Re: [IRCA] 1110 once again

2007-03-30 Thread vroomski
Bill, I have KWDB with a rapid fading signal that peaks at S-9 +20 db using the Kiwa loop aimed North. KWDB covers KBND Bend. On the High Performance active whip the KBND dominates with CTC. KBND also is on top with the H-800 probe. Time is 0640 UT. Dennis, Vancouver, WA --

Re: [IRCA] Tonight's loggings

2007-03-30 Thread vroomski
Pat, Hope your right. I plan to get up around 5:00 a.m. PDT. Dennis, Vancouver, WA -- Original message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick Martin) TP CX in the morning might be good as the A K are back down I noticed. 73, Patrick Patrick Martin

[IRCA] 980 waves

2007-03-30 Thread bill kral
00:20 PDT,Friday 03 30 07 ,Victoria,BC---CKNW Newstalk 980 50 KW ground wave is being chopped up to bits by 10KW CJME Regina SK sky wave.Ditto 1090 Seattle by an unID ,possibly KBOZ Bozeman MT. No positive ID yet,Only Sports radio ==Bill in BC __ Do

[IRCA] Australian Country Radio 1962 - on RNZI this April

2007-03-30 Thread Geralyn Hollerman
For those interested: --- New Radio NZ International Documentary Australian Country Radio 1962 Broadcast April 2 2007 + audio-on-demand The Radio Heritage Foundation [www.radioheritage.net] has a new radio heritage documentary on RNZI during early

[IRCA] TPs for 03-30-07

2007-03-30 Thread vroomski
Listened from 1213-1333 ut. Not to serious DXing this morning, heres what was casually heard. 279 Russia, Radio Rossii fair 1213. 774Japan, JOUB fair 1228. 828Japan, JOBB fair 1333. 1566 Republic of Korea, fair 1257. Carriers levels: 5)

[IRCA] TPs for 30 March

2007-03-30 Thread Nigel Pimblett
An average type of morning here. Some decent audio at times from the powerful Japanese stations, with 693 doing particularly well this morning. but no other audio noted. Elsewhere, not too much exciting. Seemingly a mix of DU and TP carriers. Excluding the big Japanese channels, the

[IRCA] TPs for 3-30

2007-03-30 Thread Bill Block
It was a very poor morning for TPs with carriers on 594, 747, 774, 828, 1134 and 1377 heard from 1215-1315 UT. Bill Block Prescott Valley, AZ Drake R8 _ Your friends are close to you. Keep them that way.

Re: [IRCA] TPs for 30 March

2007-03-30 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
At 14:35 30/03/2007, you wrote: An average type of morning here. A mixed bag here also. Hearing the HLAZ call letters clearly at the beginning of its Chinese broadcast was a bit amazing thoughLord knows how strong it must have been a few moments earlier with the more favorable Japanese

[IRCA] QSL Report

2007-03-30 Thread J.D. Stephens
CANADA: CHHA-1610, Toronto. P/d letter and large 48 page booklet about the San Lorenzo Latin American Community Centre, which operates the station. All in 24 days. V/s: Michelle Maron - Executive Director. 73 - J.D. Stephens Hampton Cove, AL, USA

[IRCA] Craig Barnes 900 French Query

2007-03-30 Thread saulamdx
CKMO Victoria BC, U of Victoria Community radio? Nothing in their schedule suggests it, though. Otherwise...??? has me stumped... --- C B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my way home last night at about 1745 MST I was to French on 900 kHz on the 4Runner car radio. I usually hear CKBI on that

Re: [IRCA] Another perspective on AM IBOC, from the�����broadcasters' mailing list

2007-03-30 Thread longwave
You say When and I say Ifyou say tomatoes.LOL BTW I'm still waiting for Quadraphonic to be mandated! I think if this happens we will all be chasing nurses around the nursing home. Just my two cents. Keith McGinnis South Hingham MA When digital is mandated, I will again say, I told

[IRCA] TPs

2007-03-30 Thread C B
Greetings, JOUB peaked nicely near local SR (about 0612 MDT) with what sounded like a Japanese/English lesson. A robust carrier was noted for HLAZ 1566 at 0630 MDT. Lesser carriers were heard for 594 702. Craig Barnes Wondervu, CO R8A N EWE

[IRCA] Another perspective on AM IBOC

2007-03-30 Thread kevin redding
Keith This is where I am. The train has left the station. I figure that there were some who had a similar situation when the FCC wanted to move FM from the 45 MHz band to the current location. Once it started on the way to being moved, it wasn't going to stop. Those who had old Armstrong

