Chuck Hutton wrote:
Is anyone downloading this other than the 2 or 3 that commented?
I didn't download it, but I've played through it a couple of times at the
Dropbox site... and it's hugely entertaining. While perfectly logical, the
HUGE signal from RNE-684 is still a revelation to me. Here
As did I!
Randy Stewart
Springfield MO
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Patrick Martin wrote:
Today I went to Goodwill and I found in very good shape, a Sony XDRS10HDiP HD
Radio...
Cool, though in reading a review of the S10 on the "FX Radio DX" blog, he says
there's no audio out or headphone jack on it, just the built-in speakers, which
would make recording
Michael, I meant to weigh in on this a few days ago and it got away from
me--but as you've already discovered from reviews & comments, the Tecsun 660
and 880 are both pretty mediocre on MW. A pity since they're pretty
well-designed radios otherwise, inexpensive and with lots of features (good
Gary DeBock wrote:
"The earlier mistake was mine-- I read the C.Crane online manual for the new
Skywave SSB model, which makes no mention of SSB capability on the AM band,
only on Shortwave. Stan actually purchased the model, however, and found out
that the SSB function does indeed work on the
Getting to the table late with this reply (as usual)...
The one and only logging I've ever managed on ZNS-1 was several years back when
they had a DA malfunction and were running non-directional. Even then it was
weak here in southern Missouri, buried under all the other crap on 1540; their
We were at about 96% magnitude here in the Springfield area, and for about
15-20 minutes either side of the local 1:13pm maximum I did a manual bandscan
(no SDR) and found conditions to be similar to what I'd get maybe an hour or
two before LSS in November or December. Most all the skip
And while they weren't exclusively DX-listener oriented (sections on scanning,
ham, & CB too), Popular Electronics' annual "Communications Handbook" was a
favorite of mine, in part because you could find articles on various aspects of
the DX hobby by none other than Glenn Hauser, Richard E.
Pete, I’d be interested in the two Radex issues!
Thanks,
Randy Stewart
From: am-boun...@nrcdxas.org [mailto:am-boun...@nrcdxas.org] On Behalf Of Pete
Taylor
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2017 12:17 PM
To: NRC; IRCA
Subject: [NRC-AM] HOUSECLEANING #2
All,
Thanks to those of you who have expressed
They're usually quite strong here in the evenings.
Randy Stewart
Arts Producer
KSMU
901 S. National
Springfield MO 65897
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Russ Edmunds wrote:
I'd not be overconfident that you have good Duracells. Over the past 2
years I've had more Duracell AA and AAA cells leak fairly early in their
useful lives. I've been checking my radios more frequently and removing the
cells entirely for those not planned to be in use for
un...@hard-core-dx.com> on behalf of Stewart, Joseph R
<randystew...@missouristate.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 5, 2016 5:42 PM
To: Glenn Hauser
Cc: NRC AM; IRCA
Subject: Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] WWVA 1170 on ND pattern past KFAQ
Glad you got a definite ID on my this, Glenn. I have had WWVA her
Glad you got a definite ID on my this, Glenn. I have had WWVA here in southwest
Missouri in years past with Tulsa nulled, but at most a couple of times.
Now--can anyone suggest any targets whose transmitters really ARE within WV
that get out well to the west?
Randy Stewart
Battlefield MO
Sent
Maddening, isn't it? I've occasionally had locally (or area)-generated spurs
sitting EXACTLY on a 9-kHz split frequency, but often looping in nonsensical
directions for the time of day, propagation paths, etc. After being
dumbfounded, I finally say, "Aw, no WAY that's a trans-oceanic
I had to kind of chuckle when listening to the audio clip--the (presumably
South Korean) jamming noise WAY in the background of Pyongyang-657 obviously
isn't doing a whole lot of good in Seoul. I'm guessing the jammer ain't
anywhere near 1500kW!
