Re: [IRCA] Steve Bohack

Steve's name was Bohac, not Bohack. He did live in New Jersey. 73 Bob Foxworth Dypete via IRCA wrote: > Thanks Steve > > Pete > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > From: Steve Francis via IRCA > To: irca

[IRCA] QSL archival -was- Re: [NRC-AM] More on mergers

I'd like to start a thread about verification archival, if I may, which I suppose is somewhat distantly related to the merger thread. I was around in the 1960's and actually still have some of the material that circulated by mail back then. But that's not why I write now. Any of us who were

Re: [IRCA] KWAK 1240 verie

Hello, Not a DX test, but I have a KWAK 1240 verie from a frequency check, dated 11 April 1959 signed by Scooter Segraves, Sound Stage 124 The letterhead is a duck wearing a tux and bowtie, and quacking (kwakking?) into a 77DX type mic on a floorstand, holding it crooner style. The freq check

Re: [IRCA] Radio Club Newsletters from WW2

John Callarman johncallar...@msn.com wrote: You could try to make contact with Jerry Berg, who has collected a great amount of SWBC DX historical material. (aka Jerome S. Berg.) Some more info that may help. Jerry Berg lives in Massachusetts, possibly in Lexington, MA. He is a

Re: [IRCA] Don Kaskey - SK

I am sorry to learn the news of Don's passing. I never met him but I have fond memories of getting copies of DX Monitor back in the 80's and reading the exploits of the ERBA gang (The El Rancho Bar Association) It seems that the Bay Area DXers always had the greatest stories to tell. RIP Don.

Re: [IRCA] TP's for Thursday, January 17, 2013

It's interesting what can be heard, and not heard. This morning (Fri 18 Jan) between 0200 to 0300 Z the ham station RI1ANF in the South Shetland Islands (basically, Antarctica) was coming in as best as I've ever heard him, which is just 2 or 3 times. A lot of QSB but on peaks Oleg was 569 to 579

[IRCA] mystery signal on 1810-1813

Hams who operate on 160 meters have been hearing a loud raspy signal on 1810 kc which seems to _maybe_ be coming from the area between Philadelphia and Atlantic City. Today it became multiple carriers between 1810 and 1813. They're seeking help with DF'ing it to a closer location fix. Can anyone

Re: [IRCA] 576?

Nick Hall-Patch n...@ieee.org wrote: 1566 has almost always been badly smeared over a couple of Hertz (but centered on 1566.000), and fades in and out more naturally, as well as always disappearing within a few minutes of Parakou sunrise, so I'm tending to credit that one with

Re: [IRCA] noise issue (What about the FCC?)

Mike Hawkins michael.d.hawk...@gmail.com wrote: walked around with a battery-powered Grundig to home in on the noise source. The main electrical panel was markedly warm. I called the utility, and they said there was strong arcing inside, but it was the responsibility of the owner.

Re: [IRCA] 30 years of skywave DXing

I joined the NNRC in probably 1957 and the NRC shortly thereafter, when I was in 10th grade. I don't recall any NNRC picnics in NJ that far back. I also learned of NNRC through the Newark News. They had done a profile on me, as a ham, in an edition of the Newark Sunday news who had a weekly

Re: [IRCA] 30 years of skywave DXing

I joined the NNRC in probably 1957 and the NRC shortly thereafter, when I was in 10th grade. I don't recall any NNRC picnics in NJ that far back. I also learned of NNRC through the Newark News. They had done a profile on me, as a ham, in an edition of the Newark Sunday news who had a weekly

Re: [IRCA] ULR DX....GREAT Conditions @ SUNSET!!!! ULR # 899, 900 and 901 Logged!!!! + Some NICE RELOGS!!!

