Walt and Colin sez:
Colin, John Bryant has done that with a slick crystal set he
purchased on eBay. I believe he accomplished this at Grayland,
though.Walt.
Actually, what I did was TPs on a 1-tube regen set from here on
Orcas Which is quite easy with a good antenna To get the
Another good, mostly Chinese morning. Its hard to believe, but I've
heard three new (to me) CNR1 stations after all of these years...
this week has brought me 540, 837 and, today, 1539. Chuck heard them
at QCI, but they are totally new for me. They were only in for about
15 minutes, but quite
It was another excellent Chinese morning. I'm beginning to think
that we are past the peak of the Japanese season here on the Left
Coast and getting to the month that China seems to dominate. I've
noticed the past couple of years that the Japanese seem to come in
best in September and the
Like about everyone else, it was a fabulous Chinese morning for me,
too not quite as good as Patrick, now that he has figgered out
how to hear the Far East, but still pretty fabulous. My early run, an
hour before dawn was pretty Chinese, but not too great. However, once
dawn enhancement
Wow, just awful conditions my 60 minutes per dawn sweep (1310 UT)
was the worst that I've had this year, even counting the few times
that I checked in late August. The aurora has just got to be kicking
up I had no decent audio at all and only a couple that were at
threshold. WOW!
It was a mediocre TP morning here, with the high band being
especially weak. Still, most of the JJ, KK and CC regulars were
there just at somewhat lower levels. The items of interest:
639 early 90 minutes before LSR was almost certainly Fiji with
Island Talk. The Victoria troops have
The general conditions seemed down somewhat from the last several
days, though most of the usuals were there and at decent levels.
There were a few items of interest:
666 Had a Chinese station running CNR1 news at top of the hour,
mixing with the usual Japanese. This is a Chinese
Folks,
Conditions were very good and I heard a number of things that have me
puzzled. Unfortunately, each of the mysteries was only there for a
little while and I'll have to do more checking. Some examples:
783: Two signals and the dominant sounded Vietnamese. No ID and its
been almost 40
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.
I love my WinRadio 313e and attribute a lot of my more recent new
stations during dawn enhancement to the graphic display and all-round
agility of that receiver and its GUI. HOWEVER, it is a
computer-driven device and vulnerable to all of the glitches to which
all such are sometimes prone.
This morning was by far the best Chinese morning since we returned
from the QCI DXpedirion. The Koreans were back in greater number, as
well and the JJs were doing fine. The lower band seemed to still be
better than the upper, but it was a fine morning all around.
The more noteworthy things:
Someone kindly volunteered to translate any UNID Chinese that we
heard at QCI and I managed to lose the message in the recent flurry.
I'd sure appreciate some help with a single UNID, if you could
recontact me either here or at [EMAIL PROTECTED] THANKS!
John Bryan
Conditions seemed fairly southerly today, without being a real DU
morning. I did hear a few DUs 612, 702 and at times, 3LO was
dominating the normal JJ on 774. The upper band continued to be
rather sparse, with even the Japanese being very attenuated. There
did seem to be quite an opening
I made a first run up the dial about an hour before dawn enhancement
and it was the worst that I've experienced from here this fall. There
was audio from the big Japanese: 594, 747, 774, 828 and quite a few
hets below 1000 kHz and virtually nothing above. The one thing of
interest on the first
Over-slept yesterday and missed it all, but set the alarm today and
am back in the grove. Conditions seem to be recovering well, though
still biased to the low bads. Below 1150, I had some level of audio
on most every channel, though at least half of it was gurgles and
mumbles. Above that,
Big change from yesterday AM when the few audios were DU and low band
only. This morning, things were about 2/3 normal, with JJs dominating
the scene. The pre-dawn (before 1400) was poor, but the dawn boost
seemed especially strong. I had 42 channels with at least some audio.
The best
Folks,
My first dawn session since returning from QCI DX was so poor that I
was wondering if my antennas were damaged while I was gone. Was
relieved to note that others had similarly lousy AMs.
All the (limited) audio action was below 900 kHz. except for probable
R. Sport, NZ on 1503 and
Things seemed spottier than usual and very up/down this AM, with the
Big Gun Japanese being poorer than normal. For inland folks wanting
to hear China, 963, the Russian Service of CNR/CRI has been a huge
signal at times most mornings recently. Far better than the Japanese.
