And the same is true for wet areas. Ground conductivity is not directly
determined by wetness but rather by the materials in the soil.
Water helps dissolve conductive minerals and improve ground conductivity,
but if there are no minerals to produce ions to provide conductivity then
all the water
KNBR is a mighty force here. Were I to rectify it, filter it, and convert it to
60 Hertz I believe I could live off the grid.
(Translation: it makes Barrow Alaska a very, very tough catch up here even with
Beverages and phasing units.)
Chuck
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 16:29:01 -0700 From:
Now Russ.
There are many government workers on this list and we DXers have to stop
saying bad things about them. If we don't, they won't help us and that will
be bad. We won't get QSL's from government TIS stations.
So please let's just say nice things about everybody and be friends.
Your
Charles:
You might want to do a Google for three point method and fall of
potential. These are the two standard methods for measuring grounding
resistance. You should easily find tutorials from manufacturers of testing
equipment.
EWE's are at or near the top of the list of antennas that are
CAT:
You can use the methods I mentioned regardless of frequency (60 Hz, MW,
etc). It's up to you to provide the proper generator.
I use this: http://www.beecavewoods.com/testequipment/sinewave.html . I like
it because it's simple, parts are readily accessible, and best of all it
puts out enough
Mister Formerly-Thought-Of-As-Knowledgable-Taylor:
Bill Gates is going to remove you from the face of the earth. His
headquarters in Redmond WA is about 10 miles east of Seattle.
Chuck
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Sent:
I grab the wire on both sides of the solder joint and tie it into a knot.
This is how I fix the many joints in my Beverage wires, and they've never
broken at the knot point or solder joint.
As for the soldering, I've always used cigarette lighters or mini-torches a
la the Radio Shack offering.
Patrick:
The 2 posts of mine that showed up this morning actually left Chuckland
headed toward the Internet yesterday afternoon.
Apparently they stopped on the side of the highway to get a good nights'
sleep.
Chuck
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Pat:
Where do you see Rainier as the location? The FCC lists it as being in
Napavine, which is just south of Chehalis.
Chuck
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Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2007 9:48 AM
To: Mailing list for the
The FCC would have an idea (I hope) and you can find out via their TIS list
at http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/bickel/tis.html
Chuck
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Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 12:01 PM
To:
Chris:
I know a handful of people have the Powermate working with the 313. It does
take some setup to configure the Powermate to send the right key presses to
the 313.
There's a yahoo group for winradio and I recall seeing a handful of posts
about using the Powermate.
Good luck -
Chuck
Guy:
Winrad also supports them, but Winrad's problem is lack of support for AM.
Chuck
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Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 8:57 PM
To: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: Re: [IRCA] SDR Computer Requirements
Not a replacement for intelligence?
Better tell that to the many posters on the broadcasting industry e-lists.
When you convince them they are not intelligent, then could you explain why
they would care about a few DX'ers using the same acronym?
What I think you have proved is that one person
Perhaps you ought to re-read your emails from this morning, where Lynn said:
Folks,
All that needs to be said on this thread has been said. Let's move on - and
keep it DX-related. NO MORE POSTS ON THIS THREAD!
Lynn.
Lafayette, LA
If that isn't a ban, what is it?
Chuck
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IBAC vs. IBOC??? Not at all that I remember. I do admit do deleting the
great majority of posts from this list so I may sometimes miss a mis-labeled
thread so possibly I tossed it away it in it's entirety but I doubt that.
I think there is confusion here. Lynn mentioned this thread so I took it
Patrick:
None of your responses have given the clarification I asked for as to
whether we have a ban (you say no but Lynn's post says NO MORE POSTS ON
THIS THREAD!) and if so, whether the ban is IBAC vs IBOC or plain IBOC.
I'm usually happy to go with the flow, but what's the flow here?
Chuck
Patrick:
IBAC is an acronym used in the engineering world and is found even in the
IEEE (Institute of Electrical Engineers) publications.
It was also the official name of one of the early versions of HD Radio and
if memory serves me right, the ATT platform was called IBAC-160 or
somesuch.
In
A shamed Chuck replies:
I go like one that hath been stunned,
And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man,
I'll rise the morrow morn.
To find my prose rejected thus
In your email deleted can.
