Re: [IRCA] [CapeDX] Auroral conditions?

--- Begin Message --- I ran two captures, one at 8 p.m. EDT / 3 SEP ( UTC / 4 SEP) and one an hour later. The first was on the peak 75 deg. / null 255 deg. (TA) antenna and the other on the peak 165 deg. / null 345 deg. (LA) antenna. Lower band TA's from the Mediterranean region (and

[IRCA] 1030: WBZ versus Noticias del Plata (Argentina) shoot-out on Cape Cod

--- Begin Message --- Last night (UTC 0100 / 3 SEP) there was a pretty good tangle going on between WBZ and Argentina on 1030. Audio: http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/audio1/argentina+wbz-1030_20160903_0100z.mp3 WBZ is 53.6 miles (86.3 km) from here at a bearing of 319 degrees so somewhat off the

Re: [IRCA] [CapeDX] Mobile DX Recording Question

--- Begin Message --- I wasn't looking at email when this discussion started but am now going over all the posts. One thing that has not been mentions is RF interference FROM the digital recording device. A laptop is more likely to introduce noise / spurious signals than small hand-held

[IRCA] a few logs - Cape Cod, MA

--- Begin Message --- Mark Connelly, WA1ION - South Yarmouth, MA, USA Perseus receiver; 6 x 12.6m SuperLoop peak 70 deg. / null 250 deg. short-form loggings for (UTC 0059-0101 / 28 AUG) = (EDT 2059-2101 / 27 AUG 2016) 531 Algeria and Spain alternating 549 Algeria; good peak 567 Spain; through

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Cx are improving. WEEI 850 MA logged for the 3rd time tonight

--- Begin Message --- You're probably getting WEEI as well there as I do here. WFTL from south FL cobbles it up pretty badly most nights here with "otherness" (HJKC, WTAR, Reloj) clanking around under. Is that east antenna getting any TA's? Mauritania 783 (fat carrier, little audio) seems

[IRCA] reversible Beverages

--- Begin Message --- For those with adequate land (not me), here are some links to reversible BOG / Beverage articles gleaned from the Topband (160m) reflector. Whether these really offer any advantage over terminated loops (DKAZ etc.) or arrays of same for MWDX is debatable. BevFlex

Re: [IRCA] Oregon Cliff (Rockwork 4) Ultralight DU's for 7-7

--- Begin Message --- A common practice here on the East Coast is to SDR-record the band while sitting in a vehicle at a suitable shore site for a couple of hours starting just before sunset. A bit of live DX might be done during the session but most of the analysis is done in comfortable

[IRCA] a few logs - Cape Cod, MA: mid MAY to early JUN 2016

--- Begin Message --- Report from Mark Connelly, WA1ION Times / dates = UTC / 2016 e-mail = "markwa1...@aol.com" [Connelly*Y-MA] = South Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA, USA (GC= 41.6931 N / 70.1912 W) (= 41° 41.59' N / 70° 11.47' W) (grid FN41vq) Receiver: Microtelecom Perseus Antenna:

[IRCA] New Product: DX Engineering NCC-2 Receive Antenna Variable Phasing Controller

--- Begin Message --- You've got to wonder if Perseus, Winradio, Elad, Afedri, Quicksilver, or some other SDR producer isn't going to come out with a two-input receiver (and/or transceiver) that can do the complete amplitude adjusting and phase shifting thing for nulling / beamforming

[IRCA] a few domestic logs - Cape Cod, MA

--- Begin Message --- Report from Mark Connelly, WA1ION (MC-MA) Times / dates = EDT (= UTC-4h) / 2016 e-mail = "markwa1...@aol.com" South Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA, USA (GC= 41.6931 N / 70.1912 W) (= 41° 41.59' N / 70° 11.47' W) (grid FN41vq) Receiver: Microtelecom Perseus Antenna:

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Vactrol luvin' !!

