Re: [IRCA] Steve Bohack

[rfoxwor1]

Steve's name was Bohac, not Bohack. He did live in New Jersey.

73 Bob Foxworth

 Dypete via IRCA  wrote: 
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> Would anyone know the address of Steve
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> We exchanged information numerous years back (about 20) on my
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> HQ-180A. He lived in New Jersey but the address and number I have
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[IRCA] QSL archival -was- Re: [NRC-AM] More on mergers

[rfoxwor1]

I'd like to start a thread about verification archival, if I may,
which I suppose is somewhat distantly related to the merger thread.
I was around in the 1960's and actually still have some of the
material that circulated by mail back then. But that's not why
I write now.

Any of us who were around in the 60's realize the age issues that
we face. I had registered my QSL collection with the CPRV archival
service in 1989, but still have my QSL's today. They fairly comfortably
fit into two standard briefcases. The good ones along with the mundane.

On August 15 of last year I got a letter from CPRV saying in effect that
was no more interest in acquiring new collections because of so much
overlap with existing material. I can understand this, it's a hard
argument to refute.

In my own case I'd estimate that I have maybe 20 to 30 verifications
that have significant archival interest. The rest of them (hundreds)
are just like the 1 kw daytimers 500 miles away I used to hear at 6 AM
sign-on with regularity.

The consequence of this is there is no longer any means for me to seek
archival of the maybe 20 verifications I really care about as they are
regarded the same as the 1 kw daytimer sign-on from 500 miles away
verie that already has been submitted and 'registered' by others.

As I see it, I no longer have any means to archive _any_ of the QSL's I have.
This includes such as the 2-page letter I got from VSZ-1 Tarawa in 1971
which I really think has archival value. Or correspondence from Radio Swan
on 1160 in 1960.

No one I know would have any interest in spending all the time it would take
to parse them out onto eBay. As it stands, on my passing (I am 71) all
this material would be thrown out, unless I can find a recipient during
my lifetime.

Is anyone thinking about this?

- Bob Foxworth



 Russ Edmunds wb2...@yahoo.com wrote: 
 In an earlier post, I had made mention that I didn't see that a merger would 
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Re: [IRCA] KWAK 1240 verie

[rfoxwor1]

Hello,

Not a DX test, but I have a KWAK 1240 verie from a frequency check, dated
11 April 1959 signed by Scooter Segraves, Sound Stage 124

The letterhead is a duck wearing a tux and bowtie, and quacking (kwakking?)
into a 77DX type mic on a floorstand, holding it crooner style.

The freq check was done on Tuesdays 0145-0200 CST and the station operated
0530-2200 localtime. I heard the freq check in New Jersey, I think just once.
This must have been a schoolday no less...maybe I flunked History to stay up
for this check...who knows? I was in 11th grade then.

Scooter was a well known and regarded NRC'er.

Is this what is sought, and if so, still needed?  How may I help?

73 Bob Foxworth


 John Callarman johncallar...@msn.com wrote: 
 Any oldtimers out there who verified a CPC DX Test Scooter Seagraves 
 conducted some time in the '50s from KWAK-1240, Stuttgart, Arkansas. Scoot 
 would like to have a copy of that KWAK letterhead, to gb3ku...@diamondcity.net
 
 John Callarman, KA9SPA, Family Genealogist, Retired Newspaper Editor, 
 DX-oyente, Krum TX (AKA Qal R. Mann, Krumudgeon)  
 
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Re: [IRCA] Radio Club Newsletters from WW2

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 John Callarman johncallar...@msn.com wrote: 

 You could try to make contact with Jerry Berg, who has collected a great
 amount of SWBC DX historical material. (aka Jerome S. Berg.)

Some more info that may help. Jerry Berg lives in Massachusetts, possibly
in Lexington, MA. He is a long-standing SWBC DXer but AFAIK does not
do any BC DXing. Also he runs, or did run, the QSL archival service that
seeks to preserve old historical QSL's from estates of DXers wwho have
passed or quit the hobby, the CPRV.

Bob Foxworth


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Re: [IRCA] Don Kaskey - SK

[rfoxwor1]

I am sorry to learn the news of Don's passing. I never met him but I have fond 
memories
of getting copies of DX Monitor back in the 80's and reading the exploits of 
the ERBA
gang (The El Rancho Bar Association)  It seems that the Bay Area DXers always 
had the
greatest stories to tell. RIP Don.  73 Bob Foxworth

 It is with great regret and sadness that I got a phone call from Don Kaskey's 
 wife telling me he has passed away recently
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Re: [IRCA] TP's for Thursday, January 17, 2013

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It's interesting what can be heard, and not heard. This morning (Fri 18 Jan)
between 0200 to 0300 Z the ham station RI1ANF in the South Shetland Islands
(basically, Antarctica) was coming in as best as I've ever heard him, which
is just 2 or 3 times. A lot of QSB but on peaks Oleg was 569 to 579 and working
many stations in the US. Freq 1826.5 kc in the 160 meter hamband, CW and I was
able to work him with just 400 w out to a nonoptimal 80 foot wire, tuner and 
small
radial field. At the same time European hams on 160m were non-existant.

73 Bob k2euh

 Nigel Pimblett nige2...@telus.net wrote: 
 Glad it wasn't just me.  Just a few carriers here.  This morning was one 
 of those is my antenna conected? mornings!


 On 17/01/2013 8:26 AM, Dennis Vroom wrote:
 
 
  Listened from 1500-1523 utc and heard no stations.  Just weak hets on 594  
  1566 kHz.

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[IRCA] mystery signal on 1810-1813

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Hams who operate on 160 meters have been hearing a loud raspy signal
on 1810 kc which seems to _maybe_ be coming from the area between Philadelphia
and Atlantic City. Today it became multiple carriers between 1810 and
1813. They're seeking help with DF'ing it to a closer location fix.
Can anyone here on this list hear it? It seems to be on day and night
and has been heard up and down the east coast as far as NL..

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Re: [IRCA] 576?

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 Nick Hall-Patch n...@ieee.org wrote: 

   1566  has almost always been badly smeared over a couple 
 of Hertz (but centered on 1566.000), and fades in and out more 
 naturally, as well as always disappearing within a few minutes of 
 Parakou sunrise, so I'm tending to credit that one with being 
 real.  It only appears in the midsummer months, at least over the 
 last few years.  


