[IRCA] TP's for 02-19-08

2008-02-19 Thread vroomski
-- Good Morning, Listened from 1112-1207 ut. Only one MW TP heard and it rose to fair then faded to poor. (JOUB-776) 774 Japan, JOUB fair with man in Japanese at 1112. 2485 Australia, Katherine good signal at 1121. 2850 PDR Korea, fair with woman in Korean at

[IRCA] UNID on 1580 Khz this morning....Ave Maria Radio?????

2008-02-19 Thread Robert Ross
Hi Guys: This morning @ 0700 EST I heard a Station ID as For Ave Maria RadioI'm ??? (DJ's Name). Then into News. There is an AVE MARIA Radio in Ypsilanti Michigan on 990 Khz...WEDO. It also rebroadcasts via a station on 1440 Khz in Michigan ...but I can't find anything on 1580

Re: [IRCA] UNID on 1580 Khz this morning....Ave Maria Radio?????

2008-02-19 Thread Scott Fybush
Robert Ross wrote: Hi Guys: This morning @ 0700 EST I heard a Station ID as For Ave Maria RadioI'm ??? (DJ's Name). Then into News. There is an AVE MARIA Radio in Ypsilanti Michigan on 990 Khz...WEDO. It also rebroadcasts via a station on 1440 Khz in Michigan ...but I can't find

Re: [IRCA] TP's for 02-19-08

2008-02-19 Thread Bill Block
Dennis I listened from 1345-1420 UT and heard very weak carriers on 648, 693, 747, 774 and 828 no audio was heard. Bill Block Prescott Valley, AZ Drake R8 _ Climb to the top of the charts! Play the word scramble

Re: [IRCA] UNID on 1580 Khz this morning....Ave Maria Radio?????

2008-02-19 Thread Scott Fybush
Robert Ross wrote: Hi Guys: This morning @ 0700 EST I heard a Station ID as For Ave Maria RadioI'm ??? (DJ's Name). Then into News. There is an AVE MARIA Radio in Ypsilanti Michigan on 990 Khz...WEDO. It also rebroadcasts via a station on 1440 Khz in Michigan ...but I can't find

Re: [IRCA] UNID on 1580 Khz this morning....Ave Maria Radio?????

2008-02-19 Thread Robert Ross
At 08:42 AM 2/19/2008 -0500, Scott Fybush wrote: Robert Ross wrote: Hi Guys: This morning @ 0700 EST I heard a Station ID as For Ave Maria RadioI'm ??? (DJ's Name). Then into News. There is an AVE MARIA Radio in Ypsilanti Michigan on 990 Khz...WEDO. It also rebroadcasts via a

[IRCA] Drift Net DX Update From Northern DE: WIZR and WCPC

2008-02-19 Thread Peter Jernakoff
Drift Net DX Update From Northern Delaware: Continued review of my early January '08 SDR-IQ captures yielded two new ones. 07-Jan-08 // 1800 local // 930 khz. // WIZR // 0.028 kw night // Johnstown, NY // Male with quick, faint ID: WIZR AM 930... // New. A 235 mile catch at a presumed 28 watts.

Re: [IRCA] CBC Radio One - Sydney NS

2008-02-19 Thread amdxmail
-Original Message- From: Daniel Riordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IRCA List irca@hard-core-dx.com; ABDX [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 2:31 am Subject: [IRCA] CBC Radio One - Sydney NS CBC Radio One switch to FM dial delayed The Cape Breton Post SYDNEY — The CBC says it’s

Re: [IRCA] CBC Radio One - Sydney NS

2008-02-19 Thread amdxmail
Good news - CBI-1140 is one of only three Maritime Canadians I've ever heard in 38 years at the dials. The other two - CHTN-1190 and CHSJ-700 - are long gone. This was one grand slam I wasn't looking forward to seeing. Steve Francis Alcoa, Tennessee -Original Message- From: Daniel