Randy Stewart
Arts Producer
KSMU
901 S.
In all the reminiscences I'm not sure if anybody has mentioned (and if someone
already did, forgive me) another way John tried to "spark" the AM DXing hobby a
number of years ago: the formation of a little group he called "Corazon DX" to
foster DXing and IDing of Mexican AMs.
Randy Stewart
.@core.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2016 3:02 PM
To: Stewart, Joseph R
Subject: Re: [NRC-AM] [IRCA] 1500khz someone with very noisy sidebands
Randy:
The noise on 1500khz is not your typical "Wobbler" that was frequently heard a
few years ago. The noise I am hearing sounds like a
It's fairly strong tonight, though with skywave fading... I hear no "wobbling"
or warbling, but rather a fairly steady tone of about 500 Hz, equally strong on
both sidebands. It's not a "clean"-sounding tone by any means--definitely
sounds like someone with a serious transmitter problem. From
If you're hearing "warbling," then it's highly likely to be a Cuban
transmitter... this sort of thing has been noted off and on for years on
various frequencies.
Randy Stewart
Arts Producer
KSMU
901 S. National
Springfield MO 65897
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Glad to hear you’ve become a public radio staffer!
Randy Stewart
Arts Producer
KSMU
901 S. National
Springfield MO 65897
From: am-boun...@nrcdxas.org [mailto:am-boun...@nrcdxas.org] On Behalf Of Paul
B. Walker, Jr.
Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2016 2:38 PM
To: DXLD; Short-Wave radio Listening;
Looks really nice, and I do have a nitpick:
I would say for consistency's sake, on the "Bookstore List" page, make sure to
put ALL the book/reprint titles in BOLD. I notice that the headings for
"DXers Technical Guide," "Sunrise/Sunset Maps", and "IRCA Reprints" aren't in
bold font. That's
When I tried for it around 2315 CST I found rarely heard KFI in the mix with
mentions of "KFI" and "Southern California" during a promo, looping E-W. No
sign of CBS Sports Radio on a really busy channel. In fact, somebody with ESPN
Radio atop currently (2341 CST)... presume usual pest KWPN
I noticed this last night too--interesting programming choice.
Randy Stewart
Battlefield MO
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[drummer196...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 7:53 PM
To:
He was an excellent newsreader, but I haven't heard him in a long time--didn't
know he was still active at ABC radio. I used to chuckle at his rather
emphatic way of pronouncing his name, especially during his final newscast
outcue:
"For the ABC Information Network... I'm DOUG LIMERICK!!!"
I was just looking at their website, and the standard Airspy is actually a
VHF/UHF SDR (24MHz to 1800MHz). The “SpyVerter” accessory listed below is
apparently a necessary add-on converter for longwave/AM BCB/shortwave
reception... and it doesn’t seem to be available yet (“coming soon,” the
It’s often been logged by the east-coasters... apparently got out relatively
well. I think it was 1 kW.
Randy Stewart
Arts Producer
KSMU
901 S. National
Springfield MO 65897
From: am-boun...@nrcdxas.org [mailto:am-boun...@nrcdxas.org] On Behalf Of Paul
B. Walker, Jr.
Sent: Saturday, August
Like the WKRP in Cincinnati theme song says, “I’m kinda tired of packing and
unpacking... town to town, up and down the dial” Now me, I’ve been at the
same station for 37 years as of this summer... but as broadcasters go, I’m
weird!
Randy Stewart
Arts Producer
KSMU
901 S. National
I do hear the first iteration of “Y.Doodle” about 4 sec in, but it’s louder and
much more distinct (to my ears anyway) when it starts up again at :21 in. (I
think there may be one of their “This is the Voice of America, Washington,
D.C., signing on” announcements in between, which is why
Not sure I’ve ever managed to log WWKB here in southern Missouri...