--- Begin Message --- Great to hear about the Vactrol success there, Neil. You probably remember the first go-'round with Vactrols was about 20 years ago with Steve Byan's Beverage termination box: http://www.w0btu.com/Remote_Beverage_termination_control.html This was used successfully at a

[IRCA] Logs - Cape Cod, MA: APR / early MAY 2016

--- Begin Message --- As I'm not sure if the report I sent out last night made it to the list because of the Twitter-like length restrictions, here is a link to it. http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/doc1/log_20160510.txt I figured that it might be of interest since so little is being reported on this

[IRCA] a few logs - Cape Cod, MA: early APR 2016

--- Begin Message --- Report from Mark Connelly, WA1ION Times / dates = UTC / 2016 e-mail = "markwa1...@aol.com" [Connelly*Y-MA] = South Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA, USA (GC= 41.6931 N / 70.1912 W) (= 41° 41.59' N / 70° 11.47' W) (grid FN41vq) Receiver: Microtelecom Perseus Cardioid-pattern

Re: [IRCA] Common-Mode Choke Designed for MW DXing

--- Begin Message --- Note that the CMC-0510-R is designed for coaxial applications. If you're running speaker wire or CAT-5 instead, you can go with what's in Lankford's article. Page 2 of: http://www.okdxf.eu/lankford/Newer%20Active%20Flag%20And%20Delta%20Flag%20Arrays.pdf 30 (or more)

[IRCA] unattended Perseus recording scheduler (HDSDR)

--- Begin Message --- After considering add-on programs such as Mestor to work with the "native" Perseus software to enable scheduled unattended recordings, I decided to give HDSDR a try instead since it embodies receiver control and scheduling inside the same program. (This stuff is "old

[IRCA] WBZ versus Argentina on 1030

--- Begin Message --- WBZ versus Argentina on 1030, heard 21 APR 2016 at 0100 UTC at South Yarmouth, MA. Distance to WBZ is 86.3 km / 53.6 miles. http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/audio1/wbz_v_ls10-1030_20160421_0100z.mp3 Receiver: Perseus Antenna: 10 m vertical by 11 m horizontal cardioid-pattern

[IRCA] Anybody want to go to Cuba?

--- Begin Message --- If nothing else, seeing the circuit boards they use to make a transmitter "wobble" would be educational. Not to mention figuring out what the thinking behind this highly unusual mode actually is. DXpedition from eastern end of Cuba would also be interesting, i.e. what

[IRCA] Coastal Master Logs (was: Re: 1152 at 15:00 this morning)

--- Begin Message --- << 1269 appears in our Nick-Chuck-Bruce 2014 Grayland DXpedition report. Yes, a coastal report would be nice. I've collected all the logs from Gary, Bill W and myself with the intent of adding a sheet to the Grayland Master Log and making it into a NW Coastal Log. When

Re: [IRCA] AM Revitalization: From Hard Facts to Whimsical Fantasy

--- Begin Message --- Country music is surprisingly popular with young people too and radio still factors in there as well. Today's country scene has a lot of performers in the 18-34 age group and many fans that age too. Even in Boston, in former years a weak country market, there are two

Re: [IRCA] Masset DXpedition 26 March - 3 April 2016 Pt I

--- Begin Message --- On this side of the continent, I just wish that someone would seriously DX from Bermuda with a Perseus or similar and competent antennas. Barbados or St. Lucia would be great too. Totally relevant to what I would hear at home. Mark Connelly, WA1ION South Yarmouth, MA

[IRCA] Logs - Cape Cod, MA: late MAR / early APR 2016

--- Begin Message --- Report from Mark Connelly, WA1ION Times / dates = UTC / 2016 e-mail = "markwa1...@aol.com" [Connelly*Y-MA] = South Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA, USA (GC= 41.6931 N / 70.1912 W) (= 41° 41.59' N / 70° 11.47' W) (grid FN41vq) Receiver: Microtelecom Perseus Antenna 1:

Re: [IRCA] Single-turn tuned loop article

a maximum size (21m for a triangle, for example) but I always assumed that had to do with the configuration of his ALA 100 amplifier input. Regards, Mark Durenberger There's SO much I still don't know! -----Original Message- From: Mark Connelly via IRCA Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2016 11:02 AM T

[IRCA] Single-turn tuned loop article

--- Begin Message --- Single-turn tuned loop article on N6RK website. http://www.n6rk.com/loopantennas/pacificon.pdf 14 ft. per side mentioned for 160-m ham band. Would likely want to double (at least) that for MW, so close to 30 ft. / 9m per side: something you'd suspend between trees

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] AM DX from central Alaska

--- Begin Message --- I think you should have a pretty good shot at the Japanese there Paul, as long as you don't mind getting up a bit before local dawn. Mark Connelly, WA1ION South Yarmouth, MA -Original Message- From: Patrick Martin To: Paul B. Walker, Jr.

