Re: [IRCA] 1215 UK audio

2007-10-09 Thread cafe
> > Dennis, I just emailed the group with good audio nowAs I listened > further, Virgin faded down, with talk, which I could have sworn is in > Russian! Does Russia still have the Kalinigrad 1200 kw tx on this frequency? > On the Queen Charlottes, Spain was a nightly visitor here battli

Re: [IRCA] 1215 good tonight

2007-10-09 Thread cafe
> I'm listening to Virgin Radio on 1215 at quite good levels. I have threshold audio... on my Eton E1... on my balcony. With only the on-board whip antenna! Absurd. It is beating out the Drake R8 that has 2 Wellbrook ALA100's (granted in 2-turn hula-hoop formation) through the Misek/Lankfor

Re: [IRCA] 1215 UK audio

2007-10-09 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 09:06 PM 10/9/2007, you wrote: >Good Evening: > >1215 Virgin Radio with nice carrier but weak at 0402 ut. If only they jack >the audio up a little. Playing Green Day song "Wait Me Up When September >Ends." 0404 ut > >Dennis, >Vancouver, WA >JRC 545 135 U shaped fence antenna >MW-550 Tuner p

[IRCA] 1215 good tonight

2007-10-09 Thread Walter Salmaniw
I'm listening to Virgin Radio on 1215 at quite good levels. Easy to follow ads and music. Just about as good on some of the nights on the Queen Charlottes, and about as well as I've ever heard in Victoria, so worthwhile having a listen!...Walt. PS: All this at 04:24 UTC. I'm now hearing

[IRCA] 1215 UK audio

2007-10-09 Thread vroomski
Good Evening: 1215 Virgin Radio with nice carrier but weak at 0402 ut. If only they jack the audio up a little. Playing Green Day song "Wait Me Up When September Ends." 0404 ut Dennis, Vancouver, WA JRC 545 135 U shaped fence antenna MW-550 Tuner preamp tuned to 1215 kHz. ___

Re: [IRCA] KRMO 990 MO Makes Rare Appearance in WI..etc etc

2007-10-09 Thread Neil Kazaross
CX are decent tonite. Check 1420 and see if you can get Mexican format..and M&W ancrs thru the KTOE/WOC mix as I did and finally caught the Radio Fiesta slogan for Idaho #7..KIGO must be on day rig again. On 1000 Como newstime 6:26 at 2026 CDT o/u phased WMVP. KOFI's oldies were in just prior to

[IRCA] KRMO 990 MO Makes Rare Appearance in WI

2007-10-09 Thread DXERak
At 2330 I am hearing KRMO 990 Cassville MO, nominally 47 watts nighttime (day power is 2.5 kw) in Madison WI with fair signal, QRM from CBW and CKGM. Format is C&W. Distance is 490 miles. 73 Bill Dvorak Madison WI ** See what's new at http://www.a

Re: [IRCA] NE Oregon prelim TA's

2007-10-09 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 07:59 PM 10/9/2007, you wrote: >Right after sunset, 0200-0212 utc, MW had many hets, some at pretty good >level. Poor audio was heard on 747, 819 and 1575. At 0215 almost everything >had disappeared, only faint hets now. Nothing but poor hets on LWBC. >Now at 0255 utc, 189 Iceland is producing

[IRCA] NE Oregon prelim TA's

2007-10-09 Thread Steve Ratzlaff
Right after sunset, 0200-0212 utc, MW had many hets, some at pretty good level. Poor audio was heard on 747, 819 and 1575. At 0215 almost everything had disappeared, only faint hets now. Nothing but poor hets on LWBC. Now at 0255 utc, 189 Iceland is producing poor/weak audio; MW has a few hets b

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] WY 540 CP

2007-10-09 Thread Paul B. Walker, Jr.
And the owner of that CP is an Engineer, 540 isnt the only CP he's got, or going to get either. I don't know exactly what he's planning for a format though, but this will be interesting... Paul On 10/9/07, Patrick Griffith, N0NNK / WPE9HVW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I heard that the tower b

[IRCA] DX and the ocean

2007-10-09 Thread Patrick Martin
It is hard to believe that I live about a mile from the ocean as it is so loud tonight. I guess wth 15-20 foot swells, it is understandaable. Too bad I cannot hook my antenna wire on one of those waves tonight. hi. With the water table around surface, as I have standing water now in the field next

[IRCA] WFDL 1170 WI On Late

2007-10-09 Thread DXERak
WFDL 1170 Waupun WI, a 1 kw daytimer, is on tonight at 2210 ELT, almost 3 hours after local sunset. Format is Music of Your Life satellite nostalgia, and an occasional call letter ID is slipped in. 73 Bill Dvorak Madison WI ** See what's new at h

Re: [IRCA] It's more than IBOC..

2007-10-09 Thread Rick Lewis
Curt, Sorry, but I think you've been listening to Chicken Licken. I doubt that it'll actually happen, but if the fairness doctrine were reestablished today, it wouldn't cause radio stations to abandon talk. In fact, both liberal and conservative views were on the air while the fairness doctrine

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2007-10-09 Thread Ng1u
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2007 Oct 10 0004 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 09 October follow. Solar flux 69 and mid-latitude A-index 2. The mid-latitud

Re: [IRCA] WY 540 CP

2007-10-09 Thread Patrick Griffith, N0NNK / WPE9HVW
Paul said: And the owner of that CP is an Engineer, 540 isnt the only CP he*s got, or going to get either. I don*t know exactly what he*s planning for a format though, but this will be interesting... // Actually the owner of the CP is who told me about the 540 piers going in today. I spent much

Re: [IRCA] It's more than IBOC..

