sidebands are quite visible even when not audible. best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 22 Feb Victoria version.
A bit livelier again today, mostly Asian, and "usual stuff"; high band peak shortly before local sunrise. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): almost Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 774 JOUB 1436UT 972 HLCA 1440UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 1017 Tonga assumed with male choral vocal with guitar 1444UT 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) 603 HLSA faint music, woman talking //558 on S. Korean KiwiSDR 1454UT 702 man and woman DU English intonation 1435UT 747 JOIB //774 1431UT 1557 man talking, Chinese intonation 1503UT; clean carrier today 1566 woman talking, maybe Chinese 1501UT; hum on channel with sidebands on 31 and 62 Hz; not seen on Korean KiwiSDR. 1593 CNR1 woman //6175 at 1459UT; pips at 1500UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 828 864 945 seemed to be Asian; 612 657 738 756 891 1098 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 21 Feb Victoria version.
The lights weren't quite switched off this morning, but, close... pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): not in the slightest Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): no indeed not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: unreasonable 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) 567 JOIK //594 briefly 1456UT then back into the murk 594 JOAK //567 at 1456UT; in its own murk much of the time 774 woman and man talking, Japanese intonation 1420UT 972 man talking, perhaps Korean 1432UT 1566 woman talking, maybe Chinese 1502UT; rough sounding carrier, and maybe another signal there also...music. Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 603 747 1242 1422 1557 1575 1611 seemed to be Asian; 657 756 837 891 1017 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 20 Feb Victoria version.
Somewhat beefier this morning, as Craig reported. Sunrise is rapidly moving earlier, as are the best DXing times. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 594 JOAK 1443UT //567 774 JOUB 1414UT Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 567 JOIK //594 1443UT 828 JOBB 1443UT 972 HLCA two men in Korean, then woman 1420UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 603 HLSA likely soft vocal music 1425-1427UT 747 JOIB 1420UT 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) 657 female operatic singing, likely N. Korea? 1502UT 666 JOBK //594 1421UT 693 JOAB //774 1415UT 873 JOGB //774 1418UT 1422 woman talking, Japanese intonation, pop music 1508-20UT 1503 JOUK //594 1516UT 1566 woman talking, perhaps Chinese, but man talking also, may also have been Chinese 1524UT 1575 man talking, SE Asian language?? 1422UT 1593 man talking 1520UT sounded Chinese, but no parallels Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 621 639 702 729 738 837 864 891 918 1242 1386 1458 seemed to be Asian; 612 1017 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 19 Feb Victoria version.
A touch of low band Aussies and Japanese earlier on, and a couple of high band Asians. Nothing very strong or long lasting pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): not so Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): so not not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 774 JOUB 1426UT 828 JOBB 1425UT 1566 HLAZ woman in Chinese 1511UT 1593 CNR1 man talking 1510UT //6175 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) 594 man talking DU English intonation 1439UT 702 man DU English intonation 1436UT 972 two men, Korean intonation? 1439UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 594 738 1557 seemed to be Asian; 567 576 612 621 891 1017 1098 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 18 Feb Victoria version.
A step back (again) this morning; not nearly so much happening on the upper band near sunrise. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): not so Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): gone again not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 594 JOAK erratic fading, many times at this level, maybe more, but often in the bucket; mostly Japanese talk 1507-1520UT 747 JOIB 1518UT; sticking around later today 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) 567 JOIK //594 1506UT 693 JOAB 1518UT 774 JOUB 1511UT 1422 man mumbling, perhaps Japanese 1520UT 1503 JOUK man and woman //594 1520UT 1557 woman talking, Chinese intonation.1521UT 1566 man in apparent Chinese 1521UT, Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 603 621 639 702 756 828 1287 1377 1494 seemed to be Asian; 675 756 1017 1548 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 17 Feb Victoria version.
While I was crossing borders (the quality of migrants is obviously dropping isn't it?), the faithful SDR was DXing for me. An interesting lift at the top of band as sunrise approached this morning, not strong, but varied. Many of the carriers listed had "nearly there" audio at various times. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): not quite Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 594 JOAK 1448UT 774 JOUB 1444UT 828 JOBB 1447UT 972 HLCA 1448UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 747 JOIB 1448UT (all of these had faded by the time the upper band lift arrived) 1287 JOHR man and woman in Japanese 1524UT 1594 CNR1 man in Chinese 1511UT, erratic fading, earlier paralleled with 1377 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) 1377 CNR1 1506UT //1593 music and man talking 1557 woman talking, Chinese intonation. Very rough carrier, wonder if there's an awkward mainland Chinese on the channel, as seems unlikely Taiwan would stand for that sort of nonsense. 1566 man in apparent Chinese 1511UT, but also someone else with pop music, on north Flag, so possibly China? Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 693 864 945 1206 1242 1269 1278 1305 1314 1332 1386 1422 1458 1503 seemed to be Asian; nothing much seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 15 Feb Victoria version.
Major signs of life in the low band this morning, but mostly faded down before sunrise pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 567 JOIK weather reports for Japanese cities 1456UT 594 JOAK 1442UT 747 JOIB English lessons 1443UT 774 JOUB 1438UT Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 603 HLSA soft music, soft-voiced woman in Korean 1443UT 828 JOBB 1435UT 972 HLCA man and woman Korean not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 702 NHK2 English lessons 1436UT 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) 666 JOBK //594 1446UT 693 JOAB //774 1457UT 837 not NHK1, but music heard on north Flag 891 JOHK woman //594 1430UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 729 846 855 864 873 954 1422 1503 1566 seemed to be Asian; 567 738 846 855 1017 1098 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 14 Feb Victoria version.
Mostly weak Aussie audio on the low band; not much of anything on the high band, except for 1593 which had not one, but two weak audios.. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): back to normal Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): the above passing through not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: nothing here either 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) 576 2RN woman talking, 6 pips, ABC fanfare 1500UT 594 man talking DU English intonation 1445UT 594 JOAK pips at 1500UT, man talking, Japanese intonation 612 4QR man and woman, presumably news 1501UT, //576 702 2BL pips and fanfare, very faint but recognizable 1017 island sounding vocals 1448UT; Tonga likely 1593 man talking, Chinese intonation 1506UT, but mixing with another man talking which presumably was NHK2, as their pips were heard at 1500UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 774 972 1323 1332 1422 1503 1566 1575 seemed to be Asian; 558 639 882 891 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 13 Feb Victoria version.
Things had died out well before sunrise this morning, but HLAZ, at any rate, put on a bit of performance. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 1566 HLAZ back in business, man in Chinese 1449UT Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): the above passing through not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 594 JOAK man in Japanese, NHK1 theme music 1457UT, a brief NHK1 party with 567 and 585 at the bottom of the band, all gone by the hour. 1557 RTI man in Chinese 1453UT 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) 567 JOIK interlude music punching through //594 1457UT 585 JOPG interlude music //594 1457UT 603 man and woman talking quite intense, sounded oriental, but not the standard KBS2 programming 1444UT; quiet music a few minutes before the hour seemed more like KBS2, but everything gone by 1500UT 828 JOBB with the distinctive sound of English lessons on the north Flag 1438UT 1422 erratic fading, but traces of ballad and a woman in possible Japanese 1500UT 1593 man talking, Chinese intonation 1442UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 747 1026 1098 1242 1278 1332 1359 1494 1503 seemed to be Asian; 567 612 621 702 738 756 882 909 1017 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 12 Feb Victoria version.
Hints of New Zealand earlier, and a weak high band blip after local sunrise, now at 15:24UTC. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): not so Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): the above passing through not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: all quiet on the not so reasonable front 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) 675 pop vocal 1458UT, pips on hour creeping through splat; last one longer points to NZ 774 two men, maybe Japanese 1436UT 909 ballad 1444UT, NZ? 1557 woman talking, 1528UT and 1535UT, pretty marginal, but guessing Taiwan? 1575 woman talking 1539UT, again marginal, but suspect VoA; better on north Flag 1593 maybe NHK2? as woman and man talking not //6175 1538UT, but all gone by 1540UT supposed NHK2 s/off Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 594 828 1296 1359 1503 1566 1611 seemed to be Asian; 594 702 756 765 891 1017 1035 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] good grief, is that a TA carrier I hear?
After a long dry spell, there appear to be some TA carriers this evening after 0400UT and up to 0445UT, very much in the usual suspect territory, mostly British origin? 882, 1098 1215, might have been a hint of 909. 855 was showing signs also. best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 11 Feb Victoria version.