Randy Stewart
Arts Producer
KSMU
901 S. National
Springfield MO 65897
From: am-boun...@nrcdxas.org [mailto:am-boun...@nrcdxas.org] On Behalf Of Earl
Higgins
Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2015 9:11 AM
To: William Dvorak; neilkaz
Cc:
Hauser [wghau...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2015 9:37 AM
To: a...@nrcdxas.org; irca@hard-core-dx.com; Stewart, Joseph R
Subject: Re: [NRC-AM] 1050 Unidentified Spanish
The address I remember was ``Fort Worth 11, Texas``
73, Glenn Hauser, OK
On Mon
Håkan just beat me to it! I hear clear La Ranchera de Monterrey mentions in
the first two clips as well (plus I recognize the announcer's voice!).
Definitely a pest here in Missouri over the past 45 years, though they aren't
as strong as they used to be. I still remember them running
Indeed, I just found it in DXLD 14-36, September 3, 2014... as it was a TWR
press release about their 50th anniversary at Bonaire I recall I didn't read it
all the way to the end, where the next-to-last paragraph mentions the $3.8
million 450kW upgrade project.
Randy Stewart
Arts Producer
Glenn, I thought you might have, but I apparently missed it--should have done
a search! However, I don't recall seeing it specifically on the NRC or IRCA
reflectors. It did take me by surprise, though--I had just randomly surfed to
the TWR website last night and there it was. As Bob
I honestly can't recall seeing this anywhere but on TWR's own website
(http://www.twr.org/powerup)... they're trying to raise $3.8 million to boost
power on PJB Bonaire-800 kHz from the current 100kW up to 450kW (just short of
the 500kW they used from sign-on in 1964 into, what, sometime in the
The current edition of the online industry talk-radio journal Talkers Magazine
http://www.talkers.com/ mentions FCC Chair Tom Wheeler writing in a blog post
about being committed to taking action... so that AM radio will flourish. He
says he'll conclude the open item on AM technical issues in
Before his loggings Glenn said:
Even with auroral conditions, it`s still very tough to get anything beyond
Mexico.
What was true in Oklahoma was equally true here in southwest Missouri during
the geo storm. What I experienced here, in quick bandscans on a Tecsun PL-660
aided by a Quantum
Heard both Morse and rapid upward sweep tones. SC is rare here, so thanks for
the opportunity!
Randy Stewart
Battlefield MO
From: am-boun...@nrcdxas.org [am-boun...@nrcdxas.org] On Behalf Of
kh...@comcast.net [kh...@comcast.net]
Sent: Monday, November
Just heard today that Don Pardo passed away yesterday at age 96. Do a web
search on Pardo's name and a huge number of hits will come up (though most of
the news reports are based on the same AP story). No doubt most of us think of
him for his TV work on the original Bill Cullen Price is
Hey Les, first of all the 660 is NOT an ultralight--it's about the same size as
a Sony ICF-7600GR, kind of a midsize portable. I know I don't have any pockets
it'll easily fit in, hi.
Second, the synch detector, at least on the sample I own, is actually rather
BETTER than the one on the
Weird how it's making it into Ontario and the Northeast but not heard here in
the center of the country! Just checked their websteam and Morse is still
running (unless their stream is REALLY behind the live air signal...). I MIGHT
have had a trace of Morse around 2334EDT--probably imaginary...
Cool, Rick. Still hearing code on webstream as I write (0005EDT)--but nothing
ID'able here, alas. Calling it a night... only interesting thing heard was the
song Workinng in a Coal Mine right at !
Randy Stewart
Battlefield MO
From:
No, it WOULDN'T be tonight... it would be SATURDAY night at 11:00pm Eastern!
Saturday, March 22, 2014. 11:00 PM ET doesn't mean Friday night the way I
read it...
Randy Stewart
Arts Producer
KSMU
901 S. National
Springfield MO 65897
From: am-boun...@nrcdxas.org [mailto:am-boun...@nrcdxas.org]
By George (or Steve), I think we've got it!