2007-10-09 Thread W. Curt Deegan
Craig, An excellent piece, thank you. I would add one more recent chilling event, threats by a US Congressman to put his staff to work monitoring AM talk radio for "improprieties", clearly a politically motivated attack. The FCC has been called in to discuss the reinstitution of the failed "f

[IRCA] WY 540 CP

2007-10-09 Thread Patrick Griffith, N0NNK / WPE9HVW
I heard that the tower base piers were poured today for the 540 CP at Pine Bluffs WY. Pine Bluffs is located on I-80 just west of the Wyoming / Nebraska border. Patrick Griffith, CBT CBNT CRO Westminster CO http://community.webtv.net/AM-DXer/ http://community.webtv.net/N0NNK/

Re: [IRCA] TPs Oct 9: Very Interesting

2007-10-09 Thread Patrick Martin
John, Glad you are nabbing those Alaskans. Your story on the news on KNOM reminds me very much on the news stories I have caught on KYUK-640-Bethel. They tear up KFI often here. I hear KICY stronger than KNOM here often, topping the channel with Russian programming. Quite a few Filipinos in th

Re: [IRCA] It's more than IBOC..

2007-10-09 Thread Patrick Martin
Craig, You sure hit the nail on the head. Also a couple other items can be added to the list. 1) The average TV viewer can no longer view out of market TV signals. THis is via Dish or Direct or cable. There are a few exceptions, like the super stations, but the local staion has the call. There a

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2007-10-09 Thread Ng1u
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2007 Oct 09 1809 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 08 October follow. Solar flux 68 and mid-latitude A-index 1. The mid-latitud

Re: [IRCA] SRS loggings from N.E. MN 9 Oct 07

2007-10-09 Thread neilkaz
Again I remain amazed that you get stuff like this so late in the morning. ie..you logged CFRW at 10:37 AM local ?!? They have been getting out well and are a nightly pest on my Northern BOG's 73 KAZ near Chicago where SRS ends at sunrise -Original Message- >From: Paul LaFreniere <[EMAI

[IRCA] SRS loggings from N.E. MN 9 Oct 07

2007-10-09 Thread Paul LaFreniere
It seems that each morning is a little bit more like winter. 1290 CFRW MB Winnipeg. 1037 CDT. Bunch of Winnipeg ads. This is the usual dominant SRS station in N.E. MN during the winter. Relog 1300 KOLY SD Mobridge. 1030 CDT. Program

Re: [IRCA] TPs Oct 9: Very Interesting

2007-10-09 Thread cafe
> John Bryant said: It was another very good morning to East Asia... I did not give the band the time that it deserved but... in the 7 (1355-1402UTC) minutes of tuning I noted fair audio on 594khz(JJ), 747khz(JJ), 774(JJ), 827khz(JJ), 972(KK), 1287(JJ), 1386(Lang), 1575 poor audio in splash on 558

[IRCA] TPs Oct 9: Very Interesting

2007-10-09 Thread John H. Bryant
It was another very good morning to East Asia, with loads of JJs and KKs and quite a decent number of Chinese. Conditions seemed a bit disturbed as some of the normal stuff was noticeably weaker, some stronger than usual. There was no real pattern to this, just a bit more disturbed than usual.

Re: [IRCA] It's more than IBOC..

2007-10-09 Thread Mike Westfall, Lost Almost NM
Implied easment by prescription beyond the NIF, due to historical and continuous skywave listenership. Interesting. I wonder how that would play out in a court of law? On 10/9/07, Craig Healy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Third, a group of small station operators get together and file a la

[IRCA] It's more than IBOC..

2007-10-09 Thread Craig Healy
I really don't want to start an overpowering thread, especially in the hot part of the season, but I do want to make a quick comment on the state of things. By stepping back, it really looks like the whole spectrum of media is trying very hard to alienate the average user. IBOC will force new rad

Re: [IRCA] Two Cents

2007-10-09 Thread Patrick Martin
Art, There are a lot of engineers that do not like IBOC and never have. It was flawed from the beginning as most know. My hat goes off to Martin too for his comments. I hope that this will refect on the future of this IBOC noise generator too. The racket it causes ruins the band. I just wonder how

Re: [IRCA] TPs for 10-09-07

2007-10-09 Thread Patrick Martin
An interesting morning once again. A fair number of Filipinos including on on 1215 khz at 1420 with a woman reading the Catholic Rosary in Tagalog. Many mentions of "Maria" Clear at times in 1210 splash, but the Rosary for sure. Presume DYRF Cebu City. Also heard a strong Filipino u/JOAK-594 a

[IRCA] Logging from N.E. MN 9 Oct 07

2007-10-09 Thread Paul LaFreniere
1240 CKDR6 ON Atikokan. 0802 CDT. Floating in and out with local news for Dryden, Fort Frances and N.W. Ontario. At 0806 "Here's your CKDR weather." 50 watt relayer. NEW. Paul LaFreniere Grand Marais, MN _

[IRCA] TPs for 10-09-07

2007-10-09 Thread vroomski
Listened from 1210-1355 ut. 279 Russia, 1220 fair with Pop music. 1305 good Russian talk. 558 Japan, JOCR1227 weak with "Stevie Wonder" song. 567 Japan, JOIK 1334 fair with man/woman in Japanese. 594 Japan, JOAK 1307 fair with man in Japanese.

[IRCA] Excellect conditions tonight?

2007-10-09 Thread k4ape
There is excellect conditions tonight. Even though I am not hearing an DX on AM BCB band, up on 160 meters I am coping F5's and a few G's. (France and Great Britian on 1.825) IBOC from WLAC-1510 is really doing a number on any chance of hearing DX on 1520 and 1500. Willis, K4APE Old Fort, TN