A short upper band blip around local sunrise, and that was about it. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): not so Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): the above passing through not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 1575 VoA "you are listening to the Voice of America" by man happened to hit the top of one of the erratic fades, though traces of this had been around since 1440UT 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) 594 man talking, Japanese intonation 1532UT 774 sounded like English lessons, the lady with the swooping voice 1526UT 1593 CNR1 man talking //6175, both of them pretty ragged, 1529UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 603 774 828 1557 1566 seemed to be Asian; 738 837 1017 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 10 Feb Victoria version.
A great morning for sleeping in. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): not so Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): the above passing through not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: not even this 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) 1548 two men, one on phone? sounded DU English but 1550 splash was rough, 1521UT. Interestingly. this was nearly as good on the north Flag which is normally pretty unresponsive to down unders. Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) nothing much seemed to be Asian; 756 765 882 1017 1593 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 9 Feb Victoria version.
A bit of Asian audio, and a bit more DU audio, but nothing was heard for very long. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): not so Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 774 JOUB Portuguese news, man and woman 1431UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 594 3WV country music //828 1452UT 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) 585 woman talking, DU English intonation 1509UT 738 country music, possibly ABC Saturday night country, but no parallels at 1448UT 828 3GI country music //594 1452UT, mixing with 828 woman talking, possibly Japanese, 1452UT 972 woman, Korean intonation 1446UT 1017 man talking to another man, maybe on the phone? 1435UT island intonation, so likely Tonga Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 1566 1575 1593 seemed to be Asian; 612 675 702 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] John Bryant R.I.P
If John had an idea, or had tried something new from the commercial world, he would always let everyone know in what seemed to be easily flowing prose (something that I wish I could have learned from him, but perhaps it was harder to produce than it looked). The effects of his writing still resonate today. John wasn't just a spark plug either. In a world of increasingly older hobbyists, ideas will often elicit a polite "that's nice" shortly before another nap. John's reaction was not just enthusiastic, but encouraging, coming up with more ideas to make the original one better yet. And then, as Mark Connelly just mentioned, his knowledge of other realms...there are still good memories of waiting for the dawn DX to roll in (or sometimes not) on DXpeditions, and the wide ranging discussions we had. No time for naps there! best wishes, Nick At 12:58 2019-02-09, Andrew Ikin wrote: John certainly has a special place in out hearts for his immense contribution to the Dxing hobby. He was a very gracious person and sadly missed by everyone who knew him. Andrew Ikin Wales UK -Original Message- From: Volodya S Sent: Saturday, February 9, 2019 2:55 AM To: dxplo...@yahoogroups.com ; wor ; Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America ; ODXA yg Subject: [IRCA] John Bryant R.I.P The 9th of February is the 9th anniversary of John's untimely death, following a fall from a ladder at his home in Stillwater, OK. I still think of John often. He was a good friend, mentor, teacher, and first rate DXer. Rest in Peace, John. Please take a moment for some thoughts for this amazing gentleman.Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC. ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 8 Feb Victoria version.
Not a morning for much audio, and sunrise killed what was there pretty smartly. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): not so Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 1566 HLAZ man in Chinese 1447UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: the above passing through 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) 702 man talking, DU English intonation? 1435UT 1593 man talking, Chinese intonation 1512 and 1533UT. Any possible SW parallels were buried in local noise. Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 594 774 1098 1422 1557 1611 seemed to be Asian; 603 657 756 837 891 1017 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 6 Feb Victoria version.
Better; decidedly better, but mostly due to a fairly short-lived pre-sunrise lift primarily on the high band. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): not so Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): the above passing through not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 594 JOAK 1502UT 1422 JORF woman in Japanese 1523UT 1503 JOUK man /594 1525UT 1566 HLAZ womn in Chinese 1524UT 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) 567 JOIK man //594 1522UT 774 JOIB //1386 1523UT, but slightly better signal at 1535UT 1017 island vocals 1449UT 1386 NHK2 woman //747 1523UT 1593 CNR1 woman //6175 1519UT 1593 NHK2 woman //1386 1522UT dominating CNR1 which was also there Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 603 774 828 972 1098 1116 1224 1242 1314 1332 1359 1458 1485 1557 1575 seemed to be Asian; 603 891 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 5 Feb Victoria version.
Mostly speculation about what the DX would be if there was any DX. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): not so Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): the above passing through not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: nothing to see here. (or hear here, more accurately) 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) 612 4QR mostly mumbling before 1500UT, but ABC fanfare quite readable 774 JOUB man talking, Japanese intonation 1459UT then pips 1017 man talking, island speech? 1517UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 594 603 693 747 972 1323 1566 seemed to be Asian; 594 702 738 756 846 891 1026 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 4 Feb Victoria version.
The doldrums are back...never went away perhaps. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): not so Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): the above passing through not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 594 JOAK woman in Japanese 1520UT 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) 576 2RN thought this was an exotic unID; deep voiced man talking 1443UT interspersed with vibraphone notes, and didn't sound quite English. But it matched up with a BBC program on the Congo, rebroadcast on RN, with accented men having their say. 612 man DU English? 1518UT 774 man talking, Japanese intonation 1508UT, briefly 828 man talking, Japanese intonation 1444UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 603 693 738 747 972 1548 1566 1575 seemed to be Asian; 702 837 846 891 1017 1116 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 3 Feb Victoria version.
Not quite Colorado perhaps, but a definite improvement, if hearing some of the previously regular big guns is an improvement. Well, I guess it is. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): not so Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 594 JOAK 1525UT topping out with man in Japanese not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 603 HLSA jazzy soft music 1522UT; had been ID'd a few minutes earlier with //558 on the Kiwi SDR in South Korea 747 JOIB 1522UT 774 JOUB 1440UT; also pretty good with anthem and music box at 1530UT sign off 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) 567 JOIK brief audio, man //594 1524UT 972 man and woman talking, Korean intonation 1510UT 1566 man talking, Russian intonation 1648UT; this one took awhile to deliver, for sure. Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 693 828 873 seemed to be Asian; 1017 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 2 Feb Victoria version.
Two steps back, one step forward...? pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): no Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): the above passing through not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 594 JOAK man in Japanese 1456UT 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) 594 3WV ABC fanfare after NHK pips 1500UT 612 4QR various DU styled mumblings, but definite fanfare at 1500UT 1017 island vocals 1443UT; Tonga assumed 1593 woman talking, Chinese intonation; no parallels available 1533UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 567 585 603 747 774 828 972 1377 1557 1566 1575 seemed to be Asian; 603 702 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 1 Feb Victoria version.
Some actual real audio this morning, all from Down Under, and down lower on the band; upper band Asian carriers only. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): no Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 612 4QR woman on phone to man 1530UT; had noted ABC fanfare and news on 1500UT, but weaker. 702 2BL man in DU English 1509UT had been parallel with 612 earlier, not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: the above passing through 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) 576 woman talking, DU English intonation 1507UT 594 3WV man talking //612 1443UT 738 2NR teletalk //612 1522UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 1287 1458 1503 1566 1575 seemed to be Asian; 891 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 31 Jan Victoria version.
Once more into the bucket, dear friends (with apologies to Shakespeare, who likely wasn't a DXer, and with conditions like this morning, who could blame him?) pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): not in the slightest Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): the above passing through not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: too much to ask for 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) 594 JOAK man talking, very weak and ragged but clear enough to guess Japanese 1459UT; rewarded at 1500UT with pips 1017 man talking, perhaps island language 1518UT, likely Tonga Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 747 972 1593 seemed to be Asian; 891 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 30 Jan Victoria version.
Now that was quite a bit better. Mainly a Japanese lift on the upper band around sunrise; before then, the now normal dullness prevailed. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): no Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 1422 JORF woman in Japanese 1552UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 1242 JOLF man in Japanese 1541-3UT 1566 ? rather lively music for HLAZ, then woman in Chinese 1547UT, maybe someone else in Chinese underneath. 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) 972 man talking, maybe Korean? 1546UT 1134 woman talking, sounded Japanese 1542UT 1314 woman talking, Japanese intonation, then pop music 1539UT 1332 woman and man talking 1543UT, Japanese intonation 1593 CNR1 man talking //6175 1553UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 1098 1179 1269 1287 1386 1431 1449 1458 1494 1557 seemed to be Asian; nothing much seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] (New) Seoul AM Radio Listening Guide, etc.