During the 1970's when I was very active in MW DX, June/July was always the
optimum time for me to look for the 3 big signals from Benin-1475,
Ivory Coast-1493 and Togo-1502, at their sunrise. I was in Long Island
NY then. I used a HQ-150 and an indoor loop. Togo was easy as WTOP-1500
s/off at 1 am each night.

- Bob


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Re: [IRCA] noise issue (What about the FCC?)

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 Mike Hawkins michael.d.hawk...@gmail.com wrote: 


 walked around with a battery-powered Grundig to home in on the noise
 source.  The main electrical panel was markedly warm.  I called the utility,
 and they said there was strong arcing inside, but it was the responsibility
 of the owner.  The owner didn't care at all, because he hoped it would burn
 and he could use insurance money to put up a custom home on the huge lot.


Don't they call this contributory negligence, perhaps insurance fraud.
IF THIS HAPPENED and the insurance company knew of it, I doubt they
would pay out on it. Not hard to imagine someone dying because of this.

Yeah he could get a custom home. Maybe 3 or 4 stories, all brick(to keep out
burglars living near you), plenty of steel bars in your door (think
Faraday cage...), scenic vistas of San Francisco Bay, meals delivered
to your front door daily  ...

Keep records of this.

- Bob


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Re: [IRCA] 30 years of skywave DXing

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I joined the NNRC in probably 1957 and the NRC shortly thereafter, when I was 
in 10th grade.
I don't recall any NNRC picnics in NJ that far back. I also learned of NNRC 
through
the Newark News. They had done a profile on me, as a ham, in an edition of the 
Newark
Sunday news who had a weekly column featuring local hams, in 1954. It was 
written
by Carl Erbacher, W2EKU, a reporter for that paper. Coincidentally it was just 
featured
as a novelty on LakelandARC.blogspot.com as I had shown it (clipping) to KI4ZMV 
who runs that
blog, a couple months ago. Lakeland ARC is now my 'local' ham club.

One of the NNRC things I recall was the reports from John Callarman, then 
stationed in Germany
with the Army, hearing such goodies as Tripoli-1052. That was probably the 
earliest
time in my life that I was aware of foreign MW DX. Back then, DX prizes 
available
to us in NJ included ZBM-1 Bermuda 1235 and Norden-Osterloog, Germany on 1295, 
which was
my first TA. Heard on a 1937-era Philco floor console with a big sliderule 
glass dial.

I went to a couple of the NNRC picnics with Tom Sundstrom, sometime in the 
1970's
and they were held at Patapsco State Park in Maryland. I don't have any of the 
old
bulletins.

73 Bob Foxworth


 GEORGE SANTULLI gsant...@hotmail.com wrote: 
 
 I found Gary S. Collins in Pullman, WA! He is a physics prof at Washington 
 State University.
  
 He remembered his 4' loop and the fact that he heard Tonga-1020am in 
 Cranford! 
  
 I think I went to only one or two Ernie getogethers in Brooklyn, but a number 
 of the NNRC picnics down the Jersey Shore. I can picture it, but cannot 
 remember where...Lincroft? Keansburg? Cheesequake Park? I remember Bernie 
 Duffy from Staten Island...I wonder if pics exist of those times...
  
 I went to some sort of NRC meeting or annual convention outside Cincinnati 
 Ohio in 1967. 
  
 Best...

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Re: [IRCA] 30 years of skywave DXing

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I joined the NNRC in probably 1957 and the NRC shortly thereafter, when I was 
in 10th grade.
I don't recall any NNRC picnics in NJ that far back. I also learned of NNRC 
through
the Newark News. They had done a profile on me, as a ham, in an edition of the 
Newark
Sunday news who had a weekly column featuring local hams, in 1954. It was 
written
by Carl Erbacher, W2EKU, a reporter for that paper. Coincidentally it was just 
featured
as a novelty on LakelandARC.blogspot.com as I had shown it (clipping) to KI4ZMV 
who runs that
blog, a couple months ago. Lakeland ARC is now my 'local' ham club.

One of the NNRC things I recall was the reports from John Callarman, then 
stationed in Germany
with the Army, hearing such goodies as Tripoli-1052. That was probably the 
earliest
time in my life that I was aware of foreign MW DX. Back then, DX prizes 
available
to us in NJ included ZBM-1 Bermuda 1235 and Norden-Osterloog, Germany on 1295, 
which was
my first TA. Heard on a 1937-era Philco floor console with a big sliderule 
glass dial.

I went to a couple of the NNRC picnics with Tom Sundstrom, sometime in the 
1970's
and they were held at Patapsco State Park in Maryland. I don't have any of the 
old
bulletins.

73 Bob Foxworth


 GEORGE SANTULLI gsant...@hotmail.com wrote: 
 
 I found Gary S. Collins in Pullman, WA! He is a physics prof at Washington 
 State University.
  
 He remembered his 4' loop and the fact that he heard Tonga-1020am in 
 Cranford! 
  
 I think I went to only one or two Ernie getogethers in Brooklyn, but a number 
 of the NNRC picnics down the Jersey Shore. I can picture it, but cannot 
 remember where...Lincroft? Keansburg? Cheesequake Park? I remember Bernie 
 Duffy from Staten Island...I wonder if pics exist of those times...
  
 I went to some sort of NRC meeting or annual convention outside Cincinnati 
 Ohio in 1967. 
  
 Best...

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Re: [IRCA] ULR DX....GREAT Conditions @ SUNSET!!!! ULR # 899, 900 and 901 Logged!!!! + Some NICE RELOGS!!!

[rfoxwor1]

Don I got the same message, and took it to be a personally directed
comment, but which was posted to the list and not privately, as
sometimes happens here (as in, right now, for example.)

Not a problem.

I've enjoyed your old time logging lists from years past. I started
doing this MW DX in 1957 and recognize a few things I had heard then.

One I enjoyed reading was your Canal Zone-790 log. I never got that one.
I did hear in in 1964 but I was near the Gatun Locks at the time.

Well let's see if this gets posted. Sent at 1646 est

73 Bob


 Donald K. Kaskey kaskeyfam...@yahoo.com wrote: 
 Something strange here.  Opened my e-mail this morning and nothing on it 
 except a personal message.  Is this a fact or is my system on the 
 blink?  The e-mail below is the last one I received from IRCA.  Any 
 comments are welcome!
 
