[IRCA] Fwd: [irca] Cape Cod, MA, USA - logs (mid-FEB to mid-MAR)

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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 Not sure if everyone has migrated to the 'groups.io' IRCA platform, so I'll 
send here too. As usual the accented letters will get changed to question marks 
and so on. Those who want to see what I really sent should go the 'groups.io' 
route.
 
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Sent: Wed, Mar 20, 2019 1:13 am
Subject: [irca] Cape Cod, MA, USA - logs (mid-FEB to mid-MAR)

Report from Mark Connelly, WA1ION
Times / dates = UTC / 2019
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)

NOTE:
{A} in entry indicates that audio can be accessed from link on the following 
page:
http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/doc1/audio_2019.htm

Receiver: Elad FDM-S2
See http://shop.elad-usa.com/sdr-radio/fdm-s2/

Antenna: Cardioid pattern SuperLoop: 9m vertical by 20m horizontal (peak 84 
deg., null 264 deg.)
See http://www.bamlog.com/superloop.htm for similar antenna type.

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*** TRANSATLANTIC DX ***

531 | ALGERIA | Jil FM, F'kirina Wilaya d'Oum El Bouaghi, MAR 6 2300 - Soul 
vocal (// 549) with "my baby" in lyrics, Jil FM ID; to fair peak over something 
else, probably Spain. [Connelly*Y-MA]

549 | ALGERIA | Jil FM, Les Trembles, FEB 24 0600 - Arabic talk, Jil mentions, 
2+2+1 pips about 20 sec. late; fair. + MAR 6 2301 - Female soul vocal; to good 
peak. [Connelly*Y-MA]

567 | SPAIN | RNE5 synchros, MAR 6 2300 - RNE intro, news by woman; through 570 
CFCB slop. [Connelly*Y-MA]

603 | SPAIN | RNE5 synchros, MAR 6 2300 - RNE intro; poor. Romania under. 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

612 | MOROCCO | SNRT Al-Idaa al-Watania, Sebaa-Aioun, FEB 16 0401 - Arabic 
vocal & strings. + MAR 6 2301 - Arabic talk by man, string music; fair. 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

621 | CANARY ISLANDS // SPAIN | RNE1 synchros, MAR 17 2300 - Pop vocal, 5+1 
pips, time check by woman, fanfare music, man "Radio Nacional de España, 
servicios informativos", news by woman; good, best TA at time. {A} 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

639 | SPAIN | RNE1, La Coruna et al., MAR 6 2300 - RNE intro; poor, on LSB to 
dodge CBN. [Connelly*Y-MA]

684 | SPAIN | RNE1, Sevilla, FEB 24 0500 - 5+1 pips, time check by man, fanfare 
music, Radio Nacional de España ID; fair over WRKO splash. {A} + MAR 6 2301 - 
RNE news by woman in Spanish; through 680 WRKO slop. [Connelly*Y-MA]

693 | UNITED KINGDOM | BBC Radio 5, Droitwich et al., FEB 15 2300 - Five Live 
talk; echoey, noisy. + MAR 6 2300 - ID "This is BBC Five Live"; poor 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

720 | CANARY ISLANDS | RNE5, Finca Espana, FEB 7 2300 - RNE news intro; poor. + 
MAR 17 2300 - News intro // much louder 621. [Connelly*Y-MA]

747 | CANARY ISLANDS // SPAIN | RNE5 synchros, FEB 15 2300 - RNE news intro; 
poor. [Connelly*Y-MA]

774 | SPAIN | RNE1 synchros, FEB 17 2300 - Song with whistling, RNE news; het 
Egypt 774.235. [Connelly*Y-MA]

783 | SYRIA | SRTV 1, Damascus, MAR 6 2300 - Arabic news; to fair peak. + MAR 
11 0301 - Interspersed Arabic talk and music. [Connelly*Y-MA]

810 | SCOTLAND | BBC R. Scotland, FEB 13 2300 - BBC Radio Scotland ID, 
attention music, news; mixed with WGY. [Connelly*Y-MA]

837 | SPAIN | COPE synchros, MAR 6 2300 - Two men with fast news in Spanish; 
fair. [Connelly*Y-MA]

855 | ROMANIA | R. România Actualitati, Tancabesti, MAR 6 2300 - Man "Aici 
Bucuresti, Radio Romania Actualitati, hora exacta", pips; over RNE Spain. {A} 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

855 | SPAIN | RNE1, Murcia et al., FEB 15 2300 - 5+1 pips, RNE intro; fair. + 
MAR 5 2300 - 1950s bebop style jazz, man in Spanish, pips, RNE news intro; good 
peak. + MAR 9 2200 - RNE intro; dominant. + MAR 12 2300 - Xylophone jazz, 5+1 
pips, time check by woman, fanfare music, man "Radio Nacional de España, 
servicios informativos", news by woman started with "buenas noches"; good. {A} 
+ MAR 17 2300 - News // 621; good. [Connelly*Y-MA]

864 | EGYPT | Holy Koran Program, Santah, MAR 12 2301 - Koranic vocal, 
reverberated talk by man; fair. {A} + MAR 17 2300 - Koran; fair. [Connelly*Y-MA]

909 | UNITED KINGDOM | BBC Radio 5 synchros, MAR 5 2300 - Man "Live Premier 
League football, BBC Five Live"; to good peak over tough 910 WTOS ME slop. + 
MAR 6 2300 - BBC Five Live ID, news; tough slop from AC/DC song on WTOS. + MAR 
12 2300 - Dramatic intro music, man "Live Premier League football, this is BBC 
Five Live"; fair. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

936 | MOROCCO | SNRT, Agadir, MAR 12 2300 - Flute music, fanfare, man in 
Arabic; fair. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

954 | SPAIN | Onda Cero, Madrid, FEB 24 0500 - Tropical vocal, 5+1 pips, talk 
by woman, fanfare music, man "Noticias Onda Cero", woman "buenas dias" into 
news; fair. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

981 | ALGERIA | Chaîne 2, Ouled Fayet, MAR 12 2300 - 5+1 pips (last higher 
pitch), news by man in apparent Arabic; fair. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

999 | SPAIN | COPE, Madrid, MAR 12 2300 - Man 

[IRCA] 1530 VOA Sao Tome blasting in

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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1530 VOA Sao Tome blowing the doors off WCKY here at 11 p.m. EDT (16 MAR) / 
0300 UTC (17 MAR).
https://app.box.com/s/06e6mq5c3k4og3kka46fkn3ezrypeoyb

Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA, USA
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Re: [IRCA] Live DX spotter / chat system *show of hands*

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<<
The chat channel over at DXER.ca/blab is hopping tonight.

Colin Newell - Victoria - B.C. CANADA -
>>

I will be interested to see how this all plays out. I'll be reading the reviews.

Not that I have much of a "horse in the race" as 95% of my DXing is 
after-the-fact, sometimes a few hours after and sometimes a few weeks after. 
This is somewhat out of necessity as peak DX time (local sunset typically 
around here) lands right in the middle of family dinner, something that can 
stretch over two hours from the start of prep to the clean-up of the last dish 
or utensil. Fortunately, by allowing time-shifting of listening, SDR file 
capture has taken away some of the "recluse during good DX time" problems many 
of us had pre-2005 or so. One can do normal things with family and friends at 
normal times. DXing can be done at some otherwise-useless time such as the 
middle of the day waiting for work being done on the car.

Still there will be a few times when I'll be DXing live. Sometimes this will be 
on my home gear, sometimes on a remote SDR, and sometimes in the car at a beach 
(where, presumably, I could hook to the chat site via cellphone web browser).

One thing I can do is publicize this chat channel on some other lists. That may 
generate more users covering more geographic areas.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
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[IRCA] 1240 WBAS MA back on air

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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1240 WBAS W. Yarmouth, MA has returned to the air as of 8 MAR following nearly 
a month of silence. Portuguese language format.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION 
South Yarmouth, MA 
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Re: [IRCA] 1090 UNID

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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WTIC 1080 night pattern doesn't look particularly restrictive southwest towards 
Dallas.

https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WTIC=AM=N

I had no problem getting it in Fort Mill, SC (south of Charlotte, NC) on a 
family trip about 6 years ago.

Certainly they're putting enough juice northwest towards Jim Renfrew's QTH 
(upstate NY) to be pesty there.

IBOC is mostly spread 11-16 kHz from the carrier on each side.

A station on 1090 is going to take most of its WTIC IBOC on the upper side, 
e.g. 1091-1096. Of course here in the east TA's get into the act so the lower 
side of 1090 gets hit solidly by 1089 (TalkSport UK, one of the stronger ones 
coming across the "pond").

Typically if I hear anything besides WBAL on 1090 after local WILD goes off, 
it's either Colombia or Venezuela. I suspect that's what would have been there 
if I had been listening during the WBAL outage - at least if the combo of 1089 
UK and WTIC IBOC didn't render the channel something like a mosh-pit.

In the case of 1070 (going down the dial from WTIC), the WTIC IBOC hash hits 
mostly on the low side (1064-1069). Unlike 1090's WBAL, there is no dominant 
big-signal 1070 station here into MA. Some of the action consists of two 
Colombians, a Cuban, WNCT-NC, WPLB-NY, CHOK-ON, and WMIA-PR. Nothing big 
though. As WTIC IBOC hits 1070's lower side, the 1070 upper sideband gets hit 
(slightly) by 1071 which contains several Middle East stations with Iran 
typically leading the pack.

So 1070 and 1090 are both "mucked with" by IBOC one side and a 1 kHz displaced 
TA on the other.

To cloud up the matter further, KYW 1060's IBOC can hit 1070 on the upper side 
as WTIC IBOC ruins the LSB. Simply put, 1070 is not an easy frequency around 
here. The only time it gets interesting is during heavy aurora with domestic 
and TA interference reduced and the tropics enhanced.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA

<<
They stopped doing that sometime in the early 1990s, I think.  I have a logging 
of WTIC from Iowa City on 11/25/1990, and it's a late-afternoon one from just 
before Dallas sunset time.

73,
Rick Dau
South Omaha EN21af

From: IRCA  on behalf of Todd S 

Sent: Thursday, March 7, 2019 5:47:37 AM
To: IRCA Mailing list for the Inte
Subject: Re: [IRCA] 1090 UNID

I forget, when did WTIC stop switching to night pattern at Dallas sunset?

Todd Skaine
ICOM 7300 wth a Superloop
2 Modified 2010s barefoot
Toyota car radio

On Thu, Mar 7, 2019, 12:13 AM Mark Connelly via IRCA 
wrote:

>
>
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Mark Connelly 
> To: irca@hard-core-dx.com
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 06:12:54 + (UTC)
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] 1090 UNID
> Most likely the "pile of noise" on the high side of 1090 is IBOC from WTIC
> 1080.
>
> Mark Connelly, WA1ION
> South Yarmouth, MA
>
> <<
> Yes, sounded like "SB Nation", so that's gotta be it.  A relog.  Thanks,
> gents.  I was trying to parallel Seattle and Tijuana to no avail.  A huge
> pile of noise on 1090, such that 1090 was better in LSB than USB, though
> that left an ear piercing het from 1089.  Talk Sport 1089 was better than
> the signal on 1090.  WBAL returned before 0300 EST.  Jim Renfrew
>
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019, 10:30 Neil Kazaross  wrote:
>
> > Yes I'd expect WCAR which comes in here in IL sometimes.  73 KAZ
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 9:18 AM Forrester S 
> wrote:
> >
> > > Doing a Google search reveals WCAR with SBN ex Yahoo sports. I be
> willing
> > > to bet this is it.
> > >
> > > Todd Skaine
> > > ICOM 7300 wth a Superloop
> > > 2 Modified 2010s barefoot
> > > Toyota car radio
> > >
> > > On Wed, Mar 6, 2019, 12:10 AM James Renfrew 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > 0105 EST
> > > > 1090
> > > >
> > > > Something that sounds like a sports station, ID sounds something like
> > > "???
> > > > Nation Radio", and around 0055 "Gold Standard Radio".  Any ideas?
> > There
> > > > are not many domestics at night on 1090.
> > > >
> > > > Jim Renfrew, Clarendon NY
>
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Re: [IRCA] 1090 UNID

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Most likely the "pile of noise" on the high side of 1090 is IBOC from WTIC 1080.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA

<<
Yes, sounded like "SB Nation", so that's gotta be it.  A relog.  Thanks,
gents.  I was trying to parallel Seattle and Tijuana to no avail.  A huge
pile of noise on 1090, such that 1090 was better in LSB than USB, though
that left an ear piercing het from 1089.  Talk Sport 1089 was better than
the signal on 1090.  WBAL returned before 0300 EST.  Jim Renfrew

On Wed, Mar 6, 2019, 10:30 Neil Kazaross  wrote:

> Yes I'd expect WCAR which comes in here in IL sometimes.  73 KAZ
>
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 9:18 AM Forrester S  wrote:
>
> > Doing a Google search reveals WCAR with SBN ex Yahoo sports. I be willing
> > to bet this is it.
> >
> > Todd Skaine
> > ICOM 7300 wth a Superloop
> > 2 Modified 2010s barefoot
> > Toyota car radio
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 6, 2019, 12:10 AM James Renfrew 
> wrote:
> >
> > > 0105 EST
> > > 1090
> > >
> > > Something that sounds like a sports station, ID sounds something like
> > "???
> > > Nation Radio", and around 0055 "Gold Standard Radio".  Any ideas?
> There
> > > are not many domestics at night on 1090.
> > >
> > > Jim Renfrew, Clarendon NY
>> 
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Re: [IRCA] East Coast online SDR's (most get an "F")

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True Rick. Control of local electrical noise is one of the biggest problems for 
these sites. Antennas with poor RDF (directivity) is another. Woefully 
inadequate gain at MW is a third problem. To an extent a coastal site can 
mitigate the problems but a truly bad setup is a truly bad setup even if on a 
beach or a mountain top.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION 
South Yarmouth, MA 
On Wednesday, February 27, 2019 Rick Dau  wrote:
#yiv3236222704 P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}I checked out a few Southern 
KiwiSDRs last night, namely, from Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky.  For 
me, the litmus test is how well they sound on longwave, i.e., if the amount of 
buzz is impeding non-directional beacons from being heard or not.  I figure 
that if they are relatively clean on longwave, then mediumwave, of course, will 
be worth trying.  IMHO, only the SDRs from Lubbock, Texas and Fort Rucker, 
Alabama, passed muster in that regard.  By the way, I noticed, while looking at 
the map on sdr.hu, that Bob Hawkins has turned off the SDR in Edinburgh, 
Indiana.  Hope this isn't permanent, as I always found it to be one of the 
better-sounding SDRs out there. 73,Rick Dau (nightly visitor to the KiwiSDR in 
Overland Park, Kansas - metro Kansas City)South Omaha, Nebraska  EN21af 
From: a...@yahoogroups.com  on behalf of Mark Connelly 
markwa1...@aol.com [ABDX] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 12:57 AM
To: cap...@yahoogroups.com; b...@yahoogroups.com; nrc...@googlegroups.com; 
irca@hard-core-dx.com; a...@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ABDX] East Coast online SDR's (most get an "F")  

Periodically I check out the KiwiSDR directory page since new receivers come on 
from time to time (and old ones are occasionally dropped).
For the uninitiated, the links homepage is:
https://sdr.hu/
Two TA stations are very consistent here mid-evenings and are therefore good 
candidates for evaluating the receivers. These are RNE Spain on 855 and 
Absolute Radio UK on 1215. Since those are midway between domestic channels, 
the AM Narrow setting on a KiwiSDR should be adequate to separate those 
stations from domestic interference. Those receivers are far from a Perseus, 
Elad, or Excalibur (or, for that matter, Collins R-390A) in the selectivity 
game but those two big stations even can be heard on ultralight portables, at 
least near the ocean.
Last weekend I simultaneously had audio from my own receiver running as I tried 
about 15 online receivers in the Eastern time zone of the US and Canada.
The 855 and 1215 signals were both doing great here around midnight EST / 0500 
UTC.
Only TWO (!) of the available online receivers had audio from these stations.
Bill Whitacre's Lubec, Maine receiver was doing the best job and had results 
about the same as I was getting on my Elad here.
http://qhkiwisdr.proxy.kiwisdr.com:8073/

The mid-coast Maine receiver run by WA2ZKD/1 came in second with somewhat 
weaker TA's than on either Bill's receiver or mine. Domestic splash was worse, 
indicating a less directive antenna.
http://rx2.wa2zkd.net:8073
Interestingly there was very little internet delay (live versus online) audio. 
The old (2005 era?) DXTuners used to run about 8 sec. of latency.

So what about the dozen plus other receivers including ON, QC, New England, NY, 
NJ, MD, and all the way down to FL? ZIP .. ZILCH .. NADA! Just huge adjacent 
channel slop onto 855 and 1215 or, if not that, the sounds of silence .. or 
electrical buzz.
The Dominican Republic SDR also had zippo on 855 and 
1215.http://dr.twrmon.net:8073

So if you're looking for interesting MW DX on an eastern US or Canada SDR, 
don't waste your time, just go to one of the two receivers above.
I believe that the deficiency in most cases is the antenna. If Kaz in IL and 
Tim Tromp in MI, not to mention DXers all the way out to BC/WA/OR, frequently 
hear 855 Spain and 1215 UK, then there is no excuse for a  receiver in NH, MA, 
NJ, MD, VA, etc. not to have those stations "inbooming".

The only other US East CoastKiwiSDR's I see having much use are two in Florida, 
mostly to keep an ear on Cubans and other close-up Latins:
http://keywest.twrmon.net:8073http://qth.ddns.net:8073

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[IRCA] East Coast online SDR's (most get an "F")

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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Periodically I check out the KiwiSDR directory page since new receivers come on 
from time to time (and old ones are occasionally dropped).
For the uninitiated, the links homepage is:
https://sdr.hu/
Two TA stations are very consistent here mid-evenings and are therefore good 
candidates for evaluating the receivers. These are RNE Spain on 855 and 
Absolute Radio UK on 1215. Since those are midway between domestic channels, 
the AM Narrow setting on a KiwiSDR should be adequate to separate those 
stations from domestic interference. Those receivers are far from a Perseus, 
Elad, or Excalibur (or, for that matter, Collins R-390A) in the selectivity 
game but those two big stations even can be heard on ultralight portables, at 
least near the ocean.
Last weekend I simultaneously had audio from my own receiver running as I tried 
about 15 online receivers in the Eastern time zone of the US and Canada.
The 855 and 1215 signals were both doing great here around midnight EST / 0500 
UTC.
Only TWO (!) of the available online receivers had audio from these stations.
Bill Whitacre's Lubec, Maine receiver was doing the best job and had results 
about the same as I was getting on my Elad here.
http://qhkiwisdr.proxy.kiwisdr.com:8073/

The mid-coast Maine receiver run by WA2ZKD/1 came in second with somewhat 
weaker TA's than on either Bill's receiver or mine. Domestic splash was worse, 
indicating a less directive antenna.
http://rx2.wa2zkd.net:8073
Interestingly there was very little internet delay (live versus online) audio. 
The old (2005 era?) DXTuners used to run about 8 sec. of latency.

So what about the dozen plus other receivers including ON, QC, New England, NY, 
NJ, MD, and all the way down to FL? ZIP .. ZILCH .. NADA! Just huge adjacent 
channel slop onto 855 and 1215 or, if not that, the sounds of silence .. or 
electrical buzz.
The Dominican Republic SDR also had zippo on 855 and 
1215.http://dr.twrmon.net:8073

So if you're looking for interesting MW DX on an eastern US or Canada SDR, 
don't waste your time, just go to one of the two receivers above.
I believe that the deficiency in most cases is the antenna. If Kaz in IL and 
Tim Tromp in MI, not to mention DXers all the way out to BC/WA/OR, frequently 
hear 855 Spain and 1215 UK, then there is no excuse for a  receiver in NH, MA, 
NJ, MD, VA, etc. not to have those stations "inbooming".

The only other US East Coast KiwiSDR's I see having much use are two in 
Florida, mostly to keep an ear on Cubans and other close-up Latins:
http://keywest.twrmon.net:8073http://qth.ddns.net:8073

Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA
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[IRCA] Newfoundland

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OK Jim. It's up to you and the other NL DXpeditioners whether or not you want 
me to post any partial results online before the traditional fluffed-and-buffed 
final logs, photo's etc. report goes up on dxing.info or wherever.

I'd think that even partial information online is good since waiting for the 
real report might get into the realm of it being a history lesson instead of 
actionable information. Especially in light of how stations are dropping like 
flies in Europe and some other places.

In the meantime, for DXers near the Atlantic shores, we already do have the 
excellent work of the 2018 PEI, Maine, and New Jersey DXpeditions as well as a 
lot of good short drive mini-DXpedition / at-home solo efforts in eastern 
Canada and NE USA.

I will attempt to have a single web page pointing to all these efforts to make 
research a bit faster.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA

<<
OK by me.  My work on files is concentrated on NOV 13, 2018 and I have over
600 entries in my logbook.  It's fairly incredible stuff.  I think Chuck
Hutton is the keeper of the master file, not sure if he has anything
ready.  Our stuff is usually posted  on DXing.Info, but a quick check shows
nothing posted there since 2015.  Perseus files are a lnnnggg slog, and
this year we were working four antenna, so more files than usual.  If you
like, I can send my stuff to you direct, it's not on any web site.

Jim Renfrew
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[IRCA] Newfoundland

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Jim, you mentioned recordings from Newfoundland DXpeditions.

Is there a go-to page for the NL DXpedition which occurred in autumn 2018?

I would like to include the link on a page I'm putting together about 2018 
DXpeditions, at least those in the Atlantic basin (eastern US & Canada, 
Caribbean, South America, Africa, Europe).

I already have link information for the PEI and NJ DXpeditions as well as 
Facebook-based links for a lot of good material by Allen Willie in NL, Sylvain 
Naud in QC, and others.

There are also reports from Roy Barstow here on Cape Cod which I'll pack into a 
zip file along with some others' reports including my own.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA

<<
Paul, I do record from time to time, but this time I didn't.  I basically
was sitting on 1430 for about three hours while working on other things
(what some of us refer to as "work"!).  As for recordings, I've got a
lifetime of Perseus files from Newfoundland still to review.  I'll probably
do the same distracted listening tonight. Jim Renfrew
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Re: [IRCA] [CapeDX] WION-1430-MI DX TEST heard on Cape Cod

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Good catch Marc. I did captures at midnight and 1 a.m. local but haven't 
reviewed yet. Live listening was done just before and after the midnight 
capture but the consistent activity on the channel was WNSW NJ with "Relevant 
Radio" programming and occasional intrusions of Latin American music surely 
from WKOX MA. WENE and CHKT are pretty well suppressed by the antenna set-up 
and I suspect WION would be too. It takes a fair amount of power to get 
anything in here on the 260-290 degree swath of bearings.

If I find anything in the  and 0100 EST / 0500 and 0600 UTC capture files 
I'll let everyone know. Unfortunately I wasn't on 1430 at the time Marc noted 
the test tones.
 
 Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA
 
-Original Message-
From: Marc DeLorenzo midcapem...@aol.com [CapeDX] 
To: irca ; nrc-am ; capedx 

Sent: Sun, Feb 24, 2019 11:55 am
Subject: [CapeDX] WION-1430-MI DX TEST heard on Cape Cod

    Recorded 1430 kHz from 2345 EST Saturday until 0115 EST Sunday.  Dominant 
station before  was CHKT Toronto with Asian programming. After midnight 
WENE Endicott, NY dominant with Fox Sports Radio and slogan, "Fox Sports Radio 
1430, Binghamton."  Someone with light instrumental music also noted - either 
CHKT or WNSW-NJ.  WION heard with 1 kHz test tones off and on 0035 - 0052 EST 
occasionally topping WENE.  Thanks to Todd Skaine for this last minute 
surprise. Marc DeLorenzoSouth Dennis, Cape Cod, MAJRC NRD-525 & Delta in the 
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[IRCA] 1240 WBAS MA off

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

--- Begin Message ---
 The local station here, 1240 WBAS W. Yarmouth MA, has been off air since 18 
FEB or earlier. Still off as of 21 FEB. A few messages on a local reflector 
about what else has shown up on 1240 are reproduced below.
 
 Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA
-Original Message-
From: Mark Connelly 
To: CapeDX 
Sent: Thu, Feb 21, 2019 2:20 pm
Subject: Re: [CapeDX] 1240 WBAS off

WOON-RI slightly atop probable WEZR-ME mid-day and a layer of background stuff 
likely including WSYY-ME, WGBB-NY, WFTN-NH.
WHMP-MA showed up on the car radio about an hour pre-sunset yesterday. Other 
New England, NY, and NJ stations should be fairly easy pickings at night.
Mark Connelly, WA1ION 
South Yarmouth, MA
On Thursday, February 21, 2019 Mark Connelly MarkWA1ION 
 wrote:
    1240 Cape DXer feeding frenzy should continue as WBAS is still off..
I am running lengthy audio grabs to figure out what pops up.
Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA
 
 
-Original Message-
From: Stephen C Wood hauu...@comcast.net [CapeDX] 
To: Bruce Conti cont...@gmail.com [CapeDX] 
Sent: Tue, Feb 19, 2019 7:41 pm
Subject: Re: [CapeDX] 1240 WBAS off

    tentative log of WFTN, Franklin, NH w/ “Oldies 9?.9 “ ID. In the car coming 
back from Falmouth this afternoon, 1545 est. Mostly a jumble of noise but this 
popped up.
Stephen C WoodE.Dennis,Ma.Perseus SDR30 x 15 terminatedsuperloop 
antennahauu...@comcast.net


On Feb 19, 2019, at 6:00 PM, Marc DeLorenzo midcapem...@aol.com [CapeDX] 
 wrote:

Thanks Mark.  Noted OFF at 1600 EST Tuesday Feb 20.  So I guess they are off 
24/7, at least for now.
Marc D.So Dennis

-Original Message-
From: Mark Connelly markwa1...@aol.com [CapeDX] 
To: CapeDX 
Sent: Tue, Feb 19, 2019 12:02 am
Subject: [CapeDX] 1240 WBAS off

 1240 WBAS has been off air the last two nights at least.

WEZR from Maine seems to pop atop the jumble a bit more than others but the 
channel is often just a tangle.
Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA
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Re: [IRCA] WBBM 780 off the air

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

--- Begin Message ---
<<
Radio Coro with ID @ 0250 and Radio Viva @ 0255.  Thanks for the tip.  Two new 
ones here.

Rick S., Rodanthe NC OBX FM25go
>>

Those would be two that make it in here fairly often too. WBBM not a big factor 
on this end even when on.

R. Coro
https://app.box.com/s/xd2arnjjb1wlxomgbd2abvva4k5brf9o

R. Viva
https://app.box.com/s/ftohn8t8rt1cfnny2z00a0bojaiw6p48

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
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[IRCA] loop on ground

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

--- Begin Message ---
Loop on ground: probably not much for use as your main antenna but something 
you could phase against DKAZ, SuperLoop, Flag, Kaz Delta etc. for knocking down 
specific pests or noise.

http://www.kk5jy.net/LoG/

https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads%2Floop-on-ground-antenna.622669%2F

For most DXers it's easy enough to install temporarily for testing and it's 
easy to remove if it proves not useful.
Mark Connelly, WA1ION
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Re: [IRCA] John Bryant R.I.P

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

--- Begin Message ---
Good points Nick.

John's wide-eyed excitement over unwrapping and firing up a new piece of 
equipment was as close to that of a kid on Christmas morning as I've ever come 
across in the adult world.

But then the James Bond level sophistication kicked in. Comparisons might be 
made to the visual and visceral appeal of classic Corvettes, art deco 
buildings, or Raymond Loewy industrial designs. A generous sized tuning knob 
with smooth "ballistics" would be spoken of in an almost sensual way.

After the initial physical attributes of a product were evaluated and the 
allusions to wines / women / songs / sports cars were dispensed, then it was 
time to get down in the trenches and DX with the thing. Over the years John had 
probably touched most of the best offerings of Collins, Hammarlund, Drake, 
Icom, JRC, and AOR. He knew his location and antennas and could quickly come up 
with "tough DX" scenarios to shake out the latest piece of equipment on the 
bench.

Some of the usual signal-to-noise / signal-to-interference spreadsheet tables 
had to go in, for the facts-and-figures crowd, but there was also the actual 
reportage of real DX heard. If enjoyable music or informative news formed 
program content, that would get a mention. This made the reports more 
interesting than some of the dry stuff that shows up in QST and elsewhere.

You didn't doze off reading John's articles.

When tropical band DX from places such as Indonesia and Peru was more a "thing" 
than it is now, John got in the swim and described the alluring and exotic 
programming in terms that made anyone else want to jump in too. You read the 
old Proceedings books and wish that today's SDR gear and 1980s band occupancy 
were two trains that passed each other somewhere on the grand timeline of life 
.. but of course they didn't.

As shortwave was starting to fizzle down to its present pathetic state, John 
took the cue and jumped into medium wave whole hog.

For many of us, his Easter Island DXpedition piece stands out as one of his 
greatest achievements.
http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/easter_island_2007.dx

DXpedition reportage that has come along since has been affected by John's 
reports. That means, beyond the loggings, inclusion of photos and human 
interest stories about the group getting together over coffee or food and 
chatting about families, jobs, and other things beyond DX. It doesn't matter 
whether the DXpedition was in Finland or Oregon or Hawaii or Newfoundland or 
PEI or NJ or the Utah desert. Modern DXpedition reports are almost always 
interesting reading giving a real sense of the participants as 
multi-dimensional people. To a good degree we can thank John for that.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA
 
<<
If John had an idea, or had tried something new from the commercial
world, he would always let everyone know in what seemed to be easily
flowing prose (something that I wish I could have learned from him,
but perhaps it was harder to produce than it looked).  The effects
of his writing still resonate today.

John wasn't just a spark plug either.  In a world of increasingly
older hobbyists, ideas will often elicit a polite "that's nice"
shortly before another nap.  John's  reaction was not just
enthusiastic, but encouraging, coming up with more ideas to make the
original one better yet.

And then, as Mark Connelly just mentioned, his knowledge of other
realms...there are still good memories of waiting for the dawn DX to
roll in (or sometimes not) on DXpeditions, and the wide ranging
discussions we had.  No time for naps there!

best wishes,

Nick>>
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Re: [IRCA] John Bryant R.I.P

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

--- Begin Message ---
A John Bryant article on any subject was always a great read.

Not only was the level of knowledge and research always first rate but his 
style was always enthusiastic and down to earth as well, even when the subject 
was a complex one.

Unlike some other hobby writing I've run across, there was no air of 
superiority or sense that most other DXers were "peons" or "plebeians" who 
could not possibly comprehend the esoteric concepts of electromagnetic 
communications phenomena.

Rather John got right to business with a clever, easy-going, and sometimes 
humorous style that got the ideas across to beginners and experts alike. There 
was no belittling of others' efforts (as we've seen elsewhere) even when some 
of those others were clearly barking up the wrong tree.

His articles in the Fine Tuning Proceedings books were legendary. His knowledge 
in other realms (architecture, art, cars / industrial design, workshop tools / 
practices, world cultures, languages, books, music, food, etc.) informed his 
writings about exotic DX and high-tech receivers. This cross-pollination of 
knowledge bases was vastly enriching, the stuff of top shelf novelists.

John is missed for sure. At least we can take some solace in that he inspired 
Gary and numerous others to carry on with similar dedication, expertise, and 
helping-hands mentoring that avoids pomposity and 'snark'. This is true whether 
today's DX keepers of the flame use ultralights, SDRs, or traditional desktop 
radios with knobs.

Fortunately some of John's writing is still online. 

This one about the Kaz antenna is quite useful:
http://www.dxing.info/equipment/kaz_bryant.dx

To the best of my knowledge, he never got to test-drive Neil's next 
development, the DKAZ. If he had, it would have been a great article.

R.I.P. John

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA

<<
The 9th of February is the 9th anniversary of John's untimely death,
following a fall from a ladder at his home in Stillwater, OK. I still
think of John often. He was a good friend, mentor, teacher, and first rate
DXer. Rest in Peace, John. Please take a moment for some thoughts for
this amazing gentleman.   Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC.
---
Thanks Walt,
John was a co-Founder of our Ultralight Radio group, and we lost a major part 
of our leadership with his untimely accident.
We still miss him greatly, especially as an ocean coast DXer willing to push 
his luck with Ultralight radios. He did set in motion a very creative trend, 
though, with experimental breakthroughs in FSL antennas, ocean cliff 
propagation discoveries and "Frequent Flyer" travel DXing. John probably would 
have been an eager participant in all these activities.
Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA)
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[IRCA] a few domestic logs with audio - Cape Cod, MA - JAN & early FEB 2019

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

--- Begin Message ---
Report from Mark Connelly, WA1ION 
(MC-MA)

Logs are in domestic DX column format with date in month/day numerical format 
and times in EST which is UTC minus 5 hours.

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)

Audio for logs can be accessed from links on the following page:
http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/doc1/audio_2019.htm

Receiver: Elad FDM-S2
See http://shop.elad-usa.com/sdr-radio/fdm-s2/

Antenna: Cardioid pattern SuperLoop: 9m vertical by 20m horizontal (peak 84 
deg., null 264 deg.)
See http://www.bamlog.com/superloop.htm for similar antenna type.

==

*** DOMESTIC LOGS ***

570 CFCB NL Corner Brook - 1/7 1700 - // 590 with "I Saw Her Standing There" by 
the Beatles, VOCM app promo, "Take It Easy" by the Eagles; dominant. First 38 
seconds of audio clip is 570, remainder is 590. (MC-MA)

590 CJCW NB Sussex - 1/4 1600 - ID "590 CJCW, an MBS radio station"; through 
unmodulated WEZE carrier. (MC-MA)

590 VOCM NL St. John's - 1/7 1700 - "Take It Easy" by the Eagles // 570; under 
WEZE. First 38 seconds of audio clip is 570, remainder is 590. (MC-MA)

600 WFST ME Caribou - 1/4 1600 - Family Radio WFST Caribou ID; good. (MC-MA)

650 CKGA NL Gander - 1/6 1700 - Pat Byrne "The Government Game" (based on Irish 
song "The Patriot Game") on resettlement episode of Great Newfoundland 
Songbook, promo for 650 VOCM school information report sponsored by Honda 
dealer in Gander, Notre Dame Castle builders' store advert; good. (MC-MA)

1140 CBI NS Sydney - 1/4 1600 - Weather, woman "You're listening to Main 
Street, CBC Radio 1, 1140 AM and 92.1 FM"; very good. (MC-MA)

1270 CJCB NS Sydney - 1/7 1600 - Cape Breton weather, CJCB jingle ID, country 
music; loud, over WTSN. (MC-MA)

1290 WKBK NH Keene - 1/6 1700 - WKBK ID, CBS news; good, over weak 1290.3 
Brazil het. (MC-MA)

1370 WDEA ME Ellsworth - 1/6 1700 - ID "This is AM 1370 WDEA Ellsworth, a Town 
Square Media station, streaming live at wdea.am"; way over presumed WFEA. 
(MC-MA)

1390 WEGP ME Presque Isle - 1/4 1600 - Relevant Radio local affiliates list 
including WEGP Presque Isle; good. (MC-MA)

1420 WRSA VT St. Albans - 1/6 1600 - Mention of Plattsburgh (NY) affiliate then 
ID for WRSA 1420 AM St. Albans; over jumble. (MC-MA)

1520 WTRI MD Brunswick - 2/3 2300 - ID "1520 AM WTRI" sneaked through during 
dead air on WWKB. (MC-MA)

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[IRCA] Cape Cod, MA, USA - logs (JAN & early FEB)

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

--- Begin Message ---
Report from Mark Connelly, WA1ION
Times / dates = UTC / 2019
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)

NOTE:
{A} in entry indicates that audio can be accessed from link on the following 
page:
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Receiver: Elad FDM-S2
See http://shop.elad-usa.com/sdr-radio/fdm-s2/

Antenna: Cardioid pattern SuperLoop: 9m vertical by 20m horizontal (peak 84 
deg., null 264 deg.)
See http://www.bamlog.com/superloop.htm for similar antenna type.

==

*** TRANSATLANTIC DX ***

171 | MOROCCO | R. Mediterranee Internationale, Nador, JAN 4 2200 - French talk 
including Medi Un ID, attention music, news about Congo; good, over static 
crashes. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

531 | ALGERIA | Jil FM, F'kirina Wilaya d'Oum El Bouaghi, JAN 4 2100 - "Cherish 
the Love" by Kool & the Gang, talk by man, Jil FM ID by woman; fair. {A} 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

549 | ALGERIA | Jil FM, Les Trembles, JAN 17 2200 - Michael Jackson "Man in the 
Mirror"; good peak. + FEB 4 0259 - Dance club music, Jil FM ID in Arabic talk 
by man; fair. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

549 | UKRAINE | UR 1 Persha Prog., Mykolaiv/Luch, JAN 5 2200 - 
Religious-sounding chorus, 6 pips, electronic music; atop Algeria. {A} 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

585 | TUNISIA (t) | RTT Radio Nationale, Gafsa, JAN 17 2200 - Arabic music; 
dominant over Spain; bad WEZE/VOCM slop. [Connelly*Y-MA]

603 | SPAIN | RNE5 synchros, FEB 4 0300 - 5+1 pips, fanfare music, ID "Radio 
Nacional de Espana, servicios informativos"; fair peak. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

612 | MOROCCO | SNRT Al-Idaa al-Watania, Sebaa-Aioun, FEB 4 2159 - Female 
Arabic vocal // 936; fair. First 14 sec. of audio clip is 612, remainder is 
936. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

639 | CZECHIA | CRo Dvojka, Praha/Liblice, JAN 4 2200 - Man with Slavic talk; 
over RNE Spain. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

657 | SPAIN | RNE5, Madrid, JAN 3 2200 - RNE news intro, woman in Spanish with 
news; to fair peak over something else. [Connelly*Y-MA]

693 | UNITED KINGDOM | BBC Radio 5, Droitwich et al., JAN 3 2200 - Woman with 
BBC Radio Five Live mention, news by man; synchro echo. Spain under. 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

702 | unID | ?, JAN 3 2200 - Chanting; poor. Algeria likely. [Connelly*Y-MA]

738 | SPAIN | RNE1, Barcelona, JAN 3 2201 - Fast Spanish talk, possibly sport 
related. More slop from 730 CKAC than 740 CHCM/CFZM. [Connelly*Y-MA]

747 | CANARIES // SPAIN | RNE5 synchros, JAN 3 2200 - End of "Dark Side of the 
Moon" (Pink Floyd), 5+1 pips, time check, fanfare music, "Radio Nacional de 
Espana, servicios informativos" ID at start of news; good. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

774 | SPAIN | RNE1 synchros, JAN 3 2201 - Excited Spanish talk (sports related) 
including Radio Nacional de Espana ID, mentions of teams including Manchester 
City; good, over growl from Egypt (~774.25). {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

810 | SCOTLAND | BBC R. Scotland, JAN 3 2200 - BBC Radio Scotland ID, 10 
o'clock time check, news about US government shutdown; to good peak, alone on 
channel. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

855 | SPAIN | RNE1, Murcia et al., JAN 4 2200 - Choral music, 5+1 pips, time, 
fanfare, Radio Nacional de Espana ID; loud. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

909 | UNITED KINGDOM | BBC Radio 5 synchros, JAN 3 2200 - Five Live Sport talk, 
BBC Radio Five Live ID, news including US government shutdown; good. {A} 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

936 | MOROCCO | SNRT, Agadir, FEB 4 2159 - Female Arabic vocal // 612; fair. 
First 14 sec. of audio clip is 612, remainder is 936. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

936 | SPAIN | RNE5 synchros, JAN 4 2200 - // 855 with music, pips, RNE news 
intro; dominant. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

999 | SPAIN | COPE, Madrid, JAN 4 2200 - 5+1 pips, COPE net ID at start of 
newscast; fair. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

1053 | UNITED KINGDOM | TalkSport synchros, JAN 4 2201 - "Match Day live on 
TalkSport" mention // 1089; popping through during brief fade of WEPN slop. 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

1089 | UNITED KINGDOM | TalkSport synchros, JAN 3 2200 - TalkSport drivetime 
show promo; to good peak but echoey. {A} + JAN 4 2201 - "Match Day Live on 
TalkSport" promo; good. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

1098 | SPAIN | RNE5 synchros, JAN 4 2200 - RNE intro; through presumed WHLI 
oldies slop. [Connelly*Y-MA]

1107 | SPAIN | RNE5 synchros, JAN 4 2100 - Female vocal, 5+1 pips, time, 
fanfare, Radio Nacional de Espana ID; good peak. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

1125 | SPAIN | RNE5 synchros, JAN 4 2200 - // 855 with choral music, 5+1 pips, 
time, fanfare, Radio Nacional de Espana ID; fair. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

1152 | ROMANIA | SRR R. România Actualitati,  Cluj-Napoca/Jucu, JAN 3 2200 - // 
1179 with rock guitar, ID "Aici Bucuresti, Radio Romania Actualitati, hora 
exacta", 6 pips, news; to good peak over RNE Spain which was audible in the 
background. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

1179 | ROMANIA | SRR R. România Actualitati, Galbeni // Bacau, JAN 3 2200 - // 
1152 with guitar, ID 

[IRCA] East Coast SDR's (the non-lemons)

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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Bill Whitacre's SDR in Lubec, Maine is the best East Coast SDR (so far).
 
http://qhkiwisdr.proxy.kiwisdr.com:8073/
 
Most of the time if I can hear it (TA DX) here, I can get it on his receiver 
and vice versa. The only other North America receiver that comes close (so far) 
is this other Maine one run by WA2ZKD:
 
http://rx2.wa2zkd.net:8073
 
Its antenna is not as directional as Bill's so the domestic QRM builds up more 
quickly in the post-sunset period. At and a bit before sunset both radios are 
good.
 
I do a bit better on Latin America here than either of the Maine receivers. I 
haven't heard a Brazilian on either of those yet. 610 and 760 are fairly common 
here. 700, 840, 860, 1000, 1040, 1100, 1220, and 1290.3 aren't rare either.
 
The third best East Coast receiver for TA's is this NJ coastal one:
  
http://jerseyshoresdr.hopto.org:8073
 
Though not as good as the top two, it's better than some of the bad-antenna New 
England and eastern Canada ones.
 
The only other East Coast SDR's I find moderately useful are these in Florida:
 
http://keywest.twrmon.net:8073
 
http://qth.ddns.net:8073
 
These are primarily useful for Latin American checking. Sometimes, due to the 
positioning of the auroral zone, I'm getting South Americans on channels such 
as 700 when Florida is getting domestics (e.g. WLW) not attenuated by aurora 
there. A great Latin America run in New England does not guarantee even more 
stupendous results in the SE US.
 
There's not a lot in the Caribbean and South America, at least with sensitive 
antennas. These Dominican Republic, Bonaire, and southern Brazil ones are 
somewhat useful.
 
http://dr.twrmon.net:8073
 
http://bonaire.twrmon.net:8073
 
http://px2a.homeip.net:8073
 
I'm surprised at how little from Europe shows up on the Florida, Caribbean, and 
South America receivers. I've had 1215 Absolute UK bonkers-loud here and could 
not raise a hint of it on those SDR's. If any TA delivers to the US Deep South, 
the Caribbean, and South America it's the 1521 Saudi. On a now-defunct 
Venezuelan SDR, Saudi was the only TA with actual audio. Spain (684, 855) and 
some others were hets only. 
  
We could really use some forward-position SDR's in places such as Newfoundland, 
Bermuda, Barbados, and the eastern tip of Brazil around Natal. On the other 
side we do have a good one in Iceland but we could use some more southerly ones 
such as Azores, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha. Existing radios in Portugal, 
the Canaries, and South Africa are not very sensitive. UK, Scandinavian, Dutch, 
and German receivers vary wildly in terms of DX-ability. Some are quite good 
and some stink.
 
There are new SDR's coming online all the time. Some go away too. Just remember 
that a good location doesn't always mean good DX. Often there is little 
attention given to antenna gain, directivity, and electrical noise immunity at 
MW. Receivers are often optimized for HF ham, VHF/UHF/microwave aircraft, and 
other utility listening such as police and fire.
 
It's always worthwhile to check the three major links pages periodically.
  
http://sdr.hu/?top=kiwi
 
http://www.websdr.org/
 
https://www.globaltuners.com/
 
If something new and useful for long range DX comes online either in the 
Atlantic or Pacific zone, please share the details and any DX you may have 
noted with it.
 
Mark Connelly, WA1ION 
South Yarmouth, MA, USA
 
<<
Ultimately, that or another Kiwi WebSDR will be located at Masset in the Haida 
Gwaii - which is an awesome location for some great DX early warning data 
gathering.

I?m looking forward to better radio conditions and a higher MUF - looking at 30 
MHz of largely empty spectrum is depressing.

Colin Newell - Victoria - B.C. CANADA -

> On Jan 31, 2019, at 9:56 AM, C B  wrote:
>
> I listened on my Elad and your Kiwi SDR this morning with the same results. 
> I'm looking forward to that watershed TP session.
> Craig BarnesWheat Ridge, CO
> 
>>

<<
>> Hooked  up to my dual flag and PHASER -
>>
>> http://184.66.42.39:8073
>>
>> Up and down as I fiddle with stuff - ultimately this unti will end up
>> on Haida Gwaii at Walts cabin...
>>
>> No guarantees -- loading can be slow...
>>
>> Send reports.
>>
>> --
>> Colin Newell - Editor and creator *of *Coffeecrew.com
>>  and DXer.ca  - VA7WWV
>> | Twitter @CoffeeCrew | Victoria - Canada
>>

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Re: [IRCA] a tale of two conditions?

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Thanks Nick.
I later saw some comments on the Topband reflector indicating very 
location-dependent opinions as to whether it was "the best of times" or "the 
worst of times". Strange indeed. Re MW DX here on the East Coast, I'm not even 
sure anyone had radios on.
 
 Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA
 
-Original Message-
From: Nick Hall-Patch 
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America 

Cc: Mark Connelly 
Sent: Tue, Jan 29, 2019 8:00 pm
Subject: Re: [IRCA] a tale of two conditions?

Haven't seen any IRCA replies on this Mark, but 
N7DF recently walked back his comments a bit 
after seeing quite a few of the other 160m 
contestants saying how poor conditions had been.