[IRCA] WAPA 680 Puerto Rico blasting over local WRKO

--- Begin Message --- Last night WAPA San Juan, Puerto Rico was booming in on 680, clobbering 50 kW WRKO Boston. The WRKO transmitter site (Burlington, MA) is 76 miles (123 km) from here and I'm in its main beam southeast so ERP this way is at least 100 kW. But WAPA at something like 20

Re: [IRCA] PHOOLS IN THE PHIELD

--- Begin Message --- My DXpedition experience goes back to the '60s on family trips to Cape Cod (I was living in Arlington, MA near Boston then). Things were very simple at that time: Lafayette HA-63A table-top receiver with speaker, 100 ft. roll of bell wire to string in the pine trees at

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Noise Is the Big Problem for AM, SBE Argues

--- Begin Message --- I suppose that with spectrum storing SDR receivers one can go to a beach, mountain, desert, farm, etc. site a few times a year and come back home with enough DX to work on for several months. Newfoundland DXers have been known to keep finding new ones in their gigabytes

[IRCA] Best portable and Ultralight Radios for Domestic DXing?

--- Begin Message --- Until someone comes up with a portable radio whose antenna pick-up pattern is cardioid instead of figure-of-8 (or switchable between those two choices), these radios are not a serious game player here in the New England states. NYC is opposite to TA's we want to hear.

Re: [IRCA] Super KAZ update

--- Begin Message --- What would be the magic of using the Kaz Delta form where you have the hold up the center with a catenary rope between the two trees? Wouldn't it make more sense to use the "SuperLoop" (Bruce Conti's term) which is like the Ewe with a bottom wire added? This is also

[IRCA] a few logs - Cape Cod, MA

--- Begin Message --- Report from Mark Connelly, WA1ION Times / dates = UTC / 2016 e-mail = "markwa1...@aol.com" [Connelly*Y-MA] = South Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA, USA (GC= 41.6931 N / 70.1912 W) (= 41° 41.59' N / 70° 11.47' W) (grid FN41vq) Receiver: Microtelecom Perseus Antenna:

Re: [IRCA] [CapeDX] Switch from unterminated to terminated DKAZ caught on wav file!

--- Begin Message --- In a similar vein on directional antennas, I actually made up daytime stereo audio recordings with a Flag antenna having one receiver (Drake R8A) listening on its northeast side and another R8A receiving at the same time on the southwest side. These were done in 2004

Re: [IRCA] The VACTROL progress

--- Begin Message --- Steve Byan's original version Vactrol circuit used for Beverages can be adapted for Ewes. http://www.w0btu.com/Remote_Beverage_termination_control.html The trick is that the Ewe element would need to be redone with a two-conductor wire such as lamp cord, twisted pair,

[IRCA] Recent logs - Cape Cod, MA

--- Begin Message --- Report from Mark Connelly, WA1ION Times / dates = UTC / 2016 e-mail = "markwa1...@aol.com" [Connelly*Y-MA] = South Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA, USA (GC= 41.6931 N / 70.1912 W) (= 41° 41.59' N / 70° 11.47' W) (grid FN41vq) Receiver: Microtelecom Perseus Antenna:

Re: [IRCA] KXEL Petition

--- Begin Message --- If 50 kW stations are sometimes even a challenge to hear in steel buildings in/near city centers or are challenged by wall-warts, lighting fixtures, etc. in the average home, then how is dropping to 10 kW going to help? Just because the signal goes hundreds of miles when

[IRCA] A few logs - Cape Cod, MA: FEB 2016

--- Begin Message --- Report from Mark Connelly, WA1ION Times / dates = UTC / 2016 e-mail = "markwa1...@aol.com" [Connelly*Y-MA] = South Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA, USA (GC= 41.6931 N / 70.1912 W) (= 41° 41.59' N / 70° 11.47' W) (grid FN41vq) Receiver: Microtelecom Perseus Antenna 1:

Re: [IRCA] Vactrol for Flag

--- Begin Message --- Boston Area DXers member Steve Byan was first out of the gate with a Vactrol scheme initially applied to Beverage termination in 1996. His controller was successfully used on late '90s Newfoundland DXpeditions. The original Vactrol he used had a sealed incandescent

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Vactrol for Flag?