Hi Chris, I only wish that I had more hours to go through your site. Interesting radio stuff of course, but your impressions of Korea and other details of that nature are extremely worthwhile also. I think that the write up on Asian DX targets' webstreams is still to come is it? Thanks for putting that up. Nick At 13:27 2019-01-29, Chris Kadlec wrote: Just a note that my Seoul AM Radio Listening Guide has moved to: http://chriskadlec.com (see the Radio menu) I have added numerous full-length propaganda clips (AM FM SW) that I hadn't featured before, as well as photos and more. My old page was merely a temporary home for two years in lieu of this new page that had been planned for that pretty much that long. In addition to that, I have built new pages featuring all KBS local addresses for those QSL seekers and a new/improved page for Chinese ID vocabulary (i.e. guangbo, dianshi zong tai, zhi sheng, etc.) with full English and pinyin translations for each clip. Both were previously PDFs. I also have a plan to add a similar page for MBC local addresses and update my list of Asian station streams. For those who have interests beyond MW, you can also find all my FM content, including my full Chinese tropo and E-skip log with 3 hours of audio, and my new 6-hour 500 top-of-hour ID project for my 530 FM regulars here in Michigan. And other stuff too. Hope some of you will check it out and let me know if there are other such resources that I may have access to that anyone would be interested in. -Chris Kadlec ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] upper band lift
Interesting. Here it was the usual death fest at 14:30UT. At 16:36 2019-01-30, R. Colin Newell wrote: And visible/audible on my Kiwi around 14:30... Quite a kick from yesterday... I guess when you are coming up from complete darkness everything seems light. Colin Newell - Victoria - B.C. CANADA - > On Jan 30, 2019, at 7:51 AM, Nicholas Hall-Patch wrote: > > some nice signals (by recent standards) from 1242, 1422, 1566 at 1540UT and > later .mostly Japanese; nothing below 1134 though. > > best wishes, > > Nick > ___ > IRCA mailing list > IRCA@hard-core-dx.com > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca > > Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers > > For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org > > To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com > ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 29 Jan Victoria version.
In some ways worse (the lower band was almost completely dead), in some ways better (there was a lift at the upper end of the band around local sunrise) pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): no Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 1566 HLAZ woman in Chinese followed by female vocal music 1542UT. This first showed about 1530UT, and lasted until after 1600UT, but not at this good a level not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 1593 CNR1 woman talking //6175 1539UT 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) 972 woman talking, maybe Korean? 1527UT 1557 man talking, Chinese intonation at 1540 and 1545UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 1242 1359 1422 1503 1575 seemed to be Asian; 1017 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] a tale of two conditions?
Haven't seen any IRCA replies on this Mark, but N7DF recently walked back his comments a bit after seeing quite a few of the other 160m contestants saying how poor conditions had been. My own comments that you quoted were from Sunday morning, traditionally a time when contests on 160m are winding down, and people throw in the towel if it doesn't look like they'll add any more contacts to what they've already made. Saturday morning here was a bit better than Sunday, but still not anywhere up to what one might expect from geomagnetic conditions. Nick At 05:23 2019-01-29, Mark Connelly via IRCA wrote: I wasn't active but I'm very curious as to what everyone else noted over the weekend based on the reports below. Mark Connelly, WA1ION South Yarmouth, MA Exhibit A << Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 16:03:56 + (UTC) From: N7DF To: TopBand List Subject: Topband: really good conditions Unbelievable signals in CQ160 this weekend..many stations 40 over on my FT1000 and several TX and AZ signals pegged the meter at 60 over PJ2T was 35 over most of the time lost my receiving antennas to storms in December and had to use cage only still have right wrist in cast so have to hunt and pounce only QLF but had fun 73 Larry >> Exhibit B << From: Nick Hall-Patch To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America    Subject: [IRCA] TP 27 Jan Victoria version. This morning might take the title for the season's worst... pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): not by any means Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): the above passing through not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: not in the slightest >> ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] for IRCA members
Those who are members of IRCA and receive the bulletin, DX Monitor, might have noticed in the table of contents: ELECR Last Call for Nominations Yes, that's true, the deadline is 31 January. Please look in your DX Monitor for details concerning the election and nomination process, and contact me before Thursday at the address above or below, with your nominations . Thanks. Nick Hall-Patch n...@ieee.org Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 28 Jan Victoria version.
A small improvement on yesterday, mainly down unders, and for a limited time. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): not by any means Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): the above passing through not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 612 4QR //774 1505UT 774 3LO "sunny and 41" from woman, "ABC radio" from man 1504UT. That "41" was not Fahrenheit... 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) 594 JOAK woman and man talking, Japanese intonation 1535UT 702 man talking, DU English intonation 1517UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 747 774 972 1566 1593 seemed to be Asian; 594 738 756 792 891 1017 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] Coax Cable
Good to see that we've opened the flood gates on this topic, James. Rodent bites have never been an issue at my coastal location in western Canada, and I forget that it can be a big issue elsewhere. OT: It's not like we don't have rodents, but perhaps they're all fat and happy from the continual feeding they get here from little old ladies of all ages and as many genders as floats your boatthey think they're feeding just the fluffy squirrels and the cute little chickadees. The day I saw, in broad daylight, six large rats working a bird feeder a few doors down made sure that I was never going to feed the wildlife, no matter how senile I became. On the other hand, no rodent bites on the coax best wishes, Nick At 12:35 2019-01-28, Mike Irizarry wrote: I use rg6 flooded for all my low band receive antennas. I usually get it from dx engineering. I have had very good success with it in the midwest buried and just on top of the soil. The flooded capability has mitigated small rodent bites. Some of the antennas I use it with are: 4 square, k9ay, beverage, bog, and dhdl. Hope this helps. It is not cheap, however. Mike On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 10:06 PM Nick Hall-Patch wrote: > Haven't seen any response to this, James, and am probably not going > to be much help. > > I've just used RG58 variants for up to 100' in permanent > installations around the yard, 10 to15 years in some cases. One of > them runs through about 70' of rigid PVC electrical conduit IPEX > #032907 and is buried. Mind you, I've heard that although such > conduit will keep the groundwater away from the coax, water vapor > will condense inside, leading to a wet interior anyway. That coax > still seems to work,so maybe it's dry...or maybe not. > > On DXpeditions, I've run over 500' of RG58 coax to DKaz'es and such, > and not suffered particularly. > > best wishes, > > Nick > > > At 22:26 2019-01-27, James Niven wrote: > >I am curious as to what type of coax everyone uses for DKAZ antennas and > >also general international shortwave band listening dipoles? > > > >It's time to revamp my antennas and I want to use the right cable that > will > >last for a while. > > > > > > > >I have read that RG-8U is good for long runs of a 100 to 150 feet, and if > I > >was to bury my coax, which is the best pipe/conduit to use to bring my > >cables into the shack? > > > > > > > >thanks > > > > > > > >James Niven > > > >Austin, Texas > > > > > > > >___ > >IRCA mailing list > >IRCA@hard-core-dx.com > >http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca > > > >Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the > >original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of > >the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers > > > >For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org > > > >To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com > > Nick Hall-Patch > Victoria, BC > Canada > > ___ > IRCA mailing list > IRCA@hard-core-dx.com > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca > > Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the > original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the > IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers > > For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org > > To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com > > ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] report about WBZ receptions in Japan
Thanks for posting this link, Mark. The DXpedition participants also received WPTX-1690 and WRDW-1680, the latter before Hokkaido sunset. These are major DX, even if their night time powers were being uh, unobserved. best wishes, Nick At 05:38 2019-01-25, Mark Connelly via IRCA wrote: Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 05:38:06 + (UTC) From: Mark Connelly 1030 WBZ Boston, MA received in Japan Salt water heading NW from Hull, MA transmitter site definitely helps the "get-out-ability." https://eureka-fumi.blogspot.com/2019/01/comparison-of-wbz-news-radio-1030.html?fbclid=IwAR1zjb--aeI8vyXZ_nsO-XA6FKrRJqnOXJzfxIW4Y8-aqP5r2aqz5ZqO-Wo Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] New Kiwi SDR in Victoria
It will be interesting to get a comparison of DU reception Walt...if/when conditions improve. With Juan de Fuca Strait just down the road from you, I would hope that your DU reception should be superior to mine and to Colin's. 73 Nick At 04:55 2019-01-28, Volodya S wrote: Thanks to Colin Newell for getting a west coast Kiwi SDR on-line today. I compared my location (about 5 to 7 km away) to his. At 03:00, I noted that mostly on 1590 he's hearing KLFE from Seattle, with many "The Answer" IDs. For me, I'm also hearing weakly, a cochannel. Wasn't sure who it was until I heard "94.3", which make this the Tilamook, OR True Oldies station, KTIL which occasionally dominates the channel. All nice! 73, Walt ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] Coax Cable
Haven't seen any response to this, James, and am probably not going to be much help. I've just used RG58 variants for up to 100' in permanent installations around the yard, 10 to15 years in some cases. One of them runs through about 70' of rigid PVC electrical conduit IPEX #032907 and is buried. Mind you, I've heard that although such conduit will keep the groundwater away from the coax, water vapor will condense inside, leading to a wet interior anyway. That coax still seems to work,so maybe it's dry...or maybe not. On DXpeditions, I've run over 500' of RG58 coax to DKaz'es and such, and not suffered particularly. best wishes, Nick At 22:26 2019-01-27, James Niven wrote: I am curious as to what type of coax everyone uses for DKAZ antennas and also general international shortwave band listening dipoles? It's time to revamp my antennas and I want to use the right cable that will last for a while. I have read that RG-8U is good for long runs of a 100 to 150 feet, and if I was to bury my coax, which is the best pipe/conduit to use to bring my cables into the shack? thanks James Niven Austin, Texas ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 27 Jan Victoria version.
