Hi everyone - I thought you might be interested in a couple of the
catches that I made last night from our apartment in the centre of
Florence. These were made inside the apartment, which looks over a
courtyard but is surrounded on all 4 sides with other buildings, all
about 4 stories high, in
to 1, from ECSS, SSB, Sync etc to
AM only. It'll be like going back to my first real receiver when I was a
lad of 14, the Grundig Satellit 6001, although with that I had the
external SSB unit!
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Hi Craig - I didn't know you could use LMR400 with the Wellbrook amp
units. I'd seen it done with the W6LVP loop on a website somewhere but
thought that it was unique to that unit. If you do end up giving it a
try I would really be interested in hearing how it works out. I'm really
looking
Hi Mauno - that's good advice, thanks - part of our reason for moving
here was to completely simplify our lives and not have so many things,
so this minimalist approach really works for me. I appreciate the tip!
Regards,
Michael
PS - would you use a 4:1 or 9:1 transformer?
reports
lately and I was hoping that things are good with you.
Kind regards,
Michael
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To: "Michael Yule" <michaeldy...@gmail.com>; "Mailing list for the
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Hi Mark, thanks for your message on list. It's a different DX situation
here than Nova Scotia for sure, and there are times that I'm really
gonna miss the DKAZ! But there are some compensations for me, like well
heck, I'm living in Florence...! I'm going to be starting out with a
'Frequent
of what I have. BTW thanks also for the audio clip,
great stuff! I'll may be get down to Sicily in August next year (or
maybe Tropea) and I'd definitely try and bring my DX gear.
Thanks again!
Michael
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I will
be closer to the source as well!
Kind regards,
Michael Yule
Firenze, Italia
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Hi all - many of you will have noted that I've been selling off some of my
gear, and I thought I'd let you know why. It seems that I'm on the move
again, I just can't seem to stay put.
So we sold our house and will be moving on August 1st to Florence in Italy
for several years at least. This
Hi all - just to let you know that the MFJ 1025 that I had let you know
about has sold. The copies of Proceedings are still available, and I will
also take Best Offer on those if the price seems too high.
Thanks very much and kind regards,
Michael
Hi again - I have hard copies of each of these amazing reference works
available for sale (thanks so much Guy Atkins and others). They are NOT
pristine, however they are complete, and while a few of the inner pages will
have some stains and/or light pencil marks and/or light water damage they
are
Hi everyone - I am selling my Steve Ratzlaff modified MFJ1025 Phasing Unit.
Works great, and the unit is in pristine condition (except for the changes
that Steve had to make to it of course). Comes with the MFJ 1316 wall wart.
CAD$100.00 plus actual shipping costs. PayPal for payment, please!
Hi all - just to let you know that I have posted the following items on eBay
if anyone is interested in them. All in excellent condition.
Regards,
Michael
1. RADIO PLUS Quantum QX Loop V2.0, Loop Heads, Coupler
(http://www.ebay.ca/itm/282520248724?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT
Hi Bert - the KIWA mods to the ICF-2010 are:
* Install the KIWA 6.5kHz "Blue Dot" Wide filter
* Audio and Memory Upgrade
* Hard Wiring Battery and Antenna terminals to eliminate the "ERROR 3" issue
* Spur reduction and testing
Note that the FET has the protection diode installed and
Hi everyone - I'm de-cluttering the shack and have a couple of radios on
eBay, including my KIWA modified Sony ICF-2010, in case anyone is
interested. Here are the links:
1. Sony ICF-2010:
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/282497660388?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT
Hahahahaha Gary, that's fabulous! Happy New Year, and thanks for all you do
for the hobby, it's so much appreciated!
Michael in NS
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Merry Christmas everyone! Recent conditions haven't been anything to write
home about so I was going over a couple of files from mid December, and this
one popped up with a very good signal. Considering it's only 15 kW and on a
North American frequency, I'm pretty happy with it. New Country.