--- Begin Message --- Some "prehistoric" (2002) writing on the subject: http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/flag/flag_antenna.pdf Mark Connelly, WA1ION South Yarmouth, MA -Original Message- From: Les Rayburn To: IRCA Radio List - irca@hard-core-dx_com

Re: [IRCA] Fwd: Grayland Fishbarrel

--- Begin Message --- << Nick, I was seeing 621 quite clearly around 22:45 local in Victoria, and snippets of audio. My, Grayland was very lively this morning on the temp DX Fishbarrel, while dead in Victoria at the same time! Walt >> Reminds me of sunset on the shore at Granite Pier, Rockport,

Re: [IRCA] John Bryant remembered

--- Begin Message --- One more comment about the late John Bryant. The work he did on ferrite materials and matching transformers (with Bill Bowers and others) is still first rate reference material. His evaluation of the Kaz Delta antenna, around the time (late '90s) that terminated

[IRCA] TA's, 1500 stuff

--- Begin Message --- There were a lot of TA's coming through when I checked at 7 p.m. EST / UTC. I'll check again at 10 p.m. EST / 0300 UTC. As far as 1500 goes, only normal-sounding WFED here. If anything's under, it would be the Venezuelan. But we're talking about way under. And no

Re: [IRCA] Wellbrook Large Aperture Loop Antenna ALA100LN

--- Begin Message --- Flags, Deltas, and SuperLoops can indeed be changed to bidirectional (figure-of-8) from cardioid by shorting out the termination resistor. I do that here from time to time on N-S loop when it's more important to null NYC (W) instead of Boston / Portland (N) when DXing

Re: [IRCA] [mwdx] Correction: 1140 WRLV Salyerville KY, not WLOD TN, on late

--- Begin Message --- Cuban with piano music is probably Musical Nacional // 590. Other one is usually Radio Surco. They ID often. Example: http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/audio1/r_surco_cuba-1140_20150324_z.mp3 Talker could also be one of the Rebeldes. Easy to parallel that. 670 and 1180

Re: [IRCA] Polar Night?

--- Begin Message --- I saw the "heads up" about polar propagation and fired off a capture at 0400 UTC. Live DXing right ahead of that just showed rather ordinary TA DX strengths. What was stronger than I expected was Nigeria on 917 - actually producing some audio, and better than presumed

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] DX'ing from a new location, AGAIN!

--- Begin Message --- You might need one of those "science fiction" FSL PL-380's from Gary DeBock. Mark Connelly, WA1ION -Original Message- From: Paul B. Walker, Jr. To: DXLD ; Short-Wave radio Listening ; NRC

Re: [IRCA] Announcement for WJR off for maint LAST NIGHT

--- Begin Message --- Here on Cape Cod with one antenna that aims south and another aimed east, WJR is typically only a minor problem for DXing 760. Even when it shows up on both antennas it can easily be phase nulled with a Quantum Phaser or d-i-y equivalent. An ordinary indoor loop or a

[IRCA] Domestic Logs - Cape Cod, MA: DEC 2015 / early JAN 2016

--- Begin Message --- Report from Mark Connelly, WA1ION (MC-MA) Times / dates = EST (= UTC-5h) / DEC 2015 and JAN 2016 e-mail = "markwa1...@aol.com" South Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA, USA (GC= 41.6931 N / 70.1912 W) (= 41° 41.59' N / 70° 11.47' W) (grid FN41vq) Receiver: Microtelecom Perseus

[IRCA] WRKO 680, two subjects

--- Begin Message --- WRKO Boston dumps a strong signal in here on 680 kHz even though the Burlington, MA transmitter site is a distance of 76 miles / 123 km. Signal level (per V-Soft, average of two nearby post offices): 4.68 mV/m (73.4 dBu) day and night. As I have been reviewing some

Re: [IRCA] Other stations heard during the WBOB test

--- Begin Message --- In what I have reviewed so far, it sounds as though WBOB is the only domestic in the mix. Others heard - definite: R. Rebelde Cuba, R. Libertad Colombia, WYEL Puerto Rico (// 580 WKAQ) Tentative: Venezuela I did post the 6.5 hour master recording (0445-1115 UTC) so

[IRCA] WBOB test / 7 minute and 6.5 hour audio grabs

--- Begin Message --- Mark Connelly, WA1ION South Yarmouth, MA (GC= 41.6931 N / 70.1912 W) (= 41° 41.59' N / 70° 11.47' W) (grid FN41vq) Receiver: Microtelecom Perseus Antenna: Cardioid-pattern SuperLoop: 10m vert. by 11m horiz. (peak 165 deg., null 345 deg.) See '

[IRCA] WBOB DX test

--- Begin Message --- First review of my unattended recording shows the sweep tones, ascending beeps, and a WBOB spoken ID coming in around 0600 UTC. The stiff competition was the typical shoot-out of Radio Rebelde Cuba, Radio Libertad Colombia, and WYEL Puerto Rico (with ID of // 580 WKAQ).