This morning might take the title for the season's worst... pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): not by any means Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): the above passing through not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: not in the slightest 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) 594 JOAK NHK interlude music recognizable in the gloom 1510UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 567 1566 seemed to be Asian; 891 1017 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 26 Jan Victoria version.
A bit of a blip upwards this morning, with some high band activity and HLAZ hanging in until nearly 1700UT. NHK2 again off at 1440UT, with 774, 828 and 747 all showing audio pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 1566 HLAZ man in Russian 1645UT Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): the above passing through not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 594 JOAK 1524UT 972 HLCA woman in Korean 1541UT 1287 JOHR man in Japanese 1544UT 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) 567 JOIK //594 1523UT 1557 woman talking, Chinese intonation, likely Taiwan 1526UT 1593 CNR1 woman talking //6175 1528UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 603 639 747 774 828 1242 1269 1323 1386 1422 1458 1494 1575 seemed to be Asian; 1017 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 25 Jan Victoria version.
Continuing poor conditions. NHK2 again off at 1440UT, with JOUB-774 managing a bit of the anthem before subsiding beneath the waves. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): no Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): no not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: and still no 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) 612 man talking, DU English intonation 1502UT 891 man, DU English? another on phone, 1514UT 972 woman talking, possible Korean 1511UT 1017 pop vocal music 1517UT, Tonga likely? 1566 choral music 1523UT, likely HLAZ Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 774 828 seemed to be Asian; 738 855 1098 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 24 Jan Victoria version.
Back in the bucket. No idea when NHK2 signed off; it was that poor. Some of the Asian carriers showed hints of audio, but too close to wishful thinking to claim. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): no Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): no not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: and still no 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) 1017 island vocal music 1506UT, Tonga likely 1566 choral music 1546UT, likely HLAZ 1593 man talking, perhaps Chinese, had that assertive CNR1 approach 1535UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 594 774 828 972 1242 seemed to be Asian; 738 792 891 1548 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 23 Jan Victoria version.
Definite improvement this morning. NHK2 signed off again at 1440UT, but with considerably more zip than previous days: JOUB-774 was at good level; 747 and 828, fair; 702 and 873 poor; but all audible, as were their carriers later, when my actual monitoring period started, one hour before local sunrise A slight sunrise lift brought in the Philippines on 1611, but no HLAZ. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): not yet Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 594 JOAK 1545UT 603 HLSA ballad, relaxed man in Korean 1542UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 567 JOIK 1601UT 972 HLCA 1549UT 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 ballad //603 1515UT 585 JOPG man //594 1518UT 612 man talking DU English intonation 1504UT 657 man talking DU English intonation 1504UT, not //612 1557 man talking, perhaps Chinese intonation 1557UT 1575 man and woman mumbling 1555UT; VoA? 1593 CNR1 female vocal //6175 1602UT 1611 R. Mindanao network; male ballad 1555UT, same noted on Hong Kong KiwiSDR which fortunately maintained reasonable strength until 1600UT, when a "RMN" ID was noted. Haven't found a webstream for this yet. Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 702 747 774 828 873 1134 1422 1458 1566 seemed to be Asian; 558 756 891 1017 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 22 Jan Victoria version.
A morning much like yesterday, right down to NHK2 signing off at 1440UT, but even there, JOUB was barely audible for part of the music box, and signals overall were a bit weaker also. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): no Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): indeed not not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: not even this 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) 594 man talking, Japanese intonation 1522UT,pretty much only appearance 1017 island vocal 1517UT, Tonga likely 1242 man in possible Japanese 1601UT 1422 man talking, Japanese intonation 1544-6UT 1566 woman talking Chinese intonation, interspersed with music 1614UT, and a few other times in the next 15 minutes 1593 man talking, Chinese intonation? 1601UT, only single pip on hour in murk, but sounded the right pitch for CNR1 Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 747 774 828 972 1269 1287 1458 1557 1575 seemed to be Asian; 612 657 738 774 891 1098 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 21 Jan Victoria version.
Not an impressive morning. In fact, I gave up just after 1600UT, as there seemed to be so little going on, but the recording yielded a couple of audios later. And earlier, a few weak DUs. NHK2 signed off at 1440UT today, so any strong carriers after that time were wasted. JOUB's s/off ID was audible, and some of the anthem, then into the bucket it went. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): no Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): indeed not not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 1557 RTI assumed, man in Chinese 1615UT 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) 594 man talking, Japanese intonation 1503UT 612 woman talking, DU English intonation 1502UT 702 man talking, DU English intonation 1503UT, things were erratic, so no parallel 1116 4BC assumed, man talking DU English intonation, six pips at 1500UT 1503 woman talking, Japanese intonation? 1607UT 1566 woman talking Chinese intonation, interspersed with music 1613UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 747 774 828 873 972 1242 1287 1386 1422 1458 1575 seemed to be Asian; 738 891 1017 1098 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 20 Jan Victoria version.
Unfortunately, this morning was much more in the "decent burial" category. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): no Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): indeed not not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 972 HLCA 1529UT 1566 HLAZ man in Russian 1631UT, best signal level this morning, well after local sunrise 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) 594 man talking, Japanese intonation 1501UT, but nothing on hour 612 man talking, DU English intonation 1504UT 774 man talking, Japanese intonation 1519UT 1503 JOUK assumed; piano music, 1553UT, NHK pips 1600UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 567 603 747 828 873 1287 1386 1494 1593 seemed to be Asian; 738 855 891 1017 1098 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 19 Jan Victoria version.
Definitely an improvement on yesterday with a nice upper band sunrise lift. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 1566 HLAZ woman in Chinese 1611UT; at 1645UT this was also very readable with a man in Russian Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 747 JOIB sign off music box 1544UT 972 HLCA oriental pop vocal maxed out at 1555UT, slightly less vigorous Korean talk a couple of minutes earlier 1557 Taiwan, RTI man in Chinese 1606UT; was weaker before the hour with woman singing a capella and talking, parallel with webstream https://www.rti.org.tw/radio/onAirPlayer/id/1 which was delayed by about 30 seconds 1593 CNR1 pop vocal //6175 1613UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 774 JOUB sign off music box 1541UT 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) 567 //594 1534UT 594 //567 1535UT, underpowered today 828 JOBB sign off music box 1543UT 873 JOGB //828 1543UT 1017 island sounding vocals, likely Tonga 1519UT 1287 pop music 1601UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 738 891 945 1098 1188 1206 1242 1296 1359 1377 1422 1458 1494 1503 1512 1548 1575 seemed to be Asian; 1098 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] Milestone QSL
Nicely done Nigel. Was it "ID by QSL", or did you have some other magic? Never ID'd here, though there have been suspicions. Usually, if Asian conditions are good here, then there arrives a big Chinese bruiser to contend with. best wishes, Nick At 04:12 2019-01-19, Nigel Pimblett wrote: Got a QSL from Japanese station 1116 JODR for my MW station #1600 QSLed.QSLing any station is getting harder, but Japanese are still about the most reliable. Was happy to get JODR as it took luck to hear it given 4BC's dominance of the frequency, and then some effort and further luck to even identify it. 73, Nigel Pimblett Dunmore, Alberta, Canada ___ ____ Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 18 Jan Victoria version.
Oooog. Somebody short circuited the ionosphere. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): pretty darn impossible Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): today, traces of audio would be considered reasonable perhaps, but there are standards to be maintained... not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 774 JOUB pips on hour 1500UT, into man in Japanese, then faded into long lived obscurity. The sign off at 1540UT was barely heard 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) 828 JOBB sign off music box 1541UT 972 man talking to another man on phone, possibly/likely Korean 1546UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 594 603 639 1566 1575 1593 seemed to be Asian; 612 1017 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] Where are they now?