Don I got the same message, and took it to be a personally directed comment, but which was posted to the list and not privately, as sometimes happens here (as in, right now, for example.) Not a problem. I've enjoyed your old time logging lists from years past. I started doing this MW DX in 1957

Re: [IRCA] WASR Wolfesboro NH 1420 test

Subject: Re: [IRCA] WASR Wolfesboro NH 1420 test What day is the dx test of WASR Wolfesboro NH 1420 khz the times of the test You fellows are spelling the town as Wolfesboro with a letter s but the spelling is Wolfeboro (also N, E and S Wolfeboro, and W. Center, - Falls and - Point, all

Re: [IRCA] Re : 1710

I tried to figure out how an IF image of those two signals could show up on 1710. 455 Khz x 2 is 910 so 1710 - 910 = 800 . that doesn 't quite fit in but it's not that far off. Does anybody out there know how this can happen with a digitally tuned receiver? Don't forget that some

Re: [IRCA] Newfoundland Ultralight Trans-Atlantics Report Oct 27

Allen Willie wrote, The biggest surprise occured at 20:15 UTC while monitoring 1566 khz a signal rose up while Benin in French was already occupying the channel. For a brief couple of moments it was by itself all alone with string type music and high pitched vocal singing, not chanting, no

Re: [IRCA] Re; 1130 Interference

part of the problem CKWX is experiencing from KPWX is the result Is it just a coincidence that the 2 sets of call letters are so similar sounding? (Their towers are really, REALLY short - 53 electrical degrees in height, compared to 90 degrees for a more typical class B station and 190

Re: [IRCA] Hope to see everyone at Colorado Springs, CO IRCA convention 6/23-6/25/11

Bob Wien wienrobe...@hotmail.com wrote: Hope to see everyone at the IRCA convention in Colorado Springs, CO June 23-25, 2011 at the Airport Value Inn hotel. Details will be coming... June? The last weekend of June is always the Amateur

Re: [IRCA] This morning's DU chase from IL

Bill Whitacre b...@his.com wrote: After seeing Neil's email I went back through the Perseus recording I use Guy Atkin's suggested 'reverse x-ray' palette to aid in 'seeing' potential signals. Astronomers have long used the same technique (black stars on a white backgrounhd) when

Re: [IRCA] Cable connectors

Russ Edmunds wb2...@yahoo.com wrote: I seem to recall that 'back in the day', Gordon Nelson was concerned about keeping the feedlines from his loops as short as practical for the application. Realizing that his recommended feedline was car radio cable with the original center

Re: [IRCA] DXer.ca internet radio - testing now...

Rick Kunath k...@charter.net wrote: On Sunday, August 22, 2010 03:14:22 pm Colin Newell wrote: Running some streaming internet radio tests at http://24.69.74.182:8000/listen.m3u Getting a Host Unreachable error here. Rick Kunath IP addresses starting with 24 (e.g. 24/8, the

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] LORAN-C 100 kHz Nantucket

Yes, that is the video. Port Clarence. 6 camera angles. Seems to me that they did not need all that much HE to snap those guywires at the piers. I couldn't really tell if the HE charges were simultaneous or sequenced. Field school for would-be tower-taker-downers. And on youtube they prompt you

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] LORAN-C 100 kHz Nantucket

I thought it was pretty widely publicized in the past few months that Loran-C has been decommissioned and all the sites in US and later Canada to be closed. There was a great video on the web of a 1350-foot loran tower at a site in Alaska being dynamited. They got it to collapse almost vertically.

Re: [IRCA] TA on the west coast???

The 1566 carrier faded out rapidly between 0525 and 0532UT, after having been pretty consistent for the past half hour. Benin sunrise is at 0524UT, rather incredible given that this is pretty much the shortest night of the year. I remember several such receptions of this type _that

Re: [IRCA] WBZ-1030 IBOC OFF!

midcapem...@aol.com wrote: As first reported by Bruce Conti in NH last night, WBZ IBOC is still OFF as of 1050 EDT Sunday 6/13. Nice to hear WIBG-1020 NJ at good level with Minister and CJMS-1040 QC with Inspirational music and man in French. I have no idea of the reason for

[IRCA] Kanton Island and Hard Times

Kanton Island was the home of WXLE-1385, a station in the AFRTS model which I believe had 250 watts and was intended to serve residents who operated the radiobeacon and Pan Am Airways communications. In the early 70's this station (then called Canton Island) made occasional appearances throughout

Re: [IRCA] Sunset DX during June

Donald K. Kaskey kaskeyfam...@yahoo.com wrote: In my experience dxing from Northern California 1957-2010 I have found summer sunset dx, especially in June to be almost useless. 6-23-84 2000 1580 KMCD IA Fairfield I heard this station in 1959, from NJ, when they were on 1570.

