Spent the weekend in Redmond, OR and KFIR was OK using the 2010 and
the Palomar loop. However, I don't have anything to compare it with
so can't really say they are now 10kw vs. their previous 1kw.
This is a nice DX area with the likes of KFAQ-1170 (never heard in
Tacoma), WCCO-830 (heard
I was looking through the new NRC log tonight under IBOC stations and I
about fell out of my chair when I noticed that KAST 1370 Astoria listed
as IBOC. I would be really surprised as they do not have much of a
budget and their transmitter is older. Wishfull thinking? I am going
over to KAST
Doug,
Are you still in Albany or moved to Salem?
Patrick Martin
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I liked it better when KFIR was on 1370 though. 720 used to be an
excellent TP/DU freq, logging Western Australia, Eastern Australia, New
Zealand, China, Japan, Russia, Indonesia, Hawaii, Alaska, Philippines,
etc.
73,
Patrick
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Hi Pete,
Thanks for the interesting report from Redmond. I presume 900 Bend will
protect the NW (CKMO). KBND is a powerhouse here at night with KFAB
under or mixing. 940 is rare except at LSS. KRCO is u/CBU days and and
occ u/CBU at night. I still need to relog 1240 Redmond as the new
station. I
750 KFQD AK, Anchorage, good on top of KXL, etc with spot for
the Gold Bar in Palmer, etc, then at 0359.45 Anchorage's only source
for the most compelling talk. We're AM 750, News Radio, KFQD Anchorage.
A Morris Communications station. Into CBS News at 0400 EDT. (PM-OR)
Drake R8
WNW EWE
Even you may not be able to hide from it.
73 KAZ..who's postponed a couple very high end rx purchases until he see
what nite IBOC does.
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Does anyone know where I can find info on the times
Radio Disney stations have local IDs and/or spots?
I've seen diagrams of such a thing in the past from
other networks/shows (Coast to Coast A.M., for
example).
They look something like a pie chart, and I think may
be called Program Wheels.
If
Patrick,
As I am typing, Albany, but a more correct answer is sort of both,
hi. Some of our stuff is at the new place. I'm rather excited to
start the logbook over, plus I have a couple of acres now to mess
with outdoor antenna configurations. I haven't decided where the
shack is going
Much poorer for Asian reception this morning as well as Far East Russian
LWBC, compared to Monday. 774 poor/weak JJ talk, 1222 utc. I sat on 1566 for
awhile, at 1229 the het increased to much stronger level, as they apparently
changed their beam this way, and at 1330 the choir with apparently
Good morning
I got up late today so I only listned from 1255-1320. I heard carriers on 531,
558, 567, 585, 594, 603, 648, 657, 666, 675, 684, 693, 738, 747, 774, 819, 828
and 873. After I got to 873 the sun came up. I had audio on 531, 594, 774 and
774. The audio on 531 was the most
It was an oddly unsatisfying morning here with about the average
amount of audio, but nothing particularly news worthy. Conditions
seemed to favor Korea slightly over China and Japan. So far this
season, including this morning, there seem to be quite a few more
channels with multiple audio
Good Morning,
Listened from 1205-1345 ut. Russia on 648 was in with fair audio for the first
time this season here. Best signal on the H-800 active whip. One of those
mornings when the H-800 out performed the loop Ewe on certain MW channels.
Raised the loop about 5' yesterday. It
All I can say is Filipinos...Filipinos Filipinos A wonderful
morning for Filipinos, the best so far this season.
531 Philippines, UNID, gal in Tagalog at 1355 9/11, lost u/JJ and 4KZ.
(PM-OR)
549Vietnam, Vov2, Home service, with gal in Vietnamese, about the
same signal as Network 1
Walt,
Glad to hear another nabbed a Filipino this morning. Man, you guys
should have been on the coast. I was in Filipino Heaven. They were
everywhere it seemed. Your Filipino on 1017 was DYRP Iloilo City, That
and DZEC 1062 were the strongest of the lot.