Randy Stewart
Arts Producer
KSMU
901 S. National
Springfield MO 65897
From: am-boun...@nrcdxas.org [mailto:am-boun...@nrcdxas.org] On Behalf Of Steve
Francis
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 10:48 AM
To: a...@nrcdxas.org; m...@googlegroups.com;
Isn't it supposed to be running right now? Anybody hearing anything?
Randy Stewart
Battlefield MO
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Thanks for the info, J.D. (NRClistservers--if you didn't see it there or don't
subscribe, J.D.Stephens just posted that the test has been cancelled for
tonight--car troubles..)
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Battlefield MO
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I also want to say thanks for getting the word out--unfortunately I didn't
check my email last night until about 2335 EST, when the test was probably
finished! The way it got out I would've had a real good shot at it...
Randy Stewart
Battlefield MO
From:
Hey Willis, I do collect a little bit as far as books on broadcasting history,
SW etc., as well as old Popular Electronics Electronix Illustrated
whenever I can find 'em at a decent price.
Randy Stewart
Arts Producer
KSMU
901 S. National
Springfield MO 65897
To complete Earl's comment about the Broadcasting Yearbook archive (and a bunch
of other stuff!), it's David Gleason's website:
http://www.americanradiohistory.com/
Randy Stewart
Arts Producer
KSMU
901 S. National
Springfield MO 65897
From: am-boun...@nrcdxas.orgmailto:am-boun...@nrcdxas.org
http://www.current.org/2012/11/slow-growth-for-hd-radio/
This article from the Nov.5, 2012 Current discusses public radio's
involvement with iBiquity to some extent. NPR paid for HD Radio equipment for
its member stations--and its installation. One of their major reasons was HD
Radio's
Re Steve Ponder's post about the Radio Insight article
(http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/84743/is-there-hope-for-a-digital-am-band/)...
Has anybody listened to the audio clip of the test? The WBT signal goes to
digital near the end of the clip, starting with the CBS top-of-hour bong and
I have a Tecsun PL-660 as mentioned by somebody on one of the lists... my
particular sample isn't quite as sensitive on MW or (especially) LW as I would
like, but I'm able to boost signal levels pretty easily with a Quantum Stick+.
Note that you unless you dig into the radio and modify it, you
Just doing a quickie spot-check I discovered one inaccuracy... there's a flag
that's clearly in northeastern Oklahoma, but when you click on it they show it
as KCTE-1510 Kansas City MO... like Paul I'm in no position to vouch for the
rest of it, though I can confirm that KTXR-101.3 carries the
Since my forwarding of Rhoads' Radio Ink article caused a lot of response on
these lists, here are some responses refuting Rhoads' suppositions about the
impending disappearance of AM FM radios in cars...
Kinsey Wilson of NPR sent out an email to its station reps:
I wanted to respond briefly
Inside Radio ran an article today, Teens Driving Radio’s Growth (!)... I
don't have a full subscription, I just get headlines, but if you want to
check it out it's at http://www.insideradio.com/
Large gains among Hispanics, Blacks and teens pushed radio’s national weekly
audience to 242.8
A Cold, Harsh Reality for Radio--according to some auto-industry folks, AM
and FM are being eliminated from the dash of two car companies within two years
and will be eliminated from the dash of all cars within five years... And it
seems GM's Chevrolet could be one of those automakers.
First time I can recall logging this one--
540 WAUK WI Jackson 11/28 2320. Local break in ESPN Radio feed with contest
info mentioning ESPN Wisconsin, call mention and Milwaukee area. Emerged
briefly to fair level atop channel. Only 400 watts day and night? (RS-MO)
Randy Stewart
Arts Producer
Absolute insanity... and it gives me the feeling that nobody currently
running/working for Vatican Radio has a clue about DXing, reception reports,
QSLing, etc.--or cares any longer. This sounds very much like what you
experienced with Danmarks Radio (i.e. clearing out their stock of QSL cards
Getting into the discussion late, but I entered my formerly paper-only logs
into Excel a few years years ago. Initial log-taking in front of the radio is
still pen-and-paper, but the permanent entries are in Excel. I have separate
Excel files for SW (which is a mixture of broadcasters, utes
Last Thursday I was in email contact with Gerry Thomas when my messages
suddenly started bouncing. Has anyone else tried to send a message to
radiop...@bellsouth.net in the past few days and had problems?