My own comments that you quoted were from Sunday 
morning, traditionally a time when contests on 
160m are winding down, and people throw in the 
towel if it doesn't look like they'll add any 
more contacts to what they've already 
made.  Saturday morning here was a bit better 
than Sunday, but still not anywhere up to what 
one might expect from geomagnetic conditions.



Nick



At 05:23 2019-01-29, Mark Connelly via IRCA wrote:

>I wasn't active but I'm very curious as to what 
>everyone else noted over the weekend based on the reports below.
>
>Mark Connelly, WA1ION
>South Yarmouth, MA
>
>Exhibit A
><<
>Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 16:03:56 + (UTC)
>From: N7DF 
>To: TopBand List 
>Subject: Topband: really good conditions
>
>Unbelievable signals in CQ160 this weekend..many 
>stations 40 over on my FT1000 and several TX and 
>AZ signals pegged the meter at 60 over
>PJ2T was 35 over most of the time
>lost my receiving antennas to storms in December and had to use cage only
>still have right wrist in cast so have to hunt and pounce only QLF but had fun
>73 Larry
> >>
>
>Exhibit B
><<
>From: Nick Hall-Patch 
>To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
>    
>Subject: [IRCA] TP  27 Jan Victoria version.
>
>This morning might take the title for the season's worst...
>
>pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable 
>by a native speaker, at least briefly):
>
>not by any means
>
>Reasonable audio at  times during the period 
>(much of it understandable by a native speaker, 
>though often battling with splash or noise):
>
>the above passing through
>
>
>not so reasonable audio, occasional words or 
>phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker:
>
>not in the slightest
> >>
>
>
>
>
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Re: [IRCA] Coax Cable

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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No one has yet mentioned the other feedline option: balanced line.
This takes many forms including speaker wire, two-conductor AC line cord (zip 
cord), TV twin lead, ladder line / window line, twisted pair, CAT-5 etc. 
Characteristic impedances are often in the 100 ohm range but will go higher for 
more widely spaced lines, e.g. 200-500 ohms.

Dallas Lankford's articles recommend balanced feed rather than coax.
https://www.okdxf.eu/index.php/technika/80-antenarska-kolekce-dallase-lankforda
I have been using speaker wire on moderate length runs (under 60m / 200 ft.) 
with negligible loss below 5 MHz. Appropriate matching transformers are used to 
minimize loss. If you have "critter" problems, you can run through garden hose 
or conduit. Most of my runs are a bit above ground. Water ingress hasn't been a 
problem. Falling tree branches .. well that's another matter I suppose.

Whether you use coax or balanced line, common mode chokes may be advisable on 
longer runs especially on low-signal-output antennas.
Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA

<<
Good to see that we've opened the flood gates on this topic, James.

Rodent bites have never been an issue at my coastal location in 
western Canada, and I forget that it can be a big issue elsewhere.

OT:      It's not like we don't have rodents, but perhaps they're all 
fat and happy from the continual feeding they get here from little 
old ladies of all ages and as many genders as floats your 
boatthey think they're feeding just the fluffy squirrels and the 
cute little chickadees.

The day I saw, in broad daylight, six large rats working a bird 
feeder a few doors down made sure that I was never going to feed the 
wildlife, no matter how senile I became.  On the other hand, no 
rodent bites on the coax

best wishes,

Nick


At 12:35 2019-01-28, Mike Irizarry wrote:
>I use rg6 flooded for all my low band receive antennas. I usually get it
>from dx engineering. I have had very good success with it in the midwest
>buried and just on top of the soil. The flooded capability has mitigated
>small rodent bites. Some of the antennas I use it with are: 4 square, k9ay,
>beverage, bog, and dhdl.
>Hope this helps. It is not cheap, however.
>
>Mike
>
>On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 10:06 PM Nick Hall-Patch  wrote:
>
> > Haven't seen any response to this, James, and am probably not going
> > to be much help.
> >
> > I've just used RG58 variants for up to 100' in permanent
> > installations around the yard, 10 to15 years in some cases.  One of
> > them runs through about 70' of rigid PVC electrical conduit IPEX
> > #032907 and is buried.  Mind you, I've heard that although such
> > conduit will keep the groundwater away from the coax, water vapor
> > will condense inside, leading to a wet interior anyway.  That coax
> > still seems to work,so maybe it's dry...or maybe not.
> >
> > On DXpeditions, I've run over 500' of  RG58 coax to DKaz'es and such,
> > and not suffered particularly.
> >
> > best wishes,
> >
> > Nick
> >
> >
> > At 22:26 2019-01-27, James Niven wrote:
> > >I am curious as to what type of coax everyone uses for DKAZ antennas and
> > >also general international shortwave band listening dipoles?
> > >
> > >It's time to revamp my antennas and I want to use the right cable that
> > will
> > >last for a while.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >I have read that RG-8U is good for long runs of a 100 to 150 feet, and if
> > I
> > >was to bury my coax, which is the best pipe/conduit to use to bring my
> > >cables into the shack?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >thanks
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >James Niven
> > >
> > >Austin, Texas>>
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[IRCA] a tale of two conditions?

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I wasn't active but I'm very curious as to what everyone else noted over the 
weekend based on the reports below.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA

Exhibit A
<<
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 16:03:56 + (UTC)
From: N7DF 
To: TopBand List 
Subject: Topband: really good conditions

Unbelievable signals in CQ160 this weekend..many stations 40 over on my FT1000 
and several TX and AZ signals pegged the meter at 60 over
PJ2T was 35 over most of the time
lost my receiving antennas to storms in December and had to use cage only
still have right wrist in cast so have to hunt and pounce only QLF but had fun
73 Larry
>>

Exhibit B
<<
From: Nick Hall-Patch 
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
    
Subject: [IRCA] TP  27 Jan Victoria version.

This morning might take the title for the season's worst...

pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least 
briefly):

not by any means

Reasonable audio at  times during the period (much of it understandable by a 
native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise):

the above passing through


not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could 
be understood by a native speaker:

not in the slightest
>>



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Re: [IRCA] report about WBZ receptions in Japan

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WBZ's tower site in Hull, MA - a peninsula surrounded by salt water on all 
sides but a narrow piece south - affords the station great "get-out-ability".

http://www.bamlog.com/wbz.htm

For your listening pleasure, a few recordings of WBZ 1030 at far-flung 
locations:

Australia (FEB 1996)
https://app.box.com/s/kydfvk9b18pj1h562f5bq8psc7jv423n

Midway Island, Pacific Ocean (OCT 1965) RX = R-390A
https://app.box.com/s/5idnzvxo93r3w56vmzxo2abefwm51uf2

Iceland (MAY 2018)
https://app.box.com/s/94x7jc74zvzgqswgqw1nc53c9ozfhph5

On the MW Circle Facebook page, Vincent Stevens says "heard occasionally down 
in Cape Town" (South Africa) .. even though ERP that way is only about 5 kW .. 
but next to no land in the way on the 7000+ mile route.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA 
-Original Message-
From: Nick Hall-Patch 
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America 

Cc: Mark Connelly ; boston-radio-interest 

Sent: Mon, Jan 28, 2019 12:19 pm
Subject: Re: [IRCA] report about WBZ receptions in Japan

Thanks for posting this link, Mark.

The DXpedition participants also received WPTX-1690  and WRDW-1680, 
the latter before Hokkaido sunset.

These are major DX, even if their night time powers were being uh, unobserved.

best wishes,

Nick



At 05:38 2019-01-25, Mark Connelly via IRCA wrote:

>Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 05:38:06 + (UTC)
>From: Mark Connelly 
>
>
>1030 WBZ Boston, MA received in Japan
>Salt water heading NW from Hull, MA transmitter site definitely 
>helps the "get-out-ability."
>https://eureka-fumi.blogspot.com/2019/01/comparison-of-wbz-news-radio-1030.html?fbclid=IwAR1zjb--aeI8vyXZ_nsO-XA6FKrRJqnOXJzfxIW4Y8-aqP5r2aqz5ZqO-Wo
>Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA
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[IRCA] report from Puerto Rico

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Puerto Rico bandscan from Ivan Cholakov (Medium Wave Circle Facebook group). 
Lack of South American signals is interesting, less from there than from here 
on the Cape. No TA's. 680 WAPA must have been off to let WRKO get through. 680 
is usually WPTF/WRKO/WAPA/HJ jumble-mess on the Dominican Republic SDR.

"Scanning the medium wave band from a shipboard location near San Juan, Puerto 
Rico at 11 PM local time. Signals from as far west as Dallas and as far North 
as Boston. SDRPlay with handheld W6LVP portable loop."
---
530 Radio Rebelde, Cuba
540 Radio ABC Dominican Republic
550 Multiple
580 WKAQ PR
630 WUNO PR
660 WFAN New York
680 WRKO Boston
700 WLW Cincinnati
710 WOR New York
720 WGN Chicago
740 WIAC Puerto Rico
750 WSB weak
760 WORA PR
770 WABC New York
790 WNIS Norfolk
800 TWR Bonaire
810 WKVM PR
820 WBAP Ft Worth
860 CJBC Toronto
870 WQBS PR
880 WCBS New York
890 Progreso
900 Progreso
920 WDMC Vero beach
940 WIPR PR
950 WKDN Philadelphia
960 Radio Reloj Cuba
1000 WMVP Chicago
1010 WINS New York
1030 WBZ Boston
1050 WEPN New York
1060 KYW Philadelphia
1100 WTAM Cleveland
1120 WMSW Puerto Rico
1130 WBBR New York
1140 WRVA Richmond
1160 KBDT Dallas
1170 WWVA Wheeling
1190 WBMJ Puerto Rico
1220 WHKW Cleveland weak
1280 WCMN Puerto Rico
1320 WSKN Puerto Rico (Radio Isla)
1350 WEGA Puerto Rico
1370 WIVV Puerto Rico
1390 WISA Puerto Rico
1460 WTKT Harrisburg
1480 WMDD Puerto Rico
1500 WFED Washington
1510 WLAC Nashville
1520 WWKB Buffalo
1540 ZNS-1 Bahamas
1610 CHHA Toronto
1640 Radio Juventud Dominican Republic
1650 WHKT Portsmouth
1660 WGIT Puerto Rico
1680 WOKB Orlando


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Re: [IRCA] [CapeDX] Furlough DXpedition Jan 14-18, 2019

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 Good report Bill. Lots of similarity to receptions here on Cape Cod. Above 
1220 you are getting more FL, GA, SC, and NC. Barbados 900 and Dom. Rep. 670 
have been heard here but not in a long time (>5 years?). 

The more reports we can get from East Coast US & Canada the better.
Mark Connelly, WA1ION
 South Yarmouth, MA
 
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From: Bill Whitacre b...@his.com [CapeDX] 
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; 'Mark Connelly' via NRC-AM ; 
lbi-dx ; CapeDX 
Sent: Fri, Jan 25, 2019 8:41 am
Subject: [CapeDX] Furlough DXpedition Jan 14-18, 2019

    While on furlough I visited Waters Edge, near Fleeton, VA for a few days 
about a week ago. Waters Edge is right on the Chesapeake Bay and usually has 
good reception up and down the east coast of the U.S.

Depending on how one points the DKAZ antenna that I normally use, stations from 
New Brunswick to Brazil can be heard … as well as some TAs.

Highlights this trip were Barbados on 900kHz, Panama on 860kHz, Voice of Nevis 
& St. Kitts also on 860kHz and a new Dominican station for me, Radio Dial, on 
670kHz.

I’m still reviewing Perseus wav files but you can see/hear what I've heard so 
far on this webpage:

http://realmonitor.com/am_logs_we8.php

Oh yea, the antenna used was a 160’ DKAZ aimed at 130 deg.

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[IRCA] report about WBZ receptions in Japan

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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1030 WBZ Boston, MA received in Japan
Salt water heading NW from Hull, MA transmitter site definitely helps the 
"get-out-ability."
https://eureka-fumi.blogspot.com/2019/01/comparison-of-wbz-news-radio-1030.html?fbclid=IwAR1zjb--aeI8vyXZ_nsO-XA6FKrRJqnOXJzfxIW4Y8-aqP5r2aqz5ZqO-Wo
Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA
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[IRCA] Cape Cod, MA: a few DX audio clips

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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Not too much East Coast reporting lately so here are a few audio clips from 
here earlier this month.

Since conditions haven't been quite as good as late 2018, there's nothing rare 
below, just some typical items.

All dates / times UTC.

747 Canaries // Spain (3 JAN @ 2200)
https://app.box.com/s/i9nxxew6yv4dnxqp7r9aqatyt2645pgb

774 Spain (3 JAN @ 2201)
https://app.box.com/s/k1kmpesh1l9eg79rrof16hvmoa0p9eaq

810 Scotland (3 JAN @ 2200) 
https://app.box.com/s/awz9mnj3sbrfchl5knprd5nnedv7yn62

909 UK (3 JAN @ 2200) 
https://app.box.com/s/7lj9tmriczoaxikp2p3x5vx075u7qs33

1089 UK (3 JAN @ 2200) 
https://app.box.com/s/tsgwaod69weif9gng2ljkjtuanhoyov6

1152 Romania over Spain (3 JAN @ 2200) 
https://app.box.com/s/2hb7i065onyonikmm6ceebwkqgp8kr36

1179 Romania (3 JAN @ 2200) 
https://app.box.com/s/918cqe7k3d2r4f8q39yfvmke6uxhmmsf

1188 Iran (3 JAN @ 2200) 
https://app.box.com/s/2foxx4glr0cjd49nvjl7gc13707kga8j

1215 UK (3 JAN @ 2201) 
https://app.box.com/s/h1i19znwd75h14rn768qv4afzzuivawv

1386 Lithuania (17 JAN @ 2200) 
https://app.box.com/s/k66g9mvt2jd42el593fzm20y92cn1kbx


More stuff, full details report etc. over the next week or so.

Though unusual for January, there have actually been thunderstorm threats over 
the past few days as cold and warm air masses collide nearby. Antennas have 
been disconnected at times, something I seldom had to do in winter decades ago.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA
(GC= 41.6931 N / 70.1912 W) (grid FN41vq)

Receiver: Elad FDM-S2
See http://shop.elad-usa.com/sdr-radio/fdm-s2/

Antenna: Cardioid pattern SuperLoop: 9m vertical by 20m horizontal (peak 84 
deg., null 264 deg.)
See http://www.bamlog.com/superloop.htm for similar antenna type.


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Re: [IRCA] Where are they now?

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Thanks to those who replied to my recent question of the whereabouts of 
formerly active DXers Al Merriman (K4GLU) and Ray Moore.

I don't recall that Ray Moore had any connection to Key West. He was in Fort 
Myers, as Nick mentioned. Among other things, he designed the RSM-105 passive 
loop - a good performer especially in urban situations where high-Q unamplified 
loops offer the most payback, well at least before every living quarter became 
an RFI den of iniquity with switching supplies, cable boxes, and noisy 
"efficient" light fixtures. At his FL QTH, Ray had some longpath success with 
east Asia / Australia via South Pole / South America.

Al Merriman moved from the DC area to Chincoteague Island and had a start-up 
year with loggings in the same league as what New England DXers, 400 miles 
closer to Europe on the same track, were reporting. And then he disappeared 
from the "radar". That's got to be at least 15 years ago. Pre-Facebook-era by 
my reckoning. At least, per FCC info via Bruce Portzer, he's still on the 
"right side of the grass" and living in Madison, South Dakota. Likely not much 
TA DX for him anymore but maybe a few TP's.

Another formerly active DXer name that popped into my head is Elliot Strauss of 
NJ. Maybe someone knows something about him.

Another DXer of the past, Richard Eckman, is on Facebook and seems to be in the 
Far East a lot on business. It would appear that his case is one of too many 
other things to do. People like that sometimes do get back to the hobby when 
retirement comes along.

All the above used to spin out some great log reports.

I'll take this opportunity to say hi to Chris Black, formerly active not much 
more than a mile from here. He was moving out of the neighborhood about the 
time I was moving in. Good luck and DX out west Chris.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
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[IRCA] Where are they now?

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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Do any of you know the present status of the following DXers?: 
Alan Merriman last known to be in VA
Ray Moore last known to be in FL


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Re: [IRCA] [CapeDX] Re: dual receiver SDRs for diversity reception / phasing

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 The consensus seems to be that nobody's yet doing after-the-fact phasing that 
works in an intuitive, relatively easy to use, non-geeky way.
We've seen great strides in SDR technology over the past ten years but, 
possibly due to declining interest in medium wave and shortwave, we might not 
see the will of manufacturers to advance things to the next level. Reliable 
after-the-fact phasing is certainly one of the "next big things" but I wonder 
if this is such a specialized / niche interest that the considerable amount of 
work needed to make it happen may never occur. Or things stay at the geek level 
with 10 different incompatible solutions all requiring C++/Java proficiency and 
none having more than a half dozen users.
Could some other aspect of the SDR use such as FM DX or VHF (and up) utilities 
be the thing that gets phasing in capture files off the launch pad? If the user 
bases in those parts of the hobby are larger and younger than the MW/SW 
contingent, maybe so.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
 South Yarmouth, MA
 
-Original Message-
From: dai...@yahoo.com [CapeDX] 
To: CapeDX 
Sent: Wed, Jan 16, 2019 12:17 pm
Subject: [CapeDX] Re: dual receiver SDRs for diversity reception / phasing

    It is my understanding that Linrad can record the 2 inputs of an Afedri, or 
any two independent RF streams for that matter, into R/L channels of a 
recording for 'after-the-fact' nulling and playback. Done that way, the 2 
streams are synchronized. I have not explored this at all, since quite frankly 
I find Linrad painfully complex to use.  Regardless of Linrad's potential 
function, none of the existing digital phasing software is easy or 'fun' to 
use. I guess it will take more interest from DX'ers like us to create a strong 
enough need to do it right.
My interest has been more around curiosity at this point, although the Afedri 
822X does work well to make 'fixed phase' captures of MW. It's span size will 
allow a capture of 530Khz to 1620Khz, for example. You set the nulling up ahead 
of time to do scheduled recordings later. And yes you are right, this only 
eliminates an external phaser box and some of the losses from analog phasing, 
done the way I am using it.
Dave Aichelman     N7NZH     Grants Pass, Oregon 
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Re: [IRCA] dual receiver SDRs for diversity reception / phasing

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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I would be willing to have a receiver that just saved half the MW bandwidth, 
e.g. 700 kHz, in capture files if it had the I/Q streams from the two 
receivers.  But with receivers doing 3, 6, and more MHz of capture these days, 
why can't we get the whole 510-1710 stretch?

Basic requirements:

*** Phasing can be done after the fact on capture files both manually and, when 
channels are reasonably similar, automatically.

*** The two receivers can be slaved to each other for diversity and phasing 
applications or tuned independently.

*** There must be the provision for separate antenna inputs.

*** User can save null solution data to an INI file that can be recalled later. 
 This file should be plain text suitable for importation into antenna-testing 
technical articles, DXpedition reports, etc.

You need to be able to adjust both gain of each channel and the delta-phase / 
delta-time between them.  You are not always using identical gain and pattern 
antennas. In fact you could be using two opposite ends of the same SuperLoop or 
DKAZ.  East end could have 880 WCBS at S-9 and 882 UK at S-8; west end might 
have WCBS S9+20 and UK S-5.  So why should you not be able to put 20 dB 
attenuation on the west end to make WCBS S-9 and then phase it against the east 
end to provide vastly cleaner pick-up of 882 UK?  I can certainly do that with 
the Quantum Phaser and several homebrew models. 

If you can adjust after the fact on capture files you can run several different 
gain / phase scenarios on, let's say, a graveyard channel.  By moving the null 
around the compass, as with a conventional rotatable loop, you could pull as 
many as 6 to 8 different ID's out of a single channel at a particular time.

You could also think about applying a gain / phase curve.  Let's say you used 
an (A vs. B) 8 dB delta gain / 100 ns delta time solution to take down 770 WABC 
and 6 dB / 90 ns to take out 880 WCBS.  In-between frequencies could be 
adjusted "on the curve".  820 WNYC, in a similar direction as 770 and 880, 
could be expected to null at something like 7 dB delta gain / 95 ns delta time. 
 This sort of mathematical manipulation of the data streams could help to 
broadband the nulling pattern when using two antennas that don't quite fit the 
textbook scheme of spatially-separated elements of identical gain and pick-up 
pattern. 

Phasing only during live DX is not the game changer or killer app here.  It's 
nice maybe to eliminate one box on the table but what we really want is post 
facto phasing as well as live DX use.

The baby steps are being taken but ready-for-prime-time software and hardware 
hasn't arrived yet as far as I can tell.  Ham DXpeditions / contest stations, 
MW guys in Finland etc. would be all over it if it had.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA

<<
A couple of drawbacks for the Afedri:

(1) As of a year ago (I have not checked since), the phasing only worked on the 
live signals. No phasing was possible on a recorded file.

(2) It has only a 12 bit converter so is not top of the line.

And something that needs verification: the Afedri was only spec'ed to record 
900 kHz of bandwidth. I see it has recently been changed to 1100 kHz. That's 
enough for me if it performs as advertised.

Chuck
>>

<<
Did I miss something?  As far as I can tell, nothing discussed here comes close 
to what we need - the ability to phase null synchronized RF spectrum captures.  
Everything described here is no different than using two receivers (SDR or 
analog) on different antennas, or phasing/combining two antennas into one 
receiver, for the purposes of live monitoring and making single RF spectrum 
captures.  While it is possible to make two RF spectrum captures using two SDR 
receivers simultaneously, then perfectly synchronizing playback of the two RF 
spectrum captures for diversity reception (i.e. audio from one RF spectrum 
capture in the left, the other in the right), it's difficult to get the audio 
from each spectrum capture in sync and the results usually not worth the 
effort.  The WiNRADiO Excalibur has three receivers in one, but they all 
operate off the same antenna.  So the Excalibur can be used for 'diversity 
reception' of parallel frequencies by tuning Rx1 to 1053 TalkSport and Rx2 to 
1089 TalkSport, then combining the audio using the Mix functions of the 
Excalibur for example, but it's not really diversity reception by definition 
which would have two SDR receivers each with their own antenna.  I see nothing 
groundbreaking here.

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<<
Hi Mark, I have one of the newer Afedri V3.0 dual input radios here. I bought 
it out of curiosity and am pleased with how well it phases. It only has a 
1.2Mhz span width in dual channel mode, but that gets most of MW. It works as 
well as phased loops/flags but without as much loss. I use it with HDSDR after 
setup with the connection tool provided with 

[IRCA] dual receiver SDRs for diversity reception / phasing

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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The subject of SDRs containing two phase-locked receivers came up recently on 
the Topband (160m ham) list ( 
http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/topband/2019-01/threads.html ).

The discussion dealt primarily with diversity reception: audio from antenna A's 
RF goes to your left headphone, antenna B to the right.  In some cases a weak 
or interfered-with signal that isn't quite readable on either channel 
independently can "pop out of the mud" when both channels are presented, one to 
the left and one to the right as mentioned. Typically you're on the same 
frequency, mode, bandwidth, and AGC for this.  Maybe you use USB one channel 
and LSB the other if the interference is different owing to antenna pick-up 
patterns.  For MW DX, sometimes two different frequencies would be fed to the 
headphones for quick comparison of parallel audio content (e.g. Spain 684 & 
855, Cuba 670 & 710, Japan 747 & 774).