 Don Kaskey
 
 
 
 neilkaz wrote:
  Nice to see you getting two of my locals. It does seem cx were good to the 
  west at sunset.  73 KAZ
 

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Re: [IRCA] WASR Wolfesboro NH 1420 test

[rfoxwor1]

  Subject: Re: [IRCA] WASR Wolfesboro NH 1420 test
  
  What day is the dx test of WASR Wolfesboro NH 1420 khz the
  times of the test


You fellows are spelling the town as Wolfesboro with a letter s
but the spelling is Wolfeboro (also N, E and S Wolfeboro, and
W. Center, - Falls and - Point, all near the east end of Lake Winnipesaukee).

Spelling the town name incorrectly on a reception report gets you points
off on your final grade etc. According to the jpg of a 1975 QSL denial
whose link was posted here, they are fussy about details being right.

As well they (and anyone) should be.

73 Bob


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Re: [IRCA] Re : 1710

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   I tried to figure out how an IF image of those two signals could show up on 
 1710. 455 Khz x 2 is 910 so 1710 - 910 = 800 . that doesn 't quite fit in but 
 it's not that far off. Does anybody out there know how this can happen with a 
 digitally tuned receiver?


Don't forget that some digitally tuned rx's use an IF of 450 kc
and not 455 which makes the 'foldover' freq 900. The RS DX-398 is one
of these.

73 Bob


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Re: [IRCA] Newfoundland Ultralight Trans-Atlantics Report Oct 27

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Allen Willie wrote,

The biggest surprise occured at 20:15 UTC while monitoring 1566 khz a signal 
rose up while Benin in French was already occupying the channel.

For a brief couple of moments it was by itself all alone with string type 
music and high pitched vocal singing, not chanting, no talk was heard before 
or after and it soon subsided again. Could this be the Nagpur Relay in India , 
looks likely but I will leave it for the expert Dxer's out there to ponder 
over. No recording available


I spent a little time in Kerala state in southern India in early 2008 and on
several occasions was awake in the predawn hours and would always tune in
the National Programme from Nagpur on 1566, and they always had Indian style
music then (they were on the air when the local stations were signed off).

So to this extent I can believe you heard them. I suspect they have a DA
system that points most of their signal to the Delhi area. Nagpur is in
northeastern Maharashtra state and the path to Delhi would be about 350 deg
and this should then point it right at North America. Their signal in Kerala
(presumed off the back of the antenna) (at night of course) was not all that
good when their listed 1000 kW power is taken into account, with fading. But I
enjoy that kind of music, within moderation of course, and hearing them at will
was a nice treat. And yes there was not much talk heard.

Actually there was just a very few signals of 'usable' level then, for me,
and some of the louder ones were in Chinese.

In the meantime there's always shopping at Patel Bros. grocery on East Fowler
Ave in Tampa but their PA system plays Indian pop mx and not so much of the
classical style you might hear from Nagpur. Thanks to the presence of Univ. of
South Florida there is a sizable population of people of Indian origin in Tampa.

- Bob


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Re: [IRCA] Re; 1130 Interference

[rfoxwor1]

 part of the 
 problem CKWX is experiencing from KPWX is the result 

Is it just a coincidence that the 2 sets of call letters are
so similar sounding?

(Their towers are 
 really, REALLY short - 53 electrical degrees in height, compared to 90 
 degrees for a more typical class B station and 190 degrees for a typical 
 class A.)

I figure 53 degrees at this freq is a tower height of 128 feet.
Is this about where they are at? Do they even have to light them?

- Bob


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Re: [IRCA] Hope to see everyone at Colorado Springs, CO IRCA convention 6/23-6/25/11

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 Bob Wien wienrobe...@hotmail.com wrote: 
 
 
 Hope to see everyone at the IRCA convention in Colorado Springs, CO June 
 23-25, 2011 at the Airport Value Inn hotel.  Details will be coming... 
 

June?

The last weekend of June is always the Amateur Radio Field Day.

Not to mention many schools have graduation then.

73 Bob k2euh


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Re: [IRCA] This morning's DU chase from IL

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 Bill Whitacre b...@his.com wrote: 
 After seeing Neil's email I went back through the Perseus recording
 
 I use Guy Atkin's suggested 'reverse x-ray' palette to aid in 'seeing' 
 potential signals.

Astronomers have long used the same technique (black stars on a white
backgrounhd) when visually scanning photographic plates looking for
faint nebulas, comet tails etc.  It's highly effective I feel.

- Bob
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Re: [IRCA] Cable connectors

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 Russ Edmunds wb2...@yahoo.com wrote: 
 I seem to recall that 'back in the day', Gordon Nelson was concerned about 
 keeping the feedlines from his loops as short as practical for the 
 application. Realizing that his recommended feedline was car radio cable with 
 the original center conductor removed and replaced by insulated #22 or so ( 
 with the braid soldered together on each line about every foot ) I wonder if 
 it is in fact possible to get what you're aiming for. 
 
 I don't recall the specific electrical and/or magnetic characteristics of 
 that type of feedline vs. coax, but perhaps that too has some relevance here 
 in that he eliminated using coax for a specific reason, which alas I also 
 don't recall.
 
 Russ Edmunds

The only thing I can think of would be to lower the capacitance (per foot) of
the cable itself. This is the reason that type of cable was spec'ed for
car radios which had a compression trimmer that had to be peaked (at 1400 kc)
for the specific car whip being used. Now that I think about it, real commercial
grade coax contains spacers to keep the center conductor equidistant from
all parts of the shield. Running in your own #22 wire for the center conductor
after removing the original wire (I guess it was too flimsy) would lead to the
wire being adjacent to the shield almost everywhere. Not sure how important
that would be. I did that once, 40 years ago, but forget the details.

- Bob



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Re: [IRCA] DXer.ca internet radio - testing now...

[rfoxwor1]

 Rick Kunath k...@charter.net wrote: 
 On Sunday, August 22, 2010 03:14:22 pm Colin Newell wrote:
  Running some streaming internet radio tests at
  http://24.69.74.182:8000/listen.m3u
 
 Getting a Host Unreachable error here.
 
 Rick Kunath

IP addresses starting with 24 (e.g. 24/8, the entire 24 space)
are called the cable modem block which implies that Colin is
trying to feed out on this type connection. This means it
is possible that his provider does not allow inbound connect
requests, from others, to port 8000. In _some_ cases,
upgrading to a business class service (from residential)
(at additional cost) can fix this issue. And running a firewall
at the sending location would also stop this, unless the firewall
admin opened that port to inbound connect requests.