Randy Stewart
Arts Producer
KSMU
Springfield MO
Having just bought a Tecsun PL-606 and been very impressed with its FM
reception, I casually strolled over to the Worldwide TV-FM DX Assoc. website,
only to find it down. Anybody else experienced a problem with it? Oddly,
several other FM-DX sites I had bookmarked also don't seem to be up and
Dominating the freq with Mark Levin conservative talk; ID ABC News at ET.
I never hear them on regular night pattern--wonder if it's wonky tonight...
Randy Stewart
Battlefield MO
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Does anyone on the list own one? I'm considering it, and would appreciate any
info. Granted, there's a lot written about it online, but I would like to read
any insights NRCers and IRCAers might have. In particular, how does it's
overall performance (LW/MW/SW/FM) compare to the Sony 7600GR?
Okay, so I can't type on my iPhone! Of course that's TECSUN!
Randy Stewart
Battlefield MO
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Joseph R [randystew...@missouristate.edu]
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2012 9:32 PM
To: irca
http://cincinnati.com/blogs/tv/2012/03/19/celebrating-90-years-of-wlw-am/
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Springfield MO 65897
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I was awake, albeit in bed listening on the Sony 7600GR, between 0300 0400
EST or so, and heard basically what everybody else heard (or didn't).
Interesting that Shawn in Winnipeg and Rick in Omaha, both at about 1000 mi.
out from Boise, did hear KBOI testing... as did Jim Renfrew in New York
According to http://www.timegenie.com/city.time/usotz and several other sites,
Kotzebue is UTC -9. As I write this it's 11:10am Central time and 8:10am in
Kotzebue. So the test should be 4:00 to 4:30am Eastern tomorrow morning.
Randy Stewart
Springfield MO
From: am-boun...@nrcdxas.org
I'm not set up to do overnight recording, so listening live between and
0116 Eastern, neither test seemed to make it here. 580 was a mix of WIBW
Topeka and XEMU La Rancherita del Aire; 1460 was mostly a jumble.
Randy Stewart
Battlefield (near Springfield) MO
Neither WHP nor WTKT made it here between 0116 Eastern (listening
live--I'm not equipped for overnight recording). 580 was dominated by WIBW
Topeka and XEMU La Rancherita del Aire. 1460 was pretty much a jumble.
Randy Stewart
Battlefield (near Springfield) MO
Neither WHP nor WTKT made it here between 0116 Eastern (listening
live--I'm not equipped for overnight recording). 580 was dominated by WIBW
Topeka and XEMU La Rancherita del Aire. 1460 was pretty much a jumble.
Randy Stewart
Battlefield (near Springfield) MO
35-40 mi. north of Branson I can't hear really hear them at night... or at any
rate, they're not a huge factor on the frequency. XERF is pretty much the
dominant station (though it's often buried in a lot of soup).
Randy Stewart
Arts Producer
KSMU
901 S. National
Springfield MO 65897
Thanks, Guy! As I said earlier, the guys who own the FlexRadio units are both
hams first and foremost. Both of theirs are more current units, the Flex-1500
and Flex-5000. Don't know what their situations are with sound cards.
Randy Stewart
Arts Producer
KSMU
901 S. National
Springfield MO
Oh, yeah, the RFspace SDR-IQ and other models seem to be popular too. So
anybody with experience with these might chime in as well... thanx!