Still apologizing to Samuel T. C.
Chuck (channeling the ghost of Bill Wurtzel if anyone
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On Behalf Of Bob Foxworth
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 7:09 AM
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Re: WGN Xmtr. Maintenance Period
CLIP Here in Tampa, a new Target store
Better re-check their website: to buy a licensed copy of Goldwave will cost
you $50 Canadian (about $45 US they say). They do have a free demo.
A highly regarded totally free recording editing package that's simple to
use is Audacity which you can find at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ . It
You got it. If you're tuning to 750 in AM mode with your 2.4 kHz filter,
your filter limits you to receiving 1.2 kHz of audio.
If you'll re-tune the radio to 751.2 kHz in AM mode, you'll get 2.4 kHz of
audio from the upper sideband of the signal.
Chuck
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But ECSS uses the same 2.3 filter. Are you saying you don't offset your
AM tuning 1/2 the filter width so you get the full 2.3 kHz worth of audio?
Chuck
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Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 4:40
I'm just happy that your contact with the wit and wisdom of R. Milhous Nixon
didn't lead to any of that excess frivolity rubbing off on you.
I also do not indulge. Taking it a step further than you, I believe we
should all take steps to assure that the chaos of uncontrolled levity does
not spread
It's likely that this is not splash but rather the so-called tertiary
sidebands that are spread out from 0 to 5 kHz away from the analog carrier.
Were this just linguistics, it wouldn't make any difference but splash has
a ring to it that a better radio or better filter or better something might
That's because the distance limit for common flavors of DSL is normally
18000 feet from the central office.
Chuck
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Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 8:46 PM
To: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Subject:
Walt -
This sound interesting! There's most assuredly a darkness path now from the
entire Pacific NW to Farda, and especially from the Queen Charlottes.
Bruce and I had pieces of Barrow (NPR programming etc) at sunrise a year or
so ago. It's hard to drill a hole in KNBR, and letting sunrise
48C? Al Gore must be right
I went to http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?azmesa and looked at
the peak temperatures. It's enough to make me wonder how live survives there
and to promise myself not to leave the Pacific Northwest.
Chuck
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There are almost no people these days that care enough about QSL's to cheat
with audio clips. To me, the fact that there's one person out there who does
so is no reason to stop sharing them.
And as to whether they have value to anyone else, the web sites that host
some clips seem to generate a
for the International Radio Club of America
Subject: Re: [IRCA] transferring recordings from cassettes to digital media
--- Chuck Hutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are almost no people these days that care enough about QSL's to
cheat
with audio clips. To me, the fact that there's one person out
Charlie:
The problem is that any MP3 recorder with an analog line input is going to
be the recorder with a lot of features. I don't think you'll find a plain
jane unit with line in. My memory is rather fresh in this area because a few
of us have been looking for MP3 recorders with a certain set
I seem to believe you guys never tire of pictures of us out at Grayland. For
more pictures and a report (you've already seen the wonderful logs in DXM)
from our October trip with Nick Hall-Patch, Bruce Portzer, Steve Ratzlaff,
Bill Harms and moi, head to
My recollection is that harmonics must be down 40 dB from the carrier.
That's .1 Watt for WCTC. You didn't say how strong a signal you are
receiving - if it's very strong it's surely more than .1 Watt and deserves a
mention. If it's a wispy DX level signal, they may be within legal limits
and
I suppose a lot of you know about (and use) Mika Makelainen's dxing.info
site. (www.dxing.info)
A few months ago, Google searches stopped listing dxing.info and Mika hasn't
been able to get that changed. For a short article about the difficulty of
getting this problem resolved, go to
For those interested, the September DXpedition to Grayland has been posted
to the DXinfo site at http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/grayland_2006_09b.dx
complete with logs, report and a few pictures. Coming in a few days: the
October 2006 Grayland DXpedition.
And of course, you can check out
James:
The -43 core is recommended down to 1 MHZ and declines in performance just a
little down to .5 MHZ so you should not have a fatal problem with the 43.
What you do need is a more turns of wire. You need a minimum of 10 turns on
the rx side and 30 on the antenna side for a -43 core at .5
Patrick:
I don't believe the Feb-March date is real. Amazon's site says it is in
stock and can be delivered in 4 days given fast shipping. Since some already
have it in their hands, I bet that date is a mistake.