Re: [IRCA] 1953 KVAN QSL card sells on Ebay

John Callarman johncallar...@msn.com wrote: 1962 Thanks John, sometimes I get mixed up. Glad to hear he wasn't in the car. What year was that? Oops. It was 1962, I just replied incorrectly, am reading msgs backwards. (latest first) - Bob

Re: [IRCA] 1953 KVAN QSL card sells on Ebay

My recollection was that this was in 1960. Despite the gender ambiguity in spelling of their first names, below, Francis, Carroll and Hal were all men. - Bob Donald K. Kaskey kaskeyfam...@yahoo.com wrote: Thanks John, sometimes I get mixed up. Glad to hear he wasn't in the car. What

Re: [IRCA] [Lowfer] Europe 1

Some fellows on the LowFer list (low power comms at 137 or 185 kHz) posted links about the BC station Europe 1 on 180 Chris Lantaff ke...@insightbb.com wrote: Here you go Dex. http://perso.wanadoo.fr/tvignaud/am/e1/fr-e1.htm Or translated here.

Re: [IRCA] Arizona TP's for 3-7-10

On Saturday morning during the ARRL DX SSB contest, I worked KL7RA Alaska at near sunrise (1143z) on 160m SSB (1867 kc) while running 100 watts to my end fed 80 foot wire with 15 radials. He was a solid s-7 here and easily copiable with slight flutter. I was also copying JA5DQH on 160 CW from

Re: [IRCA] 70-37-#4 --IBOC on 900

bill kral jwk...@yahoo.ca wrote: I don't know what I heard but it sounded a lot like the IBOC hash ( that other stations are pumping out) at the time CKMO was not on air with audio.This hissing sound was audible on 890 and 910 which covered up incoming signals on either side of 900.

Re: [IRCA] RHC

lmn2...@aol.com wrote: A friend of mine who isn' t DXer or Ham asked me a question that it really need the help of other Dx'ers in the list. He claims he was driving in a country road somewhere in Pa. when he heard, to his surprise, THIS IS RHC, FROM CUBA ...BLAH, blah.

Re: [IRCA] Test KEVT info.

In an e mail from Paul Losoff, the test started 3 1/2 hours lateSweep tones morse code was used. I thought Paul's name was Lotsof ... with a t ... who was known as PSL back in the day. Is this someone else, or is my memory failing? - Bob

Re: [IRCA] 1410 Vancouver BC/ Pirate Radio

Radio Rock DJ ID'd station to be on 203 meters Medium Wave.Does anyone know if there is a 203 and what that is in Kilohertz? Bill in BC Bear in mind that the meters value is generally an approximation, without the level of precision the kilocycles value implies. - Bob

Re: [IRCA] [ABDX] Radio Rebelde

I am hearing a Radio Rebelde outlet on 530. When I attempted to hear Radio Visión Cristiana on 530, instead I hear a Radio Rebelde instead. Whether it is real station, I know not. I'd say that, if it is xmtg on 530 and you are hearing it on 530 then, yes, it is a real station. Otherwise,

Re: [IRCA] 1510 Boston and what about-

I spent some time at Goethe-Institut (fuer Deutscher Sprache) in 1965. Back then the frequency was 1439. Many of the students, if not listening to Bayerischer Rundfunk for language proficiency, would gather in the library after dinner and a big Telefunken console would belt out the latest hits

[IRCA] HD Radio Crying Out to be Heard

Today's New York Times (Thu. 9 April) has this piece by David Pogue in the State of the Art feature which is a pretty fair analysis of HD Radio and where it is in the marketplace today. It runs about 35 column-inches and is on page B-1 (business). Interestingly the author is on Twitter and