Randy Stewart
Arts Producer
KSMU
901 S. National
Springfield MO 65897
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I have a couple of ham friends who aren't heavily into DX listening on MW or
SW, but both of them own FlexRadio SDRs and really like them for occasional
SWLing and/or mediumwave DXing. I couldn't recall whether anybody uses this
particular brand-seems like WiNRadio Perseus are the favorites.
I've heard it here in Missouri as well--quite a loud 1-kHz het but as Glenn
said, no discernible audio here.
Randy Stewart
Springfield MO
From: am-boun...@nrcdxas.org [am-boun...@nrcdxas.org] On Behalf Of Glenn Hauser
[wghau...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday,
Glenn Hauser wrote:
OKLAHOMA. 1210, I sure am hearing KGYN Guymon a lot at night...
Same here in southwest Missouri. In fact, I'm not sure they're ever NOT
audible this direction at night, even though, as Glenn notes, they should be
nulling toward Philadelphia, i.e. in his and my direction.
I can tell you that we ran it on KSMU... and since our main Springfield
transmitter (91.1FM) AND our translators in Branson/Point Lookout (90.5) and
West Plains (90.3) ALL run IBOC/HD Radio with the resultant several-second
delays, it definitely was not synchronized! (The Branson translator
From Inside Radio Top Stories:
From poor sound quality of the message to not receiving an alert at all, many
stations say the first-ever national test of the Emergency Alert System
revealed plenty of problems. Several stations say they heard tones and
overlaid audio. Others weren't able to go
With an A-index of 25 last night, no wonder Caribbean Beacon-1610 Anguilla was
audible (for a change!) around 0330 UTC with Dr. Gene Scott posthumously
preaching //6090 shortwave. Often buried in the noise but occasionally rose to
fair level. Surprisingly rare catch here over the past several
The news of Stage 4 cancer is indeed sad. Jim Steele has a fantastic website
called Vintage Broadcast Microphones, http://www.k-bay106.com/mics.htm, which
shows photos of hundreds of vintage mics and provides .pdfs of manuals for many
of them, along with other info. I've exchanged a few emails
I've only ever logged XEFB here, but I would have to think XEJB would be
possible in the Plains too.
Randy Stewart
Springfield MO
Perhaps guys in OK and TX can advise here. The only Mexican I've ever IDed on
630 is Monterrey XEFB. I seem
KATZ's IBOC hiss is a real nuisance here in SW Missouri too. I can kinda-sorta
null KATZ's crud to hear the Canadian on 1610, but I believe there's ALSO HD
Radio noise emanating from 1620...?
Randy Stewart
Arts Producer
KSMU
901 S. National
Springfield MO 65897
Just saw this on the latest email update from insideradio.com this morning...
Rising waters at their co-located transmitter site has taken New York Public
Radio’s WNYC (820) and Salem’s religious WMCA (570) off the air. Principle
Broadcasting’s Boston market ethnic WJDA, Quincy (1300) has lost
Glenn Hauser mentioned that Jim Bohannon's talk show is harder and harder to
find on the air. I would agree with that--he seems to be the king of regional
and graveyard frequencies--but he does have at least one widely-heard
blowtorch: KDKA-1020. Did you notice their Station Finder page still
This is a news story from our website-pertains to theft of telephone wire, but
for those who have longwires or especially Beverages up, is copper-wire theft
as much of a problem in your part of the world as it is in southern Missouri?
Rick Dau wrote that Brazil on mediumwave here [in Omaha] would be a pipedream
for me.
(Me too, here in southern Missouri!) He also mentioned logging Colombians in
1994 from Iowa City.
I'm just curious if any other landlocked DXers have gotten anything exotic on
MW from South America since
It's not an ultralite, but the Sony ICF-7600GR not only has excellent SSB
capability, but also a good synchronous detector. The Grundig G4000A (a newer
version of the YB-400?) tunes SSB.