837 was Japan early
One of the nice things about loops that are only 20 feet onna side,
especially triangular ones is that you can use 24 ga. multi-strand
Teflon-coated wire or even 26 or 28 ga. The Teflon insulation gives
the wire much more strength, is relatively thin, though it is also
expensive. The point of
I hope this doesn't mark the beginning of the inevitable downturn...
Things were very spotty but, still, quite good.
The more memorable:
594 Tokyo was HUGE at first tune-in 1240. By far the strongest ever
here and one of the stronger counting at Grayland. I usually have
trouble hearing it at
I was up early and DXed from 1220 until fadeout just before 1400. I
had a signal on every non-zero 9 kHz split 1602 and below, except
549, 729, 981 and 1548. The band was about as full as I've ever seen
it. China and Korea seemed favored over Japan, which was maybe a bit
below average, though
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
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
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
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
Gee, I had a second fabulous Asian AM in a row. The Japanese all
seemed down some, but the Chinese and others were hopping. I had 57
channels with at least threshold audio, with 26 of them putting in
listenable audio. The Chinese led the pack, though there were a
number of Japanese and
I just read Patrick Martin's nice summation of his recent work with
coax chokes to reduce the pick up of both unwanted signals and local
noise on coax lead-ins. He summed things up very well. Maybe he or
someone else mentioned that the article explaining the design was
published in the IRCA
Folks,
I didn't DX from our winter home in Oklahoma this past winter and
then was busy with travel and other affairs from the time of our
arrival in the Pacific Northwest (mid-May) untiol just two weeks ago.
I finally got cranked back up and have been DXing TransPacific at
dawn for the past
JD didn't want to hear about stuff twenty years ago, so I didn't
chime in nevertheless, the only time that I;'ve heard the Far
East from Oklahoma was on my first DXpedition with Beverages in 1988.
Mitch Sams, Kirk Allen and I heard the Big Four NHK-2 stations quite
well and heard a number
Lynn,
I'm sorry to bother you, but I need to shut down my IRCA e-mail. I'm
going to be overseas for most of the next month and will only access
e-mail briefly, if at all, through e-cafes. I am able to manage my
yahoo-based e-mail groups by myself, but IRCA's unique website,
passwords, etc
Nick,
I wonder if one of the British royals might not be visiting Japan
right now I know that Prince Charles loves the place dunno
about his mom.
John B.
At 03:21 PM 2/20/2007 +, you wrote:
At 14:39 20/02/2007, Bill B. wrote:
It was a very good morning for carriers but no
Congratulations, Patrick!!! I know that you are pleased with this
one. Since my report (without a SW report included) went out about a
week after yours, I'm going to do my Chickasaw ancestor's special
dance around the campfire, rub my special DXer's Good Luck charm from
the Cook Islands and
In battery tests, I got just under 4 hours of recording time on two
standard, cheap, AA batteries. The unit also runs on a 120vac
wall-wart transformer that supplies 3vdc to the recorder. I've
ordered two battery-clip-holders for next to nothing to hold two-each
D cells. I'll epoxy those two
Hey,
This is a great database, even if it just uses ITU
submissions its easily accessible, seems to pick up at least
some directional patterns and can be searched not only by frequency
but by network I don't know if this will clear up and of the PAL
Unknown Location sites in China,
Congratulations, Bill!!!
Please tell us about your BUG antennas!
John B.
At 12:29 PM 12/19/2006 -0500, you wrote:
Last night I logged my country number 50 heard on MW while DXing in
Maryland! It was also my station number 1674. Radio Sucre 700 was
the station, which drifted into my
Like Walt, Colin, and a few others have reported, this storm was a
wild ride. The power went out 19 hours ago. Because the AC mains are
underground around here, the lights rarely go out in our vicinity.
However, this was one huge storm, even worse than the fabled 1993
Inauguration Day storm.