My last contact with Ray was about 10 years ago I'm afraid, but he was living in Fort Myers then, in good health, and still full of good ideas, as well as hearing DX from Australia and such. best wishes, Nick At 16:56 2019-01-18, James Renfrew wrote: I just did a Google search for Ray Moore, Key West and came up with a Sharon Moore who died in 2015, naming her husband Billy as a survivor, predeceased by father Ray Moore Sr and Mae Shaw. Same guy? Jim Renfrew On Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 11:24 Mark Connelly via IRCA > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Mark Connelly > To: nrc...@googlegroups.com, irca@hard-core-dx.com > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:24:00 + (UTC) > Subject: Where are they now? > > Do any of you know the present status of the following DXers?: > Alan Merriman last known to be in VA > Ray Moore last known to be in FL > > > > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Mark Connelly via IRCA > To: nrc...@googlegroups.com, irca@hard-core-dx.com > Cc: Mark Connelly > Bcc: > Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:24:00 + (UTC) > Subject: [IRCA] Where are they now? > ___ > IRCA mailing list > IRCA@hard-core-dx.com > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca > > Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the > original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the > IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers > > For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org > > To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com > > ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] SDRplay Duo reception
Unfortunately both Chuck Hutton and Guy Atkins posted earlier on this list (beginning of September) that the Duo's performance was underwhelming, Chris, so it seems that your experience is not unique. best wishes, Nick At 16:00 2019-01-18, Chris Black wrote: Having been a DXer and Ham for many years, I am enjoying getting back in the hobby and seeing familiar names. Although the Duo is at the lower end of the SDR price point scale, hearing some positives I thought it would be a good place to start. After running extensive simultaneous reception tests on MW I have been underwhelmed by its performance. With some carriers barely above the noise floor and not a peep of audio, I hear clear audio, often on multiple station on the Icom 7300. I have made no adjustments to the default ExtIo settings and was wondering what other users have found and what settings changes, if any, improved reception. Best 73 to all Chris Sent from my iPhone ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 17 Jan Victoria version.
Still no sign of any Chinese today, but some unexpected Japanese parallels; not much of a sunrise enhancement however. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 774 JOUB 1532UT Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 594 JOAK 1540UT 747 JOIB 1528UT 828 JOBB 1529UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 567 JOIK // 594 1523UT 972 HLCA 1522UT 1287 JOHR two men in Japanese 1537UT 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) 612 man talking, DU English intonation 1526UT 693 JOAB //774 1501UT 702 NHK2 //774 1536UT 873 JOGB vast women's choir made me think of N. Korea, but no, //828 1538UT 891 JOHK //567 1502UT 954 man talking, Japanese intonation 1552UT 1278 JOFR man talking //1287 1526UT. Not sure what program would be parallel on these two channels plus 1332 as well. 1332 JOSF rough copy, but man talking //1287 with slight echo 1544UT 1422 man and woman , Japanese intonation 1512UT 1566 man and woman talking, Chinese intonation 1605UT; fading up and down until after 1630UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 864 909 945 1053 1134 1242 1269 1593 seemed to be Asian; nothing else seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] Alberta TAs for 17 January 2019...but not Victoria
Unfortunately, in Victoria, like this morning with TPs, this evening was a step down with TAs, with just carriers, not even the minimal audio on 1215 was heard last night. best wishes, Nick At 05:19 2019-01-17, Nigel Pimblett wrote: Also had some actual TA audio tonight too, rather than only carriers. Only one station, 1386 Lithuania in Russian at 0357, but hopefully it's a sign of more to come. 73, Nigel Pimblett Dunmore, AB Perseus SDR with Wellbrook Phased Array ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 16 Jan Victoria version.
Dialing back a bit from yesterday... no sign of any Chinese today pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 774 came close Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 594 JOAK 1558UT 774 JOUB 1520UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 567 JOIK 1549UT 747 JOIB 1532UT, rare fade up 828 JOBB 1525UT, only appearance this morning 972 HLCA 1524UT 1566 HLAZ male/female vocal, woman in Chinese 1553; exactly one hour later, man in Russian 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) 603 soft vocal music, likely HLSA 666 JOBK //594 1535UT 693 JOAB //774 1537UT 702 NHK2 //774 1522UT 891 JOHK //594 1539UT 954 man talking, Japanese intonation 1552UT 1242 JOLF 1600UT, cuckoo pips after man and woman in apparent Japanese 1287 man and woman talking, Japanese intonation 1554UT 1422 man and woman , Japanese intonation 1606UT 1575 man and woman talking, SE Asian language? 1556UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 1134 1332 1386 1494 1503 1593 seemed to be Asian; 1017 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] dual receiver SDRs for diversity reception / phasing
with it. Vy 73 Steve, VK6VZ >> ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 15 Jan Victoria version.
another return, to a small semblance of TPs, not quite like the 13th. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 828 JOBB 1503UT 972 HLCA 1610UT Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 774 JOUB 1503UT 1566 HLAZ woman in Chinese 1543UT; man in Russian, with several fades up over 5 minutes starting 1630UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 594 JOAK 1547UT 873 JOGB English lessons 1535UT 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) 603 HLSA soft voiced woman //558 on Korean KiwiSDR 1547UT 693 JOAB //828 1530UT 819 N. Korea female operatic vocal //2850 1540UT 945 CNR1 man //1593 1545UT 1098 CNR1 man mumbling in //1593 1548UT 1206 man mumbling on off channel carrier, likely Yanbian 1530UT 1287 man talking, Japanese intonation 1548UT 1422 man and woman, Japanese intonation 1545UT 1593 CNR1 man //945 1545UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 639 711 747 846 855 864 954 1089 1134 1188 1242 1323 1332 1386 seemed to be Asian; 612 1017 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] Monday night LWBC, S. AZ
I'll need to talk to my neighbours about any equivalent here, hi. Are these Beverage antenna height, or higher? Thanks. Nick At 19:38 2019-01-15, STEVE wrote: I have a 700' N/S longwire and a 900' E/W longwire that are my primary antennas. I get more local AC noise on the E/W wire and even though most LWBC is stronger on the E/W, the N/S wire has less noise and better overall S/N. When I lived in northeast Oregon I also had longwire antennas and would get LWBC; being much farther south here in AZ I never really expected to get much, and have been very pleased with what's been heard, especially this season. Several instances of 252 Algeria at "armchair copy" in AM sync mode, where normally the NDBs cause strong hets from the carriers, and the NDB idents themselves create "interference". (And I'm primarily an NDB DXer, but do like to hear any LWBC coming my way!) Steve On 1/15/2019 12:25 PM, Nick Hall-Patch wrote: In Victoria, rarely any LWBC action in comparison, I think I've only every heard 189 with audio, some years ago.  How large is your longwire Steve? Last few evenings have seen MW carriers seeming to be from the UK and Lithuania, a contrast to poor TP conditions. best wishes, Nick At 06:12 2019-01-15, STEVE wrote: LWBC got fairly decent later on this Monday evening. At around 06 utc: 171 poor (AM sync); 183 poor (AM sync); 189 very poor; 198 poor (AM sync); 216 very poor; 234 very poor; (243 hints); 252 medium (AM sync). MW only has 1089 with rapidly fading het not lasting long enough for any audio. Steve AA7U near Sahuarita, AZ R75; N/S longwire ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] Monday night LWBC, S. AZ
In Victoria, rarely any LWBC action in comparison, I think I've only every heard 189 with audio, some years ago. How large is your longwire Steve? Last few evenings have seen MW carriers seeming to be from the UK and Lithuania, a contrast to poor TP conditions. best wishes, Nick At 06:12 2019-01-15, STEVE wrote: LWBC got fairly decent later on this Monday evening. At around 06 utc: 171 poor (AM sync); 183 poor (AM sync); 189 very poor; 198 poor (AM sync); 216 very poor; 234 very poor; (243 hints); 252 medium (AM sync). MW only has 1089 with rapidly fading het not lasting long enough for any audio. Steve AA7U near Sahuarita, AZ R75; N/S longwire ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 14 Jan Victoria version.