- Bob


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Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] LORAN-C 100 kHz Nantucket

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Yes, that is the video. Port Clarence. 6 camera angles.
Seems to me that they did not need all that much HE to snap
those guywires at the piers. I couldn't really tell if the
HE charges were simultaneous or sequenced. Field school for
would-be tower-taker-downers.

And on youtube they prompt you to watch related (subject) videos
and there is a funny one of a building in maybe Asia being blown and the
whole building rolls over intact, lands upside down and almost hits the
adjacent building where the camera was set up.  Unbelievable stuff out there.

- Bob

 Bruce Portzer bport...@comcast.net wrote: 
 I believe this is the video Bob is talking about.
 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zqj1hy9NS8
 
 Pretty impressive.  I wouldn't want to be near some of those cameras
 
 Bruce
 
 rfoxw...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
  I thought it was pretty widely publicized in the past few months
  that Loran-C has been decommissioned and all the sites in US and
  later Canada to be closed. There was a great video on the web of a
  1350-foot loran tower at a site in Alaska being dynamited. They got
  it to collapse almost vertically.
 
  - Bob

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Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] LORAN-C 100 kHz Nantucket

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I thought it was pretty widely publicized in the past few months
that Loran-C has been decommissioned and all the sites in US and
later Canada to be closed. There was a great video on the web of a
1350-foot loran tower at a site in Alaska being dynamited. They got
it to collapse almost vertically.

- Bob


 Saul DX sau...@sympatico.ca wrote: 
 Hmmm,
 I wonder about LORAN in eastern Canada

  Per tip from Sylvain Naud in Quebec on another list, I have just noted 
  that the LORAN-C transmitter on 100 kHz on Nantucket is silent!  This is 
  big news here as the harmonics from this transmitter have been a pest on 
  both MW  LW for many decades.  I hope the silence is permanent!

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Re: [IRCA] TA on the west coast???

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  The 1566 carrier faded out rapidly between 0525 and 0532UT, after having
  been pretty consistent for the past half hour.  Benin sunrise is at 0524UT,
  rather incredible given that this is pretty much the shortest night of  the
  year.


I remember several such receptions of this type _that always occurred in
June_, at African s/on time, when I was DXing from Long Island NY. This
was probably in 1980 +. The notable ones were Cotonou, Benin on 1475
(offset from 1476), Lama-Kara, Togo on 1503 and // 3222 (which was not
a lot better and in fact had a lot more fading), and probably the most
dependable was Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on 1494. I recall once a visit
from Chuck Hutton and I played him my tape of ici Lama-Kara, radiodifusion
nationale Togolaise which was heard thanks to WTOP then signing off
at 1 am daily back then. CH do you recall that visit?

This were always pretty specific as to time of year, time of day, and
freq (very top end of MW band) and now your Benin log fits this pattern
perfectly. These were far from daily loggings, but they did happen much
more than just one-off's, but just only in June. I have no doubt these would
have made it to the WC of NA for Bog/Beverage users. Back then no one
had such antennas in the hobby world.

These were heard on either a HQ-150 or NRD-515 (not sure I had the NRD
then) and with a 3-foot indoor altaz NRC loop. I may still have that
tape. I gave most of my tapes, a nearly new Sony CD burner, and an
Otari MX-5050 pro tape deck to another DX'er in Florida who promised
to copy all my tapes to CD for me, 2 years ago. but he never did so after
the first one. But I have no way to play it, if it is still here, as
he still has all that gear. That was when I moved.

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Re: [IRCA] WBZ-1030 IBOC OFF!

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 midcapem...@aol.com wrote: 
 
 
 As first reported by Bruce Conti in NH last night, WBZ IBOC is still OFF as 
 of 1050 EDT Sunday 6/13.  Nice to hear WIBG-1020 NJ at good level with 
 Minister and CJMS-1040 QC with Inspirational music and man in French.  I have 
 no idea of the reason for BZ's IBOC absence but I'll enjoy it while it lasts!
 
 
 Marc DeLorenzo 
 South Dennis, Cape Cod, Massachusetts


Get that thank you for turning off the (hiss) noise letter off
to the GM today. You're a local listener, so you have standing
to send such a letter. (don't write to the CE, he is not the
decision-maker).  How could that hurt?  More and more AMs are
dropping IBOC but surely need reinforcement from those in their
local service area re degradation of analog reception quality - not DXers.

-Bob


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[IRCA] Kanton Island and Hard Times

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Kanton Island was the home of WXLE-1385, a station in the AFRTS model which I
believe had 250 watts and was intended to serve residents who operated
the radiobeacon and Pan Am Airways communications. In the early 70's this
station (then called Canton Island) made occasional appearances throughout
the US. I heard their carrier (presumed, it was then the only station
anywhere on 1385) but never any audio. It was often reported on the west coast.

A shame to see it has fallen on apparently hard times.

- Bob

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1276382/UK-sailor-Alex-Bond-saves-24-starving-Kanton-islanders-voyage-Australia.html


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Re: [IRCA] Sunset DX during June

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 Donald K. Kaskey kaskeyfam...@yahoo.com wrote: 
 In my experience dxing from Northern California 1957-2010 I have found 
 summer sunset dx, especially in June to be almost useless. 

 6-23-84  2000  1580  KMCD  IA  Fairfield

I heard this station in 1959, from NJ, when they were on 1570.

They had stayed on the air an hour past scheduled signoff to
carry, in overtime, a National League playoff baseball game. Their ID came
through a break in audio from a much stronger CFOR 1570 in
Orillia Ontario. For a long time I considered it to be my
alltime best sunset catch. Several efforts to get a verification
all failed. (Gee, an hour late sign off? Who knew? hi)

- Bob


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Re: [IRCA] 1953 KVAN QSL card sells on Ebay

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 John Callarman johncallar...@msn.com wrote: 
 1962

   Thanks John, sometimes I get mixed up.  Glad to hear he wasn't in the 
   car.  What year was that?

Oops. It was 1962, I just replied incorrectly, am reading msgs backwards.
(latest first) - Bob

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Re: [IRCA] 1953 KVAN QSL card sells on Ebay

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My recollection was that this was in 1960.