Patrick,
Hang in there, buddy.. Glad to hear that you are going into a
temporary retreat. I'm getting lots of automated high wind warnings
for the San Juans that run through Friday at 8AM. There are a few
times, though very few, that Oklahoma looks real good :) 'Course,
then there is
Bill Harms,
Congratulations on hearing Columbia!!! I happened to notice on your
e-mail signature that you now have a 400' BUG in operation. I
remember some discussion of BUGs and the best means of trenching on
this group in the early fall, but I'd not noticed your signature
until now. Is
If that is all it costs say 200 E per hour Surely we could
get ten people to commit 20 Euro each for a DX Broadcast next
October??? In fact, you can count on me for at least 20 Euro, Nick,
so you've just got 9 other idiots to find :)
John B.
At 05:10 PM 12/9/2006 +0200, you
Jim,
Thank you very much for all of your work on the recent
Tone-hunt. Your mapping made the whole thing very interesting to
watch. Speaking of which, I sure do appreciate the BCMap
software It makes my life easier!
John B.
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IRCA mailing
I was saddened, but not too surprised, to read this morning that
someone was denigrating whoever inquired of the FCC as to the source
of the tone testing that many of us have been monitoring. The
complainer's statements pretty well boiled down to the contention
that we shouldn't be
I wasn't going to answer this, since it is truly a Fools Question,
IMHO. However, when my good friend Nick H-P mentioned the IRCA
Reprint and then updated it by mentioning the E1, which I own and
the R-75, which I've used, I just had to drop my oar in the
water. You might ask yourself why
Bill,
As you might suspect, I do that when DXing from the car and using my
WinRadio 313e. I use a small sealed lead-acid 6vdc motor cycle
battery in series with a 12vdc source, giving me 18vdc, more or
less. That seems to work fine, being hyper paranoid about battery
polarity, etc. I've
section at the
Winradio site, image rejection is not listed below
1.8Mhz. How does the 313e perform in high RF (eg city)
environments with a simple long wire? And...thanks for
piquing my interest in yet another radio, hi, hi!
73,
Bruce N7BWB
Boise County, ID
--- John H. Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED
I'm really glad that I got one more good morning of DXing in before
we fold our hand and scamper back to the place where Texas is known
as Baja Oklahoma. Mind you, the DX wasn't quite to the level of
mid-October, but it was very respectable. I had 43 channels with at
least threshold audio
Man, we really had different experiences this morning the
Victoria/Orcas bunch Maybe it was the very up/down nature of
things. For me, it was equally good/bad on both high and low bands,
with all of the usual JJ suspects being the only audio, except for
675 Viet Nam (pres.) and
CHINA. 6065, CBR/CNR-2, Nov 11, 1302-1355, English Evening presented by
Alan Joy, with examples of Amer. slang, reads lyrics for Kat Stevens new
song Heaven, Where True Loves Goes, 1331 into Studio Classroom Online
with Vickie Steve, program Star Power about celebrities helping after
the 2004
With the solar numbers so good for a while, I actually set the
alarm. Originally, I was going to roll out at 4AM thankfully,
calmer heads prevailed and I set it for 5:00 AM, so I was at the dial
2 hours before dawn. Dawn is now about 1510 UTC. The early period
was very disappointing,
Right around 1515 to 1520 It could have been Australia inna
parallel universe, where Japan won the war :) Course, you hear DU
better than me and I hear CC better than you and maybe jj, so we both
could be exactly right. And then there is bent path...
Fascinatin' hobby, eh?
JOhn B.
Gee, it was like mid-October. Virtually all of the usual suspects
were there, and the upper band was more active hat I've seen it inna
couple of weeks. 43 in audio, overall. Most of the usual JJs, KKs
and even CCs. 567, NHK1, Sapporo is usually only threshold audio on
good mornings. It was
I DXed from 90 minutes before dawn and essentially heard what Walt
Salmaniw just reported BUT, I see it as quite different from the
AMs experienced during September and October. First, there was
little to no increase in strength (taken as a whole) in the 45
minutes or so of supposed dawn
Well,
After seeing a graphic chart of Walt's observations, his reception
looks much more like a typical Sept/October AM, with lots of hets
from tertiary stations, especially on the high band qualitatively
different from mine, twenty miles or so away! Isn't this an interesting hobby!
JOhn
My first sweep was 90 min. before dawn and TP conditions then were at
last as good as they were at dawn. Things were concentrated almost
exclusively below 1100 kHz. and what little real audio there was
was from China/Manchuria. There were two or three common stations
that showed a suoer
Another disappointing morning for TPs. if this is the start of
the MWA, we can hardly complain, since the season started a full
month earlier than last year. Nevertheless, this morning was pretty
much of a bummer. My first run was 90 minutes before dawn and there
were a dozen threshold
location.