It was a fine morning to foul up the automatic SDR recording, judging by the signal strength tracesmaybe tomorrow. best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 13 Jan Victoria version.
a return, at last, to a small semblance of TPs. High point today was Taiwan on 1557 complete with an ID. There was also a small Aussie opening around 1540UT pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 594 JOAK 1547UT 612 4QR ABC news app announcement 1541UT Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 774 JOUB music box s/off 1532UT 828 JOBB English lessons 1501UT, but strength deteriorated from then on 1557 RTI Taiwan, nice lady read an ID right out of the pages of WRTH: " ...chungyang guangpo dientai, Taiwan chih yin" 1613UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 594 3WV //612 over JOAK 1537UT 1566 HLAZ woman in Russian 1651UT, then fading up and down until 1700UT, when perfectly serviceable "welcome to the Voice of America" and a VoA jingle were heard 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) 576 music and talk, only on west Flag 1535UT 2RN? 585 pop music, west Flag only, not //576 or 594 1534UT; 2WEB? 693 JOAB music box s/off 1531UT 702 2BL //612 and leading somewhat 1537UT 738 2NR lagging 612 a bit 1539UT 774 3LO //612 1537UT 873 JOGB s/off anthem 1530UT 891 5AN ABC fanfare 1530UT 972 woman talking Korean intonation? 1622UT 1017 man talking, island intonation? 1533UT 1287 man talking, Japanese intonation 1602UT 1323 light music 1536UT CRI? 1575 man talking, SE Asian language? 1537UT, better on north Flag Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 747 891 918 945 1188 1242 1332 1593 seemed to be Asian; 567 846 855 936 1098 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 12 Jan Victoria version.
and.back in the bucket this morning... pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): nada, Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): the above, passing through not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: not even this 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) 594 JOAK man mumbling after pips on the hour 1501UT 612 man talking, DU English intonation 1502UT 774 man talking, Japanese intonation 1524UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 747 873 972 1566 1593 1611 seemed to be Asian; 567 855 891 1017 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] Oklahoma TA LW DX 1/8/19
Little sign of longwave here in Victoria, Richard (there was a carrier on 1098 last night, but not so far tonight), but the Iranian jammer on 1575 first made itself felt about 0049UT, and definitely by 0120UT. best wishes, Nick At 23:34 2019-01-11, Richard N. Allen via IRCA wrote: 198 BBC (barely audible) and 252 Chaine 3 (poor) are already audible here in Oklahoma at 2330 UTC. Richard Allen. near Perry OK USA. Sent from my iPad > ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 11 Jan Victoria version.
A small recovery this morning. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): nada, Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 774 JOUB man in Japanese 1510UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 972 HLCA woman in Korean 1611UT 1566 HLAZ man in Russian 1641UT was possibly the best strength from this one from 1500UT onward 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) 594 woman talking, Japanese?, then flute music 1527UT 612 man talking, DU English intonation 1515UT 702 rollicking vocal music 1524UT, then man talking, DU English? 747 JOIB music box 1541UT 828 man talking Japanese intonation 1523UT 1242 man talking, Japanese intonation, 1616UT, sneaking through blasts of local noise 1287 pop vocal 1555UT, likely JOHR? Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 603 864 945 1089 1188 seemed to be Asian; 594 756 846 891 1017 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] Fwd: Topband: MIT Ionosphere, Shortwave Radio, and Propagation Lecture 2230Z (5:30 p.m. EST) Today
from Topband list: (might be of interest...still on at this moment; I think they are archived) The next MIT radio technology presentation at 2230Z today will be "Ionosphere, Shortwave Radio, and Propagation" by Phil Erickson W1PJE at: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWwWW7rc6eKh8xfLl4Pac7W9l54h7oj-B_polymer=true The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Radio Society (W1MX) and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) are hosting a series of public lectures on the technology applications and history of radio. Speakers will hail from throughout the MIT community and industry to discuss topics ranging from the design of modern wireless communications systems and 5G, to software defined radio and satellite communications, to shortwave radio propagation, space weather, Radio Astronomy and more. The remaining presentations in the MIT radio technology lecture series are: Add to Calendar Jan 15 Tue 05:30PM-07:00PM Experimental Radio Astronomy Add to Calendar Jan 16 Wed 05:30PM-07:00PM U nveiling the Low Frequency Universe through Space Based Radio Astronomy Add to Calendar Jan 17 Thu 05:30PM-07:00PM Principles of Radar Dr. Frank D. Lind is a Research Engineer at MIT Haystack Observatory where he works to develop and use radio science instrumentation. At the Observatory he leads many technical efforts involving software radio instrumentation cutting across Geospace, Astronomy, and Space science. Add to Calendar Jan 21 Mon 05:30PM-07:00PM Space Weather Dr. Anthea J. Coster is an Assistant Director and principal research scientist at the MIT Haystack Observatory. Her research interests include space weather, ionospheric and atmospheric coupling, and GPS positioning and measurement accuracy. She received her Ph.D. in Space Physics and Astronomy from Rice University in 1983, under the guidance of William E. Gordon, the founder of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 10 Jan Victoria version.
The tension continues...will audio ever return on the TPs? Today, on one signal, briefly, yes. Otherwise, the headstone has been prepared. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): nada, Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 594 JOAK woman with city temperature reports, thin sound but very clear 1556UT. not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: the above, passing through 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) 972 man and woman talking 1553UT, Korean possible...? Oddly, almost exactly the same time and program as yesterday Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 747 774 1566 seemed to be Asian; 891 1017 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 9 Jan Victoria version.
A slight, so very slight uptick in conditions this morning (and yet, this evening, slight carriers on 1089 and 1215so, hope springs eternal) pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): nada, Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): absent not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: nil 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) 612 man DU English? 1522UT 774 man talking, Japanese intonation 1505UT 972 man and woman talking 1552UT, Korean possible...? 1017 island sounding vocal music 1513UT, suspect Tonga Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 1566 1593 seemed to be Asian; 503 702 738 891 1098 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 8 Jan Victoria version.
As Nigel has mentioned, the lousy conditions continue. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): nada, Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): absent not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: nil 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) 612 man DU English? pop vocal 1542UT 1017 man mumbling 1517UT, suspect Tonga? Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 774 972 1566 seemed to be Asian; 702 756 891 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 7 Jan Victoria version.
Not quite sure whether this morning was bad to worse, or worst to slightly less worse. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): nada, Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): absent not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: nil 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) 774 JOUB pips 1500UT, man mumbling 1017 man talking, traces of music 1524UT, suspect Tonga? Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 828 seemed to be Asian; 612 882 891 1548 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] article
This link was posted on the ultralight group, and may be of interest: https://radioinsight.com/blogs/107223/the-looming-engineering-age-crisis/ best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] TP 6 Jan Victoria version.
Yesterday may have been dead; today was pretty much decomposed. The only audio was a man mumbling on 1566 at 1655UT, that's right, long after local sunrise. best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] [nrc-am] Fwd: [CapeDX] Sandy Neck Beach DX 12-29-18
Ritola, and C. Hutton of RealDX. 1062 First part of file belonged to Italy and changed quickly to Iran. 1071 Unknown - Koran or Quran. Either Iran or maybe Egpty 1458 Romania - Song, Money- under others. // 1593 2230 90 918 - Unknown under Spain with music. 2300 90 630 SS under WPRO - Maybe Ven. with music. 810 Macedonia - Pips, theme music, into news. Fair and along with WGY. 1630 KCJJ now in strong. That's it for now. Lots of DX at this site and may not travel 1 hour to other sights. Sandy Neck good for North and East and Menauhant Beach good for South DX. Sandy Neck soom problem with Boston but good nulls from NYC. Manuhant Beach problem with NYC but good nulls for Boston. So that's it's. Roy Barstow - Falmouth __._,_.___ Posted by: roybars...@hotmail.com Reply via web post<https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/CapeDX/conversations/messages/9309;_ylc=X3oDMTJxOW5sOGZ1BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIyODgxMDM4BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2MzEwOARtc2dJZAM5MzA5BHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA3JwbHkEc3RpbWUDMTU0NjU1MTcwNA--?act=reply=9309> Reply to sender <mailto:roybars...@hotmail.com?subject=Re%3A%20Sandy%20Neck%20Beach%20DX%2012-29-18> Reply to group <mailto:cap...@yahoogroups.com?subject=Re%3A%20Sandy%20Neck%20Beach%20DX%2012-29-18> Start a New Topic<https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/CapeDX/conversations/newtopic;_ylc=X3oDMTJmcDdpZms3BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIyODgxMDM4BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2MzEwOARzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNudHBjBHN0aW1lAzE1NDY1NTE3MDQ-> Messages in this topic<https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/CapeDX/conversations/topics/9309;_ylc=X3oDMTM1cW1yZmU3BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIyODgxMDM4BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2MzEwOARtc2dJZAM5MzA5BHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA3Z0cGMEc3RpbWUDMTU0NjU1MTcwNAR0cGNJZAM5MzA5> (1) [https://s.yimg.com/ru/static/images/yg/img/megaphone/1464031581_phpFA8bON] Have you tried the highest rated email app?<https://yho.com/1wwmgg> With 4.5 stars in iTunes, the Yahoo Mail app is the highest rated email app on the market. What are you waiting for? Now you can access all your inboxes (Gmail, Outlook, AOL and more) in one place. Never delete an email again with 1000GB of free cloud storage. Visit Your Group<https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/CapeDX/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmcWlxdmZxBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIyODgxMDM4BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2MzEwOARzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE1NDY1NTE3MDQ-> [Yahoo! Groups]<https://groups.yahoo.com/neo;_ylc=X3oDMTJldmU2YTQ3BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIyODgxMDM4BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2MzEwOARzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNnZnAEc3RpbWUDMTU0NjU1MTcwNA--> Privacy<https://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/groups/details.html> Unsubscribe<mailto:capedx-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com?subject=Unsubscribe> Terms of Use<https://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/> SPONSORED LINKS .. __,_._,___ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NRC-AM" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nrc-am+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:nrc-am+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To post to this group, send email to nrc...@googlegroups.com<mailto:nrc...@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nrc-am/531265351.6313739.1546628471401%40mail.yahoo.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nrc-am/531265351.6313739.1546628471401%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email_source=footer>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] TP 5 Jan Victoria version.