Despite the gender ambiguity in spelling of their first names, below,
Francis, Carroll and Hal were all men.

- Bob


 Donald K. Kaskey kaskeyfam...@yahoo.com wrote: 
 Thanks John, sometimes I get mixed up.  Glad to hear he wasn't in the 
 car.  What year was that?
 
 Don
 
 
 
 John Callarman wrote:
  No, Don ... Fred Van Voorhees was not in the car that took the lives of 
  NRC-bound convention goers.
 
  Hal Wagner, Carol Seth, and Fran Nittler died. Marv Robbins was seriously 
  injured. 
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Re: [IRCA] [Lowfer] Europe 1

[rfoxwor1]

Some fellows on the LowFer list (low power comms at 137 or
185 kHz) posted links about the BC station Europe 1 on 180 

 Chris Lantaff ke...@insightbb.com wrote: 
 Here you go Dex.
 
 http://perso.wanadoo.fr/tvignaud/am/e1/fr-e1.htm
 
 Or translated here.
 http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=ensl=frtl=enu=http%3A%2F%2Fperso.wanadoo.fr%2Ftvignaud%2Fam%2Fe1%2Ffr-e1.htm%20
 
 - Chris Lantaff


 From: Dexter McIntyre W4DEX dmcint...@att.net

 Europe 1 was pounding in here before it went off the air at 0003Z.  No 
 wonder
 the signal is so strong:
 
 http://members.aon.at/wabweb/radio/europe1.htm
 
 I assume that is coaxial open wire transmission line in the last picture? 
 Would like to find a better picture of that feed.
 
 Dex

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Re: [IRCA] Arizona TP's for 3-7-10

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On Saturday morning during the ARRL DX SSB contest, I
worked KL7RA Alaska at near sunrise (1143z) on 160m SSB (1867 kc)
while running 100 watts to my end fed 80 foot wire with
15 radials. He was a solid s-7 here and easily copiable with
slight flutter. I was also copying JA5DQH on 160 CW from
Japan at the same time, around 1820 kHz, fading up to s-4
on peaks. Location is Lakeland FL. Also worked several
Europeans on 160 SSB, in the 05 - 06Z window, on Sunday,
much harder to do on phone with 100w than would be on 160 CW.

That wire I use should be 130 feet or so, for this band, so
hope to re-do it soon. And the radial field s/b much more radials.

73 Bob k2euh


 Bill Block billwbl...@msn.com wrote: 
 
 Listened from 1330-1355 utc and all action was on the bottom part of the band.
 
  
 
 567  JOIK at 1335 utc.
 
 594  JOAK at 1340 utc.

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Re: [IRCA] 70-37-#4 --IBOC on 900

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 bill kral jwk...@yahoo.ca wrote: 
 I don't know what I heard but it sounded a lot like the IBOC hash ( that 
 other stations are pumping out) at the time CKMO was not on air with 
 audio.This hissing sound was audible on 890 and 910 which covered up incoming 
 signals  on either side of 900. I'm going to attempt to make a call to the 
 station to see if anyone  there knows what it might be. Bill in BC
 

Could it be a STL xmit failure at CKMO and the STL rx at their xmtr
site is picking up unsquelched noise, which could reach 10 kc audio b/w?

- Bob


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Re: [IRCA] RHC

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 lmn2...@aol.com wrote: 
  
  
 A friend of mine who isn' t DXer or Ham asked me a question  that it really 
 need the help of other Dx'ers in the list.
 He claims he was driving in a country road somewhere in Pa.  when he heard, 
 to his surprise, THIS IS RHC, FROM CUBA ...BLAH, blah.  
 I asked him if he had a SW radio in the car, he didn't even  know what was 
 that.
 I don't think he was telling me a lie but before I answer him  I'd like to 
 hear your opinion.
 LuisM n2gki

You didn't say if this was AM or FM or 'other'.

The first possibility would be a brief overload effect from a
shortwave signal, but I think that all typical in-dash car radios
(it WAS this? and not a hand held portable?) are immune from this.

Or, my guess is that he was listening to a public radio type station
on FM that began carrying a program from Cuba, though I honestly
don't think this happens in the US. I thought of e-skip but this is not
the season for that. If this was on FM, was it below 92 MHz?

Was he in a part of Pa. that allows over the lake reception from
Canada, which is somewhat more likely to carry a Cuba relay.

If this was an AM-based occurrence, a lot more detail would
really help. First, frequency the radio was tuned to. Then, was
he listening to another program (and this came in _over_ it)? Or,
was it no program being heard? The time of day is very important,
if it was during the day, there should be zero reception of anything
near Cuba on MW. Then, how long did this reception last, and why did it stop
(suddenly, or, fading etc). How about, characteristic of the announcer's
voice (accent, gender, etc), a pointer as to whether it was actually a
Cuban national doing the announcing. Or, if it was on 88.1 FM then
he heard an ipod player going through a modulator in a nearby car,
and the driver likes cuban radio play from a podcast etc .

There's more, but you get the idea. To me this report is just inconclusive.

This is what it is like when someone reports flying saucers. Very few
people know how to collect useful diagnostic information, IMHO, and the
majority of such reports can't be either verified or discounted.

73 Bob k2euh


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Re: [IRCA] Test KEVT info.

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  In an e mail from Paul Losoff, the test started 3 1/2 hours
  lateSweep tones  morse code was used.

I thought Paul's name was Lotsof  ... with a t ... who was
known as PSL back in the day.

Is this someone else, or is my memory failing?

- Bob


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Re: [IRCA] 1410 Vancouver BC/ Pirate Radio

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 Radio Rock DJ ID'd station to be on 203 meters Medium Wave.Does
 anyone know if there is a 203 and what that is in Kilohertz? Bill in BC

Bear in mind that the meters value is generally an approximation,
without the level of precision the kilocycles value implies.

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Re: [IRCA] [ABDX] Radio Rebelde

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 I am hearing a Radio Rebelde outlet on 530.
 When I attempted to hear Radio Visión Cristiana
 on 530, instead I hear a Radio Rebelde instead.
 
 Whether it is real station, I know not.


I'd say that, if it is xmtg on 530 and you are hearing
it on 530 then, yes, it is a real station.

Otherwise, is it a faux station? An image?

The question then becomes merely, how does one refer to
it (name or other ident), and how does its owner refer
to it. Aren't the reports for 530 coming in for Enciclopedia
on this freq, anyhow?