More of interest to me is phasing based in the receiver.  This should be 
available under complete (manual) operator control of each channel's gain and 
phase / time delay.  There should be a way to save successful null or peak 
set-ups to a look-up table text file that can be invoked later to speed up 
DXing.  The file should also be importable into Excel / Word / Access / 
PowerPoint for producing technical articles.  Additionally the receiver should 
provide a degree of auto-nulling, at least when the two synchronized receivers 
are getting the same dominant "pest" signal (or noise) a reasonable amount 
above co-channel and adjacent interference.

The subject has been chatted up here before and I think that one or more 
receivers hardware-capable of this were out there but there was no clear 
software solution, at least anything that has been adequately "road tested" by 
cutting edge contester hams and the top MW talent in Scandinavia, North 
America, and east Asia.

If there is new information on this topic, feel free to comment.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA 

These are some posts recently appearing on the Topband list under the "Re: 
Topband: Dual RX SDR receivers (diversity capable)" header.

<<
Have you looked at
http://www.afedri-sdr.com/index.php/new-afe822x-sdr-net-dual-channel ?

73
Nick
VE7DXR
>>

<<
Cross Country Wireless SDR-4++ dual diversity SDR general coverage receiver

Digitally signed mail - John? M0ELS
>>

<<
Hi Bjorn

If you are interested, I have a dual Softrock 160m SDR receiver (two receivers 
in one diecast box) that was built up about ten years ago or so for diversity 
reception, using Alex VE3NEA?s Rock 2.0 diversity version ? see 
http://www.dxatlas.com/Download.asp.

Owing to family/business pressures I never got around to using it. My 
recollection is JC N4IS may have built up something similar?

The receiver is just sitting on a shelf here and I am happy to part with it. 
Also have a M-Audio D44 professional soundcard that was going to used with it.

Vy 73

Steve, VK6VZ 
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[IRCA] Cape Cod, MA, USA - logs (late DEC wrap-up, audio for all)

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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Report from Mark Connelly, WA1ION
Times / dates = UTC / 2018
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)

NOTE:
{A} in entry indicates that audio can be accessed from link on the following 
page:
http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/doc1/audio_2018.htm

Receiver: Elad FDM-S2
See http://shop.elad-usa.com/sdr-radio/fdm-s2/

Antenna: Cardioid pattern SuperLoop: 9m vertical by 20m horizontal (peak 84 
deg., null 264 deg.)
See http://www.bamlog.com/superloop.htm for similar antenna type.

==

*** TRANSATLANTIC DX ***

153 | ROMANIA | Antena Satelor / Romania Actualitati, Brasov Bod, DEC 24 0500 - 
Woman in Romanian, Radio Antena Satelor ID, fast string music, talk by man, 
rooster crow, 3 pips; fair over static. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

171 | MOROCCO | R. Mediterranee Internationale, Nador, DEC 24 0500 - Woman in 
Arabic, chimes, attention music, news; to good peak. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

183 | GERMANY | Europe No. 1, Felsberg, DEC 24 0500 - Two men talking in 
French, typical chimes, woman and man; to good peak, slight static. {A} 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

189 | ICELAND | RÚV Rás, Gufuskálar, DEC 24 0500 - Female English vocal, 
electronic sound, man in Icelandic with RUV mention; good. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

198 | UNITED KINGDOM | BBC R.4, Droitwich et al., DEC 24 0500 - Promos for 
comedy and science programs, woman "BBC World Service, the world's radio 
station", 5+1 pips, man with news about Indonesia tsunami; fair to good. {A} 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

216 | FRANCE | Radio Monte Carlo, Roumoules, DEC 24 0500 - Man in French, then 
woman, attention sounds in newscast; good. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

225 | POLAND | Polskie Radio, Konstantynow, DEC 24 0500 - Man in Polish, 5+1 
pips, fanfare music, more talk; fair over static. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

234 | LUXEMBOURG | RTL, Junglinster, DEC 24 0500 - Woman in French; fair over 
static. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

243 | unID | ?, DEC 24 0500 - Bits of talk by man under YVB beacon. {A} 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

252 | ALGERIA | R. Algerienne, Tipaza, DEC 24 0500 - Folk style vocal and 
guitar, 5+1 pips (last higher pitch), jingle, woman in French; good. {A} 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

603 | SPAIN | RNE5 synchros, DEC 29 2200 - Male vocal and folk guitar, 5+1 pips 
with synchro echo, time check including Canarias mention, fanfare music, man 
"veinte cuatro horas en Radio Nacional de Espana"; fair. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

639 | CZECHIA | CRo Dvojka, Praha/Liblice, DEC 31 2100 - Slavic talk by man, 
Dvojka mention; over Spain. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

774 | EGYPT | ERTU Al-Sharq al-Awsat, Abis, DEC 23 2100 - Shrill female vocal, 
4+1 pips (last higher pitch) a bit after Spain's pips, Salaam Aleikum in talk; 
fair, mostly over Spain. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

774 | SPAIN | RNE1 synchros, DEC 29 2100 - Rustic male vocal, 5+1 pips, time 
check by woman, fanfare music, man "Radio Nacional de Espana, servicios 
informativos", "buenas noches" at start of news by woman; good. {A} 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

792 | SPAIN | SER R. Sevilla, Sevilla, DEC 29 2200 - Piano and orchestral 
music, 4+1 pips, man in Spanish, music, man with Cadena SER net ID, news; to 
good peak. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

909 | UNITED KINGDOM | BBC Radio 5 synchros, DEC 29 2200 - Man "This is BBC 
Five Live", news about bus accident near Scottish border; fair over slop. {A} 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

999 | SPAIN | COPE, Madrid, DEC 31 2200 - 5+1 pips, COPE ID in talk by man & 
woman; fair over IBOC hash. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

1017 | SPAIN | RNE5, Burgos//Granada, DEC 22 2200 - Vocal, 5+1 pips, fanfare 
music, man "veinte cuatro horas en Radio Nacional de Espana"; fair. {A} 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

1044 | SPAIN | SER, San Sebastian // Valladolid, DEC 19 0500 - Elaborate 
fanfare / attention music, "en la cadena SER" ID; good. {A} + DEC 31 2201 - 
Vocal of "Sleigh Ride", fast Spanish talk by two guys in studio partying it up; 
loud. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

1098 | SPAIN | RNE5 synchros, DEC 23 2200 - 5+1 pips, time check by woman 
including Canarias mention, fanfare music, man "veinte cuatro horas en Radio 
Nacional de Espana"; fair. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

1170 | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | Sawt Al-Joumhouria, Al-Dhabbaya, DEC 29 2200 - 
Arabic talk by man, male vocal with strings; to good peak. {A} + DEC 31 2200 - 
Orchestra, Al Joumhouria mention by man, male vocal; good. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

1215 | UNITED KINGDOM | Absolute Radio synchros, DEC 31 2201 - Absolute Radio 
ID, Aerosmith "Love in an Elevator"; fair. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

1521 | SAUDI ARABIA | SBC R.Riyadh, Duba, DEC 31 2100 - Female Arabic vocal, 
man with Arabiya es Saudiya mention, fanfare / attention music; to good peak. 
{A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

1548 | MOLDOVA | TWR, Grigoriopol, DEC 31 2100 - Bits of music, then TWR 
interval signal; fair to good. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]


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[IRCA] Fwd: [CapeDX] DX at Sandy Neck Beach on 1-4-2019

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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Roy Barstow with a mini-DXpedition to Sandy Neck Beach - Barnstable, MA. 

From: roybarstow 
Date: Friday, January 11, 2019
Subject: [CapeDX] DX at Sandy Neck Beach on 1-4-2019
To: CapeDX 
    


6ftX12ft. Mini-Loop - w/Amp.-FDM-S2-Sunset at 4:25 PM- 5 PM temp. 40 deg.

    Wind at 18 MPH with higher gusts.







 2030  90 Deg.




783  Syria - Woman singing, Mid-East tune. S 5-6.




999  MDA. - TWR - Grigoriopol - A man with a speech. S 7-8.




1575  Iran and U.A.E. mixing.







 2045  90




693  Azores T - Weak under UK. with a game.




756  Romania - Holding down the channel. // 1332.




1512  Greece - Fair with talk with ARS. under with Quran.







 2100  90




540  Hungary - Pips, theme music, then into news. Fair and mixing with CBT.




585  Spain w/talk and Iran with a religious program.




595  MRC. - Conversation going on, later some music interludes. S 5.




720  Greenland - Greenlandic song, theme music into news. S 5 with noise.




1080  Spain - Pips, theme music, some notes to news. Over others.




1188  Iran - News after 3 gongs. S 6.




1332  Romania - Good at S 7-8 with talk. // 756.




1377  Armenia - Music some talk and s/off 2102.




1386  LTU. - I D. Them music into news. Good.




1467  France - Talk in good with Iran carrier.




1548  MDA - TWR - Notes, theme music into ID.. Good - S 8- Later at S 9+ 

    peak.







 2115  70




567  ARS. - Quran in fair with splatter.




576  Bulgaria - Good with some mixing with Spain.




594  Unknown - Weak- Hard to crack with 595 stronger.




603  Spain - RNE R.5 - Fair. // 1107.




837  Iran - Mid-East music at same level as Spain.




864  Egypt - Koran in fair with along with some noise.




981  Algeria - Good with talk and some slop.




1152  Romania and Spain equal.




1197  Iran - Mid-East music and talk. S 7-8.




1296  Spain and UK. with music. LSB.




1635.016 Music, Mid-East type. S 5.







 2130  70




612  MRC. - Men talking in fair. // 711




657  Spain - Pips and talk with Italy with a male vocal // 1062.




666  Spain - SER - Talk // 1044 along w/Portugal w/music. // 720.




702  Iran - Music program. // 1098 and later mixing with Algeria.




711  Spain - Cope - Pips on the half-hour into talk. // 837. And MRC. 

with talk // 612 and another unID. station 
w/music.




720  Portugal - Music in with others. // 666.




882  ARS. - SBC - Quran along with UK.




909  Romania - Music // 756 under UK.




936  MRC. - Fair // 612 within the mix.




1071  Iran - T - Mid-East music. Weak.




1098 - Iran - Weak // 702 under Spain.




1287  Israel - T - Mid-East music- Weak.




1305  Spain - Strong along with a hum. 1305.091 points to Iran as per 

  offset list.




1503  Egypt - Koran in weak beneath Spain.




1557  UK. - Smooth R. - With a pop song to a fair peak.




1566  Benin - T - Bits of audio.




1593  Romania - Mixing with others.







 2145  70




531  Spain - RNE R 5 - On top of channel at S 6-7 // 747.




558  Spain and Iran plus splatter.




818  Egypt - Weak with talk and slop.




1026  Iran - Some talk into music. Inside WBZ sidebands. WBZ at S 9+20..




1035  Iran - T - Bits of audio. USB.




1278  Iran - Strong - Some music but mostly talk. S 8-9. // 1377.




1377  Iran - At S 7-8 w/talk and // 1278.







 2200  70




639  CZE. - On top of Spain.




918  Spain - Madrid - Fair - "song, Fiddler on the Roof."




1431  DJI. - Up from the depths to a peak of S 9+5. Woman vocal w/drums.







 2215  100




630  ARS. - Quran under WPRO. // 765.




765  ARS. - Quran in weak.  // 630.




927  Iran - With men talking. Thanks to Dmitry Mezin of RealDX.




1323  UK - Music to a fair peak, then woman said, your listening

  to Smooth Radio.







 2230  100




801  Spain - Talk at S 8.




864  Spain - Talk- // 855 under Egypt.




1044  Spain - With talk in strong at S 9+5.




1062  Italy - Some music, 5 pips pause 1 more pip. Some theme music

    and woman talking. Iran under them w/music.




1134  Kuwait - Mid-East music and mixing with Spain.







 2300  100  




774  Egypt - Weak with 5 pips late into talk. Along w/ Spain and loud carrier.




990  Spain - SER - In the mix with pips. Then maybe Anthem.




1422  Algeria - Pips into Anthem. S 9+.




1602  Spain - SER - Talk, pips, and back into talk. Fair.










    Newfoundland




 2115  70




540  CBT mixing with Hungary.




570  CFCB - // 590. On top at times.




590  VOCM - On top with a song. USB -  // 570. Another station w/sports

  would be, WARM PA. WEZE Boston with open carrier.




600  CBNA - Maybe a short play. // 990.




620  CKCM - // 590.




640  CBN - // 600.

Re: [IRCA] [nrc-am] Fwd: [CapeDX] Sandy Neck Beach DX 12-29-18

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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 My regular reports which appear in IRCA's DXWW column frequently mention pip 
patterns of various stations.
The 630 situation is that the Romanian and another station, either Portugal or 
Tunisia, are out of alignment in terms of the final pip occurring exactly at 
top-of-hour.  This leads to an apparent 11 or 12 pip sequence when neither of 
the close-to-even-strength stations run more than 6.
Roy has heard this on his beach DXpeditions and I also have noted it here at 
the house.  In both cases SuperLoop antennas positioned for a cardioid null 
west clean out most of the 630 domestic activity, largely WPRO.

 774 is another frequency with mis-timed pips.  Spain with 5 short 1 long 
(a.k.a. 5+1) is on the money but Egypt can be 30 or more seconds late.
Most stations use 1 kHz as the pips tone.  Portugal's are somewhat lower.
Algeria, Egypt, and some other countries in the Arab world have the final pip 
at a higher pitch than the preceding ones.
It wouldn't take too long to have a list put together seeing that webstreams 
and remote SDRs could fill in details that might take a little longer to get 
via actual DXing.  You can also scroll though postings on RealDX and hear audio 
clips of a "zillion" receptions from all over the planet.  Many of these 
contain pips and many have been successfully ID'ed, often by the Finns who seem 
to pick up everything.
Besides what I regularly post, the PEI DXpedition reports edited by Bruce Conti 
contain a lot of detail about what we hear on the East Coast.  I guess there 
was also an autumn 2018 Newfoundland DXpedition but I haven't seen a whole lot 
of usefully-consolidated / detailed info from that yet.
Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA
 
-Original Message-
From: Nick Hall-Patch 
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America 
; Mark Connelly 
Sent: Sun, Jan 6, 2019 4:46 pm
Subject: Re: [IRCA] [nrc-am] Fwd: [CapeDX] Sandy Neck Beach DX 12-29-18

In the age of remote SDRs etc., perhaps this is 
irrelevant, but has anyone made a list of what 
pips are used by different 
Europeans?  Sometimes, pips are all that make it 
through, and like knowing the frequency offset, 
can hint at what tools (parallel webstream etc.) 
might be useful when the signal is a little better next time.

best wishes,

Nick

At 18:35 2019-01-05, Russ Edmunds wrote:
>Re the 630 unknown item, the eleven pips 
>suggests that one is R. Timisoara Romania with 6 
>short pips. At a different hour, the remainder 
>could be from Antena Satelor which is scheduled 
>off at the time. Antena 1 Portugal should have 4 
>long and 1 short. BBC would be 5 short, 1 long.
>
>
>You might want to let Roy know that the number , 
>length and pitch of the pips can help 
>distinguish between multiple sets of pips. Most 
>often however it ends up being multiple 
>transmitters from Spain on one frequency - not the case on 630.
>
>
>It is also possible, depending on antenna 
>direction that pips could be heard from 
>Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela.
>
>
>Russ Edmunds
>
>WB2BJH
>
>Blue Bell, PA
>
>Grid FN20id

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Re: [IRCA] Fwd: [CapeDX] Sandy Neck Beach DX 12-29-18

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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After I ran a recent tutorial session on Total Recorder, Roy Barstow has 
started getting audio clips to post on various sites. Mostly that has been on 
the local Cape Cod DXers list but some have gone to RealDX with a much larger 
expertise base, especially in Scandinavia.

I think Roy is getting better at figuring out his catches though he's still 
heading up the learning curve. His postings to the local list are unpolished 
but sometimes I feel that it's useful to post them to IRCA, NRC, and ABDX lists 
when there is so little else being reported from the East Coast. Indeed the 
Cape area and Boston area Yahoogroups often have more chat than the "big" 
lists. I used to see Allen Willie and Sylvain Naud checking in occasionally and 
I think Rick Shaftan should be getting something going on the Outer Banks soon 
but, for the moment, Atlantic coast reportage has been spotty (and that 
includes me as well). Other things get in the way of DXing for all of us.

Of course anyone can jump on Bill Whitacre's remote receiver in Maine and take 
a swing at DXing on this side of the continent. Logs reported from remote SDR's 
still provide useful tips even if you might not count them as your own DX 
catches.http://qhkiwisdr.proxy.kiwisdr.com:8073/
On the IRCA list especially, I doubt that East Coast loggings will ever 
approach the diversity, quality, and quantity of what is reported on a nearly 
daily basis from western North America. But that has always been the case, even 
back to the paper-only era.

Bruce Conti, I, and other DXers have pointed Roy to MWLIST and some other 
online resources. Analysis of his unIDs are welcomed of course. I've suggested 
that audio postings consist of material that has potential ID material such as 
is typically found at top-of-hour or bottom-of-hour (rather than just generic 
talk or music at in-between times).

Right now Roy is the only DXer in New England doing beach field trips on a 
regular basis even into the winter. Thanks to that, he's picking off stuff that 
others nearby, but somewhat inland, are missing. This is especially true an 
hour or more before sunset. As a point of reference, it's been two years since 
I've DXed outside the house.

And Chuck, thanks for the correction on the 1566 Indian-format station being 
Holland, not UK.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA
 
<<
Mark -

Do you know if Roy wants comments on unids?

Often they are unid because it can't be proven who it is.

But often I see comments implying that the author didn't know the possible 
stations.

It seems patronizing to constantly tell people what the possibilities are when 
its just a case of not knowing for sure who it is.

Chuck
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[IRCA] Fwd: [CapeDX] Sandy Neck Beach DX 12-29-18

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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Roy Barstow's report from Barnstable, MA.

From: roybarstow 
Date: Thursday, January 3, 2019
Subject: [CapeDX] Sandy Neck Beach DX 12-29-18
To: CapeDX 
    


12ft.stick w/amp-FDM-S2-K2-3- Sunset 4:20 PM-5 PM temp. 42-wind 12







 2030  90 Deg.




765  Mid-East music - weak.




810  Unknown - Slow ballad Mexican song in Spanish. Maybe WMGC TN.




837  Iran - Music, talk and maybe an anthem. TNX. to, Bill Whitacre and others

 from RealDX.




981  Algeria - Talk - Fair w/slop.




1422  Algeria - Presume w/ vocal and drums.




1512  ARS. - Quran at S 6




1521  ARS. - SBC - Singing at S 9.




1548  Kwt. or MDA. weak w/splatter.




1575  Iran and U.A.E.







 2045  90




774  Egypt mixing with Spain.




864  Egypt - Koran at S 6-7




936  Good mix w/Spain w/CLA. music and others.










 

  2100  90




   Lots of pips this file




666  Portugal - To fair peak w/pips and back into a game // 720




702  Algeria - Man talking w/drum in background. Pips woman w/talk. Fair.




711  Spain - Cope - Pips, theme music, etc. // 837 mixing w/others. new.




720  Portugal - w/game and pips mixing w/Romania or Spain and others.




729  Spain - Spanish song into pips then news. // 684 another station under 

    them unknown.




756  Romania - Music into pips into news. Another unknown station w/pips.




783  Syria - Mixing with Spain.




810  Mix - BBC, MKD, and maybe Spain in the logjam.




819  Egypt - W/talk. Fair with slop.




873  Unknown with Quran.




945  Iran - Talk into Mid-East music. Fair.




954  CZE. and Spain mixing.




990  Spain - Presume with pips in the mix.




1080  Spain and WTIC.




1125  Spain on top of Belgium.




1179  Spain and Romania.




1377  Armenia - Good at s/off, 2102.




1400  CBG on top.




1413  MDA. - Anthem - Thanks to Jc Fontario and Sylvain Naud of RealDX..







   2115 90




909  Romania - R. Romania - Music in fair under UK.




1071  Egypt - With music and last part of file maybe Iran.




1098  Spain and later ARS.




1179  Romania with music.




1323  UK. - Smooth R. Song weak. // 1557




1332  Iran on top w/talk. Under them Smooth Radio // 1557.




1512  ARS - Quran and maybe Greece or Iran along with the ride.




1665  Unknown - Talk and presume a pirate.







 2130  110




945  UK - Smooth R. in fair w/heavy beat music. // 1557. Mixing with

    Romania // 1332 and 1 more with music.




1026  Iran - Fair w/slop.







 2145  110




567  ARS - Quran at S 6-7 over Spain.




711  MRC. - On top w/talk and under Romania with music. // 756




963  TUN. - Presume with music and slop.




1062  Italy - W/talk and mixing w/Iran with light piano music. // 945.




1625  Music







 2200  110




630 Unknown - At least 11 pips under WPRO. Have heard this before.




900  Spain - With 6 pips under CHML.




1080 Spain again, SER - with a splash sound into news w/ WTIC.




1089  Algeria - Pips under strong UK. Up for bids. Ha Ha.




1116  Italy - Talk, LSB, in fair. // 1062. And mixing w/Spain and another

    with Mid-East music at end of file.




1170  U.A.E. - Mid-East music and man w/ ID. at 2201.




1188  Iran - Music good at times , then 3 gongs etc.




1593  Romania - On top w/music into pips.- Weak with noise.




1630  KCJJ - IA. - On top with community news into ID.







 2215  90




595  MRC. - Very weak with music.




783  Syria - 6 bells then woman talking. Good.




855  Romania - Song, Money by Pink Floyd. // 1593 - Spain also.




909  Romania - // 855-1593 under UK.




936  Iran - With talk. I.D. thanks to Dmitry, Mauno Ritola, and C. Hutton of

  RealDX.




1062 First part of file belonged to Italy and changed quickly to Iran.




1071  Unknown - Koran or Quran. Either Iran or maybe Egpty




1458  Romania - Song, Money- under others. // 1593







 2230  90




918 - Unknown under Spain with music.







 2300  90




630  SS under WPRO - Maybe Ven. with music.




810  Macedonia - Pips, theme music, into news. Fair and along with WGY..




1630  KCJJ now in strong.




That's it for now. Lots of DX at this site and may not travel 1 hour to other

sights. Sandy Neck good for North and East and Menauhant Beach good

for South DX. Sandy Neck soom problem with Boston but good nulls from NYC. 
Manuhant Beach problem with NYC but good nulls for Boston. So that's it's.




Roy Barstow - Falmouth






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Re: [IRCA] TP report from Masset for January 1 2019

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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1566 is the only Indian I have heard in Massachusetts.  That was 10 or more 
years ago.  It was heard on two different occasions at the salt marsh site in 
Rowley, MA (42.7436 N / 70.8367 W).

Others not too far from me have logged 1071 in more recent times.  I don't have 
that one yet.  That channel is filled with a lot of Middle East stations right 
in the way and the IBOC hash mostly from 1080 WTIC (and secondarily from 1060 
KYW) can be awful.

1566 is a rough channel with huge 1560 WFME NY on one side and the 1570 
WUBG/CFLV combo on the other side.  Slop mayhem.  Even the Benin station on 
1566 is typically difficult DX.  There are also low power UK stations on the 
channel; I have no luck with those.  Maybe if I go to the beach ...