Thanks Mauno. I'm really ignorant about what goes on in radio in Iran, and was going to use these poor conditions as an opportunity to check an SDR or two for evidence of what is broadcast on the various non-Radio Iran sites at the top of their hours. I know the Radio Iran chimes from DXing in PEI, and the Middle East, but that's about it. I had also recently read that Radio Iran stations are all moving to 558 and will be synchronized, is that correct? Thanks again. Nick At 15:56 2019-01-06, Mauno Ritola wrote: The external service VOIRI/Pars Today uses the same time signal chimes as R. Iran. I can hear VOIRI Tajik via Tayebad now at 1540 on 720 kHz and I think it is also your UNID on 1098 kHz with time announcement. I don't hear R. Iran now at all. Maybe Mahidasht has moved to 558 kHz. Mauno Nick Hall-Patch kirjoitti 6.1.2019 klo 6:25: There are apparently a couple of Iranians on the channel, Gary.  Both broadcast Radio Iran, but one of them only at certain times, and 1530UT wasn't one of them according to MWList.     It's all pretty speculative based on wispy chimesfun to dream. Nick  At 04:07 2019-01-06, Gary DeBock wrote: Hi Nick, <<<  Going over the SDR recordings, there are ever so faint traces of the R. Iran chimes also on 585 and 720 at 1530UT on 24 December. >>> For what it's worth, there was a 720 reception in Hawaii two months ago that the Finnish DXers suspected was from Iran, but nobody could identify the exotic language being broadcast at the time. Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA) > On January 5, 2019 at 6:22 PM Nick Hall-Patch wrote: > > > With conditions like this, all that's left is to go over old recordings. > > The morning of 24 December was pretty interesting > in that Iran on 1098 was heard here. Going over > the SDR recordings, there are ever so faint > traces of the R. Iran chimes also on 585 and 720 at 1530UT on 24 December. > > Definitely targets for the next opening... > > > > At 01:29 2019-01-06, R. Colin Newell wrote: > > >Which is why if we got more than 2 days of sun > >in a row, IâÃÃd lower my FLAGS for service and > >tweakiaking and put up an end-fed and get my CQ on. > > > >For now itâÃÃs all wind, rain, gale, torrent, r, repeat... > > > >Colin Newell - Victoria - > >VA7WWV - B.C. CANADA - > > > > > On Jan 5, 2019, at 5:09 PM, Nick Hall-Patch wrote: > > > > > > To call this morning dead would be an insult > > to any dearly departed. Judging by NHK2's on > > line presence, they signed off some time after > > 1440UT this morning, but the SDR recordings could tell me nothing further. > > > > > > > > > > >___ > >IRCA mailing list > >IRCA@hard-core-dx.com > >http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca > > > >Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing > >list are those of the original contributors and > >do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the > >IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers > > > >For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org > > > >To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com > > Nick Hall-Patch > Victoria, BC > Canada > > ___ > IRCA mailing list > IRCA@hard-core-dx.com > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca > > Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers > > For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org > > To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com > Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] TP 5 Jan Victoria version.
There are apparently a couple of Iranians on the channel, Gary. Both broadcast Radio Iran, but one of them only at certain times, and 1530UT wasn't one of them according to MWList. It's all pretty speculative based on wispy chimesfun to dream. Nick At 04:07 2019-01-06, Gary DeBock wrote: Hi Nick, <<< Going over the SDR recordings, there are ever so faint traces of the R. Iran chimes also on 585 and 720 at 1530UT on 24 December. >>> For what it's worth, there was a 720 reception in Hawaii two months ago that the Finnish DXers suspected was from Iran, but nobody could identify the exotic language being broadcast at the time. Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA) > On January 5, 2019 at 6:22 PM Nick Hall-Patch wrote: > > > With conditions like this, all that's left is to go over old recordings. > > The morning of 24 December was pretty interesting > in that Iran on 1098 was heard here. Going over > the SDR recordings, there are ever so faint > traces of the R. Iran chimes also on 585 and 720 at 1530UT on 24 December. > > Definitely targets for the next opening... > > > > At 01:29 2019-01-06, R. Colin Newell wrote: > > >Which is why if we got more than 2 days of sun > >in a row, IâÂÂd lower my FLAGS for service and > >tweaking and put up an end-fed and get my CQ on. > > > >For now itâÂÂs all wind, rain, gale, torrent, repeat... > > > >Colin Newell - Victoria - > >VA7WWV - B.C. CANADA - > > > > > On Jan 5, 2019, at 5:09 PM, Nick Hall-Patch wrote: > > > > > > To call this morning dead would be an insult > > to any dearly departed. Judging by NHK2's on > > line presence, they signed off some time after > > 1440UT this morning, but the SDR recordings could tell me nothing further. > > > > > > > > > > >___ > >IRCA mailing list > >IRCA@hard-core-dx.com > >http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca > > > >Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing > >list are those of the original contributors and > >do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the > >IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers > > > >For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org > > > >To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com > > Nick Hall-Patch > Victoria, BC > Canada > > ___ > IRCA mailing list > IRCA@hard-core-dx.com > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca > > Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers > > For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org > > To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com > Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] TP 5 Jan Victoria version.
Answer: they both are...it's AM radio, for gosh sakes. At 03:42 2019-01-06, Nick Hall-Patch wrote: Quick, which one of these two is living in the past? The one who is reliving the good ol' days of December 24th. Or The one who claims that he doesn't know how to do that. Tough philosophical problem. Probably an excuse for a drink and an evening of cogitation in front of the fire. (even though there has been the tiniest hint of a carrier on 1386 on the radioin real time) At 02:34 2019-01-06, R. Colin Newell wrote: What's a recording? :-) Colin Newell - Victoria - B.C. CANADA - > On Jan 5, 2019, at 6:22 PM, Nick Hall-Patch wrote: > > With conditions like this, all that's left is to go over old recordings. > > ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] TP 5 Jan Victoria version.
Quick, which one of these two is living in the past? The one who is reliving the good ol' days of December 24th. Or The one who claims that he doesn't know how to do that. Tough philosophical problem. Probably an excuse for a drink and an evening of cogitation in front of the fire. (even though there has been the tiniest hint of a carrier on 1386 on the radioin real time) At 02:34 2019-01-06, R. Colin Newell wrote: What's a recording? :-) Colin Newell - Victoria - B.C. CANADA - > On Jan 5, 2019, at 6:22 PM, Nick Hall-Patch wrote: > > With conditions like this, all that's left is to go over old recordings. > > ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] TP 5 Jan Victoria version.
With conditions like this, all that's left is to go over old recordings. The morning of 24 December was pretty interesting in that Iran on 1098 was heard here. Going over the SDR recordings, there are ever so faint traces of the R. Iran chimes also on 585 and 720 at 1530UT on 24 December. Definitely targets for the next opening... At 01:29 2019-01-06, R. Colin Newell wrote: Which is why if we got more than 2 days of sun in a row, Iâd lower my FLAGS for service and tweaking and put up an end-fed and get my CQ on. For now itâs all wind, rain, gale, torrent, repeat... Colin Newell - Victoria - VA7WWV - B.C. CANADA - > On Jan 5, 2019, at 5:09 PM, Nick Hall-Patch wrote: > > To call this morning dead would be an insult to any dearly departed. Judging by NHK2's on line presence, they signed off some time after 1440UT this morning, but the SDR recordings could tell me nothing further. > > > ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 5 Jan Victoria version.