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Re: [IRCA] 1510 Boston and what about-

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I spent some time at Goethe-Institut (fuer Deutscher Sprache)
in 1965. Back then the frequency was 1439. Many of the
students, if not listening to Bayerischer Rundfunk for
language proficiency, would gather in the library after
dinner and a big Telefunken console would belt out the
latest hits from RL, also with a lot of fading. There were
NO TV sets to be found here ... listening to international
AM radio was just something everyone did then.

208 - your Station of the Stars!  (Meters, of course)

If you wanted English news, it was AFN on 1106 and
what I think was VOA on 872 (memory fades a bit on this one)

73 - Bob


 BARRY DAVIES barry.davie...@btopenworld.com wrote: 
 1440kHz. but oh what terrible propagation fading outside London and the home 
 counties.
 
 
 
 
 
 Barry :-) 
 
 --- On Tue, 3/11/09, bill kral jwk...@yahoo.ca wrote:
 
 
 Radio Luxembourg on 208 Meters Medium Wave was indeed on the air in the 
 sixties with English pop music and an American DJ aimed at the UK at night 
 while daytime language was mainly French.I can't remember exactly what the 
 equivalent of 208 is in KHz but I think it is around 1410.Bill in BC


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[IRCA] HD Radio Crying Out to be Heard

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Today's New York Times (Thu. 9 April) has this piece by
David Pogue in the State of the Art feature which is a
pretty fair analysis of HD Radio and where it is in the
marketplace today. It runs about 35 column-inches and is
on page B-1 (business).

Interestingly the author is on Twitter and solicited
comments from other tweeters' (?) who follow him,
and out of a field of a hundred thousand, found 16 who
had tried HD radio.

The author's email addy is given in the piece. I have little
doubt he would enjoy hearing from the select group of
readers of _these_ email groups (NRC, IRCA etc)  who have
first hand knowledge of the features and foibles of HD,
especially on AM.

73 Bob


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Re: [IRCA] WOON-1240 test - spectral peaks? in Alberta

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 Don Moman VE6JY ve6j...@gmail.com wrote: 
 From Paul's comment I took a careful look at 1239.2 and 1240.8 using the
 Perseus (with ~800' beverage in that direction) on a narrow spectrum span
 and lots of averaging.  I consistently noted a spectral peak on 1239.202
 and 1240.802 khz which would be consistent with 800 hz CW note on a 1240.002
 khz carrier(
 
 Was any of this discernible audibly - nope. 

 73 Don
 VE6JY


Can't we get those persons who kindly put together the
audio files with the CW IDs to insert at least (just) one code
ID at 5000 Hz? I know a number of us have mentioned
this before. Probably Craig Healy even more than me.

The long term averaging Don had to use, because the
800 Hz sidebands were buried in all the audio voice sidebands,
(with resulting poor s/n ratio) would not be necessary.

All one would have to do is to tune to (in this example)
1240.0, turn on the BFO, adjust the pitch for a comfortable
tone, then retune to 1245.0 (or 1235.0 whichever was clearer)
and just sit back and wait. The code ID should pop out as
a CW signal would do, at the same tone pitch.

On the waterfall display, the response time would be fast
enough to allow the code to be read directly from the
screen (analogous to the visual CW Skimmer all
the contesting hams are arguing about now, though
the principle and usage are a lot different).

The ideal of course is to hear the voice or code audibly.
But in a case like this, it's certainly worth trying. It
would let those DXers with simple communications-type
receivers try to hear a CW ID from a testing station.

The question of how to count it is a different discussion.
I'm taking about scientific discovery re weak-signal
reception techniques, not counting stations. In fact,
I believe that to be valid, the DX station should be logged
and ID in the same manner as was intended by the
transmitting station i.e. audibly, in AM mode (preferably
with a 6AL5 diode detector, I'm sure Powell remembers
those).

But it sure is interesting to push the limits of technology!


73 Bob k2euh


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Re: [IRCA] Antennas

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 Patrick Martin mwd...@webtv.net wrote: 

Thanks for the advice on the Cablecaster. We now have a Home Depot
 about 3 miles away and they may have the item too. I get a wire up into
 a tree, I have used long PVC poles. It works but takes a bit to ballance
 things. 

If you can use a wrist rocket slingshot device (i.e. not
prohibited by local ordinance} you can get a EZ-Hang to
cast lines high into/across trees. The slingshot throws a small
lead weight attached to monofilament, then you tie/pull back the
heavier support line. Price class $100 + s/hwww.ezhang.com
540-286-0176. The line is on a fishing reel feeder.

73 Bob


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Re: [IRCA] GMT Time Question

[rfoxwor1]

 -6 hours for Central Standard Time.  1000 GMT would be
 4:00 AM CST.


  How do I convert GMT time to Central time? 
  
  *1000 GMT would be what time Central? 

To visualize it on the globe, the earth rotates once in 24 hours.
The earth is divided up into 360 degrees of longitude, which
are zero (England) to 180 mid-Pacific, and back again. This
means that, during each hour, the earth's rotation moves
by 15 degrees. If the time zone boundaries were truly straight,
you could say that 60 degrees of rotation takes exactly four
hours.  By placing a string along the equator's track on a globe,
(it would slide off if done elsewhere) and seeing what fraction
of 360 degrees is used to get from one point to another, you
can divide 24 hours by that same fraction to estimate the
time difference. For various political reasons, this is not
truly exact. In the example, England (0 deg.) to New Orleans
(-90 degrees) is 1/4th of 360 degrees, and is six hours behind,
which is 1/4th of a day.

With just a bit of practice you can look at a map of the
world and estimate to an hour or two, what time it is, then,
at any other spot on the earth. when you know the current
time at your site. There are a handful of places, such
as India, Nfld. now Venezuela that keep time to a 30
minute offset from what it would seem to want to be.

Just remember that the GMT date advances to the next
day at 2359 plus one minute, while it remains the
previous day in the US for 5 to 8 more hours. And,
due to the International Date Line it is frequently
the next day's morning, in Asia, when still the
previous evening here.HTH.

- Bob Foxworth


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Re: [IRCA] WOON 1240 TEST TONIGHT

[rfoxwor1]

 Chernos Saul sau...@sympatico.ca wrote: 
 Why has this been posted to the IRCA list like 5 times today?
 