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] DX Season

--- Begin Message --- DX season is all year near the seashore. Warmer weather gives better opportunities for DXing from the car, campsites, etc. at advantageous sites compared to home: e.g. seashore, high altitude, or rural farmland. Southerly regions have more darkness then so Brazilians

[IRCA] Crazy FM DX in the car today

--- Begin Message --- Between 1 and 2 p.m. EST / 30 DEC there was quite a bit of skip DX activity on FM as I noted while driving in the Yarmouth / Barnstable / Sandwich, MA area. Right away, at my house, I knew something had gone wacky when local 100.5 "Koffee" was replaced by a country

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Trans World Radio PJB 800

--- Begin Message --- TWR dominates 800 most nights here on Cape Cod, at least on the SuperLoop pointed south. Mark Connelly, WA1ION South Yarmouth, MA -Original Message- From: Scott Fybush To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America

Re: [IRCA] Gasp, a DX report

--- Begin Message --- 830 can also be HIJB Dominican Republic. Seems to be #2 on the channel here lately behind WCRN-MA and ahead of WEEU-PA, Sensacion, Reloj, WCCO-MN, etc. 700 has been the Colombian // 690 (W Radio) most of the time lately. 1110 either Angulo de Cuba (// 740, 1100) or R.

Re: [IRCA] TA Hets in Miami

--- Begin Message --- 531 no doubt Algeria, 891 ditto 1521 Saudi blaster most likely ... HOWEVER ... Bahamas 1540 sometimes kicks out spurs +/- 19 kHz, i.e. on 1521 and 1559. Are you finding anything on 1559? Can your receiver do SSB reception? That would help pull up TA split audio.

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] 1140 Cuba - Surco

--- Begin Message --- Actually, besides Radio Surco, there are 5 other Cubans on 1140! R. Bayamo, Media Luna // 1150 & 1620 R. Cadena Agramonte, Camaguey // 910 R. Mayabeque, La Salud // 1040 R. Musical Nacional, Santa Clara // 590 R. Rebelde synchros // 670, 1180, 5025 and a gaggle of

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] 1140 Cuba - Surco

--- Begin Message --- One of my recordings earlier this year: http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/audio1/r_surco_cuba-1140_20150324_z.mp3 "Transmite CMIP, Radio Surco, desde Ciego de Avila, capital de la locucion cubana." Fairly regular here at the coast, one of 4 different Cubans (!) attempting

Re: [IRCA] WMVX 1570

--- Begin Message --- Looking at the relocated-to-Andover WMVX engineering report Figure 1, it appears that I am just east (= inside) of the 0.5 mV/m line where it crosses the mid-Cape (bisecting Sandy Neck). So that puts me around 0.6 mV/m give or take a bit. This shows an approximate 20

[IRCA] Throwback Thursday: DX 40 years ago

--- Begin Message --- Throwback Thursday: DX 40 years ago Audio clips of receptions from Sudbury, MA with R-390A receiver and 1200 ft. (366 m) Beverage northeast. http://chowdanet.com/markc/WEB2005A/dx_uk-1214_19751214_0715z.mp3 BBC Radio One, UK - 1214 (heard 14 DEC 1975 at 0715 UTC): end

Re: [IRCA] Western Shore 7/8 Dec 2015

--- Begin Message --- That would be 1467 not 1476, right Michael? Mark Connelly, WA1ION South Yarmouth, MA << 1. FRANCE - TWR 1476 kHz 7 Dec 2015 21:58:45 UTC - FF anncmts and then a fade for about 20 seconds, into IS at TOH and AA program. Much stronger at and after IS.