I don't think I've heard much of 1566 India on European SDR's in the few times 
I've bothered to try.  So maybe there is some degradation of the station's 
capabilities.  To confuse things more, I think one of the 1566 UK stations runs 
Indian / Bollywood stuff.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA

<<
AIR 1566 used to be a powerful dominant station in Newfoundland, but in the 
last 2 years we have not heard it at all.

Something has happened to their transmitter / antenna.

And if anyone is thinking conditions are to blame, over 40 Indians have been 
heard from Newfoundland although of course not all in the last few years.

Chuck

From: IRCA  on behalf of Gary DeBock 

Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2019 3:01 PM
To: Patrick Martin; Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
Subject: Re: [IRCA] TP report from Masset for January 1 2019


In both places I also tried to match your reception of 1566-AIR, but the 
frequency is locked down by 3NE in the Cooks, and by 1570-KUAU splatter in 
Hawaii. I think that the key for west coast DXers to track down India is to be 
aware that almost all of the big gun AIR stations switch to an English news 
format at 1530 UTC, with all of them in parallel. Because of this 927-AIR and 
954-AIR were both received in Kauai in November. 657-AIR was also received in 
Bengali in the Cooks, but only by some serious luck.

Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA)
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Re: [IRCA] OT - app for latitude / longitude readout on phones

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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What I want is that the coordinates can be read off the phone screen.  If they 
can be exported to a file along with a time stamp, that would be great but 
taking down the info with pencil and paper is not a problem if necessary.

I'm thinking if you take two readings within a few minutes at the same general 
site, let's say 200 ft. apart, that the difference between them will still be 
close to the right answer in terms of bearing and distance since the correction 
factor at each point would cancel out when subtracting one result from the 
other.

Of course if the correction factors jump around in the course of minutes, all 
bets are off.

Agreed that the absolute accuracy isn't going to be spot on.  You could take 
readings at a known location to figure out what the error calculation would be, 
at least on a short term basis.

If you are building a travel spreadsheet, location versus time, in most cases 
you know your route.  If the plotted out data shows that you are consistently 
50 ft. south of the highway you knew you were on, you can mathematically weed 
out that kind of error.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA

<<
Mark -

I presume you want GPS to allow calculation of  distances since bearing is 
easily done with compass apps.

You didn't mention exactly what you are trying to do but I thought I would 
mention that GPS accuracy at its best is not good enough for antenna 
construction and installation.

And on -not-the-best days, you can't expect an absolute accuracy of anything 
better than maybe 20 feet. Half that on good days.

If you're trying to measure wire length, I'm afraid a Harbor Freight 100 or 300 
foot tape measure is still the way to go.
Chuck
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Re: [IRCA] [CapeDX] OT - app for latitude / longitude readout on phones

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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 Coordinates being loaded to a spreadsheet would also be useful if you are 
simultaneously capturing RF via Perseus, Elad, etc. while in motion.  That 
could allow you to equate various locations with changes in signal strength, 
channel dominance, and noise sources.  This could be while in a car, truck, 
boat, train, or plane (... even a drone?).  An active whip such as MFJ-1024 
mounted outside the vehicle's metal would be the typical antenna.  You would 
probably want the GPS lat. / long. data loaded to the laptop once a minute, 
especially if you are trying to nail down the location of electrical noise.  
You could then figure your coordinates at in-between times by interpolating 
with the help of Excel formulae.
Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA 
-Original Message-
From: billc...@comcast.net [CapeDX] 
To: CapeDX ; irca 
Sent: Sun, Dec 30, 2018 9:02 am
Subject: RE: [CapeDX] OT - app for latitude / longitude readout on phones

    Hi Mark;  I don’t suppose the Android has a compass app like iPhone? Maybe 
search for “compass”?  I’d like to take your question and take it a step 
further. What about an app or device that plugs into a laptop and can output 
GPS co-ordinates into Excel. Maybe even use my old Garmin as the GPS source? 
Why? When I travel (with a co-pilot) it would be great if my Excel spreadsheet 
of stations and distances could update every few minutes.   Bill 
NollmanFarmington, CT.    From: cap...@yahoogroups.com  
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2018 1:29 AM
To: cap...@yahoogroups.com; irca@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [CapeDX] OT - app for latitude / longitude readout on phones    Just 
wondering if those in this group that are users of Android OS smartphones have 
come across any apps that can grab latitude and longitude from GPS data and 
display it in an easy to read fashion.  In other words, since the phone already 
has GPS in it, it should be able to report out your coordinates just as a 
handheld dedicated GPS unit would.  This could be useful for a number of things 
such as antenna placement.  If possible, the app should be free or low cost 
(under $10/year) and not pose security risks (spyware / malware / virus).  Mark 
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[IRCA] OT - app for latitude / longitude readout on phones

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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Just wondering if those in this group that are users of Android OS smartphones 
have come across any apps that can grab latitude and longitude from GPS data 
and display it in an easy to read fashion.  In other words, since the phone 
already has GPS in it, it should be able to report out your coordinates just as 
a handheld dedicated GPS unit would.
This could be useful for a number of things such as antenna placement.
If possible, the app should be free or low cost (under $10/year) and not pose 
security risks (spyware / malware / virus).

Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA
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[IRCA] Antenna chat from Topband group

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

--- Begin Message ---
The below link and excerpted text bring up some antenna topics that may be 
relevant in MW DX circles.

Largely the discussion has been about the relative merits of the Shared Apex 
Loops (SAL) designs versus the Waller Flags.  I recall that Brandon Jordan in 
TN and another DXer in IA have been using the SAL systems.  Not mentioned in 
the discussion is that workhorse of MW DX, the DKAZ (and related Bowtie and 
DHDL).  Lankford's and Wellbrook's arrays haven't seen much mention as of yet.

You can check:
http://lists.contesting.com/_topband/2018-12/msg00297.html

and read comments below.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA

<<
Hi Dave , Bob and Jay

Fist of all thanks Dave and Bob to bring this discussion to the high level
technical discussion this group is used to, and my public sincere apologize
my friend  Jay for my emotional behavior that I regrets.

160m is a unique band that has only one noise component on sky wave, and it
is atmospheric noise, HF on the other hands has several other component's of
noise including cosmic rays. Going up in frequency atmospheric noise
decrease and cosmic rays increases.

We are in the low part of the solar cycle, propagation on most HF bands are
very poor, but not dead!. The Signal to noise ration is very important. I
was talking with my old friend PY5EG , Atilano Oms, about propagation , He
mentioned that he can hear 15m weak signals on his 72 FT boom 8 elements 15m
Yagi and  can not hear on his 5 element Yagi. The reason is the high
directivity g the large Yagi over the short Yagi. More directivity means you
can hear the signal above the noise on the higher RFD Yagi. Experiments on
VHF , 2m , 6m ant also EME systems, has the same results.

On 160m when you don't have atmospheric noise and no ground wave (manmade
noise), the noise temperature can drop to 70 degree Kelvin, that is lower
than 144 Mhz. In this situation the signal to noise ratio is the Noise
figure of the RX system. However that situation is only present on few days
during the winter nights. Some atmospheric noise is known  by QRN at
distance., or normal propagation noise.

Bob is right about quiet locations, noise near -125 db is rare. Manmade
noise on ground wave is becoming a real problem.

The DRF or directivity improves signal to noise ratio at the antenna feed
point,  all electronic beyond this point deteriorate signal to noise ratio.
If the NF is the same equivalent temperature of the noise the deterioration
is 2.3 db S/N, on 160m  at 70 K the NF of 2 db deteriorates the signal to
noise ratio by 2.3 db. If he noise is above the NF of the system there is no
deterioration because the propagation noise dominates.

When noise is present li my city lot -85dbm average during the day, and my
best ever measured noise -100dBm. RDF plays a lot. 9 db RDF improves the S/N
ratio over 6 db from the vertical TX antenna that has 6 db RDF. Going to the
WF vertical or horizontal  with the same 11.5 db RDF, my 10 years measure
shows 10 db improvement. The HWF rejects mand made noise due a -90db gain on
the main direction, the ground waive is not amplified because it sits below
the MDS of the receiver.  Again, my measures show 20 or more db improve on
signal to noise ratio over my vertical.

Places with different local noise has different results, if the noise is
s9+10 on -63 dBm, you can hear it on the HWF because it's above the MDS of
the receiver. This not considering common mode leak into the RX system, big
issue for all of us.

A good 4 square TX antenna, 4 vertical in phase has 11db to 12 db RDF, the
front lobe is 90 degree. One FLAG, EWE or K9AY, all loaded loops has a
cardioid patter similar 2 vertical ins phase, good front back  and a 120
degree front lobe. Two EWE or Flag or K9AY  phased has the same pattern or
RDF the 4 square, depending on the way it is build the RDF is 11 to 12 db, 4
verticals in phase like the TX array. It is simple like that. * verticals
has better RDF than 4 verticals, over 13 db RDF, and 60 degree front lobe.

It is easy to understand why a loaded loop self-phased by the resistor and
the transformer  has a cardioid pattern over  a large bandwidth , with a
small dimensions loop 1/10 of wave length the loaded loop can maintain the
patter from1 to 10 MHz ,  a smaller loaded loop 3 to 30 MHz, and a very
larger small loop to 300KHz  to 3 MHz .

A delta flag  has one horizontal wire and two wires inclined, let's say 45
degree. The current on the horizontal wire generates a current on the ground
180 degree out of phase and there is a cancelation between them , it is
really a transmit]ion  line, that is why a K9AY can mover the resistor and
transformer to the center, and switch directions using a relay.

The inclined wire current , let's say with a vector module 1, can be
decomposed by one vertical vector .707 module and another horizontal vector
also .707 module, sounds familiar in vectoral algebra. The horizontal
component cancel against the reflected waive 

[IRCA] Cape Cod, MA, USA - logs (NOV + most of DEC)

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

--- Begin Message ---
Report from Mark Connelly, WA1ION
Times / dates = UTC / 2018
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)

NOTE:
{A} in entry indicates that audio can be accessed from link on the following 
page:
http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/doc1/audio_2018.htm

Receiver: Elad FDM-S2
See http://shop.elad-usa.com/sdr-radio/fdm-s2/

Antenna: Cardioid pattern SuperLoop: 9m vertical by 20m horizontal (peak 84 
deg., null 264 deg.)
See http://www.bamlog.com/superloop.htm for similar antenna type.

==

*** TRANSATLANTIC DX ***

531 | ALGERIA | Jil FM, F'kirina Wilaya d'Oum El Bouaghi, DEC 9 2200 - Jil FM 
ID, slow music; over unID (Spain?) with pips. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

540 | HUNGARY | MR1 Kossuth Radio, Solt, NOV 30 2100 - Pips, attention music, 
Kossuth Radio ID; mixed with CBT. {A} + DEC 9 2100 - Folk instrumental, 5 equal 
pips, electronic interval signal music, Kossuth Radio ID; over CBT. {A} 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

549 | ALGERIA | Jil FM, Les Trembles, DEC 1 0100 - Jil FM spoken and jingle 
IDs, music with flute, drums, female vocal; good. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

549 | UKRAINE | UR 1 Persha Prog., Mykolaiv/Luch, DEC 5 2100 - 5+1 pips, Slavic 
language news by woman then man; fair, not much Algeria competing at the time. 
{A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

576 | BULGARIA | BNR Horizont, Vidin / Gramada, NOV 4 2200 - Slavic talk, 5+1 
pips, Russian-style grand choral anthem; good / dominant. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

585 | SPAIN | RNE1, Madrid, NOV 27 2200 - RNE news // 684; WEZE slop. 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

612 | MOROCCO | SNRT Al-Idaa al-Watania, Sebaa-Aioun, NOV 27 2201 - Emotional 
male Arabic vocal; fair. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

621 | CANARY ISLANDS // SPAIN | RNE1 synchros, DEC 15 2200 - Pips, Radio 
Nacional de Espana news intro; good. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

639 | CZECH REP. | CRo Dvojka, Praha/Liblice, NOV 4 2200 - Czech talk by man; 
over Spain. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

684 | SPAIN | RNE1, Sevilla, NOV 27 2200 - RNE news intro; fair in WRKO slop. 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

693 | UNITED KINGDOM | BBC Radio 5, Droitwich et al., NOV 4 2200 - "This is BBC 
Five Live", 10 o'clock time check, item about murder in south east London; 
fair. {A} + DEC 15 2100 - Football mention, BBC Five Live ID, news about girl 
killed in house fire; fair, // stronger 909. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

720 | CANARY ISLANDS | RNE5, Finca Espana, DEC 9 2200 - 5+1 pips, RNE news 
intro; poor. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

747 | CANARY ISLANDS // SPAIN | RNE5 synchros, DEC 9 2100 - 5+1 pips, time 
check, fanfare, "Radio Nacional de Espana, servicios informativos"; fair. {A} + 
DEC 15 2100 - 5+1 pips, Radio Nacional de Espana news intro; to good peak. {A} 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

774 | SPAIN | RNE1 synchros, NOV 27 2200 - Echoey RNE news; poor to fair. 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

783 | SYRIA | SRTV 1, Damascus, NOV 27 2200 - Woman in Arabic, soft music; 
poor. [Connelly*Y-MA]

810 | MACEDONIA | Makedonsko Radio 1, Ovce Pole, DEC 16 2030 - Slavic talk; 
poor but dominant. Thanks to Jari Savolainen and Alessandro Groppazzi (RealDX) 
for ID help. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

810 | SCOTLAND | BBC R. Scotland, NOV 30 0300 - Carrying BBC Five Live at the 
time; slightly over WGY, others. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

837 | SPAIN | COPE synchros, NOV 27 2200 - 5+1 pips, fanfare music, "COPE, 
estar informando"; fair. [Connelly*Y-MA]

855 | SPAIN | RNE1, Murcia et al., DEC 17 2100 - "Imagine" by John Lennon, 
pips, Radio Nacional de Espana news intro; good. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

864 | EGYPT | Holy Koran Program, Santah, NOV 30 0300 - Man in Arabic with 
apparent preaching, 4+1 pips (last higher pitch) about 48 seconds late, talk, 
vocal; fair. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

882 | UNITED KINGDOM | BBC R. Wales, Washford et al., DEC 15 2100 - Celtic 
female vocal; good. [Connelly*Y-MA]

900 | ITALY | RAI Radio 1, Milano/Siziano, DEC 15 2100 - Per Alessandro 
Groppazzi of Italy, via RealDX, "Italian for sure even if with so bad audio .. 
it sounds like a radioplay." {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

909 | UNITED KINGDOM | BBC Radio 5 synchros, DEC 9 2100 - Dramatic intro music, 
man "The best in news, the best in live sport, this is BBC Five Live"; to good 
peak. {A} + DEC 15 2100 - // 693 with BBC Five Live ID, 9 o'clock time check, 
news about girl killed in house fire; to good peak.  Pips (6 equal length) 
under, presumably from Romania. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

936 | SPAIN | RNE5 synchros, DEC 15 2100 - // 1107 with Khachaturian "Sabre 
Dance", 5+1 pips, RNE news; in jumble with two others (Morocco, Iran?). 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

954 | SPAIN | Onda Cero, Madrid, NOV 27 2200 - 5+1 pips, two men in Spanish; to 
fair peak. [Connelly*Y-MA]

981 | ALGERIA | Chaîne 2, Ouled Fayet, DEC 9 2100 - Modern Arabic vocal, 5+1 
pips (last higher pitch), news by man & woman; to good peak. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

990 | SPAIN | SER synchros, DEC 9 2100 - Over CBY with sports shouting // 1080. 
 990 is first 7 sec. of audio 

[IRCA] 1530 VOA Sao Tome, easy pickin's

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

--- Begin Message ---
For those of you who haven't got VOA Sao Tome 1530 in the log yet, you might 
want to try at sign-off time.
Recent reception here, really blasting at times, 9 DEC at 2200 UTC / 5 p.m. EST:
https://app.box.com/s/n3f46rwd5em4mgobz6pwgdbx06at2a6b

Perhaps the easiest Trans-Atlantic on a 10 kHz multiple channel.  Super 
selectivity not needed. So go get 'em!
There is also the 0300 UTC / 10 p.m. EST sign-on though that typically has more 
domestic interference (largely WCKY) to battle. That's when they play the 
"Yankee Doodle" theme starting around 0259 UTC.
https://app.box.com/s/3h5ykp9zxyqd9ta3xkdou8385yemqqvi(that one from almost a 
year ago)
Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA, USA

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[IRCA] Cape Cod, MA - loud DX the last few nights

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

--- Begin Message ---
Most of the action has been in the 3 to 4 p.m. EST time range (2000-2100 UTC).  
Later evening results are less impressive.

Nothing super rare but some above average signals on typical stations.

1341 Northern Ireland BBC R. Ulster (16 DEC / 2000 UTC)
https://app.box.com/s/8j75naj2olvfbtdpbunxj5qj0d4k07uy

1179 Romania (16 DEC / 2000 UTC)
https://app.box.com/s/v437je5gozdidv1g6zk3w6ix2reau95h

1521 Saudi Arabia (16 DEC / 2000 UTC)
https://app.box.com/s/y13w0w5c61nflw13t19slg6wxs5ke9ba

1044 Spain SER (15 DEC / 2100 UTC) inbooming!
https://app.box.com/s/sdmvn3qj8jgm7tlccz4hod36mu858r78

909 UK BBC 5 Live (15 DEC / 2100 UTC)
https://app.box.com/s/n2b17z1670sxe352lo4y8oyyfyxkbq0l

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA, USA

Receiver: Elad FDM-S2
See http://shop.elad-usa.com/sdr-radio/fdm-s2/

Antenna: Cardioid pattern SuperLoop: 9m vertical by 20m horizontal (peak 84 
deg., null 264 deg.)
See http://www.bamlog.com/superloop.htm for similar antenna type.--- End Message ---
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Re: [IRCA] 774 in early in Victoria

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

--- Begin Message ---
Have you ever had 774 Japan mixing with 774 Spain and/or Egypt?
Sounds weird but maybe possible out that way around 0600-0700 UTC.
Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA, USA
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[IRCA] 540 Hungary showing up more often

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

--- Begin Message ---
540 Hungary has sometimes been smoking usual CBT, as in this clip:
https://app.box.com/s/zqxzxcl36143zdto8qspyecwefdhy5tn
9 DEC 2018 at 2100 UTC
Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA, USA
Receiver: Elad FDM-S2
See http://shop.elad-usa.com/sdr-radio/fdm-s2/

Antenna: Cardioid pattern SuperLoop: 9m vertical by 20m horizontal (peak 84 
deg., null 264 deg.)
See http://www.bamlog.com/superloop.htm for similar antenna type.
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[IRCA] 549 Ukraine

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--- Begin Message ---
 Roy, thanks for posting the 549 Ukraine clip.  That made me look at some 
recent captures and it turns out that this station has arrived here too..
This is a recording from yesterday (5 DEC) at 2100 UTC / 4 p.m. EST.  For some 
reason Algeria, the usual dominant, was 
subdued.https://app.box.com/s/wcx6rbky2g610gys6joyzbc5mgm9omef
Low band eastern Europe around sunset seems to be a "thing" here lately with 
all of the following making showings in the 2030-2200 UTC stretch:540 
Hungary549 Ukraine576 Bulgaria603 and 756 Romania639 Czech
These stations are over the Spain, Algeria, etc. usuals for a while, then they 
tend to drift into background roles once full darkness is reached.
There is also activity other than typical Spain on 558.  Non-Spanish speech 
pops through for a second or two here and there during splash lulls.  
Unfortunately, on my normal antenna, 560 WGAN horse-whips 558 with huge slop.  
Iran is suspected as the non-Spain 558.
Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA
 
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[IRCA] Hungary 540

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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540 kHz: At 25 sec. in the audio clip below, "Kossuth Radio" ID under dominant 
CBT NL, Canada.  Pips had preceded this and there was some intro music.
https://app.box.com/s/pw4n52fmz1by6w20nkj8tnmku3vzai9q

Recorded 30 NOV 2018 at 2100 UTC.

Confirmed as Hungary thanks to Alessandro Groppazzi on RealDX.  New log here.
Hungary had previously been heard on 1188, 1251, and 1341.

Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA, USA


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[IRCA] antenna raising info from Topband reflector

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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Getting antennas (or rope supports for them) over tall trees is an activity in 
which most of us have partaken, either for ourselves or friends.

This has been a hot topic on the Topband (160-m ham) group recently. Everything 
from compressed-air launching devices to drones to bow-and-arrow techniques 
have been given a mention. I suppose climbing and slingshot use are other 
approaches. 

You may wish to give this a look and then comment here and on other MW DX 
groups about what has or hasn't worked for you.
http://lists.contesting.com/_topband/2018-11/threads.html

I have been using arrows with attached skinny (6 or 8 lb. test) fishing line 
since the late '60s. The arrows aren't that heavy; furthermore, resin / sap, 
along with branch tangles, can gum up the successful descent process. Still 
I've had reasonable success raising antennas for myself and a number of other 
DXers here in MA. 

Step 1 is shooting the arrow with its fishing line over the tree.  Step 2 is to 
load nylon mason's twine at the end from which you've removed the arrow and 
roll in the fishing line from the other end (original shooting position) until 
you have only mason's twine going up, over, and down.  Step 3 is to attach 
heavy weatherproof rope (dacron typically) and reel in all the mason's twine so 
that only heavy rope remains.  Step 4 is to attach and hoist up the antenna 
with whatever insulators, pulleys, etc. that may be desired. 

Back in 1967 I was living next to Menotomy Rocks Park (Arlington, MA) NW of 
Boston. I was installing ham and MW/SW receiving antennas in white pines that 
topped out around 115 ft. / 35m. The town of Carlisle has old-growth white pine 
even a bit taller, likely the tallest trees in eastern MA. Here on Cape Cod 66 
ft. / 20m is about the maximum height of the pitch pines, oaks, and black 
locusts in and near my yard.

Some of the guys out west are dealing with tree heights in the 200 ft. range 
(Douglas fir, redwood, ponderosa pine, etc.). I'm sure what I do here would not 
work for that kind of height. Some of the Topband discussions suggest 
techniques that are successful for getting antennas over those really huge 
trees.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
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[IRCA] pre-sunset

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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The two receptions below are completely plausible at this time of year near 
earliest sunset.

<<
first audibility of the Iranian jammer in Victoria, 22:54UT...may
have been there earlier? 90 minutes until local sunset.

best wishes,

Nick
>>

<<
UNIDENTIFIED. 1521, Nov 28 at 2044 UT, on my MW bandscan in western
Enid, KOKC OKC has a JBA het upon it! Roughly 1 kHz, but I can`t tell
exactly on caradio and whether it`s 1519 or 1521. Could the 2-megawatt
Saudi be propagating this early? (Hauser-OK)
>>

Sunset here in MA late NOV / DEC is about 2115 UTC.  A few years ago during a 
DX get-together at the Cape Cod house of Chris Black (N1CP), we witnessed 1521 
Saudi het at noon EST / 1700 UTC and discernible audio 15 minutes later: 4 
hours pre-sunset.

Inland sites can experience long-haul DX up to 2 hours before sunset; 
salt-water sites - as noted above - can be getting into the game up to 4 hours 
before sunset.

