Re: [IRCA] TA carriers yet again

2016-09-19 Thread R. Colin Newell
Any rental cabins nearby? For us West Coasters living in British Columbia or Washington state, this is an attractive and potentially doable proposition. You are only 500 km to Russia to the West... you are 1/2 the radio wave distance to Japan than here on the West Coast, 2000 km closer to

Re: [IRCA] TA carriers yet again

2016-09-19 Thread Paul B. Walker, Jr.
Who wants to come out here and do a DXpedition this winter? Lol. I've got a former AM radio tower site and several acres of land available for use... Several miles from any power or RF generating source:) Paul On Sunday, September 18, 2016, Don Moman VE6JY wrote: > Pretty

Re: [IRCA] TA carriers yet again

2016-09-18 Thread Don Moman VE6JY
Pretty slim pickings out here in this part of Alberta.. 1215 solid het and only other one worth mentioning is 1125 (about 1124.986) 0512 ut but have been checking off and on for the last few hours... Don On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 5:03 AM, Walter Salmaniw wrote: > Really weak

Re: [IRCA] TA carriers yet again

2016-09-18 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Really weak carriers at my QTH at 05:03 UTC. Going to bed! 73,...Walt On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 5:01 AM, R. Colin Newell wrote: > http://kiwisdr.ece.uvic.ca:8073 check this Victoria SDR -- > > can actually see TA carriers on it > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Bruce

Re: [IRCA] TA carriers yet again

2016-09-18 Thread R. Colin Newell
http://kiwisdr.ece.uvic.ca:8073 check this Victoria SDR -- can actually see TA carriers on it On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Bruce Portzer wrote: > I'm getting carriers on 909 & 1215, both are about 10 db above the noise > so not much hope of audio > > Bruce > > > On

Re: [IRCA] TA carriers yet again

2016-09-18 Thread Bruce Portzer
I'm getting carriers on 909 & 1215, both are about 10 db above the noise so not much hope of audio Bruce On 9/18/2016 21:13, Nick Hall-Patch wrote: What does it take to kill these things? K indices of 2 and 3 for the last 24 hours, and still they appear. Carriers only (so far, whoops, is

Re: [IRCA] TA carriers yet again

2016-09-18 Thread R. Colin Newell
One more reason to get that N Flag up -- by spinning the dial on my VACTROL controller, I can actually "un-null" the TA! That is to say... my W/NW Flag is NULLING the TA's. The irony is not lost on anyone here! -- Colin Newell - Editor and creator *of *Coffeecrew.com

Re: [IRCA] TA carriers yet again

2016-09-18 Thread R. Colin Newell
Threshold audio on 1215 and whisps of carriers exactly where Nick describes. All pretty darn weak on my W/NW flag -- maybe "detuning" the FLAGS directivity may help. On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 9:13 PM, Nick Hall-Patch wrote: > What does it take to kill these things? K indices of 2

[IRCA] TA carriers yet again

2016-09-18 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
What does it take to kill these things? K indices of 2 and 3 for the last 24 hours, and still they appear. Carriers only (so far, whoops, is that a man talking on 1089?) at 0405UT: 882 909 1053 1089 1098 (actually 1097.984) 1215 1458 1485...Gosh is that a bit of music on 1215? Where am I