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] [dxld] Re: [badx] Audio capture (was: A useful smartphone app for DX'ers)

--- Begin Message --- Hi Brandon. I suppose there isn't that much to be gained by 48 kB/s digitizing over 32 kB/s when 5 or 6 kHz is likely the highest audio frequency being stored. Mark Connelly, WA1ION South Yarmouth, MA p.s. I got this rubbish instead of seeing my original post

Re: [IRCA] Audio capture (was: A useful smartphone app for DX'ers) PART 1 OF 2

--- Begin Message --- "PART 1" because the Atari hooked up to the list server couldn't handle the original wicked long message ... This opens up a good topic for discussion: production of DX audio files. In the past 50 or so years, my techniques have progressed from: (1: '60s/'70s)

Re: [IRCA] Audio capture (was: A useful smartphone app for DX'ers) PART 2 OF 2

--- Begin Message --- "PART 2" of wicked long message replying to Paul Walker's posting ... (4: Early 2000's to present) Audio patched from receiver into desktop or laptop computer. If your computer has a line-level input, this is a simple matter. This is how I digitized all of the analog

[IRCA] Logs - Cape Cod, MA: NOV 2015 [PART 1]

--- Begin Message --- NEEDED TO BREAK INTO TWO PARTS TO GET ON IRCA LIST Report from Mark Connelly, WA1ION Times / dates = UTC / 2015 e-mail = "markwa1...@aol.com" [Connelly*Y-MA] = South Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA, USA (GC= 41.6931 N / 70.1912 W) (= 41° 41.59' N / 70° 11.47' W) (grid FN41vq)

[IRCA] Logs - Cape Cod, MA: NOV 2015 [PART 2]

--- Begin Message --- Mark Connelly - South Yarmouth, MA part 2 of NOV 2015 logs (times UTC) *** PAN-AMERICAN DX *** 530 | CUBA | CMBQ, R. Enciclopedia, La Habana, NOV 9 - Samba theme music, woman "Transmite CMBQ R. Enciclopedia" ID; loud, mixing evenly with R. Rebelde.

[IRCA] Western Shore Loggings 29 Nov

--- Begin Message --- Michael, your receptions are pretty similar to stuff I'm hearing about 300 miles down the coast from you. Saudi 1521 is a flamethrower up and down the East Coast. Reception two hours pre-sunset, at least near the shore, is not unusual. Here's a recording from a few

Re: [IRCA] New IRCA site design

--- Begin Message --- Site is opening here within a half hour walk of the Atlantic. Thanks Colin! And now, my $64000 question (referring to the old TV game show): Will user upload / download of Perseus, Excalibur, Elad, and other SDR spectrum capture files - as Guy Atkins once had on his

Re: [IRCA] Quoddy House 6 DXpedition - Nov. 15-21, 2015

--- Begin Message --- I notice a bigger inland-versus-shore drop-off on deep Africans and Brazilians than on European stations. When Lesotho 1197 was a full power BBC relay, it sometimes hit S9+20 at Granite Pier in Rockport, MA ( http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/pictures1/rockport_dx_map.gif ) but

Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA TP Carrier for 11-25

--- Begin Message --- East Coast version, of course, is sunset enhancement. Over better than 50 years of DXing including "somewhat inland" (5 to 25 miles to shore) locations and right-on-the-beach (or salt-marsh) sites, the sunset enhancement usually runs for a good hour at the shore whereas

Re: [IRCA] [CapeDX] Quoddy House 6 DXpedition - Nov. 15-21, 2015

--- Begin Message --- Good info so far Bill. Here are two things you may want to dig for right away: (1) South Africa 828 (2) Off-channel Guyana which has been recently noted on 559.924 by Jim Renfrew in NL (see below) and (as carrier in WGAN slop) by me here at South Yarmouth in OCT on

[IRCA] Logs - Cape Cod, MA: OCT 2015

--- Begin Message --- Since I got the silly message reproduced below mine, my latest log report is now available via: http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/doc1/log_20151031.txt When is this limitation (relic of DOS / floppy disk / dial-up era) going to be fixed? Any serious DXpedition report, or even a

Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 11-22

--- Begin Message --- << The subfreezing cold made it tough to stick around in the frozen back yard after around 1520, though, and TP signals were dropping off for the most part by that time. Overall the session was one of the best of November, and hopefully an indication of better DX to come.

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Argentina 1030 recent reception in MA through WBZ

--- Begin Message --- I get the top-of-hour pips quite often but this is the best audio from here so far. I had a comparable pick-up in the '80s from what was then my parents house on Trowbridge Path, West Yarmouth about 4 km west of here. Antenna used is 10m tall by 11m across SuperLoop

[IRCA] Argentina 1030 recent reception in MA through WBZ

--- Begin Message --- Argentina on 1030 received within 60 miles / 100 km of the WBZ towers. Duking it out with 'BZ here at South Yarmouth, MA: Shania Twain "Man I Feel Like a Woman", pips, "Noticias del Plata" at top of hour: UTC 31 OCT at 0200.