 Because this is a DX list? Because this is the first DX test of the season? 


 I stand absolutely no chance of hearing it from where I am anyways.
 
 That may be true. You don't tell is where you are, so it's hard to help.


Paul's most recent reports are from Ord, Nebraska. In my own case I am
near Tampa. I'll be trying for it. 1240 is fairly open for me. I have a local
on 1230 (WONN, coincidentally) which s/b no prob.

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[IRCA] No sign of woon

[rfoxwor1]

No sign of WOON in central Fla during, at least, first 20 minutes.
Cx to NE seem poor. Beacons WPHT in/out weakly under a loud
Cuban, and WBBR in/out under messy 300 Hz loud het. WOWO
1190 poor, fady.

I contend that repeated 5 minute, or even 1 minute tests, offer
a better chance of hearing a station test, if you think that cx
are so variable from night to night, than a long test that may
happen on a poor morning, as this one apparently has done.

The counter argument of course is that time the DXer can
dedicate to that effort. Unless the DXer has a SDR.

Absence of many early reports here is not a good sign.

I tried tuning up to 1242 to peak up any audible CW
but no luck. If they had run 3000 Hz or even 5000 Hz CW
IDs I could try for that with BFO on (by tuning 1243, 1245
etc in CW mode) but there seems to be inertia to having
such IDs included in DX tests. I'd like to see IDs at 600,
1000, and 3000 Hz. If I was not hearing the first ones
(in AM mode) I could try the higher pitched ones in CW mode.

- Bob Foxworth


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Re: [IRCA] the struggles of HLAZ to be heard

[rfoxwor1]

 Don Moman VE6JY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
 The station here is involved heavily in the CQWW CW contest this weekend so
 have not been paying attention to that part of the spectrum,

Don, heard you yesterday on 14028 kc at 2254z, could not raise you.

I worked four Japanese stations, JH1OGC, JA5FDJ, JA2FJP yesterday
and JA1VND this morning, all in the 1150z - 1230Z range, all on 80 meters
(3510 to 3515 kc range) running a TS-430S barefoot (100 w output) to
an end fed random wire about 80 ft long, 45 foot high with MFJ 989C tuner.
Location is near Lakeland, central Florida. Local sunrise about 1215Z
nowadays. JA5FDJ was peaking at 589 here and apparently has some
spectacular antenna to be heard so well.

I am just cherrypicking in the contest, about 70 QSO's but got HC8N
on 160 and 3X5A on 3 bands. Everything with 100 watts.

73 Bob


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Re: [IRCA] QSL request

[rfoxwor1]

  We're sitting here waiting in suspense.  Which station was this supposed to
  be?


  I haven't mentioned the call letters, as I don't want to pre-condition
  this.


Do folks even READ what is posted here ??  - Bob


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Re: [IRCA] 1290 kHz - cursed?

[rfoxwor1]

Shouldn't Ocala, FL on 1290 be listed here as well? They had 3 inline
towers just on the eastern edge of I-75 near mile marker 353
which were done in by one of the 2004-era hurricanes

- Bob Foxworth


  13 stations on 1290, all
  of which were licensed as recently as 1992 (source: 1992 NRC Log), are
  now gone.  That's *20%* of the 64 US stations on 1290 in 1992.
 

  Americus GA
  New Albany IN
  Anamosa IA
  Houghton Lake MI
  Socorro NM
  Babylon NY
  Lake Oswego OR
  Lykens PA
  Lynchburg TN
  Oak Ridge TN
  Big Lake TX
  Rocky Mount VA
  Port Angeles WA
 

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Re: [IRCA] KEX

[rfoxwor1]

 Patrick Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
 I noticed KEX is not using IBOC tonight. Their audio sure is a lot
 brighter and cleaner. 

Suggest you write the GM and let him/her know. Can't hurt.

- Bob


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[IRCA] WNZF logged in Tampa

[rfoxwor1]

Hrd the new WNZF 1550 over in Flagler Co. FL a bit after 2300 local time
while on high power with Fay coverage, mention of phone lines open
at Flagler EOC, MOS interviews by YL at local Home Depot, people
on beach watching waves etc. QRM from Cuban, apparently
Rebelde, and whooper jammer. Signals were in and out, 10 - 15 sec
fade up, then gone again typical of summertime short skip, but
very briefly would be quite clear.  Hrd on DX-390 with internal
antenna. Never thought I'd hear this brand new station so soon, when
I have a local here in Tampa co-freq'ed, but at night, here,  WAMA not a
insurmountable barrier, but tonight I could not trace them for some reason.
Possibly the Cagasstro gang turning up the QRM against the
MIA based 1550.

WNZF showing all the makings of going to be a very fine station.
Hope they do very well.

Bob Foxworth  Tampa


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Re: [IRCA] KDLG-670 now IBOC

[rfoxwor1]

 Bruce Portzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
 IBOC has reached all the way to Dillingham, Alaska.
 
  From the KDLG website http://kdlg.org/post/21/kdlg-goes-high-definition 
 in a blog post dated April 2, 2008.
 
 KDLG has made a major improvement to its on-air signal. You can now 
 hear KDLG in full quality High Definition. All you need is to purchase a 
 new HD compatible radio to experience this new sound quality.

Correct me if I am wrong, you west coast fellows, but I
am pretty sure I read that KDLG is Public Radio. All of these
NPR stations on FM are among the major cheerleaders for
HD and I think ultimately it is the taxpayer that is fronting
all the money for this, and not the stations. I see that WOI
640 in Iowa is due to add HD, and, arent they also non-commercial?

You may 
 ask, “What is the difference from what I already receive on my current 
 radio?” Well our AM signal now sounds as good as FM quality does but 
 with all the signal coverage benefits AM currently has.

If they get all the signal coverage benefits AM currently has they they
arwe doing something that not even my local WFLA-970 can do, as they
suffer daily lack of lock on the HD signal at my indoor location, using
an Accurian. This is a 25 kW signal at 2-and-a-half miles distant. We
should track this issue and see how that pans out. The WFLA dropouts
and fallback to analog seem to be thunderstorm-activity related,
so perhaps KDLG will avoid that fate after all.

Incidentally on FLA, the fallback, that was perfectly timed a few days
ago has now drifted about maybe 20 ms out of step so the quick double
audio can be heard easily as the HD loses lock and regains it, which
can get annoying. I need to try and spend some time checking the
other local signals for this effect.