Re: [IRCA] WOON-1240 test - spectral peaks? in Alberta

Don Moman VE6JY ve6j...@gmail.com wrote: From Paul's comment I took a careful look at 1239.2 and 1240.8 using the Perseus (with ~800' beverage in that direction) on a narrow spectrum span and lots of averaging. I consistently noted a spectral peak on 1239.202 and 1240.802 khz which

Re: [IRCA] Antennas

Patrick Martin mwd...@webtv.net wrote: Thanks for the advice on the Cablecaster. We now have a Home Depot about 3 miles away and they may have the item too. I get a wire up into a tree, I have used long PVC poles. It works but takes a bit to ballance things. If you can use a wrist

Re: [IRCA] GMT Time Question

-6 hours for Central Standard Time. 1000 GMT would be 4:00 AM CST. How do I convert GMT time to Central time? *1000 GMT would be what time Central? To visualize it on the globe, the earth rotates once in 24 hours. The earth is divided up into 360 degrees of longitude, which are zero

Re: [IRCA] WOON 1240 TEST TONIGHT

Chernos Saul sau...@sympatico.ca wrote: Why has this been posted to the IRCA list like 5 times today? Because this is a DX list? Because this is the first DX test of the season? I stand absolutely no chance of hearing it from where I am anyways. That may be true. You don't tell

[IRCA] No sign of woon

No sign of WOON in central Fla during, at least, first 20 minutes. Cx to NE seem poor. Beacons WPHT in/out weakly under a loud Cuban, and WBBR in/out under messy 300 Hz loud het. WOWO 1190 poor, fady. I contend that repeated 5 minute, or even 1 minute tests, offer a better chance of hearing a

Re: [IRCA] the struggles of HLAZ to be heard

Don Moman VE6JY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The station here is involved heavily in the CQWW CW contest this weekend so have not been paying attention to that part of the spectrum, Don, heard you yesterday on 14028 kc at 2254z, could not raise you. I worked four Japanese stations, JH1OGC,

Re: [IRCA] QSL request

We're sitting here waiting in suspense. Which station was this supposed to be? I haven't mentioned the call letters, as I don't want to pre-condition this. Do folks even READ what is posted here ?? - Bob ___ IRCA mailing list

Re: [IRCA] 1290 kHz - cursed?

Shouldn't Ocala, FL on 1290 be listed here as well? They had 3 inline towers just on the eastern edge of I-75 near mile marker 353 which were done in by one of the 2004-era hurricanes - Bob Foxworth 13 stations on 1290, all of which were licensed as recently as 1992 (source: 1992 NRC

Re: [IRCA] KEX

Patrick Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed KEX is not using IBOC tonight. Their audio sure is a lot brighter and cleaner. Suggest you write the GM and let him/her know. Can't hurt. - Bob ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com

[IRCA] WNZF logged in Tampa

Hrd the new WNZF 1550 over in Flagler Co. FL a bit after 2300 local time while on high power with Fay coverage, mention of phone lines open at Flagler EOC, MOS interviews by YL at local Home Depot, people on beach watching waves etc. QRM from Cuban, apparently Rebelde, and whooper jammer. Signals

Re: [IRCA] KDLG-670 now IBOC

Bruce Portzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IBOC has reached all the way to Dillingham, Alaska. From the KDLG website http://kdlg.org/post/21/kdlg-goes-high-definition in a blog post dated April 2, 2008. KDLG has made a major improvement to its on-air signal. You can now hear KDLG in

Re: [IRCA] Aussie QSL Cards?

My experience, DXing from the New York metro area, is that in 1964 it was easy to hear Australia/New Zealand on the frequencies that were open then. The main criteria was to be DXing at 0430 local time, generally on Monday. Signals reached the east coast with some regularity and decent signals,

Re: [IRCA] DU's from Florida

This is Ray Moore, a long time NRC member who lives in the Ft. Myers FL area. He reportedly is using a homebrew rx, and I think, a R8 type rx as well, and a 23 inch spiral loop. Ray has reported in occasionally during the past year, but only to NRC. Ray's secret is that he is DXing every morning,