Shorter skip (<2000 km), especially on the upper half of the band, is pretty 
much an all day thing this time of year in northern states and anywhere in 
Canada. 

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Re: [IRCA] TAs, sigh, yet again

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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The main 'raison d'etre' for SDRs:
< On Nov 30, 2018, at 4:47 PM, Volodya S  wrote:
>
> Great reception of Qu'ran recitations at 00:46 on 864 kHz from Egypt.
> Strong, too!  Very nice!  Walt in Victoria>>

Technology has existed at least 10 years to deal with this.
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Re: [IRCA] [CapeDX] QH12 DXpedition - November 10 - 17

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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 Thanks Bill for the results from the most recent Maine DXpedition.  I think, 
on the TP front, you've outdone anyone else in the 6-state New England area 
this autumn.

No TP audio here yet, just waterfall lines at 747 and 774.  972 is doomed with 
Portland on 970 on a not-a-heck-of-a-lot-different bearing.  1566 is no picnic 
either with big adjacent sloppers.

Your report + Bruce's PEI write-up + the NJ shore (LBI) info are certainly the 
go-to documents for this season's East Coast DXing.  Also there have been a 
number of solo efforts including Roy Barstow's beach trips here on Cape Cod.  
I'm thinking of consolidating all the reports into a zip file to be shared,

The Newfoundland DXpedition full recap isn't in yet.  Jim Renfrew had offered a 
few comments.  While we're waiting for that, you can read Allen Willie's notes 
(also in NL) from 12 NOV pasted below.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA

<<
https://www.facebook.com/groups/210104603155267/permalink/307187980113595/

Allen Willie
Conversation Starter · November 12 at 10:28 PM

It has been a great night for Trans-Atlantic DX on Medium Wave (AM ) radio here 
in the North Atlantic .

Here are some of the logs from what has been heard here this evening, including 
the 4 "new" catches for the logbook.

___

531 khz - ALGERIA - Jil FM , F'Kirina 23:50 UTC 11/12/18 w/ music, Arabic talk, 
ID // 549 khz (Strong signal)

531 khz - SPAIN - RNE Radio 5, various 21:05 UTC 11/12/18 w/ Spanish talk, ID 
(under Algeria)

540 khz - HUNGARY - MR1 Radio Kossuth, Solt 20:30 UTC 11/12/18 w/ man in 
Hungarian, mention of Magyar (Signal mixing w/ CBT Grand-Falls - Windsor, 
Newfoundland)

549 khz - ALGERIA - Jil FM, Sidi Hamadouche 00:00 UTC 11/13/18 w/ Arabic 
teletalk and ID

549 khz - UKRAINE - UR 1 Mykolaiv 21:05 UTC 11/12/18 w/ news by man in 
Ukrainian (mixing w/ Algeria)

558 khz - IRAN - IRIB Radio Iran, Tehran 20:45 UTC 11/12/18 w/ Farsi talk

558 khz - SPAIN - RNE Radio 5 , various 20:35 UTC 11/12/18 w/ Music, man in 
Spanish , ID

567 khz - SAUDI ARABIA - SBC Al-Quran al-Karim, various 21:05 UTC 11/12/18 w/ 
chants // 999 khz *** NEW LOG ***

576 khz - SPAIN - Radio Nacional de Espana, various 21:00 UTC 11/12/18 w/ news 
by woman in Spanish, ID

576 khz - BULGARIA - BNR Horizone, Vidin 23:00 UTC 11/12/18 w/ news in 
Bulgarian, music, ID (mix w/ Spain)

585 khz - SAUDI ARABIA - SBC Radio Riyadh/Idha'at ul-Nedaa al-Islam 21:10 UTC 
11/12/18 w/ chants (mixing with Spain ) *** NEW LOG ***

603 khz - SPAIN - Radio RNE 5 , various 20:30 UTC 11/12/18 w/ man in Spanish

612 khz - MOROCCO - SNRT Al Idaâ Al-Watania Meknès, Sebaa-Aioun 23:20 UTC 
11/12/18 w/ Arabic talk and music

621 khz - CANARY ISLANDS / SPAIN - RNE Radio Nacional , various 21:15 UTC 
11/12/18 w/ Spanish commentary, ID

684 khz - SPAIN - Radio Nacional de Espana , Sevilla 21:15 UTC 11/12/18 UTC w/ 
man in Spanish, ID (Strong signal)

693 khz - UNITED KINGDOM - BBC Radio 5, various 21:50 UTC 11/12/18 w/ talk 
about Australia , ID

747 khz - SPAIN / CANARY ISLANDS - Radio Nacional 5 various 20:30 UTC 11/12/18 
w/ commentary by woman in Spanish

774 khz - EGYPT - ERTU Al-Sharq al-Awsat, Abis 21:00 UTC 11/12/18 w/ Arabic 
talk and music

783 khz - SYRIA - SRTV 1 Dimashk , Tartus 20:15 UTC 11/12/18 w/ Arabic talk and 
music, mention of Syrie

792 khz - SPAIN - SER Sevilla , various 21:00 UTC 11/12/18 w/ news in Spanish, 
ID

801 khz - SPAIN - RNE Radio Nacional, various 20:55 UTC 11/12/18 w/ Spanish 
talk , ID ( heard in SSB mode due to local VOWR)

810 khz - SCOTLAND - BBC Radio Scotland 20:55 UTC 11/12/18 w/ discussion 
between two men, ID

810 khz - MACEDONIA - Makedonsko Radio 1, Ovce Pole 1:15 UTC 11/13/18 w/ 
Macedonian talk and folk music , ID

819 khz - EGYPT - ERTU Al-Barnameg al-Aam, Batrah 20:30 UTC 11/12/18 w/ Quranic 
chants, Arabic talk, music

828 khz - AZORES - Antena 1 , Acores 20:30 UTC 11/12/18 w/ Portuguese talk

855 khz - SPAIN - RNE 5 Radio Nacional various 20:50 UTC 11/12/18 w/ two men in 
Spanish, ID

864 khz - EGYPT - ERTU Al-Quran al-Karim, Santah 23:05 UTC 11/12/18 w/ Quranic 
chants , Arabic talk

882 khz - UNITED KINGDOM - BBC Radio Wales 20:25 UTC 11/12/18 w/ talk about 
automobiles, mention UK

882 khz - SAUDI ARABIA - SBC- Al Quran al-Karim 20:25 UTC 11/12/18 w/ chants ( 
heard under BBC Radio Wales) *** NEW ***

900 khz - ITALY - RAI Radio 1 Lombardia, Milan-Siziano 00:50 UTC 11/13/18 w/ 
Italian talk by man

909 khz - UNITED KINGDOM - BBC Radio 5, various 20:45 UTC 11/12/18 w/ talk, ID 
mention of UK (mixing with Romania)

909 khz - ROMANIA - Romania Actualitati, various 23:00 UTC 11/12/18 w/ news by 
man in Romanian (under BBC Radio 5)

954 khz - SPAIN - Onda Cero Radio, Madrid 20:15 UTC 11/12/18 w/man and woman in 
Spanish conversation, ID

954 khz - CZECH REPUBLIC - CRo Dvojka, Dobrochov 23:00 UTC 11/12/18 Carly 
Jespersen song, Orchestral music hymn , ID , Czech talk (mix w/ Spain)

963 khz - TUNISIA - RTT 

[IRCA] propagation article

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Maybe of some relevance to MW DX:
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[IRCA] Cape Cod, MA, USA - logs (2 OCT - 4 NOV)

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--- Begin Message ---
Report from Mark Connelly, WA1ION
Times / dates = UTC / 2018
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)

NOTE:
{A} in entry indicates that audio can be accessed from link on the following 
page:
http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/doc1/audio_2018.htm

Receiver: Elad FDM-S2
See http://shop.elad-usa.com/sdr-radio/fdm-s2/

Antenna: Cardioid pattern SuperLoop: 9m vertical by 20m horizontal (peak 84 
deg., null 264 deg.)
See http://www.bamlog.com/superloop.htm for similar antenna type.

Quantum and Misek-Lankford-Ratzlaff-Newell phasers were used on a few 
receptions (phasing opposite end feedlines of same antenna).

==

*** TRANSATLANTIC DX ***

531 | ALGERIA | Jil FM, F'kirina Wilaya d'Oum El Bouaghi, OCT 7 0130 - Modern 
dance music, Jil FM jingles, Arabic talk by man over musical accompaniment; 
good. {A} + OCT 27 0500 - Marching band anthem, Jil FM ID; fair. [Connelly*Y-MA]

549 | ALGERIA | Jil FM, Les Trembles, OCT 21 2200 - Dance-rock through top of 
hour, Jil FM ID 2201:20, straight into another tune. + OCT 21 2300 - Rhythmic 
music, Jil FM IDs; good. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

576 | BULGARIA | BNR Horizont, Vidin / Gramada, NOV 4 2200 - Slavic talk, pips, 
apparent anthem; to good peak, way over Spain. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

585 | SPAIN | RNE1, Madrid, OCT 11 0400 - Pips, RNE fanfare / news intro; WEZE 
slop. [Connelly*Y-MA]

603 | ROMANIA | R. România Actualitati, Botosani/Oradea, OCT 20 2200 - Hora 
exacta mention, pips; poor, mixed with RNE Spain. + NOV 4 2100 - Man "Radio 
Romania Actualitati, hora exacta"; poor. [Connelly*Y-MA]

603 | SPAIN | RNE5 synchros, OCT 17 2200 - RNE news; poor. + OCT 21 2300 - RNE 
news intro; slightly over probable Romania. [Connelly*Y-MA]

621 | CANARY ISLANDS // SPAIN | RNE1 synchros, OCT 13 2200 - 5+1 pips, fanfare 
music, ID "Radio Nacional de Espana, servicios informativos"; fair on USB. {A} 
+ OCT 20 2200 - RNE intro; WZON slop. + OCT 20 2259 - // 639 with Daft Punk 
"Get Lucky"; fair. + OCT 21 2200 - RNE news intro; poor to fair. [Connelly*Y-MA]

630 | TUNISIA (t) | RTT Radio Nationale, Tunis/Djedeida, OCT 16 2200 - Arabic 
chanting; briefly over pile. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

630 | PORTUGAL | RDP Antena 1, Montemor-o Velho//Miranda do Douro, OCT 27 0500 
- Portugal low-pitch pips; in jumble with WPRO, Latin Americans. [Connelly*Y-MA]

639 | SPAIN | RNE1, La Coruña et al., OCT 17 0400 - 5+1 pips, fanfare music, 
RNE news intro; fair on LSB to dodge CBN. {A} + OCT 20 2201 - Woman with RNE 
news; to good peak, almost equal adjacent 640 CBN. + OCT 20 2259 - Daft Punk 
"Get Lucky" // huge 855; good. + OCT 21 2200 - RNE intro fanfare, news; fair. + 
OCT 27 0459 - Rock // 855. [Connelly*Y-MA]

657 | SPAIN | RNE5, Madrid, OCT 20 2200 - RNE news intro, other under. 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

684 | SPAIN | RNE1, Sevilla, OCT 20 2201 - News // 639; to good peak over WRKO 
slop. [Connelly*Y-MA]

693 | UNITED KINGDOM | BBC Radio 5, Droitwich et al., OCT 20 2300 - BBC Five 
Live ID, news about EU vote in the Hague; fair. + OCT 21 2200 - BBC mention in 
news; poor. + OCT 23 2200 - BBC Five Live ID, news about Brexit-related march 
of 70 people in London; fair. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

711 | unID | ?, OCT 20 2300 - Bits of reverberated chanting; in WOR/Cuba slop. 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

729 | SPAIN | RNE1 synchros, OCT 18 2200 - "Radio Nacional de Espana, servicios 
informativos"; fair. [Connelly*Y-MA]

738 | SPAIN | RNE1, Barcelona, OCT 13 2200 - // 621 with pips, RNE fanfare / 
news intro; fair. + OCT 21 2200 - RNE news; to good peak. [Connelly*Y-MA]

747 | CANARY ISLANDS // SPAIN | RNE5 synchros, OCT 20 2200 - 5+1 pips, RNE 
intro "servicios informativos"; fair. + OCT 20 2259 - // 639 with Daft Punk 
"Get Lucky"; poor to fair. + OCT 23 2200 - RNE intro, woman with news; fair. 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

756 | ROMANIA | SRR Radio România Actualitati, Lugoj/Boldur, NOV 4 2100 - Man 
"Aici Bucuresti, Radio Romania Actualitati, hora exacta"; to fair peak. 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

774 | SPAIN | RNE1 synchros, OCT 9 2300 - 5+1 pips, time "es la una, medianoche 
en Canarias", fanfare music, ID "Radio Nacional de Espana, servicios 
informativos"; {A} + OCT 18 2200 - RNE news; dominant. [Connelly*Y-MA]

774 | EGYPT | ERTU Al-Sharq al-Awsat, Abis, OCT 20 2200 - Dominant with 
dramatic fanfare, man in Arabic; over Spain; near nominal frequency at the 
time. + OCT 21 2200 - Arabic male vocal, 4+1 pips (last higher pitch) about 30 
sec. after Spain's pips which were audible under, on channel at time (no offset 
growl). {A} + OCT 26 0300 - Reverberated Koranic vocal; good, dominant. 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

783 | SYRIA | SRTV 1, Damascus, OCT 19 0300 - Arabic male vocal, military march 
/ anthem; to good peak. {A} + OCT 21 2200 - Arabic vocal and orchestra through 
top of hour; fair. [Connelly*Y-MA]

801 | SPAIN | RNE1 synchros, OCT 20 2259 - // 639 with Daft Punk 

Re: [IRCA] [CapeDX] Last night for the twin Lubec, Maine KiwiSDR

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

--- Begin Message ---
 Bill, I've enjoyed the Maine KiwiSDR's. Those DKAZ antennas do a better job of 
throttling down the Boston and NYC (and I-95 corridor in general) pests than my 
SuperLoop does here SW of you. You do seem to have more Lakes area "pestage" 
there though with Buffalo, Toronto, Cleveland, Detroit, and Chicago packing 
more punch on your end.

Being farther east and in immediate proximity to the ocean gives you more TA's 
in the 2-4 p.m. EST (1900-2100 UTC) slot than I have here. Things get more 
similar after about 2130 UTC. I notice the same thing at sites as close to here 
as Chatham, Orleans, and Eastham, MA. Right on the water makes a huge 
difference in that most useful low-interference pre-sunset period.

I get more Puerto Rico, Cuba, and FL here - no surprise about that.

On 15 NOV I ran 1000 and 1100 UTC captures.

Not ONE HINT of TP DX. I definitely need to try a different antenna.

The snow we had last night melted during the day.

Bill, is there a website of your latest DXpedition logs? It might make a nice 
compliment to the recent PEI and NJ coast outings. I'm looking forward to 
whatever the Newfie crew logs. Locally Roy Barstow has been hauling in the 
goodies at Cape Cod beach sites. On NRC Facebook Allen Willie (NL) and Sylvain 
Naud (QC) have posted quite a bit about TA DX.

I'm sitting on a bunch of captures and audio clips, just need to find the time 
to bang up a report. Also I can relay some of Roy's notes from time to time. 

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA
 
-Original Message-
From: Bill Whitacre b...@his.com [CapeDX] 
To: lbi-dx ; Bruce Conti cont...@gmail.com [CapeDX] 

Sent: Fri, Nov 16, 2018 3:54 pm
Subject: [CapeDX] Last night for the twin Lubec, Maine KiwiSDR

    Tonight is the final night of my DXpedition to Lubec, Maine.
The Lubec Bay Cottage KiwiSDR will go down after 6am tomorrow AM:
http://lbc.proxy.kiwisdr.com:8073/
and the Quoddy House KiwiSDR will change antenna to a ~1000ft. BOG in a 
yet-to-be-determined direction:
http://qhkiwisdr.proxy.kiwisdr.com:8073/
It will remain up, with some luck, until mid-May, 2019 when the rental season 
begins again.
Enjoy ‘em while they last!
Oh, the Lubec Bay Cottage Kiwi is on a 160’ DKAZ at ~ 80 deg. and the one at 
Quoddy House is on a 160’ DKAZ at 35 deg.
The one at Quoddy House is a bit of a TP catcher.  Here is an email I sent this 
morning to the IRCA list:

Quoddy House, Lubec, Maine - November 16, 2018

Korea on 972 was again the most steady of the TPs heard after 0900utc here in a 
snowy Lubec, Maine this morning.  Star of the morning though was 1089-China 
doing very well against WBAL on 1090.

Signals seemed best from straight over the pole to China and Korea rather than 
Japan.

Here, in no particular order are some sound samples:

Japan on 1287 @ 0931utc
http://realmonitor.com/QH12/181116/1287-0931-Nov16.wav

Japan on 774 @ 1018utc
http://realmonitor.com/QH12/181116/774-1018-Nov16.wav

Korea on 1566 @ 1018utc
http://realmonitor.com/QH12/181116/1566-1018-Nov16.wav

Korea on 972 @ 1020 and 1021utc
http://realmonitor.com/QH12/181116/972-1020-Nov16.wav
http://realmonitor.com/QH12/181116/972-1021-Nov16.wav

China on 1089 @ 0954 and 1015utc
http://realmonitor.com/QH12/181116/1089-0954-Nov16.wav
http://realmonitor.com/QH12/181116/1089-1015-Nov16.wav

I wrote down several other frequencies with possible audio during a 1030utc 
scan - 963, 1017, 1098, 1188 and 1215.  TP DXers will recognize those as either 
China or Korea frequencies.  We’ll see what further listening will provide.

For reference, the previous 10 days of geomag indices can be viewed on a 
running graph I keep:

http://tivodxer.com/jpgraph_example3b_multi_y_axis.php

Note A and K indices have fallen way down and Dst has gone up above zero.  All 
are ‘good things’ to trans polar DXers.

Bill Whitacre
… getting ready to dig out some snow
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Re: [IRCA] 702-BBC (Oman) Received in Hawaii

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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The Iranian buzz jammer on 1575 has been killing Farda here recently.

Fade-in before 4 p.m. EST / 2100 UTC today.

702 is usually Algeria here.  Iran likely #2.  Oman's pattern isn't throwing 
much power this way though some East Coast DXpeditions have logged it.

Are Indian stations much of a factor out west (via over-pole reception)?

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA

<<
Yes, Farda has been heard in Masset after VOA and later AFN fade out...Walt

On Thursday, November 15, 2018, Nick Hall-Patch  wrote:

> It would be over the pole on the west coast ocean beaches as well, Gary,
> so, a north facing beach, like at Masset would probably be advantageous.
>
> The beauty of "over the pole" here is that in mid-winter, it might
> possibly show up around local sunrise as well, as Farda occasionally did
> during the last solar minimum.
>
> best wishes,
>
> Nick
>
>
>
> At 06:38 2018-11-14, Gary DeBock wrote:
>
> <<< Gary, I was going through some SDR files from Jan 2010, and on it, I
>> also clearly heard Oman with BBC programs in our local afternoon in Masset.
>> Haven???t heard them since, though. 73, Walt >>>
>>
>> Wow-- if you received them on Masset in the early afternoon, then they
>> were propagating over the pole as a TA. In Hawaii they were following the
>> Central Asia and Pacific route, during TP propagation.
>>
>> 702-BBC in Oman seems to be a Middle Eastern mega-station like 1575-Radio
>> Farda, which is capable of showing up during either our west coast sunrise
>> or sunset propagation. Judging from its strength in Hawaii around 1600 UTC,
>> it's definitely worth a try on west coast ocean beaches around sunrise this
>> winter!
>>
>> Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA)
>>
>>
>> > On November 13, 2018 at 9:51 PM Volodya S  wrote:
>> >
>> >    Gary, I was going through some SDR files from Jan 2010, and on it,
>> I also clearly heard Oman with BBC programs in our local afternoon in
>> Masset. Haven???t heard them since, though.  73, Walt
>> >
>> >    On Tuesday, November 13, 2018, Gary DeBock < d1028g...@comcast.net
>> mailto:d1028g...@comcast.net > wrote:
>> >
>> >    > >  During the recent Poipu, Hawaii Ultralight DXpedition
>> a weak, strange station was showing up on 702 kHz under North Korea's
>> ancient music (and throbbing, off-frequency hum) every morning from
>> 1530-1630 UTC, with a foreign language that was a total mystery to me.
>> Whenever I tried a recording the buzzing hum from North Korea would go on
>> the warpath and derail the effort, and because of the station's marginal
>> signal and NK's obnoxious transmitter it seemed like the 702 UnID would
>> remain a mystery for the duration.
>> > >
>> > >  Finally at 1604 UTC on November 6th the 702 mystery
>> station built up its strength enough to push KCBS and its hum down into the
>> noise, and I was able to get a good recording of a totally unfamiliar
>> language https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/3y5qkg7yu8o49lc4ab520bfiw006kqrg
>> https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/3y5qkg7yu8o49lc4ab520bfiw006kqrg
>> > >
>> > >    Fortunately a couple of awesome Finnish DXers (Mauno and
>> Mika) on Real DX identified the language as Arabic, coming from the BBC
>> Arabic Service transmitter in A'Seela, Oman (at 8,425 miles, or 13,559 km).
>> Even considering the 800 kW transmitter, this was pretty stunning DX for a
>> 5 inch FSL antenna set up near the beach in Poipu, Hawaii.
>> > >
>> > >  Checking John Bryant's records from his 2007 Easter
>> Island DXpedition, I see that John received the 750 kW station 1413-BBC
>> from A'Seela, Oman during his trip, but not this station. Considering the
>> strength and reliability of 702-BBC into Hawaii, my guess is that it could
>> put somewhat of a signal into the west coast in deep winter, especially on
>> the ocean coast when propagation is still in play around 1600 UTC. At least
>> one DXer that I know will be looking for it :-)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >    Gary DeBock (DXing at Poipu, Hawaii from November 3-8)
>> https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/l61xhqoq9ki7b6kl9bz41yunangvr6ap
>> https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/l61xhqoq9ki7b6kl9bz41yunangvr6ap
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
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[IRCA] car radio UK stations Wed. afternoon

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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4:15 p.m. EST / 2115 UTC: 14 NOVRoute 6 - Barnstable, MA
810 BBC R. Scotland mixing evenly with WGY at times
909 Five Live talk hammering 910 WABK
1089 TalkSport demolishing presumed 1090 WILD/WBAL
1053 strong het against 1050 WEPN
693 strong het, bits of audio against 690 CKGM
882 het and audio scratches against 880 WCBS

1215 probable slop from Absolute against 1210 VOAR/WPHT and 1220 WWSF/jumble
1458 probable Lyca hetting 1460 WOPG et al.
Spain also in with a bunch of hets.
Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA
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Re: [IRCA] [CapeDX] Re: TPs in Maine

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 Thanks Bill.  I ran captures at 1000 and 1100 UTC this morning so maybe I'll 
find something.
Of course 972 has Portland on 970 (all water path) on close to the same bearing 
so I don't expect much there.
747 and 774 Japan have appeared before as waterfall lines but no extractable 
audio when captured at dawn about a month ago.
747 is the best candidate as the 750 CBGY/WSB/YVKS/Cuba blob is not 
super-strong at that time.
WABC/Cuba/Colombia 770 is a stronger mess to hack up 774.
Need DKAZ here but not enough space for a proper one.
Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA
 
 
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From: Bill Whitacre b...@his.com [CapeDX] 
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America 

Cc: lbi-dx ; Bruce Conti cont...@gmail.com [CapeDX] 

Sent: Thu, Nov 15, 2018 6:40 am
Subject: [CapeDX] Re: [IRCA] TPs in Maine

Mostly the same as yesterday but weaker and, as Nick Hall-Patch says, more 
‘splashy’ from domestics.