Hi again all - thanks to all of you that responded both on and off list to
my question and helped me sort out a couple of things with the logs. I only
tentatively ID'ed the SER outlet as Manresa because MWLIST didn't show any
//'s on Elche, but now I know that all SER's are synchro, so that's
Hi all - sorry for the lack of reports lately - conditions havent been all
that great and I havent had as much tome to spend at the dials.
The question I have is with respect to calibration of the ELAD. I would like
to do a calibration of frequency, but frankly I'm not sure how. I don't have
a
Hmmm..
Well it appears that an unexpected benefit of using banana plugs rather than
BNC connectors in DKAZ construction is that when a deer runs amok at the
antenna with enough force to snap 14 ga hard drawn copper, it simply pulls
the banana plugs out rather than completely destroys the
Happy Hallowe'en all - as sunset occurs earlier these days I am able to get
some DX'ing done around dinnertime now. The band is really quiet at this
time because there is much reduced splatter from the stateside stations that
are not yet in darkness. Here's a couple of nice clean signals from last
Hi all - for several days I had been receiving something on 1386 that I was
pretty sure was Lithuania (largely because it was RR), but could never
extract an ID. Here it is, from a file on the 12th. New country.
1. LITHUANIA - Radio Baltic Waves International rel. R Liberty (Kaunas)
1386 kHz
Hi all - I was reviewing a couple of old SDR files that I hadn't had a
chance to listen to on the day, and thought I'd pass this one along.
I'm pretty happy with this one, new country for me that I don't think is
often reported. I note that it is outside of the MWList times that it is
supposed
Hi again - there was one other last night that may be worthy of note, which
I haven't heard before and I don't often see reported.
Kind regards,
Michael
Upper LaHave, Nova Scotia
1. ISLE OF MAN - Manx Radio 1368 kHz (Douglas) 12 Oct 2016 2358-0003 UTC:
Sade "Smooth Operator", mention
Hi all - a couple of Romanians showed up last night that I hadn't heard
before. Both relatively low power, 15 kW.
Kind regards,
Michael
1. ROMANIA - SRR Radio Actualitati 1530 kHz (Radauti) 2358-0003 UTC: Ro talk
and mx, clear ID at TOH, news. Fair, but low signal strength. DKAZ
AS many of you will know, I just put up a DKAZ about a month or so ago
pointing east. I'm in a bit of an enviable RF situation here, at 5kHz my
noise floor is about -125 - the closest AM station is 1kW 100 km from here
and I have only a 32kW ERP FM anywhere nearby (about 10 km). I'm on an acre
or
The DKAZ continues to prove a great antenna. Very low noise floor, about
-128dB which is almost 35 dB better than I had with the previous winner, the
Wellbrook 1530+.
The Vactrol units that I got from you Colin have worked really well. If I
was going to make a suggestion it would be that at
Interesting evening yesterday. Two new countries for me and an ID on a
Spanish station. I've decided not to log or report SS stations unless I can
ID the location, and I was aware that a number of them have regional/local
programs and ID's at certain times of day - I note that it is usually around
Sorry a day late, but didn't have a chance to look at the files until now.
Italy and Nigeria are new countries for me.
1. ITALY - RAI Radio 1 (Genoa) 1575 kHz 19 Sep 2016 0400-0403 UTC: early
sign on with ID at TOH, "RAI Radio Uno, buongiorno." into news. Fair-Good
with moderate SER in
Another new one for me. Of course, I haven't been at this very long out
here, so most things are still new. :-). And Nick, yes, it certainly is a
lot better than Lion's Bay!
1. IRAN - WS IRAN 702 kHz (Kiashahr) 2358-0003 UTC: AA mx to TOH, directly
into NA and then Quran. No mention of
Thank you very much James for taking the time to list the stations in India
that you have heard. I really appreciate the list, and the effort you made
to provide it to me. I will be listening around 0022 for sure!
Hi again Guy! I also remember the visit you made to my home on French Street
-
A couple of strong signals this morning. It was really nice to capture AIR
in EE!