Randy Stewart
Springfield MO
It seems to me that there has been a lot of new small, feature rich radios
Jim Pogue asks: Randy, how would you say the Sony ICF-7600GR compares with the
ICF-2010?
Unfortunately I've never owned a 2010 (though I played with one in a store
once!), but from all indications the 2010 has the superior synchronous detector
circuit (evidently Sony's never quite managed to
Stephen Airy wrote,
FEBC? I was guessing it may have been Korea ... but I thought their callsign
was HLAZ.
It IS the legal Korean callsign--FEBC is the station name (initials for Far
East Broadcasting Company). Think Trans World Radio Bonaire (station name)
vs. PJB (callsign) on 800.
Randy
Allen Willie mentioned an extraordinarily strong Algeria-549 in Newfoundland
last night. Here in Missouri I checked for it around 0400 UTC and was getting
just a bare hint of a 1-kHz het against the 550 domestics. I have had audio
from 531 this season, but not from this one. There's been
Colin Newell wrote, I go everywhere with my Zoom H4 by Samson...
I just bought its little brother, the H2, which I intend to use mostly for
recording interviews feature material for air--really nice sound, full 16
bit/44.1 kHz .wav recording. But as I had hoped, it's recording to the
They don't seem to have been on their night pattern for a few days now...
Randy Stewart
Springfield MO
From: am-boun...@nrcdxas.org [mailto:am-boun...@nrcdxas.org] On Behalf Of Paul
B. Walker, Jr.
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 8:10 PM
To: NRC; Mailing list for the International Radio Club of
1420 was a real mess o'stations; nothing heard that sounded test-like to me.
Dominating the frequency were someone running Jim Bohannon, and someone else
running non-stop Christmas music. But thanks to WASR for running the test
anyway!
Randy Stewart
Battlefield/Springfield MO
Barry McLarnon wrote, A better than usual evening for TAs here... many of the
usual suspects have
good signals (e.g., Algeria on 531/549)...
Around 0420 UT Monday evening (UT Tues 12/7) I was finally getting audio on
531--a distinctly Arabic-sounding florid vocal by what sounded like a male
QTH not included in my sig file below, sorry!
Springfield MO (actually city of Battlefield a few miles SW)
Randy Stewart
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Around that same time (7:15am Central time or so) I was only getting a very
weak BFO-detectable carrier on 774 here, on a barefoot Sony 7600GR--didn't have
time to check for anything else.
Randy Stewart
Springfield MO
Message: 5
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:50:00 -0500
From: Richard Allen
Colin Newell wrote, Do not believe I have ever heard Ecuador on MW - that
would be a catch now.
And Jim Renfrew wrote,
Two Ecuador here, both verified: HCJB 690 NRC Test, R. Catolica 880 (used
to have a distinctive children's chorus at sign-on, or sign-off), and one
other not verified, as I
Nice signal nice catch! I hear the ID as well, ending with La voix
evangelique de l'Haiti... They've been on my wanted list for years.
Randy Stewart
KSMU Arts Producer
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From: am-boun...@nrcdxas.org [mailto:am-boun...@nrcdxas.org] On Behalf Of Peter
Jernakoff
I just checked Herman Boel's Euro-African MW Guide page
(http://www.hermanboel.be/emwg/online-mw2.htm), and their current schedule is
listed as 1555-2300 UTC. So yep, they're off overnight right now. Still
running 600kW and the 4-mast directional antenna at 315°.
Randy Stewart
Springfield
I just checked email this morning... and this... just... sucks. Period.
I never met or spoke directly to John, but we have exchanged emails over the
years. He recruited me for his Mexican-DX group Corazon DX several years ago,
and was always quick with answers and helpful hints regarding one
Well, I've been hearing the past several nights in southwestern Missouri, and
like Fred says, the pitch of the het rises and falls very irregularly. I've
tried repeatedly to resolve some audio from it without success.
Randy Stewart
Springfield MO
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Fred Schroyer wrote:
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