Audio on 972, 774, 747 1566, almost audio on 1287, 1107, 1134, and others.

More later …

—

On Nov 15, 2018, at 4:16 AM, Bill Whitacre  wrote:

> They’re back!  Just got up at 0911utc and have audio on 972!  Woohoo!
> 
> Bill Whitacre
> Lubec, Maine
> 
> —
> 
> On Nov 14, 2018, at 4:59 AM, Bill Whitacre  wrote:
> 
>> Not sure how TP reception here in Maine translates to the midwest and west 
>> coast but I hope someone besides me is listening!
>> 
>> I’ve had pretty decent audio so far on 972, 1206, 1287 and to a lesser 
>> extent on 774 and 1566.
>> 
>> Pretty amazing, actually.
>> 
>> More to follow … with audio.
>> 
>> Bill Whitacre
>> … Lubec, Maine on DXpedition
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Re: [IRCA] [CapeDX] Lubec KiwiSDR

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 Many of the stations are the same as what I'm getting here except:Boston and 
NYC stations are reduced better thanks to DKAZLess Cuba and Latin America in 
general.TA's similar stations dominating, some clearer due to lower domestic 
slop.  10 kHz channel TA's more consistent, e.g. 1080 Spain beating WTIC 
regularly versus you have to wait for lucky fades here; ditto 810 BBC Scotland 
against WGY.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
 South Yarmouth, MA
 
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To: Bruce Conti cont...@gmail.com [CapeDX] 
Sent: Tue, Nov 13, 2018 10:38 am
Subject: [CapeDX] Lubec KiwiSDR

    I switched the radio over to the 35 deg. DKAZ as that gives a better shot 
at Europe and the Middle East on MW.  I saw a carrier on 972 this morning and 
heard some mumbling male & female talk at one point so it may well be that some 
TPs make it this week.  We’ll see.http://qhkiwisdr.proxy.kiwisdr.com:8073

An ‘all day wet’ here today so will be doing some inside stuff; like listening 
to some sounds and doing inventory on stuff I keep in storage.
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[IRCA] 909 UK blowing away 910 on car radio in daylight

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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While driving home from a shopping trip I did a little car radio "dial 
twisting" on AM and ran into a number of TA hets at 3:55 p.m. EST / 2055 UTC.  
This is about a half hour before local sunset.
Biggest TA signal was BBC Five Live UK on 909.  It was totally creaming 910 
(WABK-ME mostly, bits of others including WLAT-CT under).  The BBC audio came 
through fine on peaks even though the car radio only tunes in 10 kHz 
increments.  The heterodyne was screamer-loud even during fades when some 910 
audio emerged from the imbroglio.
Location: Route 6 at Exit 6 (Route 132) - Barnstable, MA.
I'm mentioning this mostly for propagation information.  Certainly not rare DX.

Meanwhile at home the SDR was making a capture file 5 minutes later.  Maybe 
something good on that.

Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA
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[IRCA] Fwd: A Good Night at the Chatham Light House for DX (UTC 10/25-26/2018)

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Late October notes from Roy Barstow DXpeditioning at Chatham, MA

  
12ft. stick (= 6 ft. high x 12 ft. wide SuperLoop) w/amp.  FDM-S2   sunset 5:46 
PM EST / 2146 UTC

6 PM  2200 UTC 10/25   70  Deg.

639  Double pips - Believe Spain and CZE.

711  MRC. - Talk  // 936

720  Greenland - On top w/ woman singing, then a man with I.D. Throw in some 
theme music and into presumed news.

756  Portugal - Pips and bells. On top at S 5-6 with a slow vocal song. // 666

783  Big carrier but no audio. Maybe Mauritania w/OC.

837 and 846 - T - Iran with Mid-East music.

1035  EST. - TWR T - Talk fair w/slop.

1170  Asian music.  More on this frequency later.

1350  Unknown - 7 pips in the mix.


   2215    60 Deg.

720  Greenland - A slow paced man talking. Still on top w/others starting to 
mix.

756  Portugal - Still on top. //  666

1062  Iran - Koran type program.

1278  Iran with talk.

1431  DJI - Fair w/slop.

1539  Iran - Mid-East music in fair.


    2230    60

558  Iran - Sitar instrumental selection. S 6-7.

585  ARS. - SBC R. Riyadh - Good with Mid-East music. NO SIGN OF SPAIN..
    585  Iran gone.

603  Romania - Fair with woman vocal.  //  1593.

666  Unknown - Mid-East station mixing with Portugal.

I am skipping files, as to me not interesting. Like give me that good stuff..


 2330  130  Deg.

576  AFS. - Meyerton - Religious program. Woman in English saying, The 
Religious Line is Open. End of the file best at S 6-7.

612  MRC. - Talk and maybe Iran under them.

1290.3  Carrier, presume Brazil. (yes)

1503  Egypt - Koran in good.

1575  Unknown - Not // Spain. 3+1 pips along with a hum. Maybe U.A.E..
  Have not heard the Iran buzz saw of late, maybe in the shop to 
sharpen.


    2345    90  Deg.

945  Romania - 2 men talking.  //  1593

1035  Iran now with Mid-East music // 1071

1071  Iran - As above with maybe Egypt under them.

1107  Kenya - KBC R. Taifa, Maralal - Mixing w/Spain at end of file. Talk and 
music. Vocal w/heavy beat.  //  1152.

1152  Kenya - KBC R. Taifa, Wajir - As above but stronger. At 11:43:53 the same 
word and intonation as on 1107. The word sounded like, "Atool. They should be 
off the air unless schedule changed or a special occasion. In over Spain at end 
of file.

1197  Iran - Very end of file w/Koran.

1233.018  Carrier

1242.017  Carrier. Maybe Oman. Like maybe like me, An old man. Ha Ha.

1467  France and Iran higher up.


        90

702  Iran on top along with Algeria w/coran.

945  Iran w/ Koran and maybe the unknown talker Romania.

1107  Kenya - Under Spain - Man and a woman in talk. At 12:02:53 the woman 
said, by mutual council of --.  Best on USB.

1152  Kenya - Under Spain - At 12:01:56 the man said, On the face of Americas 
most -.  Also best on USB.

1314  Romania - T - Antena Satelor - With a heavy repetitive beat music. Not 
Spain and no // found.

1170  U.A.E. - T - Mid-East music under WWVA.

1593  Egypt - Koran program in fair w/ Romania pips mixing.


  0030  10-26-2018    90 Deg.


585  Zanzibar - Chumbuni - Tanzania - At 12:29:41 a woman in English saying," 
By the scenes of the ocean park." Also after some theme music she said, in 
partnership and some more words. At 12:31:20 she said what sounded like, 
Zabare. I.D. Then more theme music into maybe news by a man in Unknown 
language. Seems to be on the low side of 585. Best on L.S.B. with Spain mixing 
toward end of the file.

1071  3 stations. 2 w/talk and 1 with Koran type program.

1332  Romania - Talk- //  1593 and also unknown under. Maybe Egypt or Iran.

1566  Benin - Talk but weak.


 0100  90

585  Zanzibar - Short talk and at 1:01:06 into a short guitar solo. Back into 
talk.
  Spain under and over at times along w/pips.

710  Cuba - On top of NYC.

774  Egypt - Good at S-8. On top w/ 5 pips last one at a higher pitch.

880  WZAB - FL. - T - Talking about stock prices.

1070  CLM. - In the mix w/ I.D. Bogota.


Ok on 1170 which has been off for maybe 2 weeks. This Cape Cod station was on 
into the night past its daytime period. Then gone the next day. Also another 
station has taken over the 1170 outlet that was U.A.E. The unrest continues in 
that area of the country. Would not want to take a vacation that neck of the 
woods, or should say, Desert.


Take care,

OLD ROY FROM OLD CAPE COD
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Re: [IRCA] BOG question

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I find it interesting that a very similar BOG / receiving antenna discussion is 
also going on with the Topband reflector.

There's a fair amount of belief that terminated loops in a phased array or just 
a single double loop style (DHDL, DKAZ, Bowtie, Waller Flag) can deliver as 
good or better RDF (directivity figure of merit) as a single BOG / Beverage on 
an equivalent size piece of land.  Staggered phased Beverages are likely 
another matter.

Neil Kazaross in IL makes use of both terminated loops and BOG's and I believe 
Tim Tromp in MI does too.  Perhaps Mark Durenberger and Walter Salmaniw as well.

Comments from those guys and others could be valuable.

I believe both types of antennas are presently in use by the PEI DXpedition..

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
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[IRCA] PEI DXpedition website

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Info from Bruce Conti on NRC Facebook page:

https://www.bamlog.com/pedx2018.htm 

 The 2018 Prince Edward Island DX'pedition website is up and running, so far 
just some of my logbook entries for a test run... Updates as time allows. 
Transatlantic DX is in by 3:00 p.m. Atlantic time, so we're all busy at our 
receivers well before dark.

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[IRCA] 1170 WFPB MA silent

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For at least a week now 1170 WFPB Orleans, MA has been off the air.

I don't think this had been reported on any DX forums yet though I may have 
missed it.

Perhaps not widely noted as the signal feeds more fish than people.

In early October it was noted with very bad audio:  sub-pirate-quality I'd say. 
Likely a precursor to something blowing up. 

While WFPB stays dark, late afternoon 1170 TA and Brazil DX will be easier here 
in eastern New England. 

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA

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[IRCA] Bulgaria 576, Romania 756 last night

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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A couple of capture files done yesterday were just checked briefly.
4 p.m. EST / 2100 UTC, 4 NOV has Romania in the clear on 756 with usual "Aici 
Bucuresti" ID.  Just strong enough to get over the S-5 wall of local electrical 
noise.  Minimal domestic / Latin Am. slop.  Would have been even better at a 
beach site, away from power lines.

5 p.m EST / 2200 UTC, 4 NOV has Bulgaria on 576 up to a pretty good peak, well 
over RNE Spain (the usual dominant here).  Slavic talk, pips, very Russian 
sounding march-like (possible) anthem.
There seems to be a good amount of other stuff on these captures.  Strongest at 
2100 UTC is Absolute on 1215, even better than the 1521 Saudi.  Egypt on 864 
also really good at 2100 UTC, a half hour before sunset.

Still looking for 540 Hungary here even as others east and west of me pick it 
up.  Typically 540 is WLIE-NY pre-sunset, then CBT-NL takes over.  Under-stuff 
is usually WFLF-FL, HICM (R. ABC) Dom. Rep., R. Autentica (Colombia), Rebelde 
Cuba - so quite a high muck level by full darkness.

I've been evaluating the Elad FDM-S2 rather than using the Perseus lately.  The 
receiver seems to be doing a good job though I like the AM SYNC detection mode 
on the Perseus better.  Certainly a good deal at under $600 US.  Other than 
that, not a whole lot of difference between the radios.  Unlike my old QTH near 
680 WRKO, there are no front-end-challenging blowtorch locals here so it's hard 
to evaluate "crunchproof-ness".

Best of luck to all of those DXpeditioning in various locales now.  I'm 
enjoying the reports as they float in, along with everyone else's home QTH logs.
Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA, USA
(GC= 41.6931 N / 70.1912 W) (grid FN41vq)

Receiver: Elad FDM-S2
See http://shop.elad-usa.com/sdr-radio/fdm-s2/

Antenna: Cardioid pattern SuperLoop: 9m vertical by 20m horizontal (peak 84 
deg., null 264 deg.)
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Re: [IRCA] Greenland into Michigan right now

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No 650 Greenland here yet.  The channel is all CKGA over WSRO early and, by a 
couple of hours after dark, a roiling stew of those plus Colombia, Cuba, and 
WSM.

I have had 720 a few times though S-5 line noise has the channel not too usable 
in the should-be-useful just before sunset period.  Nearby-beach outing would 
nail it on a regular basis when no auroral activity.

Canaries and Portugal are in the low-level 720 jumble right after sunset and 
Brazil, Colombia, WGN, WRZN, and others join in post-dusk.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION

South Yarmouth, MA
grid FN41vq

<<
Awesome job with 650, Tim. I believe that may be the first reception of KNR
650 in the USA. I don't recall it being heard on Cape Cod way back years
ago, but Mark C's recollection will be better than mine.
I also don't think Bill has heard that one in Lubec where he'd have loads
of CKGA QRM, but then again, maybe he has them.

73 KAZ.. needing to do a lot of antenna work today so I can better get in
on the TA fun.
>>

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Re: [IRCA] DKAZ and Flag data

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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I concur: the PDF presentation of the data saved me time since I was about to 
paste it into Excel, or rather its Open Office clone, here.

The 18 x 18 ft. corner fed loop (a.k.a. SuperLoop?) does look pretty good.  
I've always had pretty good luck at the shore with a 6.6 x 6.6 ft. (2x2m) 
"micro SuperLoop" on the car roof:
https://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/loop/car_roof_loop.htm

Admittedly something that small needs a lot of amp gain but, remarkably, it 
gets almost as much DX as a larger antenna of similar shape, at least at a high 
signal level seashore site.
A bigger SuperLoop I used here a long time for South American / Caribbean DX 
was 10m vertical by 11m horizontal (33 x 36 ft.); peak 165 deg., null 345 deg.  
So also an almost-square shape.  Amplification not usually required.

This provided good back nulls with only a bit of termination resistance 
tweaking needed across the band.  Presently it is out of service because of 
tree damage during a storm a few months back.  Something similar will go back 
up before long.  The larger peak-east / null-west SuperLoop is what I having 
been using most of the time except for occasional smaller temporary test 
antennas,

Customarily, going back to the first articles on the Ewe in QST ('90s), 
antennas in the Ewe / Flag / SuperLoop family were spec'ed with a horizontal 
dimension about double the vertical one.  But width to height ratios less than 
2 seem to work fine, as noted above.

Kaz deltas are usually specified with width 3 to 4 times height but in testing 
at my former Billerica, MA QTH I successfully used ones with that ratio closer 
to 2.

Of course the DKAZ does better than single loop designs in terms of a wider 
null zone.  The penalty is that you need a lot more space, something many of us 
don't have, so we may need to resort to one-frequency-at-a-time phasing to take 
down the worst pests. 

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA

<<
Thanks for reformatting and posting this, Nick! The 18 X 18 corner fed loop
looks better than I expected; I may try this with a FLG100LN in the limited
space I'll have at Cape Lookout in a few days.

73,

Guy Atkins
Puyallup, WA
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Re: [IRCA] KAZ versus Pennant/Flag

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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I think one question that may have been hinted-at is if you have to keep your 
DKAZ on the shorter side horizontally, can you make up the poor low band gain 
by going higher on the vertical dimension?

For the EZNEC experts: If you had two 50 ft. trees 50 ft. apart and hung up 
your antenna so the apex points were 46 ft. up and the base wires 6 ft. up, and 
had an end to end length of 100 ft., could such a DKAZ compete with one about 
1.5 times that length but half the height?

Obviously gain isn't the whole game.  The null zone has to be substantially 
wider than that of a regular Flag / SuperLoop and it has to hold up well across 
the band without a constant need to tweak the termination via Vactrol or 
something else while moving around the band.

That Powerpoint presentation referenced by Nick was interesting in that it 
covered many kinds of MW antennas but didn't say much about the Beverage, once 
considered the king of DX antennas.

I tried a reduced size (less than 80 ft. end to end) DKAZ here and, yes, it was 
gain-dead on the lower half of the band.  I wasn't even convinced that the null 
zone was any better or more consistent across bandwidth than SuperLoops that 
have served me well here.

I have also used a Bowtie with mixed results.  See 
http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/pictures1/bowtie_s_yarmouth.gif for diagram.  I 
welcome comments from others who have used a similar antenna.  How it compares 
with DKAZ would be the most relevant topic.

DHDL is a related type:
https://dh1tw.de/double-half-delta-loop-dhdl-receiving-antenna/

My biggest pests are the NYC stations about 200 miles to the west.  There is 
mixed groundwave and skywave at night.  The apparent arrival angles on the 
higher band stations such as 1130, 1190, 1280, and 1560 move around a lot.  A 
proper DKAZ, an array of them, or Lankford's set-up would be just the ticket to 
get that big wide back null covering that wide spray-pattern of bounce angles.

With only about 100 ft. of east-west usable yard space, that just isn't going 
to happen here.

What I wind up with instead is likely to be the null-west SuperLoop, a 
null-north one, and one-frequency-at-a-time phasing during live DX to throttle 
down the persistent super-pests that just won't go away otherwise.

On the car roof, I used to phase a loop versus an active whip and I could get 
nulls much deeper than what the loop alone gave .. but only on one frequency at 
a time.

The Split Flag / Split SuperLoop designs might also be worth a look to see if 
reasonable gain and directivity can be mustered in a less-than-140 ft. length.  
The inconvenience of these typically requiring three tall supports may tend to 
rule them out for some.
http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/pictures1/dual_feed_split_flag.gif
http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/pictures1/dual_feed_split_superloop_38m_long.gif
http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/pictures1/split_superloop_201709.gif

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA
 
<<
Well here's something that's been on my mind lately, regarding
differences between superloops and the DKAZ:

It seems to be my experience so far that at night, the back and side
nulling characteristics of these antennas changes, due to sky wave vs.
ground wave, yes? Which one is more affected by those changes?

Mark
Goshen, IN

On 2018-10-24 1:42 pm, Chuck Hutton wrote:
> Mark -
>
>
> No arrogance detected here.
>
> Now back to the issue of DKAZ low band performance...?
>
>
> Chuck
>
>
> 
> From: IRCA  on behalf of Mark Pettifor
> 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 8:58 AM
> To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] KAZ versus Pennant/Flag
>
>
> Apologies, Chuck, and to the rest here. In looking back at my post, I
> realize I could have said things a lot less arrogantly and put-offish.
> That's how I sounded to myself anyway after re-reading what I posted.
>
> 73,
> Mark
>
> On 2018-10-24 1:57 am, Chuck Hutton wrote:
>> Mark -
>>
>>
>> I suppose we all agree that the DKAZ has nailed some great catches.
>>
>> My goal was to point out a shortcoming, not to say that it can't hear
>> DX a la Colombia / Venezuela / Nicaragua.
>>
>>
>> Chuck
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Re: [IRCA] Tasmania into Michigan, Oct.23rd, 2018

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Congratulations Tim in MI on the Down Unders, also congrats to Kaz in IL.

This makes me wonder about these stations making it another 700-1000 miles to 
MA, NH, ME, PEI etc.

If I don't get them, maybe Bruce Conti in NH has a shot or perhaps they reach 
the PEI or Lubec, ME DXpedition sites where better antennas would be in use.

Sunrise DX here, in the few times I've done it, has been unproductive so far.  
Mostly domestics and Cubans.  870 WWL, 1120 KMOX, and 1540 KXEL are about as 
far west as I can hear (+ a couple of Texas stations in the above 1610 stretch).

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA, USA

<<
Thanks, Chuck.  Hearing that fanfare is like a DX adrenaline rush and I
never get tired of hearing it!

I wondered about the time pips too.  Signals were good yesterday morning at
TOH and I noticed not all of the ABC stations used time pips.

73,
Tim Tromp
West Michigan


On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 9:52 PM Chuck Hutton  wrote:

> Congratulations to Tim for a catch to remember. Is it true you now hum the
> ABC fanfare while going to work?
>
> 7RN is not normally strong even at the coast. This should go into the Hall
> of Fame along with Nigel's Coast Radio 1584 reception.
>
>
> Yes Kaz, it's hit or miss as to whether you will hear pips from ABC. Maybe
> half the stations? I don't count on the pips but rather try to focus on the
> fanfare.
>
>
> Chuck
>
>
> 
> From: IRCA  on behalf of Neil Kazaross <
> neilka...@gmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 6:41 PM
> To: irca@hard-core-dx.com
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] Tasmania into Michigan, Oct.23rd, 2018
>
> Congrats Tim!!! Gary, here in the upper Midwest we have somewhat of an
> advantage for DU's as unless cx are extremely low A and K for a LONG LONG
> time we don't have to worry about Japan/Korea/China etc making it thru the
> AU zone.
> Tim you may want to carefully check the spectrum and see if 2WEB's carrier
> came up also on 585. It surpassed 7RN briefly when I logged 7RN last year..
> But in repeated replays. I cannot be sure there was any mx from 2WEB.
>
> To me it seems that some Aussie ABC or RN's use pips but many don't. Please
> clarify west coast guys!
>
> Yeah, stuff in really good cx can still be audible 15 minutes past LSR
> here, but by 25 min past, fugetaboutit.
>
> Tim, I hope you can nail down Tonga on 1017. Best ever here Monday and no
> doubts.
>
> Laura and I were out very late last night so slept in this morning. Deaths
> in her family and especially her tiny dog that never left her presence for
> 10 years has my poor wife still in mourning so we make sure to try to sleep
> as needed. Apologies to those awaiting me finishing the Mexican List.
>
> 73 KAZ
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 8:07 PM Gary DeBock  wrote:
>
> > Congratulations on the reception of 585-7RN in Michigan, Tim-- that's
> > pretty phenomenal DX for such a great distance.
> >
> > 585-7RN was hitting S9 peaks at the Rockwork cliff two months ago, so
> it's
> > understandable how it could propagate well inland. But Michigan seems to
> be
> > in an entirely different propagation league. Awesome!
> >
> > Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA)
> >
> > > On October 23, 2018 at 5:45 PM Tim Tromp  > kilok...@gmail.com > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >    585 7RN, finally good enough to claim this morning with clear ABC
> > Majestic
> > >    Fanfare at 12:00 UTC TOH and the followed by DU talk under domestic
> > >    splatter. New log and distance record for me at 9,770 miles (15,723
> > km).
> > >
> > >    576 2RN Sydney also had clear pips and Majestic Fanfare at 12:00
> UTC
> > TOH,
> > >    but not much else.
> > >
> > >    612 had 4QR Brisbane was at a nice level at 12:00 TOH and good for
> > at least
> > >    10 minutes past local sunrise (12:10 UTC), much of the talk was
> > >    intelligible, which was nice for a change!
> > >
> > >    Bits of DU audio also noted on 594, 702 & 738 but not as good as
> the
> > two
> > >    above. 558 also had some weak audio there but was destroyed by
> WIND..
> > >
> > >    73,
> > >    Tim Tromp
> > >    West Michigan
> > >    Perseus SDR + southwest phased BOGs
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[IRCA] some East Coast reports

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

--- Begin Message ---
 With so many reports from the West Coast, I'm forwarding some East Coast 
coverage from two of our more active DXers, Roy Barstow and Bruce Conti.
At the beach Roy is hearing stuff beyond just the routine big-gun TA's an hour 
pre-sunset and a half hour before anything interesting shows up here.  This is 
consistent with what I note on seashore DXpeditions: usable DX at least an hour 
earlier than when any second-tier type stuff starts showing up even just 10 
miles inland.
Roy is using a SuperLoop 6 ft. vertical by 12 ft. horizontal with about 15 dB 
amplifier gain.  I wonder what size DKAZ that would equate to in low band 
sensitivity.