1. INDIA - AIR GOS 1071 kHz (Rajkot) -0003 UTC: ID at TOH 'This program
is brought to you by the General Overseas Service of All India Radio'. into
news. Good to very good.
Hi Mauno - thanks so much for identifying this for me, and especially for
pointing out exactly where the ID is in the recording so that I can go back
and listen and try and train my ear a bit. This is very helpful and valuable
for me.
It would be great if there was a website similar to
Hi all - so I have this log on 612 kHz, below. AA mx, fairly strong, from
0258-0303 UTC. There may be an ID but my ears are not yet accustomed to
picking out AA words and phrases and I have a hard time understanding. I
would normally say Morocco, but they aren't supposed to be on until 0400.
The 2
Hi Sylvain - thanks very much for the analysis below. I agree with what you
are saying which is why I marked it as tentative. The hours of transmission
shown in MWList bothered me as well, but I wasn't aware of the Asiawaves
information. I had gone with India because the PAL info seems to
Hi everyone - another good evening midband, the first log is from the 12th,
the other one from last night.
1. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - R Farda (Al-Dhabbaya) 1575 kHz 12 Sep 2016
0158-0203UTC- fair signal increasing to strong with several mentions of
Farda (0202 UTC) and ME pop mx program. Rcdg
Mid band conditions were good last night. I'm still going through the
recordings, but here are a couple of new ones for me (both new countries in
the log), may be others to come:
1. ROMANIA - R Romania Actualitati (Bacau) 1179 kHz 12 Sep 16 0158 UTC:
choral type music until TOH. 6 time pips,
Hi everyone - not much time this morning so far, have people coming over for
brunch, so only one log. Thanks again to Allen Willie over on the Rock for
the tip!
Kind regards,
Michael
INDIA - AIR GOS Rajkot 1071 kHz: subcontinental mx and chanting. Signal had
been audible but not really
Thanks very much James and Chuck for having a listen. I confess that I
hadn't noticed that Iran was offset by half an hour relative to us, and I
fully agree with your assessment that the station I recorded was not in fact
Iran, but rather more than likely it was Algeria. I note that the MWList
Hi all - conditions seemed somewhat better last night. I'm hoping someone
with better knowledge of ME languages than I can help me ID the following
log - I believe it's probably IRIB, but I'm not sure as I couldn't find
anything on YouTube that matched and there are no // frequencies. The other
Hi all - I sent Sylvain and Bill the clips they requested. Usually I store
these in Dropbox and then I can just copy and paste a link to them in the
email message. Since the file isn't there, just the link, there is no worry
about file size.
Kind regards,
Michael
Hi all - well apparently I put the DKAZ together correctly. These are a few
of the African and Middle Eastern logs from the night before last,
unfortunately the ELAD did no recordings last night. There are a whack more
as well - England, Spain, Wales, Scotland, Romania, Canaries. Directionally
it
Hi everyone - thanks to the help I received from Colin Newell, Nick
Hall-Patch, Mark Durenburger and others, the DKAZ is now up and operative.
Not a trivial antenna to assemble and get going! I thought that it would be
best if I started with a basic one (non-reversible) and then added
Thanks again Nick and Mark for your input and help - Mark, I haven't
measured an exact distance from the shack to the midpoint of the antenna but
I think that it's going to be about 200 feet to the house and then I have to
terminate in the second floor shack - the plan is to go up the side of the
Thanks Mark and Nick for getting back to me with really valuable help.
Despite appearances I really would like to make this as simple as possible.
My thought was that in Mark's document it is noted that the null pot works
best at the antenna (your assessment of my thought on this was right, Mark),
, and am wondering if
this was what was being tested. Also does anyone know if there is a
possibility of QSL'ing this transmission?
Thanks very much!
Michael Yule
ELAD FDMS2, Wellbrook 1530+
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Michael Yule
Upper :aHave, NS
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Hi everyone and Merry Christmas to you all!