Chuck
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Should we refer to it as the 2007 and 1/4th WRTH when it finally arrives?
Chuck
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On Behalf Of Pete Taylor
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 1:54 PM
To: NRC; IRCA of America
Subject: [IRCA] WRTH
I ordered the 2007 WRTH
846??? What an odd frequency to have a TA carrier. What could it be?
Chuck
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Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 6:36 PM
To: IRCA@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [IRCA] TA carriers
Well, something
Colin:
Italy left the building some years ago, leaving no heir apparent to rule
846.
Chuck
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the bride get a subscription to Better Ohms and Gardens
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irca@hard-core-dx.com
Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Off topic wishes
Glenn:
The ID I hear in the recording (at :31) is KVNS and it's so clear I'll claim
to be 100% sure.
Chuck
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Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 7:31 PM
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KH2AR/WPE9HLJ/KG6DX1A
Memphis, Tennessee USA
NRD-535, ICF-2010
Wellbrook LA5030 loop, attic longwire
Quantum phaser
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Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 9:29 PM
To: 'Mailing list for the International
Worked, halfway. It can't be saved onto the local machine which means the
original email can not be deleted now, nor can I choose the application to
open the file.
I was able to play it as - I assume - a stream from your server.
Chuck
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And what's curious is that Holguin province borders on Las Tunas and can't
be very far from Manati, Las Tunas.
I'm suspicious about there really being two stations on the air at the same
time.
Chuck
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On Behalf Of W.
Some 35 years ago, Gordon Nelson did a long term (a season or two) study of
the accuracy of DFing European signals with a loop. His average error was a
few degrees, although I don't recall the exact number after all this time.
Makes me take Maxwell's idea with a grain of salt or two.
As for the
I'd offer to listen to a recording if you'll promise Wang Chung isn't on it.
Chuck
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Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 4:43 PM
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Cc: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [IRCA]
558, 720 and 873 (at a minimum) have also been heard from Grayland in the
not too distant past. All very tough!
The unusual thing about JB's reception is that it occurred when 4KZ was
providing more interference than ever due to operating non-directional. It
and 2PM were co-owners of the channel
Pat:
Sorry to say I don't know what an interconnector is Sounds like a barrel
(it goes between two things) but obviously that's not right given what you
wrote.
Chuck
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Sent: Saturday,
I think that only an azimuthal equidistant projection (and therefore
centered on only one location) would give straight lines to any reporter's
location. Polar - per se - wouldn't do the trick.
So maybe Jim took a reasonable guess as to that location, did an az equi and
any resulting errors are
Rene:
I think this is backwards - in your part of the country, you need to
subtract 12 from the compass reading.
Check this out:
http://powerboat.about.com/od/navigation/a/truenorth_wayup.htm
Here's hoping I haven't gotten it twisted around
Chuck
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Quick, someone get Utah Phillips. Those sheep are making late night tones!
Chuck
--- Patrick Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Doug,
No positive reports seen on the KRSN test, even
DXers close by, like in
CO. I would guess a no-show. The code or sheep tones
should have popped
through
Huh?
Did I hit the delete button too rapidly? I don't recall seeing a test
announcement nor Marc's reply.
Chuck
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Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 5:44 PM
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Cc: IRCA List
Which is of course an exact copy of plenty of previous work, so the title
Misek design isn't accurate.
The concept actually goes all the way back to Beverage himself, as does the
BOG, loaded Beverages, etc.
Chuck
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On
Gordon did have a phasing unit. He was the father of the passive phasing
unit design that Bill Bailey and I used on our Beverages in the 70's. I give
Gordon credit for making them into a DX'ers tool, although the concept had
plenty of prior usage outside the hobbyist circle.
Someone with a better
Art:
Your 927 is a bit puzzling. Taiwan hasn't been heard at Grayland, and only a
couple of China logs. The weak NHK1 synchros have been heard a few times,
but are not a frequent visitor to the Grayland Order of DXers.
I have had a few snatches of music that made me think I might have Taiwan
Dennis:
From Grayland at sunrise, Hawaii is often dominant pn 720 over a frail and
weak KDWN. I'm sure you'll catch them then if you can postpone beddie-bye
time until then.
Chuck
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