Great going Walt.
73,
Patrick
Patrick
Doug,
The Dave Williams you speak of in alive and well as an editor for WTFDA.
He has a column in the bulletin I noticed with the samples at the IRCA
convention. I guess he mainly is involved with VHF, more than MW these
days.
Glad to see things are shaping up with your new QTH and a couple
Pat, if you want to pick up Filipino stations, maybe you should DX from
the Philippines. (wink). My son asked me one day, if you want to pick
up those stations so badly, why don't you go to where those station
broadcast? You know what, he has a point.
Bill
Patrick Martin wrote:
Walt,
Bill,
With AM band changing so much with IBOC, the noise levels, QRM from more
NSP stations, more high power, etc. It has crossed my mind to give it
all up, sell the houses, etc, and take my radio and move to the West
side of Kauai or maybe Guam. It would be easier to do as I am still on
American
KAZ,
Who knows? But the likihood of it is probably slim at least now, but
KAST may make the move if IBOC catches on.
The future may be to move away from the mainland to get rid of the
noise permanently.
Patrick
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Patrick,
I gotta tell you, I've wondered why you don't do just that. I would
in your shoes, in a heart beat (easy to say.) I'd vote for Guam. I
suspect the coast of living is maybe a bit less. Why not do a
DXpedition this winter while business is slow? Check it out!
When my high school
I'ver heard DXAM twice this season, so without any sort of program details I
wouldn't jump to a DYRP conclusion.
Chuck
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:41:42 -0700 To:
irca@hard-core-dx.com Subject: Re: [IRCA] TPs for 9Sep07 Walt, Glad to
hear another nabbed a
J.D. Stephens wrote:
Does anyone know where I can find info on the times
Radio Disney stations have local IDs and/or spots?
I don't know about their chart but I have consistently heard IDs
between :58-:01. I think they are allotted a certain amount of time
at the top of the hour for local
Patrick and Walt filed todays DX as Sept-9, 2007 - it is 9/11 today.
My point however is -- I think we should all try and establish
a DX-Camp somewhere in Hawaii -- on the Big Island or, a Patrick
says -- Kuai. Wife and I are thinking of heading there for 10
days in October, November or December
The West side of Kauai is looking
better all of the time.
And I am so for this move that I am willing
to put a PayPal contribution column banner
on my website to start the fund raising for
this event.
Patrick Martin's Mahalo DX Camp
We could script a movie...
Chevy Chase could play Patrick.
When my high school class turned 65 (we are still a very close group)
we voted in a new class motto: If not now, WHEN? You can see the
results for me! One of our motivations is that we have started to
lose a number of classmates almost all to cancer. Is a big motivator.
In case
Colin,
Harry Dean Stanton has waay to much hair to play me!
As far as Patrick running a DX Camp there are hunting preserves
all over (I'm most familiar with the pheasant area in Nebraska) where
someone moves to a rich hunting area and then LEASES out hunting
rights to an individual or
Colin,
Harry Dean Stanton has waay to much hair to play me!
I was going to cast a younger Charlton Heston but I did not want
to come across as dis-respectful in any way...
A bearded William Hurt would work for Nick Hall-Patch...
David Caruso could play Walter Salmaniw, Mandy Patinkin
There's a guy in Prince Edward Island that runs an
amateur radio lodge that is rented for a weekend at a
time. And I'm sure he won't turn away paying DXers.
LXXIII de Joe, KJ8O
--- John H. Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Colin,
Harry Dean Stanton has waay to much hair to play
me!
I'd rather be in the Canary Islands then Hawaii.. as soon as I save up
enough money, Im headed over there for a few weeks.. and will of course,
bring a radio with me! (and lenty of cassette tape)
Paul
On 9/11/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The West side of Kauai is looking
To the group,
Unless something comes up at the last minute, I will
do a complete MW bandscan on both Thursday (9/13) and
Friday (9/14) nights this week to attempt to measure
the impact of IBOC, and will post the results on both
lists.