Re: [IRCA] CBC Radio One - Sydney NS

2008-02-19 Thread Russ Edmunds
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good news - CBI-1140 is one of only three Maritime Canadians I've ever heard in 38 years at the dials. The other two - CHTN-1190 and CHSJ-700 - are long gone. This was one grand slam I wasn't looking forward to seeing. They are common here at local

[IRCA] New MW QSL (CHWO)

2008-02-19 Thread Patrick Martin
740CHWO Canada, Toronto, Ont. received in 40d a beautiful certificate, QSL card and a profile on CHWO from the beginning. Celebrating 51 years in breoadcasting. Also several AM 740 bookmarks. V/S: Brian Smith, QSL manager. Address: Ontario DX Association, 155 Main Street, North. Suite:

[IRCA] Charlie Taylor Is Alive and as Bewildered as Ever (OT)

2008-02-19 Thread Mike Hardester
Thought I'd post this to the list, as I've had an inquiry and was curious myself. Charlie-san is fine. After an absence of no list postings or personal e-mails berating me about not DXing, I thought I'd give his humble abode a call. I spoke with his charming wife and Charlie's finethe

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2008-02-19 Thread Ng1u
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2008 Feb 19 2110 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 19 February follow. Solar flux 72 and estimated mid-latitude A-Index 8. The

Re: [IRCA] Charlie Taylor Is Alive and as Bewildered as Ever (OT)

2008-02-19 Thread Patrick Martin
Mke, Thanks for passing this along. I was really wondering about Charlie. Hopefully he will be back online with us soon. 73, Patrick Patrick Martin KAVT Reception Manager ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com

Re: [IRCA] Charlie Taylor Is Alive and as Bewildered as Ever (OT)

2008-02-19 Thread Donald K. Kaskey
Thanks Mike, life would be pretty bleah without good ole CAT! Appreciate the gesture the update. Don K. S.F. CA Mike Hardester wrote: Thought I'd post this to the list, as I've had an inquiry and was curious myself. Charlie-san is fine. After an absence of no list postings or

[IRCA] CFFX QSL update

2008-02-19 Thread Jim Pogue
Just a note to let everyone know that Saul and I are working on processing the CFFX QSL cards. Because we received a large number of requests, and because the transnational nature of the QSL process is a little convoluted, we are trying to get all the requests and responses taken care of with the

[IRCA] Ontario QSLs

2008-02-19 Thread Patrick Martin
After I received the QSL in today's mail from CHWO (I have several different ones), anyway, I went through the Ontario QSLs I have obtained since the 60s. I had more than I first thought. 1) 530-CIAO-Brampton 2) 530-CJFT-Fort Erie 3) 540-CJSB-Ottawa 4) 560-CJKL-Kirkland Lake 5) 580-CFRA-Ottawa 6)

[IRCA] Ultralight Radio Logs for Today....SLIM PICKENS!!!......

2008-02-19 Thread Robert Ross
Hi Guys: Well today was rather Dismal for New Stuff heard on the Sony Ultrlaight SRF-T615 Radio. Only 3 New Stations for the Ultralight Log...and 1 of those is new to the OVERALL LOG. Sunset Skip was the worse I have witnessed since I got the Ultralight Radios. Very noisy, not much

[IRCA] CKEC QSL Received

2008-02-19 Thread David Hochfelder
I received a nice letter from Peter Lann, chief engineer, in today's mail, confirming my reception on Feb. 13, probably the quickest snail-mail verie I've ever received. Peter included a window sticker for East Coast FM 94.1also. I'm glad I caught them before they leave AM. Dave Albany, NY

[IRCA] This came to the IRCA web site

2008-02-19 Thread Geralyn Hollerman
This is for anyone interested; it came to the IRCA website e-mail. --- Many of you may already know about this site and have taken part in the fun activities. This is an amateur radio web site which transmits live video and audio of hamfest around the country. It is on 24 x 7, 365 days each year.