[IRCA] Northeast Blackout Radio Reminiscences, 50 years later

--- Begin Message --- From: Mark Connelly, WA1ION This is being written on the 50th anniversary of the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965. Power went out in large parts of New York, New England, and some other adjacent states and Canadian provinces. The evening of November 9, 1965 was going

Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 11-6

--- Begin Message --- << Last night there was no high level propagation to Alaska and only the weakest of hets on 738 kHz >> Does anyone out west ever TAKE ADVANTAGE of auroral conditions and aim antennas for Latin America? Or is it mostly gloom-and-doom since only Tahiti 738 registers in

[IRCA] DXpedition capture files?

--- Begin Message --- A few days back I commented about possible availability of RF capture files from recent DXpeditions, as in the days when Guy Atkins ran the "Five Below" website. I haven't seen any comments about this yet. Recent DXpeditions would include Masset, Rockworks, and

[IRCA] Audio clips - October (so far) - Cape Cod, MA

--- Begin Message --- Here are a few audio clips I've made here at South Yarmouth, MA so far this month. This is a mix of domestic and foreign DX. In frequency order. 550 kHz : WPAB, Ponce, Puerto Rico (9 OCT @ UTC) Ponce mentions.

Re: [IRCA] Loop Antenna Gain for Rockworks #4 and #2

--- Begin Message --- Guy, is there any way that the one or two best "knock your socks off" top-of-hour Perseus files from the Rockworks DXpedition could be uploaded somewhere so DXers can "sit in" on the activities after the fact? Same question applies to files from Walter's recent Masset

Re: [IRCA] TA carriers...

--- Begin Message --- You guys seldom mention Saudi 1521, the ten ton gorilla here on the East Coast, audible 2+ hours pre-sunset at coastal sites, at least a half hour ahead of everybody else. Mark Connelly, WA1ION South Yarmouth, MA << and a touch of sludgy sounding rock music on 1215 at

[IRCA] East Coast (was: Avoiding QRM)

--- Begin Message --- Welcome to the northeast Michael. One way to figure things out is to look at loggings in the IRCA and NRC bulletins from those of us in the eastern Canada and northeastern USA regions. Relatively near the seashore and fairly active are: Allen Willie - NL Brent Taylor -

[IRCA] Beverage versus DKAZ (was: TP for 20 October from Masset)

--- Begin Message --- Could the anomalous results be from the fact that sometimes at the sunrise or sunset transition you actually have higher angle pick-up for long haul because of a tilted ionospheric layer above the receiving site (enabling chordal / ducted mode propagation reducing the

Re: [IRCA] 17 October 2015 TP Victoria : Masset perspective

--- Begin Message --- << So, if there is a DXer heaven, it must be Masset! 73, Walt >> Don't forget Cappahayden, Newfoundland here on the East Coast. A case could probably also be made for Richard Wood's old Hilo, Hawaii QTH. << 740 Immaculate Heart Radio in Maui at very good levels.

[IRCA] A few logs - late SEP 2015 - Cape Cod, MA

--- Begin Message --- Report from Mark Connelly, WA1ION Times / dates = UTC / 2015 email = "markwa1...@aol.com" [Connelly*Y-MA] = South Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA, USA (GC= 41.6931 N / 70.1912 W) (= 41° 41.59' N / 70° 11.47' W) (grid FN41vq) Receiver: Microtelecom Perseus Antenna:

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Absolute Radio GB 1215

--- Begin Message --- Seems like you could check the Netherlands SDR receiver to figure this out .. http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ But, realistically, Absolute Radio would be the only option based on the description. Spain is the only other 1215 that would be in at that time and that is

[IRCA] A few logs : Cape Cod, MA : 20-25 SEP 2015

--- Begin Message --- Report from Mark Connelly, WA1ION Times / dates = UTC / 2015 email = "markwa1...@aol.com" [Connelly*Y-MA] = South Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA, USA (GC= 41.6931 N / 70.1912 W) (= 41° 41.59' N / 70° 11.47' W) (grid FN41vq) Receiver: Microtelecom Perseus Antenna:

[IRCA] recent logs Cape Cod (via link)