If I am unable to do the Thursday night scan, I will
list the
I took a copy of Scott Fybush's calendar over to Tom Freel OM at KAST
1370 this morning. Scott, Tom loved it and if we want a tour in the
future, no problem, just give him a call. Always glad to do it. Tom
thought the tower sites are really cool. Tom said New NW BCer's boss
will love it too.
I
John,
Thanks for the advice. I have thought many times of moving elsewhere,
Guam, I don't know as there are three 10 KW locals there. That might not
be too good. I have also considered moving back to Alaska, but IBOC is a
factor there.
Easter Island, too remote for me. But there are other places
Maybe there are two filipinos being heard too.
Patrick Martin
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Colin,
Kauai is actually better probably than Guam as there is much less QRM.
The two locals on Kauai you can be some distance from them. There is
better medical on Kauai probably too. But it is wide open to the Pacific
there. Better than the other islands. The largest towns are Kapaa and
Lihue,
Interesting, maybe a move to NF and become a Canadian. I would have lots
of TA's.
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Colin,
Kauai is actually better probably than Guam as there is much less QRM.
The two locals on Kauai you can be some distance from them. There is
better medical on Kauai probably too. But it is wide open to the Pacific
there. Better than the other islands. The largest towns are Kapaa and
Yes, American Samoa also could be an optionKauai would be cooler
weather-wise though.
73,
Patrick
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Interesting, maybe a move to NF and become a Canadian. I would have lots
of TA's.
Why not move to Vancouver Island and be among the
true kings of MW-DX (present company excluded!)?
You could open a DX Camp at Tofino...
we could make a movie... kind of
a cross between Twin Peaks and Northern
Colin,
Try to find something on the West side of Kauai. Too much mainland stuff
on the East side.
73,
Patrick
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still have to deal with lots of HD hush.
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Solar-terrestrial indices for 10 September follow.
Solar flux 67 and mid-latitude A-index 2.
The mid-latitude
Update on verifications for KEVA 1240 kHz Evanston, WY DX Test
On Sept. 11, 2007, I had a very cordial and informative telephone
conversation with Michael Richard, organizer of the Oct. 22, 2006 DX Test
from KEVA. He apologized profusely for the delay in answering reception
reports, and
An article (not an ad) in the Pulitzer Prize Winning San Diego fishwrap last
weekend was touting incredibly low home prices in Newfoundland. The article
stated that one could buy a nice cottage for $20K. Sounded way too good to
be true... but what a nice place to set up a DX timeshare!
73, Tim
Big LOL,...I was thinking the same thing, BUT... priorities,
priorities! I don't know if anyone else mentioned it. But how
about just buying the joint at Grayland?
73- Doug
What you need to keep in mind about Newfoundland is
that it is inhospitable about 240 days of the year
and the
For 20-25K I could buy a farmhouse in IA out in the middle of nowhere.
On the OR coast, I doubt you could find anything under $200K. Anything
you would want to live in other than a mobile or maybe manufactured home
in a park.
Patrick Martin
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I lived in Seward AK for years and the Winters there are no picnic with
70 MPH winds out of the North, but even here on the coast the Winters
can be pretty rough too.
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Extreme SE Newfoundland where we have the DXpeds is not nearly that bad for
wx. 73 KAZ
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Even if you did not get much land for $25K, at that price you could
probably buy acrage for another $25K. So you are up to $50, but again
not many want to live there. IBOC would be an issue there!
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KAZ,
My neighbor's sister bought a farm house a couple years back in NW Iowa
in a town of 300 people for $20K.I don't remember the town, but it was
like 150 miles from Council Bluffs and there are no big towns in the
area. Really rural and forgotten. Sarah (neighbor) said she saw several
--- Joe Miller, KJ8O [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's a guy in Prince Edward Island that runs an
amateur radio lodge that is rented for a weekend at a
time. And I'm sure he won't turn away paying DXers.