[IRCA] DX'ing Back in the Day

2008-02-19 Thread Russ Edmunds
Lately I've been working on splitting up several large mp3 files which fellow DX'er Ron Gitschier graciously converted from my old audiotapes about a year and a half ago. It's really been interesting to re-live a lot of this old DX. So far I've been concentrating on the later ones - mostly

Re: [IRCA] DX'ing Back in the Day

2008-02-19 Thread Patrick Martin
Russ, The last time I checked out my tapes from 1979-80 on DU DX, I was amazed the difference in Pacific DX compared to today. DUs and Pacific stations all over. I still have the same EWE antenna, but conditions are not the same as they were were nearly 30 years ago. Yet most of the channels are

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2008-02-19 Thread Ng1u
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2008 Feb 20 0005 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 19 February follow. Solar flux 72 and mid-latitude A-index 17. The

Re: [IRCA] DX'ing Back in the Day

2008-02-19 Thread Mike Hawkins
Russ, I don't have a complete listing of stations that have been on the air, but I probably have better than 95% of them itemized. If you need to figure out who's who, let me know if I can help. Mike Hawkins On Feb 19, 2008 5:43 PM, Russ Edmunds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lately I've been

Re: [IRCA] DX'ing Back in the Day

2008-02-19 Thread Scott Fybush
Mike Hawkins wrote: Russ, I don't have a complete listing of stations that have been on the air, but I probably have better than 95% of them itemized. If you need to figure out who's who, let me know if I can help. And I've got a collection of Broadcasting Yearbooks back to 1936 that's now

[IRCA] Sony SRF-85 Walkman.. an Ergonomic Nightmare

2008-02-19 Thread D1028Gary
Hello All, Having been fascinated from Day One by the SRF-59's master IC chip, Sony's CXA1129, I saw another CXA1129-enabled Walkman, the discontinued SRF-85, up for auction on eBay... and decided to go for it. This unit is a yellow and gray Sports Walkman, having the standard

Re: [IRCA] Sony SRF-85 Walkman.. an Ergonomic Nightmare

2008-02-19 Thread Scott Fybush
kevin redding wrote: Huh? What did you get? I am holding an SRF-M85V and its a digital radio? There is no thumbwheel for tuning only one for volume. I am very curious now. Let me know what you have. I believe the SRF-85 and SRF-M85V are totally different radios, and that the 85 is a

Re: [IRCA] Sony SRF-85 Walkman.. an Ergonomic Nightmare

2008-02-19 Thread kevin redding
Unless you have the thumb of a brain surgeon and the patience of a Saint (from Colin), I would strongly recommend that you thumb your nose at this bizarre DXing Casino. Huh? What did you get? I am holding an SRF-M85V and its a digital radio? There is no thumbwheel for tuning only

Re: [IRCA] Sony SRF-85 Walkman.. an Ergonomic Nightmare

2008-02-19 Thread kevin redding
Makes more sense now. Kevin On Feb 19, 2008, at 10:08 PM, Scott Fybush wrote: I believe the SRF-85 and SRF-M85V are totally different radios, and that the 85 is a much earlier (and long-discontinued) analog-tuned model... ___ IRCA mailing list

Re: [IRCA] MN 0505 UTC Spain-684 S-9+20db

2008-02-19 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
At 05:10 AM 2/20/2008, you wrote: On the E1 w/Quantum Loop, heard even on 7 kHz filter! 73, George S., MN 1215 had a reasonable carrier here about 0415UT, but not much else, and it's pretty well gone now. Nick * Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada

Re: [IRCA] Sony SRF-85 Walkman.. an Ergonomic Nightmare

2008-02-19 Thread D1028Gary
Hello Kevin, The SRF-85 is an analog AM-FM stereo predecessor to the current SRF-59, in a Spots package. It has been out of production for many years. Your SRF-M85(V) is a digital armband-shaped AM-FM Stereo Walkman, including TV and Weather coverage in the V model. This

[IRCA] MN 0505 UTC Spain-684 S-9+20db

2008-02-19 Thread George Sherman
On the E1 w/Quantum Loop, heard even on 7 kHz filter! 73, George S., MN - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com