Finally finished going through my Perseus wav files tonight. The upper
band was rather a disappointment, without much to be heard. For what it's
worth, here's the final chapter:
1296 JAPAN Matsue, Shimane 10 kW JOTK (tent), Oct 25 1427 - As Nick likes
to describe, this frequency is just
Everyone seems to have agreed that this morning wasn't quite like yesterday.
My loggings were somewhat odd. On the one hand, there were still many stations
that faded up to a solid readable level at one time or another. On the other
hand, there was a real lack of low level signals, of
Congratulations on your phenomenal 972-HLCA reception in Michigan, Tim!
<<< 1017 had some threshold audio at 1206, unknown if this was Tonga or Asian,
but antenna and conditions favored Asia. >>>
If it was Asia, it would be a tossup between the Japanese NHK2 program JOLB
(//693 and 747) or
Kia ora:
Whitby is "NW" of Tranna?
Gee, you must still be thinking you're clinging to the Junior Land Down Under.
Remind me never to ask you for directions. I'd end up on a train to
Oakville... or better still Hamilton.
Theo
Original message
From: TONY WARD
Date: 2018-10-29
What an awesome thread this is. I think many kudos need to go to Mark Connelly
on ‘propagating’ the phasers. A whip antenna phased against a very small loop
antenna all sitting on top of a SUV at a coastal location can be a very amazing
experience.
Thanks Mark!
> On Oct 29, 2018, at 10:34
Thanks Tim. You have had a pretty exciting few weeks. Well done!! I am still
hearing 720 up and down just after 0300Z. Have checked 650, but finding WSM
harder to phase. But it will fall. The 570 channel used to be distinctively
offset at 570.011 (IDed in Europe) a few years ago. After the big
Who will log the Faroes first this season? And Iceland 666?
Chuck
From: IRCA on behalf of Tim Tromp
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2018 8:06 PM
To: IRCA Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
Subject: Re: [IRCA] phasing story
Tony,
Tony,
Congratulations on catching KNR on 720, and welcome to the party! Don't
forget to try 650 also, which has been better here on some nights versus
their 720 outlet. And then there's the elusive 570 which hasn't happened
here yet.
73,
Tim Tromp (125 miles away from WGN)
On Mon, Oct 29,
Tim, that must be exciting. Wow, 972 comes in as well as it often does
into Victoria! Very nice. I totally understand your excitement. When I
first heard Europe, the Middle East and Africa from Masset (and Victoria as
well), I was absolutely blown away. The TPs became almost ho-hum compared
Rare Asian signals were back again in Michigan this morning but perhaps
down slightly from yesterday's surreal DX session:
693 JOAB Tokyo, Japan with man and woman speaking at 1203 UTC, // 774.
747 JOIB Sapporo, Japan with man and woman speaking at 1205 UTC, // 774
774 JOUB Akita, Japan with
May I please join the party! With a bow to Sylvain, who started me on the hunt
— I spent weeks phasing WGN to oblivion trying for KNR Greenland on 720 after
he logged it several years ago — and of course Tim and Kaz with their recent
superb achievements, I lit up the under-utilised DXE NCC-1
This morning was definitely not up to yesterday's standard, but a couple
of weeks back this would have been considered outstanding, so can't
complain. Some good Alaskan reception. Was nice to hear KBBI (which
normally CJDC makes very difficult here), and KDLG which I haven't heard
for about
Guys, thanks for the awesome logs for this weeks DXWW column. Especially thanks
for working on making my life easier with some basic formatting that, if not
exact column formatting , i can work with.
Very jealous of your logs. I get my 5’th week of vacation next year, i may have
to work on
So far, just carriers in this part of Victoria,
Nigel, but as you say, who knows.
At 00:19 2018-10-30, Nigel Pimblett wrote:
Well, TA signals at sunset today seem a little
weaker than yesterday, but still decent audio on
1413 and 1386, and a good number of carriers, so who knows.
73,
Well, TA signals at sunset today seem a little weaker than yesterday,
but still decent audio on 1413 and 1386, and a good number of carriers,
so who knows.
73,
Nigel Pimblett
Dunmore, AB
On 10/29/2018 2:34 PM, R. Colin Newell wrote:
A jeez... now you’ve jinxed us!
Tonight it’ll
<<< You do realize that by going to Hawaii during EXTREME GOOD conditions, you
may expose yourself to lethal doses of Asian RF...
And I’m not referring to the cellphone radiation from the Japanese newlyweds on
their 2 day honeymoon
Pyongyang on 657 may overwhelm your frontal cortex. >>>
Hi Bruce,
Regarding those signals from Japan on 693 & 774, I may have slapped myself
in the face a few times to make sure this was really happening. Very
surreal to go from never hearing these stations and then hearing them for
the first time at this kind of level. I still can't get over it!