--- Begin Message --- Since I received the message reproduced below, I am passing along a link to my recent logs. Please see: http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/doc1/log_20150919.txt The text file size is only 12kB so I'm not sure how it was considered >35kB. Why the arbitrary limit anyway? We

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] WTIC 1080 Off Air Maintence

--- Begin Message --- Thanks Paul. Other stuff that shows up on 1080 at night here: TA IRAN | IRIB 1/VOIRI, Abadan SPAIN | SER synchros (check parallels such as 1116) LA CUBA | R. Cadena Habana, Villa Maria VENEZUELA | YVQJ, R. Barcelona, Barcelona VENEZUELA | YVNR, Mundial 1080, Maracay

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] SDR Recordings

--- Begin Message --- Around sunset and then again around 11 p.m. local, I look at some key channels with my two different antennas for any better-than-usual or (at least) unusual / anomalous propagation. If things aren't that interesting, I won't fire off a capture unless it has been several

Re: [IRCA] 15 September TP/DU Victoria B.C. Canada

--- Begin Message --- Seems like Andy Ikin at Wellbrook should be able to answer the question. andrew.i...@btopenworld.com http://www.wellbrook.uk.com/ Mark Connelly, WA1ION South Yarmouth, MA << Entirely possible - but I am not an authority on the K9AY -- Principles are similar I think - I

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] SDR at Padre Island, Texas

--- Begin Message --- Interesting report. I'm a bit surprised by no South America (other than 800 PJB, off the mainland). Also surprised to see neither Rebelde or Marti on 1180. Of course Marti is beaming at Cuba but I guess Rebelde is beaming right at me on Cape Cod since it annihilates

[IRCA] September 7 TP DX on new Wellbrook N/NW Flag part -1

--- Begin Message --- Quick demonstrations of how different the reception can be with a terminated loop pointing one direction versus the opposite direction are in the following audio clips. These are in stereo with one channel being from a Drake R8A connected (via transformer and coaxial

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] WYDE 1260 AL on day power with HSFB

---BeginMessage--- I ran a Perseus capture at 10 p.m. EDT and will do another at 11. Maybe this will show up over the 1260 usuals from NB, MA, DC, and FL. If it's there, I'll report back tomorrow. Mark Connelly, WA1ION South Yarmouth, MA -Original Message- From: neilkaz

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] DKAZ Antenna

---BeginMessage--- The typical end-fed unterminated wire - call it longwire or shortwire but basically anything 50 to 300 ft. - has SLIGHT nulls / minima at a right angle to the wire and slightly more pick-up in the direction heading away from the feedline / receiver (maybe a dB or two). In

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] DKAZ Antenna

---BeginMessage--- One good sanity check would be to do up a quick and simple SuperLoop. Align it similarly to the DKAZ and put it far enough away so as not to interact. http://www.bamlog.com/superloop.htm http://www.bamlog.com/vartermloop.htm Since this would be mostly for pest-null

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] DKAZ Antenna

---BeginMessage--- DKAZ versus Waller Flag ( http://nx4d10.wix.com/waller-flag ) ... does one do much better than the other? This question is more about directivity than gain since it is assumed that low-noise amplification can be applied as needed to boost weaker signals above the

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Format change at KMZN-740

---BeginMessage--- WCAS 740 Cambridge, MA (now WJIB), 250 watts, was easy copy on the car radio at a similar groundwave range in Tusket, Nova Scotia: mostly over water of course. KBOE 740 brings back memories of when it was very quiet here and I first started using BOGs a year or two after

Re: [IRCA] new returning member

---BeginMessage--- Good to see you back Chris. I'm thinking that resumption of some degree of DXpeditioning, as you had done at shore sites here around MA, would be the cornerstone of your DXing out that way, seeing that options for home-based DXing are limited. There are probably five times

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] THREE NAIVE QUESTIONS

---BeginMessage--- (1) Perseus is an excellent receiver in the traditional metrics: Sensitivity, Selectivity, Stability, and Strong-Signal Handling. Bandpass and notch filters are superior to traditional crystal, mechanical, and L-C types. The synchronous AM mode is superior to that in the

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] BBC on AM 1160 in Bermuda

---BeginMessage--- I haven't heard it for a while here. It was a fairly common catch when I could bring up a good enough null on whatever domestic was topping 1160 (usually WOBM, sometimes WSKW or WVNJ). During the March aurora I had Caribbean Radio Lighthouse (Antigua) and something in

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