Here is a short clip, starting at 0800 UTC today of a station on 600 kHz
mixing with Cuba a bit (the one I am interested in is playing the music),
and I think that there is a clear ID at 0801:45, just before the recording
ends. I believe that it is
for LA!), mentions of Caracas and
Venezuela. No ID at TOH, faded to unintelligible by 00:01:00.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/koxwuvivue8zpw7/Radio%20-%20YVKA%20630%20kHz%2010%
20Dec%202015%20232815%20UTC.mp3?dl=0
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Michael Yule
01026%20kHz%207%20Dec%202015%202228UTC.mp3?dl=0
Kind regards,
Michael Yule
ELAD FDMS2 Wellbrook 1530+
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Hi everyone - not much time this morning, but it was all Spain all the time
last evening. I haven't had the time to look at most of the files yet, but
here is a couple of new ones for me:
1. SPAIN (pres.) - 918 kHz Madrid Radio Intercontinental 3 Dec 2015 2158
UTC, man and woman in SS. No
-%20Chaine%202%20981%20kHz
%203%20Dec%202015%200158%20UTC.mp3?dl=0
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0132 UTC ID @ 0134. Start fade up @ 0130,
fair-good by 0134, 2 clear ID's before between 0134 and 0135 before splatter
starts again.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/o19rtv0oglw9vjb/Radio%20-%20Radio%20Sevilla%20792%
20kHz%2024%20Nov%202015%200134%20UTC.mp3?dl=0
KInd regards,
Michael Yule
Thanks Chuck and Colin for your help! I did actually go to TuneIn Colin, but
for whatever reason the link wouldn't play - possibly the server was down
but more likely the Eastlink servers were having one of their several times
a day hissy fits.
Anyway, I'll add it to the log, and go in and see
Hi everyone - I was going through some files from a few days ago, and I came
across a station on 910 kHz that I believe to be YVRQ, but I am not yet
familiar enough with formats and IS to be able to ID with any certainty. If
someone has a minute (precisely 2 minutes and 23 seconds, actually) I
://www.dropbox.com/s/9jo19e4iz7ukxzh/Radio%20-%20RNE%20Sevilla%20684%20
kHz%2029%20Nov%202015%20235830UTC.mp3?dl=0
Regards,
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There were also very strong signals from the usual BBC suspects on 1215 and
909, Germany on 1422 and a host of others, but these two stood out for me.
Michael Yule
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ELAD FDM-S2, Wellbrook 1530
in the AM... :-)
Thanks very much everyone, and HNY again!
Regards,
Michael Yule
Lions Bay BC
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Hi everyone - not a particularly good morning, as others have noted! OTOH it
was the first time that I have ever received a DU station on MW, so it can't be
called all bad... Nothing from Japan, Korea, China.
1. Clearly understandable strong audio with reasonably long stretches of
readability
Hi everyone - a fun session today, with some stations I haven't heard
previously, and others that were stronger than I had heard them before.
Can someone let me know what the most likely CC speaking station is that I was
hearing under 774 JOUB at 13:23 this morning? I suspect Wuhan, only
Hi everyone - I think that I've set up public access to any recordings I make
using Dropbox.
If so, this is this mornings R Kitaja TOH ID. Perhaps someone could test it out
and see if it's working like I want it to.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16881917/Radio Recordings/Radio - 2013 Oct
Hi all - today was an all-Sapporo today pretty much. Not much else to speak of,
except maybe 1566 booming in early, around 13:25. One thing I noted however
since 774 Akita was also very strong at 13:50+ and that is that at exactly 7
minutes before sunrise local (14:06 UTC, 7:06 PDT) there was a
Hi all - After a couple of very lacklustre days here, things picked up
considerably this morning. From this location Japan is very strong in general,
but I struggle with the DU's. Korea has good to very good propagation from time
to time, and China is picking up.
1. Clearly understandable
Thanks very much Gary, Nick, Walt, and others for your welcome to the wonderful
world of TP!