You do realize that by going to Hawaii during EXTREME GOOD conditions, you may
expose yourself to lethal doses of Asian RF...
And I’m not referring to the cellphone radiation from the Japanese newlyweds on
their 2 day honeymoon
Pyongyang on 657 may overwhelm your frontal cortex.
May I
<<< I have to admit that I'm a bit radio'd out! I have to prepare for the
upcoming PEI DXpedition, so, please, no TA activity tonight !!!
Walt >>>
When you have stellar conditions and awesome propagation at home, a DXpedition
does seem kind of excessive. Or maybe the stellar conditions at home
A jeez... now you’ve jinxed us!
Tonight it’ll be like the West Coast mornings - but worse... with audio on
every 9 kc channels AND the evens!
We’re screwed. The “East Coasters” will think we got no stamina... ‘cause we
don’t...”
Colin Newell - Victoria - B.C. CANADA -
> On Oct 29,
I have to admit that I'm a bit radio'd out! I have to prepare for the
upcoming PEI DXpedition, so, please, no TA activity tonight ;-) !!!
Walt
On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 9:58 AM Bruce Portzer wrote:
> My experiences this morning were like those of Gary and Colin. TP
> reception was similar to
Yep, the S meter is a must for getting the best nulls. You can do it
audibly, but the S meter sure helps. 73 KAZ
On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 3:06 PM Jim B wrote:
> >
> > I put larger knobs on my quantum phaser for finer adjustment, but now
> that
> > I use SDR Console for MW dxing, I also use the
>
> I put larger knobs on my quantum phaser for finer adjustment, but now that
> I use SDR Console for MW dxing, I also use the gain db scale like a digital
> readout to help find the best nulls. Jim
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Neil Kazaross
> To: irca@hard-core-dx.com ; Nrc-am <
>
Extraordinary quiet solar cx has caused the auroral donut to be yielding as
along with the usual big gun Aussies, China on 1205.96 and S. Korea on 972
were noted this morning at poor-fair levels. This in spite of being far
enough away from the main beam of my west DKAZ to lose about 5-6 dB
My experiences this morning were like those of Gary and Colin. TP
reception was similar to the past few days - the signals didn't seem to
be as strong, but the same cast of characters was there.
I was tempted to find a report from a few days ago, change the date,
modify a few of the entries
For those of us in western BC and WA who are rapidly becoming spoiled, this
morning's session was probably average by the standards of the last few days.
Once again huge Chinese signals showed up during sunrise enhancement, led by
the awesome S9+ 639-CNR1 at 1438, 756-CNR1 (very good) and
I'm still in TP DX rehab after so many weeks and weeks of early rising left
me a tad burned out.
This morning I popped down to the dials for 5 minutes around 1350 UTC.
Although the sheer frenetic nature of the dial "dialed" itself back a few
clicks, it still sounded
less like a train station and
Ah but there's more to the story. You "Three Victorians" and your Seattle-area
compatriots are always willing to share knowledge, enthusiasm, experience and
attitudes...and the rest of us prosper exceedingly.
And Obi Wan also gets a wet kiss for patience.
This to me is what IRCA is all about.
Thx guys, Yeah Jim, I recall that reception of yours from Sweden! Here in
TA cx I don't have much trouble phasing WMVP 1000 to get Spain 999 (COPE ID
Saturday night), but WMVP isn't super strong here at night.
On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 10:19 AM James Renfrew
wrote:
> Yes, amazing in the shadow of
Yes, amazing in the shadow of WGN. My own impossible reception was Sweden
on 1179, with local 50 kw 1180 WHAM's transmitter almost within sight,
okay, maybe 12 miles or so? Not only is WHAM a pest, but it is the one
station in Rochester that produces images on LW and occasionally MW. I
think I
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That IS an amazing accomplishment, Kaz!
Marc DeLorenzoSouth Denis, MA
-Original Message-
From: Neil Kazaross
To: irca@hard-core-dx.com ; Nrc-am
; a...@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, Oct 28, 2018 10:27 pm
Subject: [nrc-am] A phasing story. Greenland 720 logged in IL.
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This morning HLCA 972 was once again the star.
558 unID heterodyne, KMON 560 QRM.
567 JOIK poor, man talking at 1220.
603 unID (HLSA?) barely audible to poor music in severe QRM at 1234-1235;
barely audible music at 1241, talk at 1247-1248.
702 unID strong heterodyne at
As promised, here's part IV of my SDR scan covering the period 14:27 to
14:43 or so on that amazing morning. Not too much was accomplished tonight
as the TA opening was rather good with Spain, UK, Egypt, and even Turkey
being well heard. Anyway, here is Part IV, and I promise, yet another 1
or
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