Re: [IRCA] Another perspective on AM IBOC, from the      broadcasters' mailing list

2007-03-30 Thread Patrick Martin
Keith, I agree, IBOC will no be mandated. It wont be popular enough to be mandated. The stations are not going to shoot themselves in the foot. The only way that IBOC will win out is that people have to buy the radios and there in no interference and we know those are big issues. It will go the

Re: [IRCA] Another perspective on AM IBOC, from the      broadcasters' mailing list

2007-03-30 Thread Patrick Martin
Keith Kevin, Comments would not have made any difference. The FCC has to ask for them. That is in the rules. Like so many things, they had made up their minds long before anyway. Second, with maybe 1,000 MW DXers in the US (If that many), we don't count. We don't count as listeners, as in most

Re: [IRCA] Another perspective on AM IBOC

2007-03-30 Thread longwave
-- Original message -- From: kevin redding [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keith This is where I am. The train has left the station. I figure that there were some who had a similar situation when the FCC wanted to move FM from the 45 MHz band to the current location. Once

Re: [IRCA] Another perspective on AM IBOC

2007-03-30 Thread Patrick Martin
Keith, If 50 KW stations (5 KW IBOC) cannot cover their area, it would be total suiside to drop analog. The station might as well be turned off and the employees go home. You are right, advertizing is where it is. The coverage has to be there. Patrick Patrick Martin KAVT Reception Manager

Re: [IRCA] Another perspective on AM IBOC

2007-03-30 Thread Patrick Martin
Kevin, IBOC does not have static. True. However, there often is no signal either. If analog goes away, then AM radio goes away. There is no coverage with IBOC. You drive under powerlines, the digital goes away. It just is not there. In the future, I am not sure if radio will have many people

Re: [IRCA] Another perspective on AM IBOC

2007-03-30 Thread kevin redding
Once again real world situations will dictate whether it will work or not. When Norbert has trouble with WBZ's HD signal (no HD at all) at approximately 45 miles that spells trouble. I'm sure WBZ's sales department will not be thrilled with that realization. Yeah but... Right now,

[IRCA] 900CKMO

2007-03-30 Thread bill kral
CKMO 900 is the oficial radio voice of Camosun College here in Victoria,BC,and they might have been airing a French Language lesson or discussion. They have programs in several languages besides English.--Bill in BC - All new Yahoo! Mail -

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2007-03-30 Thread Ng1u
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2007 Mar 30 1808 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Environment Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 29 March follow. Solar flux 74 and mid-latitude A-index 1. The mid-latitude

[IRCA] OT: Music Trivia Quiz

2007-03-30 Thread Art Blair
Who was the first jazz musician to win a Pulitzer Prize. No cheating! a) Wynton Marsalis b) Louis Armstrong c) Duke Ellington d) Mary Lou Williams Art Northboundbus, USA ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com

Re: [IRCA] 900CKMO

2007-03-30 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 02:07 PM 3/30/2007, you wrote: CKMO 900 is the oficial radio voice of Camosun College here in Victoria,BC,and they might have been airing a French Language lesson or discussion. They have programs in several languages besides English.--Bill in BC I can vouch for Bill's

Re: [IRCA] 900CKMO

2007-03-30 Thread Eric Floden
according to their schedule, Monday's On Course (1800 to 1900 PT) is conversational French . . . ef (= 'en francais' ??) I can vouch for Bill's observation. I have heard them in French in our local late afternoons in the pastWalt Salmaniw, Victoria

Re: [IRCA] OT: Music Trivia Quiz

2007-03-30 Thread LAWRENCE STOLER
I guess C. Larry Stoler - Original Message - From: Art Blair [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America irca@hard-core-dx.com Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 4:33 PM Subject: [IRCA] OT: Music Trivia Quiz Who was the first jazz musician to win a

Re: [IRCA] OT: Music Trivia Quiz

2007-03-30 Thread Russ Edmunds
--- LAWRENCE STOLER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess C. Larry Stoler My guess as well. Russ Edmunds Blue Bell, PA ( 360' ASL ) [15 mi NNW of Philadelphia] 40:08:45N; 75:16:04W, Grid FN20id [EMAIL PROTECTED] FM: Yamaha T-80 Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15' AM: Hammarlund HQ-150 4' FET air