All I know is that I would not be able to hear many of the stations
I have were it not for the Quantum Phaser.
Bill Harms
Elkridge, Maryland
On 5 Nov 2006 at 6:31, John H. Bryant wrote:
Bill,
I have no overloading on my Quantum loop when I use it in Oklahoma
I think that Walt (with high band leading) was DXing in the pre-dawn
period. I started at 1440 (about when he sent is e-mail) and, what
was there, was almost all low band.LSR was 1505. Overall, the
conditions were awful. I only had nine audios that were identifiable
as to language... 747,
For those of you who wonder why I use the Winradio 313e, or are
thinking about getting an SDR, here is Chuck Rippel's comments today
on receiving the Radio St. Helena special broadcast. Chuck is
primarily a long-time SWBC DXer and the famed rebuilder of R-390As.
John Bryant
Definately
Nov 3 was an amazing repeat of Nov 7 for me... there were
differences, but really quite a small number. Once again the
Manchurian transmitters did well, but not much else, except the
nuclear-powered blowtorch 1575, Thailand. I had the JJ Big Guns,
subdued, but there, CNR1 on 756, 945 and
Hey, Walter,
There is a 50 kW AFN Tokyo behind KGO, too. Don't you dare hear that
before I get back out here next spring with my Misek/Ratzlaff splitter
John B.
At 10:04 PM 11/3/2006 -0600, you wrote:
Very nice, Walter. This is the kind of stuff one can do with a good phasing
set up.
Randy,
I've ever expended much effort DXing TPs from Oklahoma since, for the
past 20 years, I've been spending at east a couple of months a year
in western Washington State, where the TPs are just the right degree
of DXing difficulty. The one time that I did hear them from Oklahoma
was in
Well, I slept in until first light and, for once, I'm glad! Started
at 1430. The first sweep up the band found quite a bit of good audio
below 900, with things rapidly declining as one moved up. 1566 and
1575 were just weak hets. Multiple runs eventually teased bits of
audio all over the
You know, Patrick,
I think that my location here slightly favors China over Japan. I'm
not surprised, since my boresight up the Gulf of Georgia realy looks
at the interior of Manchuria and East China rather than the China
coast or Japan. Those are each just barely blocked off by the eastern
I've become more and more curious about the excellent TP reception
that I've been experiencing when I'm up 90 minutes or more before
dawn more than 30 minutes before First Light. I don't think that
I completely understand Nick's explanation of this propagation that
he uploaded yesterday,
Friends,
I'd normally not presume on my membership to bother you with an ebay
auction, but this is one that you may find entertaining to watch. I
have just offered for auction my Ten-Tec-340 in its rack case. This
receiver currently retails for $4250. I no longer use it because of
Friends,
I was back on my regular schedule this morning... at the dials about
90 minutes before dawn. As things played out, all I can say is
unpredictable and fairly disturbed, but interesting. I really did
date her in high school, too!
During the pre-dawn run, the JJ Big Guns were
Patrick,
I saw a little something there, but the splatter was awful here.
JOhn B.
At 07:31 PM 10/18/2006 -0700, you wrote:
Did anyone note some Asian station on 1548 this morning at around 1445?
The splatter was too rough to make it out.
Patrick
Patrick Martin
KAVT Reception Manager
Wow, Maybe my best-ever morning from the home location. Started at
1330, 70 minutes before Local SunRise. Actually, the pre-first light
band was almost better than that at max dawn. Had the best ever audio
on 531 (including Grayland), and the band was full of audio, many at
very listenable
I slept in again and didn't get to the dials until the start of Dawn
Enhancement here at 1400. Until very late (1440) the JJs were down,
then they stormed back very late. China. Korea also seemed down this
AM. However, many of the semi-normal Chinese outlets were doing very
well, (945, 963,
Bob,
Thank you very much for that superb note on the ITT Trans-Atlantic
operation I'll join you in mourning the passing of about 95% of
the SP-600s... gosh what a radio!
Bob Foxworth, I've seen your name around the hobbies pretty much
since I got back in (1980) but this is the first time
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