I did as you suggested Nick and looked for 612 and 891 this morning, and sure
enough 612 was there but 891 had no trace of audio. I usually leave the
Wellbrook at about 300 degrees, but needed to move
to China. I note that propagation dropped severely at 14:00, just after local
sunrise. Peak was at about 13:50.
Michael Yule
1. Clearly understandable strong audio with reasonably long stretches of
readability so content could be understood by a native speaker
828 JOBB 12:23 JJ woman and man
Hi Nick - thanks for asking about the noise problem I was having. Yes, for the
most part I am happy with the overall noise level now. I replaced the loop with
a new 1530S+, and that cut down a good chunk of it (I can't refer to S units or
dB because the darn ICF2010 doesn't have an actual
Thanks very much, Nick and Andy, for your help. I'll let you know how it all
turns out!
Sincerely,
Michael Yule
Lions Bay BC
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Hi all - I am setting up my station finally at my new home, but I seem to have
a QRM problem that I haven't run into before and I'm hoping that someone can
provide some advice. I have pretty much entirely cleaned up any interior RFI
problems, although to be sure there can be a little hash from
Hi all - Using my KIWA hot-rodded ICF2010 (new wide filter, audio upgrade) and
Steve Ratzlaff modified MFJ1025 (thanks Steve!) in conjunction with an ALA330S
(main antenna) and Quantum2+ (auxiliary antenna). It was suggested that the
1025 wouldn't work properly with 2 loops, but my experience
Hi all - a new state for me.
1700KVNSBrownsville, Texas 1kW 05:03
Oldies program, incl 'Spirit in the Sky', 'Rescue Me', etc. Verified against
internet feed. I'd had snatches of this on previous evenings, but nothing that
I felt confidant enough to actually log. I'll be looking
Thanks everyone for your kind input on the mods to extend the MFJ1025 coverage
to MW. I haven't had a chance to look at it yet (Christmas and other things
keep getting in the way!) but I'll do that soon. It may be that when I do have
a chance that I decide that it isn't in my skillset to
Hi all - sorry, I'm in Vancouver, BC. Beautiful, RF-laden Kitsilano.
Regards
Michael
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Hi all - I dug my old MFJ1025 out of the shed and realized that it has a huge
roll-off at about 2Mhz. I have seen some plans online for mods to the unit to
allow it to be used on MW, and am wondering if anyone out there has had any
luck making these mods. I was playing around with it and
First station ever east of the Mississippi. Call in show, Clear taped IDs at
TOH.
ICF2010, Wellbrook 330S, Heil DSP.
760 WJR Detroit, Michigan 0348-0400 34443, long slow fades out, quicker
coming up.
I repositioned the Wellbrook to the other side of the balcony, which seems to
have
Hi Nick - thanks very much for the offer - if you do find the article, I will
send it along with the 2010 to Craig Siegenthaler at Kiwa when I send the 2010
to him in January for the Wide Filter mod and ask him to do it for me. I'm
doing it when I go away for a couple of weeks to get married,
Hi all - well thanks to the group on here, and primarily Nick Hall-Patch and
others on the West Coast, I have my first ever TA. Thanks so much to all of you!
675 Radio Maria Nederland 0128-0133UTC'Heart of Gold - Neil
Young', 'Light My Fire - Doors', ID by woman at 0132
Het
Hi all - nice Mexican opening this evening from about 0300UTC to 0400UTC. My
first ever Mexicans! Since I've lived in this location I don't think I've ever
had an evening so clear of QRM. This pretty much makes up for my radio seeming
deaf much of the last few days.
DX'ing from Vancouver, BC,
Sorry, I think it may have been a false alarm and I must have had some product
mixing. I just heard mentions of 'New York', so I'm not sure what is going on,
but I gather it was a problem here rather than a real target.
Thanks
Michael
Vancouver, Canada
By way of introduction since I haven't posted to this group before, my name is
Michael and I am located in the Kitsilano area of Vancouver, Canada. I have
been DX'ing on-and-off for about 35 years, primarily in the SW Tropical bands,
but have taken a fairly long hiatus from the hobby as for the
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