Hmm, and I think the closest AM there now is in NB. Might be worth
knowing about...
As a followup to my tentative report (below), I can
confirm after listening to my recording that it was
indeed daytimer WSLA-1560 which I heard this past
Friday night, from 10:30 'til well past 11 PM Central
with Sports programming. Lengthy multi-station ID
mentioned WLSA-1560 Slidell, WGSO-990,
JD:
I'll see what I dig up for you, I have some connections;)
Paul
On 9/11/07, Pete Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
J.D. Stephens wrote:
Does anyone know where I can find info on the times
Radio Disney stations have local IDs and/or spots?
I don't know about their chart but I have
KFRA is on 1390, as the nearest 1590 is in KKAY in White
Castle/Donaldsonville... and KKAY is not part of the simulcast.
KFRA is licensed to Franklin, LA
Paul
On 9/11/07, J.D. Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As a followup to my tentative report (below), I can
confirm after listening to my
Good Evening,
54 miles North of Grayland, WA there is 40 acres of land for sale near the town
of Queets. The price is $119,500. Property taxes are $63.00 a year. It's
located near the ocean (yards) on a heavily forest piece of land. The acreage
is located on the Quinault Indian
Another possibility would be somewhere in southwestern Australia.
I'm not sure about real estate prices but the advantages would include
- being in or near a large city (Perth) and all the amenities that go
with it
- being in a relatively affluent English speaking country
- a relatively moderate
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Solar-terrestrial indices for 11 September follow.
Solar flux 66 and mid-latitude A-index 2.
The mid-latitude
This morning, I recorded 1405-1595 on the SDR-IQ from 1100-1330 UT, and
again spot-checked the files for TP DX
1566 HLAZ was up and down but often good, especially 1230-1315
1575 Thailand fair carrier with decent audio for a couple of minutes
around 1250
1413 and 1422 carriers visible around
At 06:45 PM 9/11/2007, you wrote:
This morning, I recorded 1405-1595 on the SDR-IQ from 1100-1330 UT, and
again spot-checked the files for TP DX
1566 HLAZ was up and down but often good, especially 1230-1315
1575 Thailand fair carrier with decent audio for a couple of minutes
around 1250
1413
You can find small color pics in the story at dxing.info .
Chuck
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But Walt didn't mention hearing Iloilo City or any other programming
details, so it's rather tough to say which Filipino he heard.
Chuck
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At 06:45 PM 9/11/2007, you wrote:
Bruce, I heard JOWF at 13:09 this morning. I remember hearing it frequently
last year, and on the Charlottes, it totally dominates that
channelWalt.
Last time I heard JOWF was in 1978... on 1440...
on a DX150B with a 300 foot Inverted L
At 11:48 AM 9/11/2007, you wrote:
A bearded William Hurt would work for Nick Hall-Patch...
David Caruso could play Walter Salmaniw, Mandy Patinkin could
Hmmm. He'd have to lose a lot of hair, dye it blonde (or grey). Wanda
already says I have his stance, and I often wear shades.could
Bruce,
If I would move, I would stay on American soil. It would be much easier.
The West side of Kauai would be very little HD noise and of course to
the West it would be wide open for India, the ME, Africa, you name it.
73,
Patrick
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Dennis,
40 acres is a great buy, but still too close to HD for my liking. I
would have more room for beverages, but would I hear anything new?
73,
Patrick
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This has a simple list of TA stations divided by country for easy linking to
web audio when the TA signals are coming in. Very quick. Just found it.
Jim Renfrew, Holley NY
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Aimed the outdoor loop antenna NE this evening a have a nice carrier on 189,
though it is fading a lot. Nothing in the TA direction on MW. Anyone else out
there trying for TA's this evening?