[IRCA] IRCA E-Mail Directory

2007-03-30 Thread Charles A Taylor
Crew, Back before I was assigned to VOA Delano, I used to compile and publish (via DX/SDXM) the Directory on the SUBJECT line above. I'm proposing to revive that and run it, say, monthly. It would include URLs, but NOT telephone numbers (unless there's enough demand for such). Here's a sample

Re: [IRCA] IRCA E-Mail Directory

2007-03-30 Thread Paul B. Walker, Jr.
Walker, Paul B. (Jr.) Abbeville, SC [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 3/30/07, Charles A Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Crew, Back before I was assigned to VOA Delano, I used to compile and publish (via DX/SDXM) the Directory on the SUBJECT line above. I'm proposing to revive that and run it,

Re: [IRCA] IRCA E-Mail Directory

2007-03-30 Thread Russ Edmunds
--- Paul B. Walker, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Walker, Paul B. (Jr.) Abbeville, SC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sounds like a good idea to me ! No website, but... Russ Edmunds Blue Bell, PA ( 360' ASL ) [15 mi NNW of Philadelphia] 40:08:45N; 75:16:04W, Grid FN20id [EMAIL PROTECTED] FM:

Re: [IRCA] IRCA E-Mail Directory

2007-03-30 Thread Paul B. Walker, Jr.
www.walkerbroadcasting.com www.wabv1590.com www.myspace.com/walkerbroadcasting On 3/30/07, Russ Edmunds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Paul B. Walker, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Walker, Paul B. (Jr.) Abbeville, SC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sounds like a good idea to me ! No website,

Re: [IRCA] Re Re: IRCA E-Mail Directory

2007-03-30 Thread Charles A Taylor
Now here's someone I have to deal with aggressively: the likes of Russ Edmunds. He repeats the e-mail address for the gentleman in Abbeville who owns a station, and who intends (ultimately) to apply for a 770 kHz, 50-kW ND-U CP in a few months after he gets his 27-W transmitter for WABV-1590

[IRCA] Music Trivia Quiz

2007-03-30 Thread Art Blair
In 1997, Wynton Marsalis was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Jazz Music. Duke Ellington was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, posthumously in 1999. Someday maybe Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. Someday. Art... ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2007-03-30 Thread Ng1u
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2007 Mar 31 0006 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Environment Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 30 March follow. Solar flux 74 and mid-latitude A-index 5. The mid-latitude

[IRCA] Log #391

2007-03-30 Thread Joseph Miller
Hello group, Not a lot of time for DX tonight, but managed a new one during the gray line propagation: WKMI, 1360, Kalamazoo, MI, 3/30/07, 06:58 PM EDT. I think I was hearing 2-3 stations. Had a brief surge when pointing my loop antenna due west, and heard a Meijer ad, station ID and ABC news

[IRCA] WATS-980? unIDed

2007-03-30 Thread Charles A Taylor
980 WATS Heard at 2100 3/30. Out of Mamas Papas oldie, into ID: WATS-AM (indistinct location), the 'All New Rockin' 980,' and right into another oldie (title I disremember). CAT/NC With WTEM-980 nulled, suggesting the northwest. Anyone know who this can be? Suggests a call and format

Re: [IRCA] WATS-980? unIDed

2007-03-30 Thread George Sherman
WAZS Summerville, SC is almost a perfect call match. Listed as Spanish on radio-locator. Only oldies listed w/in several hundred miles WUUS Rossville, GA WHAW Weston, WV. 73, George S, MN Charles A Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 980 WATS Heard at 2100 3/30. Out of Mamas Papas oldie, into

[IRCA] MN TAs 0300 UTC Spain-684 weak audio +

2007-03-30 Thread George Sherman
possible faint audio on 855, fair-good carriers 774 837 882 891 999 1008 1026 1035 1179. 73, George S., MN - Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business. ___ IRCA mailing list

[IRCA] west coast TA's

2007-03-30 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
Pretty tame so far with just carriers at 0430UT, and 1269 (!) being generally the strongest. 1215 is there also, but not 1134, being in daylight pretty much. Others, mostly quite weak, are 837, 855, 1008 1089 1107 1179. Nick

Re: [IRCA] TPs for 30 March

2007-03-30 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
Finally, this morning's report: Each category below is for best signal heard; signals often at a lower level. reasonable audios (though often battling w/splash):639 CC //5030, 774, 828, 1287, 1566 (really good at times), 1575, 1593 CC //5030 not so reasonable audio, occasional words in