To call this morning dead would be an insult to any dearly departed. Judging by NHK2's on line presence, they signed off some time after 1440UT this morning, but the SDR recordings could tell me nothing further. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): nada, Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): absent not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 594 JOAK 1546UT 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) 612 man DU English intonation 1507UT 972 man and woman in possible Koran 1553UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 747 774 828 1566 seemed to be Asian; 567 594 702 738 891 1017 1098 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 4 Jan Victoria version.
NHK2 again off at 1440UT, and generally not a great morning, with no sunrise lift, and most signals being better about an hour before sunrise pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): nada, Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 594 JOAK 1547UT 774 JOUB 1441UT s/offf 828 JOBB s/off 1440UT 972 HLCA pop music 1508UT, fading to man in apparent Korean at 1510UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 666 JOBK 1528UT //594 693 JOAB 1440UT s/off 747 JOIB s/off 1443UT 837 man in Chinese 1513UT 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 man and woman nattering at high speed, sounded Japanese 1514UT 594 3WV //612 u/JOAK 1542UT 612 4QR man to another man on phone DU English intonation, //594 621 Chinese pips very weak 1500UT, woman in Chinese? into typical soft music for Heilongjiang RGD 639 CNR1 //756 & 945 1505UT 729 JOCK //594 1536UT 738 man and woman talking, Chinese intonation 1502UT 756 CNR1 man talking and music bits //945, somewhat offset 1504UT 891 pop vocal not //594, maybe Aussie? 1539UT 945 CNR1 man talking and music bits //756, somewhat offset 1504UT 954 man talking Japanese intonation 1549UT 1566 piano, woman in possible Chinese 1602UT and 1619UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 567 603 702 711 864 873 918 981 1053 1134 1242 1422 1494 1557 seemed to be Asian; 738 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Re: [IRCA] Thursday night LWBC, S.E. AZ
Just MW carriers here in Victoria last night Steve, maybe 1386 had audio mumblings. Should have checked longwave and didn't. best wishes, Nick At 17:39 2019-01-04, STEVE wrote: Last night, Thursday, had the best reception of 252 Algeria that I've probably ever had. Several times it was strong enough to totally capture the frequency. Usually there is "qrm" from NDBs but on peaks it was the only thing heard, and I could use AM Sync. Over the evening I also had reception from 171, 183, 189, 198, 216. I also heard four NDBs from Greenland. Quite an unusual evening for far-north LF reception. TA AMBC 1089 produced one brief fadeup with audio at 0247 utc. 73, Steve AA7U near Sahuarita, AZ (south of Tucson) R75; N/S longwire ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 3 Jan Victoria version.
The year continues downhill, in spite of the geomagnetically quiet conditions; but then there was AFN on 1575... NHK2 again off at 1440UT, but not much zip compared with previous days. If nothing else,there was time to check 1323 and 963 on the Khabarovsk KiwiSDR at 1500 and 1600UT. At 1500UT, 1323 was going strong "Radio Kitaya" CRI, with no sign of going off the air per its listed sign off. 963 on the other hand showed no sign of Radio Kitaya before 1500UT; no wonder it's not being heard just now. At 1600UT no IDs on 1323, but recognizable top of the hour CRI music, which stopped at 1600UT, followed by a short tone and then off, with NHK1 filling the gap. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): nada, though perhaps 774's sign off chimes came close? Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 594 JOAK 1600UT 774 JOUB s/off 1443UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 639 CNR1 //1593 1544UT 747 JOIB s/off 1441UT 1503 JOUK 1558UT jazz guitar //594 1575 AFN assumed with woman and man in American English "January 31st, in time..." a chance to join for military members" 1543UT, erratic fading 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) 567 JOIK //594 1555UT 603 ballad 1522UT likely HLSA 621 yet another ballad 1542UT; Heilongjiang RGD likely? 828 JOBB s/off 1440UT 855 ballad 1558UT; maybe Chinese pips on hour, but pretty imaginary 972 man talking, Korean? 1545UT 1287 man talking, Japanese intonation 1541UT 1593 CNR1 //639 1544UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 657 738 891 918 945 1242 1269 1323 1386 1422 1494 1557 seemed to be Asian; nothing seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 2 Jan Victoria version.
Already, the year has started downhill, hi. No, not that bad, just not as lively as yesterday. NHK2 off again at 1440UT today, so noted them, as carrier strength was at least as good later. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 594 JOAK 1559UT 774 JOUB 1440UT s/off 945 CNR1 man in Chinese 1614UT; parallels noted earlier, as was another station with piano music Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 747 JOIB 1441UT s/off 828 JOBB 1440UT s/off 972 HLCA 1543UT; not the barn burner that it was yesterday 1287 JOHR man and woman in Japanese 1557UT 1566 HLAZ man in Russian 1651UT; much reduced strength by 1700UT but VoA ID heard then not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 567 JOIK //594 1602UT 603 HLSA man in Korean 1604UT 621 ballads 1558UT, Chinese pips on hour, but with ballad accompaniment. Heilongjiang likely 639 CNR1 //945 1533UT 693 JOAB 1442UT s/off 819 operatic singing 1557UT, N. Korea likely 873 JOGB s/off 1440UT 981 CNR1 //639 1532UT 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) 531 JOQG //594 1532UT 711 HLKA woman //864 on Korean KiwiSDR 1603UT 837 woman talking Chinese intonation 1620UT 855 orchestral music, female opera 1556UT; if parallel to 819 was offset by a long way. N. Korea likely 864 ballad not //711, though that was pretty marginal at this time 1538UT 1017 CRI ballad, man and woman talking //1323 on Korean KiwiSDR 1526UT 1044 CRI? woman and man Japanese intonation 1530UT 1089 man Chinese intonation, 1601UT, nothing on hour; CNR6? 1098 CNR1 woman //945 1548UT 1143 woman Chinese? 1603UT 1242 two men Japanese intonation 1622UT 1323 woman talking, Russian intonation? 1529UT. Although 1323 was very audible on Khabarovsk KiwiSDR, 963 was not, so no parallel. Will need to check again, as 1323 is listed off 1500UT, 963 off at 1600UT.. 1575 woman talking, 1610UT, suspect VoA, but no signal on hour or half hours Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 648 666 675 738 846 918 954 1008 1116 1179 1188 1206 1251 1269 1296 1332 1422 seemed to be Asian; nothing seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
[IRCA] TP 1 Jan Victoria version.
The new year started off with a bit of a bang. Another of those mornings, where things were probably missed. NHK2 was off again at 1440UT with good strength; carriers were even better strength later during the sunrise enhancement pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 594 JOAK 1547UT 738 Taiwan Fisheries //1143 man in Chinese 1528UT 747 JOIB 1443UT s/off 774 JOUB 1441UT s/off 828 JOBB 1443UT s/off 972 HLCA 1543UT (notes say "immense") 1566 HLAZ 1643UT man in Russian; best of the morning for this one Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise): 567 JOIK 1541UT 639 CNR1 //1098 1544UT 666 JOBK //594 1544UT 729 JOCK woman //594 briefly plowing through the 730 splash 1529UT 873 JOGB s/off 1440UT 954 JOKR two men Japanese 1604UT 1287 JOHR HBC rajio mention by man at 1544UT 1557 Taiwan man and woman in Chinese 1554UT; also orchestral music from another station? No buzz noted on it, as Walt described not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 585 JOPG //594 1537UT 603 HLSA //558 1557UT 711 HLKA man //864 1538UT; someone else there too, Chinese? 819 orchestra and operatic singing 1555UT N. Korea? 891 JOHK //594 1532UT 945 NHK1 //594 1541UT 1098 CNR1 //639 1547UT, slight delay 1323 pop music 1552UT, presumed CRI? 1575 man SE Asian language assumed VoA 1551UT 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) 531 JOQG //594 1552UT 558 HLQH //603 1557UT 585 man Chinese ? 1542UT 612 JOLK //594 1526UT 621 soft music 1555UT, but 900 delivered only very weak Chinese pips at 1600UT; no parallel available 657 orchestral music 1527UT N. Korea? 675 NHK1 //594 1603UT 702 woman Chinese ? 1549UT 837 man Chinese? 1538UT 846 ballad no idea 1537UT 864 HLKR //711 1538UT 855 man mumbling; woman also on other station 1540UT 945 CNR1 //1098 1547UT 1008 man Chinese? 1545UT 1089 piano music 1552UT China? 1116 man Japanese? 1546UT 1143 Taiwan Fisheries 1538UT /738 1188 JOKP //594 1557UT 1242 woman Japanese? 1556UT 1422 JORF? ballad 1601UT; nothing on hour 1575 Iran buzzer 1542UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 909 918 936 963 1107 1161 1179 1206 1269 1332 1494 1503 seemed to be Asian; nothing seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