Dennis,
Vancouver, WA
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Jim Renfrew, Holley NY
2245 - 2310 edt
22281017MDR Info // web audio
22321107weak talk
22351215music, weak
2236765Option Musique // web audio
2238558RNE5 // web audio
2240747weak audio
2242756classical music // Germany web audio
2250909
Jim Renfrew, Holley NY
SEP 11
2139 edt
1134fair, with noise from passing t-storm.
1215weak, speech and music
2217 edt
945fair, French talk
882poor, Brit talk
873threshhold audio, unid
864music
747weak music, bad slop
729weak, music, slopped
693Brit talk,
54 miles North of Grayland, WA there is 40 acres of land for sale
near the town of Queets. The price is $119,500. Property taxes
are $63.00 a year.
A prospective buyer should make sure there is no homesteading
(as it is known in Fla.) in place that has kept the tax rate
artificially low.
Walter Salmaniw wrote:
Just for the heck of it, I listened to 440 for JOWF at 1250-1305, but
only heard KMED and the Alberta station
Bruce
Bruce, I heard JOWF at 13:09 this morning. I remember hearing it frequently
last year, and on the Charlottes, it totally dominates that
Bruce,
I've heard JOWF at least three times in the past week or so from here
on Orcas... and also, Walt and I compare things each morning
you'd think that we would be very very similar, but often we are
not. I'd imagine that your inland location pretty much dampens the
JJ and CC signals
Dennis
No TA's here in Arizona just a lot of noise!
Bill Block
Prescott Valley, AZ
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03:14:29 + Subject: [IRCA] TA 189 carrierGood Evening, Aimed
the outdoor loop antenna NE this evening a have a nice
Howdy,
Last night was better here for TAs than tonight. Tonight has hets on 153,
162, 171, 177, 183, 189, 198--the usual ones--with the occasional word heard
on 162 right now, 0425 utc; 189 Iceland usually produces a little audio
later on. Last night Iceland was at weak level for 15 minutes.
Chuck,
You are right. I will try tomorrow and see if I hear a second filipino
on 1017.
73,
Patrick
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Definite music clawing through the splatter on 1215 this evening in
Victoria at 0430UT.otherwise, darn near imaginary TA carriers on
1512, 1269, 1116, 639 (way too early for Fiji) and 567
best wishes,
Nick
What sounds like black gospel and another sounding like sports talk u/CFRB.
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Quite a strong carrier on 1215 at 0445 UTC.
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1053 and 1215 have a weak het here, along with 747, 909, 1053, 1377 and 1521
but even weaker--both nothing close to producing audio. 738 already with a
good het from Tahiti, 0451 utc.
(400' N/S wire for MW; 1600' E/W wire for LWBC)
Steve
NE Oregon
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Nick Hall-Patch wrote:
Definite music clawing through the splatter on 1215 this evening in
Victoria at 0430UT
Nick, just curious as to what splatter you are getting on 1215. There
certainly isn't much these days on 1220 so I am presuming it's all
from KWMG on 1210.
Pete
Pete Taylor
Could be the RJ splatter from 1200 too.
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At 03:02 12/09/2007, you wrote:
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This has a simple list of TA stations divided by country for easy linking to
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J
Thanks, Jim! Now to get them to add some more MW to their Asian listings...
best
Folks,
I have just procurred a Hallicrafters S-38B mint in box (or so I was
told... and it looks that way).
It is in a nice Hallicrafters box THE RADIO MAN'S' 'RADIO'... with a 7
page manual.
Wondering about powering this thing up and seeing if it works... looking
for ideas... maybe current
Pat,
I think that if a Dxer bought the acreage there, they would have to thin a few
trees. Being on an Indian reservation, that might be a problem. Those trees
suck the AM signals. I have tried to DX in wooden areas, even elevated areas
with not much luck on AM. FM signals seem to get
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