It's a subtle thing to look for. Any one else note this and can tell if
it varies in time over some few days? If my experience is any
guide, it's not too hard to force an unlock (on AM) by moving
the antenna, though in my case I don't need to touch the antenna,
it just happens.

With a new HD 
 radio you can get up to date weather alerts that stream across the 
 radio’s LED screen and artist and title info for what is currently playing.

I don't know of any HD station that streams weather alerts but I
suppose it is more useful than just static displays of song titles.
Weather alert: snow today cold tonight Yeah that really rocks ...

One Miami area FM is actually putting pirate radio on a HD sub-
carrier. That's actually a pretty creative idea. I have long felt that
one of the Tampa stations should run Arabic language on their HD-2
to serve the many who are of Arab descent that live here (mainly
in the Temple Terrace area). And then advertise it heavily in the
ethnic papers, such as al-manbar. That would sell radios.

 I wonder how easy it is to buy an HD radio in Dillingham?

What is the population there? What supports the local economy?
Will they run HD at night in January when it is dark for 22 hours
every day?  Fascinating, I tell you. My tax dollars at work. 

I flew over the Dillingham area once a few years ago on the way to
Narita on a NWA 747. There ain't a whole lot to see except for
tundra.

- Bob

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Re: [IRCA] Aussie QSL Cards?

[rfoxwor1]

My experience, DXing from the New York metro area, is that
in 1964 it was easy to hear Australia/New Zealand on the
frequencies that were open then. The main criteria was to
be DXing at 0430 local time, generally on Monday. Signals
reached the east coast with some regularity and decent
signals, when they did appear. The key was to have a
clear frequency. A big drawback was the lack of any
real-time reporting, and data correllation, the surviving
records are either anecdotal, or just what was reported to
Fred Van Voorhees in the NRC, by those who took the time
to mail in their reports, and certainly reflect just a fraction
of what was really heard then.

The typical AM station ran AN-6 and was silent Mondays,
though it was even then fairly common for stations to have
two xmtrs and be able to run AN-7. It was thought that
Monday mornings had the fewest listeners.

In 1964 I hrd/verified 2NA-1510, 1YC-880 and 1ZD-1000 and
had audio from 1YZ (I think it was) Rotorua-800, hrd in
northeast New Jersey. Many EC DXers were hearing
these signals, Vinnie Cavaseno in Brooklyn is one name that
comes to mind. Most of these DXers are no longer active,
for whatever reason. Ben Dangerfield heard lots more DU than
I did, and he is still active, he still lives in the Phila metro area.

The typical receiving setup was basically a short longwire
(typically 50 to 70 foot length) or more ideally a 3-foot or
4-foot air core tuned tank circuit loop, which is what I used.
BOGs were unknown and Beverages were the domain of the
New Zealanders who set them up at east-facing beaches.
So, today's DXer has a tremendous antenna advantage that
is still not good enough to offset the decreased propagation
performance we now apparently have.

In 1973 (the next solar minima) I heard 4QD-1550 at least a
couple of times. That time I was in Nassau county LI NY.
The biggest problem was the sign-on of WKFE Yauco PR
which was just good enough to cover the 4QD details, that
s/on happened about the time that 4QD would fade up to a
usable level. Frequencies were still co-channel and there
was by 1973-74 enough AN-7 operation that 1550 (thanks to
CBC Windsor nightly s/off) was one of the few freqs that
was still usably clear.

If the frequency assignments had not changed, it would be easy
to make the case that, during each solar minima, it became
harder to hear DU only because of increased co-channel QRM.
However since in 1978 the DU assignments moved off of the
10 KHz spcaing plan - and we STAYED ON IT - this created
90% virtual clear channels for the DU signals, which again
was negatively impacted because of more NSP operation,
higher noise from other sources, higher modulation levels
generally, and now IBOC.

I believe that if those other effects are discounted, and if the
prop from DU to NA had stayed the same, then we should
yet be having the type signals today (during solar minima)
that we had in the previous minima, among which 1933 and
1954 are also historically remarkable. Those signals would be
present, though impacted by the local interference effects.

The fact that they are not present leads me to be in agreement
with Patrick's remarks that something has indeed changed
in long distance MW reception from DU and it is a change
somewhat for the worse. I strongly believe this is the case.

Some have tried to link this to air pollution, perhaps nitrous
oxide, or hydrocarbons etc. I wouldn't discount it but I
really don't know if that is a realistic possibility to explain what
has apparently happened. It's not possible to compare with
Tropical Band SW because the nature of the signals changed
so much as transmitted.

It's a shame the SDR radios have come along so late as this
would have been possibly a good means to try to measure
the level of the DU station RF carrier in the presence of QRM
which would be harder to do in straight AM detection mode.
The readout of an absolute RF signal level, with standard
antennas, over a long time period, would help confirm or dispel
whether true signal levels have dropped over time or not.

- Bob

PS - many today may not realize how close we came to
having the entire western hemisphere also moved to a 9 kc
spacing plan, which would have made no open frequency
DXing of foreign signals possible. There was a lot of
lobbying for it back then.

the comments from Patrick (and Nick) seem to indicate that in the old days, 
the DUs were very much stronger than they are now, and perhaps the Asians are 
more numerous today.  Something to consider!.Walt.


   Receiving the Aussies and Kiwis on 
  medium  wave seems much more 
  challenging than receiving Japan or other TP's.   

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Re: [IRCA] DU's from Florida

[rfoxwor1]

This is Ray Moore, a long time NRC member who
lives in the Ft. Myers FL area. He reportedly is using
a homebrew rx, and I think, a R8 type rx as well,
and a 23 inch spiral loop. Ray has reported in
occasionally during the past year, but only to NRC.

Ray's secret is that he is DXing every morning,
and on the 2 or 3 days a month that there is
prop, he is there to hear it.

Just another example of how -- IMO -- if you are
serious about DX, you need to belong to every
club. While there is a lot of overlap, yet there are
many instances of non-overlap.

And in fairness, note that DX Monitor has a lot of tech
information that is not seen elsewhere.

- Bob

 Does anyone know the gentleman from Florida
 who could receive Australia on MW from his 
 condo high rise?  If so, what type of antenna did 
 he use to receive Australia?  Thanks.
 
 Dennis,
 Salmon Creek, WA

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