In a few days I'll have some of my own stuff up as well.
Then there will be logs from the NJ and PEI DXpeditions before long.  Not sure 
what's scheduled for Newfie 2018 activity.  DXers can follow day to day logs up 
that way via Allen Willie's Facebook postings.  Sylvain Naud in eastern Quebec 
has also been getting active.

Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA 
-Original Message-
From: roybars...@hotmail.com [CapeDX] 
To: CapeDX 
Sent: Wed, Oct 24, 2018 6:57 pm
Subject: [CapeDX] Sandy Neck Beach DX Barnstable, MA. on 10/18/2018

    To much coming in so I have to shorten the list.
    Spain531, 558, 567, 576 (2), 585, 603, 612, 621, 639, 648, 657, 
666, 684, 693, 720, 729, 738, 747, 774, 783, 801,810, 837, 855, 864, 873, 936, 
954, 990, 999, 1017, 1026, 1044, 1080, 1098, 1107, 1116, 1125, 1134, 1143,1152, 
1179, 1296, 1305, 1314, 1143, 1152, 1179, 1296, 1305, 1314, 1413, 1485, 1503, 
1539, 1548, 1575,1584, 1602.
    UK693, 810, 882, 909, 1053, 1089, 1152, 1197, 1215, 1278, 1296, 
1341, 1368, 1458(2), 1548, 1557.
  Ok now for some DX
 2100    Sunset at 2156 Ant.   70  Deg.
720  Unknown with music, no ID. Maybe the Boston pirate.
981  Algeria - Fair w/slop - Talk and music.
1503  Egypt and Spain mixing and best on 1502 as a carrier on 1504.
1521  ARS - Good w/talk.

    2130    90 Deg.
Noted that Egypt on 774 as strong as 770 NY.
819  Egypt - Talk weak w/slop.
936  Spain and Mrc.
1008  Hol. - T - with light music.
1510  WMEX  The South Shore radio station (relay WATD 95.9). Strong .

  2145 90
carrier on or around 1188.210
1278  Egypt - T -
1332  Romania - With talk.
1386.210  carrier.

  2200    30  Deg.  Looking for Greenland, etc.
720  Double pips - Spain, Por. - Rou.  in play.
810  Spain.
846  Ireland - T - Bits of audio but weak.
900  Pips.
990  Spain - Spanish talk w/ 5+1 pips.
1035  Estonia - T - Man talking.
1152  UK. - LBC News - London. - Fair, USB English with Brits. Man and a woman 
alternating with news.
1197  UK. - Absolute - Weak with talk .  //  1215
1278  UK. - English - Presume Pulse 2, Bradford. Last part of file best with 
man saying, Now Americasconstant? in Sudan.  In at S 5-6.
1332  UK - Smooth Radio - in weak - //1557
1368  UK. - Manx Radio - weak w/talk.
1458  UK. - Gold, Manchester - Fair on top with heavy beat music with Brit 
talking over the musicat times.  //1548.
1548  UK. - Gold, London - As above but stronger.
1557  UK. - Smooth Radio - Music -  // 1332

    2215  110
612  Mrc and Spain mixing.
675  LBY. - Fair w/music.
783  Syria - Mid-East music at S 6-7.
801  Spain - Fair w/slop.
855  Rou. - Fair, mixing w/Spain.
963  Tun. -  Music in fair.
1062  Italy - T - Woman sounded Italian and man talking. Should be off?
1071  Egypt -  Fair w/talk and slop.
1170  UAE. -  First part of file buried WWVA.  Will try to post on my flicker 
site.
1197  LSO. - LNBS Ultimate FM - Lancer's Gap - Man and a woman talking in 
English. - Not // Absolute.
1377  Arm. - TWR - w/talk.
1512  ARS. - Quran type mixing w/ Greece.

    2230    110
595  Talk but weak.  //  612    Noticed they have better audio recently.
603  Egypt - ERTU Koran Prgr. - W/ Koran under Spain. Best on 622.5 along w/ 
splatter.
648  Spain with ARS. under them w/music.
702  Iran - Music, "Flight of the Bumblebee",  // 1098.  Also along with 
Algeria with a woman talking in Frenchalong w/music mostly of stringed 
instruments. Algeria all alone at the end of the file.
711  MRC. - Talk with another station under them w/ Mid-East music.
729  AFS - T -  Weak under Spain.
756  Romania - Talk and mixing w/presumed Iran.
765  Iran - Mixture of talk and music.
792  Spain - And unknown under them- ARS. or Iran.
837  Iran and Spain mixing.
846  AFS. - T - Preaching.
864  Spain on top of Egypt, then last part of file Egypt buried them. Reception 
can change fast at time even in a small file. that is why I sometimes record 
every 15 minutes.
873  ARS. - SBC - Quran under Spain and // to 882 under the UK.
917  Nigeria - Bits of talking.
918  Iran or Egypt with Mid-East music. Spain, Madrid has bit the dust..
927  Unknown - Weak audio.
999  Spain - Madrid - So strong that 1,000 was just a het.
1062  Iran - USB. w/ 

Re: [IRCA] [badx] Re: LOG: CKLQ 880

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

--- Begin Message ---
 Good log Paul.  880 here besides WCBS has been a consistent mix of a Progreso 
Cuban and WZAB in the Miami, FL metro .. which goes to show that I hear a lot 
better south than west from here.

 Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA
 
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From: 'Paul B. Walker, Jr.' walkerbroadcast...@gmail.com [badx] 

To: ABDX ; Hard-Core-DX ; 
Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America 
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; badx 
Sent: Wed, Oct 24, 2018 11:49 am
Subject: [badx] Re: LOG: CKLQ 880

    CKLQ-AM 880 Brandon, Manitoba seems to be regular visitor at sunrise here 
at 1175 miles/1890km away. I've heard them 3 mornings in a row!! Too bad I 
discover that a week before I move! I have a window of less than 10 minutes 
where I have the possibility of hearing CKLQ on 880. Right before/about NYC 
Sunrise about 715 I have less then 10 minutes of a window in which to hear CKLQ.
Here's a clip from this morning, Wed Oct 24 at 724am eastern/624 am central of 
morning hosts Trent Bartley and Leeanne Doty talking about voting in Brandon.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mVRF_-URh9PtHFNydMoYn_IL6khzCCE0/view?usp=sharing
This is a clip from 720am eastern/620am central on Tue Oct 23 with an ad for SA 
Energy, an ad for a drug store, a contest call in giveaway, a station liner and 
into "Make A Little" by 
Midlandhttps://drive.google.com/open?id=1ICmxUvFPD2qmTbU24_L67umXSM12E3LH
I hit the road Sunday for my new location. I am not mentioning where I'm moving 
yet, not that many care.. but will probably be away from my "DX Shack" gear for 
a month or two until I get settled into a new place and can get things set up.
Paul


On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 8:20 PM Paul B. Walker, Jr. 
 wrote:

CKLQ-AM 880 Brandon, MB, Canada made an appearance once again today, Tuesday 
Oct 22 just as the sun rose in NYC and it was still dark here in the NW corner 
of Pennsylvania. They're 1175 miles away from me 
Here's a clip from 711am eastern with Marren Morris and "80's Ladies", this one 
actually peaks up to quite decent levels for a short time:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bTKvQREOzHfwwpoaLSIuM8u7ElsE53Rm/view?usp=sharing
Here's a clip from 721am mentioning "Westman Communications", a telecom company 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DcdJn2FZAhOq-FPwUSyb6b78qT4oHF57/view?usp=sharing
Here's a clip from 723am eastern with a "Q Country 91.5" liner into "Tennessee 
River" By Alabama:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SKRaOWevxv38WEtNZuErQ10U0x4YwZRQ/view?usp=sharing
On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 10:20 AM Paul B. Walker, Jr. 
 wrote:

Heard about 715am eastern/1115utc Sunday Oct 21 with QCountry mentions, local 
DJ, local weather given.   I heard the FM this summer as well
1175 miles 
Paul WalkerRidgway PATecsun PL880, 300 foot long wire and signal preamp 

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[IRCA] TA screening procedure for SDR captures

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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A quick Trans-Atlantic screening procedure for medium-wave SDR captures, as 
outlined below, can save a lot of time when going through "gaggles" of files 
representing hours of full-band reception.  Less useful, a.k.a. "naff", files 
can be given a cursory review for other DX or just be given the old heave-ho to 
save time and hard drive space.

A reasonable TA opening (and the regional characteristics thereof) can be sized 
up well by the reception quality of each of these major players:

NW Europe: (all UK) 693, 882, 909, 1089, 1215, 1341

NE Europe: (Lithuania) 1386

W Mediterranean (Algeria-Spain-Morocco) 531, 549, 585, 612, 621, 639, 684, 738, 
774, 837, 855, 936, 1044, 1098, 1107, 1422

E Mediterranean and W Asia: (Syria) 783, (Egypt) 864, (Iran) 1188, (Greece + 
Saudi Arabia) 1512, (Saudi Arabia) 1521, (Iran + UAE) 1575

other propagation check: 1179 is Romania or Spain/Canaries dominating?

Mid Africa: (Sao Tome VOA) 1530, (Benin TWR) 1566.  If Mauritania 783 ever 
comes back on, add that.

Deep Africa, not too much there usually but try for S. Africa and Botswana: 
567, 576, 648, 657, 702, 729, 828, 846, 909 all of which have been heard in the 
New England states and Canadian Atlantic provinces.

South Africa to US East Coast distances are similar to Down Under to West 
Coast: well in excess of 1 km.  In both cases summer can be the best time 
to DX those areas as noted by the Rockworks (OR) DXpeditions out west and Roy 
Barstow's Cape Cod summer beach outings on this side of the continent.
Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA, USA

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[IRCA] OT - VE1ZZ

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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For those of us in medium wave DX who also like to know about what hams refer 
to as Topband or 160m (1800-2000 kHz), you may want to read of the passing of a 
true giant in the hobby, Jack VE1ZZ of Nova Scotia.

http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/topband/2018-10/msg00105.html

The write-up by Jeff K1ZM, a published author and one of the East Coast's other 
big guns, is well worth a read.

Jack's set-up, like those of last century's W1BB in MA and W6AM in CA, was a 
coastal superstation that could hear a pin drop in a mud hut on the other side 
of the planet.  The K1ZM write-up goes into some of the antenna and equipment 
choices and d-i-y skills that, along with the salt water proximity, made VE1ZZ 
among the biggest signals on the band even in far-off deserts and jungles.
 
Mark Connelly, WA1ION
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[IRCA] 1530 VOA Sao Tome monster-loud

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1530 VOA Sao Tome sign-off 6 p.m. EDT / 2200 UTC, 18 OCT: well over WVBF MA.

https://app.box.com/s/6vomrdtyaidnqfcogudf6sm0qm3ikw1s

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

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

--- Begin Message ---
Report from Mark Connelly, WA1ION
Times / dates = UTC / 2018
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)

NOTE:
{A} in entry indicates that audio can be accessed from link on the following 
page:
http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/doc1/audio_2018.htm

Receiver: Microtelecom Perseus
See http://microtelecom.it/perseus/

Antenna: Cardioid pattern SuperLoop: 9m vertical by 20m horizontal (peak 84 
deg., null 264 deg.)
See http://www.bamlog.com/superloop.htm for similar antenna type.

==

*** TRANSATLANTIC DX ***

531 | ALGERIA | Jil FM, F'kirina Wilaya d'Oum El Bouaghi, SEP 29 0500 - 
Marching band anthem with chorus, Jil FM ID's, 2+2+1 pips, fanfare music; good. 
{A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

603 | SPAIN | RNE5 synchros, SEP 29 2300 - RNE news intro; poor, some slop from 
WFST. [Connelly*Y-MA]

684 | SPAIN | RNE1, Sevilla, SEP 29 0300 - Mexican ranchera vocal, 5+1 pips, 
RNE news intro; to good peak over WRKO slop. [Connelly*Y-MA]

693 | UNITED KINGDOM | BBC Radio 5, Droitwich et al., SEP 29 0300 - Five Live 
news; hollow / synchro-echoey, Spain under. [Connelly*Y-MA]

747 | CANARY ISLANDS // SPAIN | RNE5 synchros, SEP 29 0300 - Pips, RNE intro // 
684; poor. [Connelly*Y-MA]

774.25 | EGYPT | ERTU, Abis, SEP 29 0300 - Bits of Arabic vocal; poor on USB to 
dodge 774 Spain. [Connelly*Y-MA]

783 | SYRIA | SRTV 1, Damascus, OCT 1 2300 - Woman & man in Arabic; fair. {A} 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

864 | EGYPT | Holy Koran Program, Santah, SEP 28 2300 - Reverberated talk then 
chant; to good peak. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

1044 | SPAIN | SER, San Sebastian // Valladolid, SEP 29 0301 - Spanish news by 
two men; fair. [Connelly*Y-MA]

1053 | LIBYA | Libyan Jamahiriya/R.Libya, Tripoli, SEP 29 0300 - Anthem, 
fanfare music, man in Arabic; in WEPN slop. [Connelly*Y-MA]

1089 | UNITED KINGDOM | TalkSport synchros, SEP 29 0301 - Sports teletalk; 
fair. [Connelly*Y-MA]

1107 | SPAIN | RNE5 synchros, SEP 29 0300 - Ranchera style vocal, 5+1 pips, 
fanfare, ID "Radio Nacional de Espana, servicios informativos"; loud. {A} 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

1179 | CANARY ISLANDS // SPAIN | SER synchros, SEP 29 0300 - Spanish news // 
1044; Cuba/WHAM slop. [Connelly*Y-MA]

1278 | IRAN | IRIB Radio Kermanshah, Kermanshah/Bakhtaran, OCT 1 2300 - Mideast 
male vocal, percussion; in slop. [Connelly*Y-MA]

1422 | ALGERIA | R. Algérienne, Algiers, SEP 29 0259 - Group Arabic vocal, 
drumming; fair. [Connelly*Y-MA]


*** PAN-AMERICAN DX ***

570 | COLOMBIA | HJND, Señal Radio Colombia, Bogota (El Rosal), SEP 29 0300 - 
Woman with Radio Nacional de Colombia ID; over WMCA & CFCB. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

650 | COLOMBIA | HJKH, RCN Antena Dos, Bogota, SEP 29 0500 - Antena Dos ID's; 
over CKGA. [Connelly*Y-MA]

690 | COLOMBIA | HJCZ, W Radio, Bogotá, SEP 29 0500 - Disco // 700 HJCX; mixed 
with CKGM. [Connelly*Y-MA]

700 | COLOMBIA | HJCX, W Radio, Cali, SEP 29 0500 - Disco // stronger 690 HJCZ. 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

1000 | COLOMBIA | HJAQ, RCN La Radio, Cartagena, SEP 29 0301 - RCN La Radio 
ID's; dominant. [Connelly*Y-MA]

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[IRCA] Cape Cod, MA, USA - recent logs

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

--- Begin Message ---
Report from Mark Connelly, WA1ION
Times / dates = UTC / 2018
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)

NOTE:
{A} in entry indicates that audio can be accessed from link on the following 
page:
http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/doc1/audio_2018.htm

Receiver: Microtelecom Perseus
See http://microtelecom.it/perseus/

Antenna: Cardioid pattern SuperLoop: 9m vertical by 20m horizontal (peak 84 
deg., null 264 deg.)
See http://www.bamlog.com/superloop.htm for similar antenna type.

==

*** TRANSATLANTIC DX ***

171 | MOROCCO | R. Mediterranee Internationale, Nador, SEP 6 0300 - Pop vocal 
(Cyndi Lauper or similar) past top of hour, a few words by woman, then another 
US female pop vocal; fair. [Connelly*Y-MA]

183 | GERMANY | Europe No. 1, Felsberg, SEP 6 0200 - Excited French talk by 
man, two sets of three chimes in music fanfare, Europe Un ID in talk by man & 
woman; good. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

189 | ICELAND | RÚV Rás, Gufuskálar, SEP 6 0200 - Country style song, 
electronic sounder, woman in Icelandic; to fair peak. [Connelly*Y-MA]

198 | UNITED KINGDOM | BBC R.4, Droitwich et al., SEP 6 0200 - 5+1 pips, BBC 
World Service mention of program about human trafficking, news about Trump 
calling the NY Times a "phony media outlet"; to good peak. [Connelly*Y-MA]

234 | LUXEMBOURG | RTL, Junglinster, SEP 6 0159 - Man & woman in French; fair. 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

252 | ALGERIA | R. Algerienne, Tipaza, SEP 6 0200 - Bob Dylan "Hurricane", 
fanfare music, woman in French with Medi Un ID, 5+1 pips (last higher pitch), 
man with news in French; good. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

531 | ALGERIA | Jil FM, F'kirina Wilaya d'Oum El Bouaghi, SEP 15 2300 - 
Dance-club song with "radio" and "stereo" mentions in audio-processed male 
vocal, 2+2+1 pips, fragments of songs, man with Jil FM ID; fair. {A} + SEP 25 
 - Arabic phone interview; fair. [Connelly*Y-MA]

549 | ALGERIA | Jil FM, Les Trembles, SEP 24 2301 - Man with Jil FM ID, Arabic 
music // 531; to good peak. [Connelly*Y-MA]

567 | SPAIN | RNE5 synchros, SEP 25  - RNE news intro; poor. [Connelly*Y-MA]

576 | CANARY ISLANDS // SPAIN | RNE synchros, Las Palmas // Barcelona, SEP 21 
 - RNE news intro; to fair peak. + SEP 24 2300 - RNE fanfare, news; poor. 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

585 | SPAIN | RNE1, Madrid, SEP 25  - Fanfare music, Radio Nacional de 
Espana ID; fair through WEZE slop. [Connelly*Y-MA]

612 | MOROCCO | SNRT Al-Idaa al-Watania, Sebaa-Aioun, SEP 25  - Man in 
Arabic at low audio level on good carrier. [Connelly*Y-MA]

639 | SPAIN | RNE1, La Coruña et al., SEP 21  - Spanish news; through CBN 
slop. [Connelly*Y-MA]

693 | UNITED KINGDOM | BBC Radio 5, Droitwich et al., SEP 10 0001 - Five Live 
news; poor. [Connelly*Y-MA]

702 | ALGERIA (t) | RTA Chaine 1, Laghouat, SEP 20 2359 - Arabic talk; poor. 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

729 | SPAIN | RNE1 synchros, SEP 21  - RNE news intro; CKAC slop. 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

774 | SPAIN | RNE1 synchros, SEP 21  - RNE news intro; to fair peak, no 
Egypt growl. [Connelly*Y-MA]

837 | SPAIN | COPE synchros, SEP 24 2300 - Spanish news; fair. [Connelly*Y-MA]

855 | SPAIN | RNE1, Murcia et al., SEP 6 0300 - Irish song "A Mother's Love", 
5+1 pips, RNE news intro; to good peak. + SEP 25  - RNE news with 
"servicios informativos" mention; fair, echoey. [Connelly*Y-MA]

864 | EGYPT | Holy Koran Program, Santah, SEP 6 0101 - Koran; loud. + SEP 24 
2300 - 4+1 pips (last higher pitch), serious sounding talk by man in Arabic, 
into Koranic vocal; good. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

909 | UNITED KINGDOM | BBC Radio 5 synchros, SEP 20 2300 - ID "This is BBC Five 
Live"; good. {A} + SEP 25  - "This is BBC Five Live"; to good peak over 
WABK slop. [Connelly*Y-MA]

936 | MOROCCO | SNRT, Agadir, SEP 20 2301 - Arabic vocal with orchestra, 
reverberated Arabic talk by man; to good peak. {A} + SEP 20 2359 - Arabic talk 
by man; dominant. [Connelly*Y-MA]

954 | SPAIN | Onda Cero, Madrid, SEP 21 0001 - Man & woman in Spanish; to good 
peak. + SEP 24 2300 - Two men with news in Spanish; fair. [Connelly*Y-MA]

999 | SPAIN | COPE, Madrid, SEP 9 2330 - Spanish teletalk; to good peak over 
IBOC. + SEP 23 2300 - Spanish news; fair over IBOC hash. [Connelly*Y-MA]

1017 | SPAIN | RNE5, Burgos//Granada, SEP 24 2300 - 5+1 pips, RNE news; fair. 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

1026 | SPAIN | SER synchros, SEP 21 0001 - Woman in Spanish // stronger 1044. 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

1044 | SPAIN | SER, San Sebastian // Valladolid, SEP 6 0200 - Spanish news by 
woman; fair. [Connelly*Y-MA]

1053 | UNITED KINGDOM | TalkSport synchros, SEP 9 2330 - Talk // 1089; through 
slop. + SEP 24 2301 - Advert by woman for holiday tours; poor. [Connelly*Y-MA]

1089 | UNITED KINGDOM | TalkSport synchros, SEP 4  - Interview, echoey. + 
SEP 20 2302 - Advert for Selco Builders Warehouse, slogan "Selco, where the 
trade go", 

Re: [IRCA] East Coast - recent reports

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

--- Begin Message ---
Wondering why I see a bunch of question marks inserted into reports I send when 
I read them in email back from this list - especially since they were not there 
when sent.
I occasionally note this with others' stuff too.
It gives the impression of not being sure about given logs when, in fact, this 
is not the case.
Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA
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[IRCA] East Coast - recent reports

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

--- Begin Message ---
forwarded East Coast reports (Bruce Conti, Roy Barstow)

<<
[CapeDX] International MW DX Logs     
Sun, Sep 30, 2018 11:13 am
Bruce Conti cont...@gmail.com [CapeDX] (cap...@yahoogroups.com)To:you (Bcc) + 1 
more Details

International MW DX (UTC)

531    ALGERIA   Jil FM, F'kirina Wilaya d'Oum El Bouaghi  SEP 23 0458 - Good; 
choral marching band national anthem parallel 549 kHz.  SEP 28 2246 - Fair; 
canned Jil FM ID by man and woman into Arabic pop vocal.  10 dB stronger than 
adjacent 530 CIAO, while parallel 549 signal was buried by 550 WDEV still 
operating on day parameters. [Conti-NH]

549    ALGERIA   Jil FM, Sidi Hamadouche  SEP 22 0458 - Good; choral marching 
band national anthem, Jil FM ID and time signal into news/talk, parallel weak 
531 kHz.  SEP 28 0458 - Fair; anthem parallel 531 kHz. [Conti-NH]

595    MOROCCO   SNRT Oujda  SEP 28 2230 - Steady s3 signal observed.  Morocco 
also observed on 936 kHz; s4 signal with barely readable music.  Receiver 
sunset 2233 UTC. [Conti-NH]

684    unID   SEP 23 0400 - Weak het against 684.07 Spain, measured 684.0015 
kHz. [Conti-NH]

738    SPAIN   RNE1 Barcelona  SEP 27 2300 - Fair; marker and Spain/Canaries 
time checks into servicios informativos, parallel 585, 684, 747, 774, and 855 
kHz. [Conti-NH]

774    EGYPT   ERTU Abis  SEP 27 2300 - Weak het against Spain; measured 
774.170 kHz. [Conti-NH]

783    SYRIA   Syrian Radio/R.Damascus, Tartus  SEP 23 0300 - Poor; Koran.  
Measured 782.999 kHz which suggests Syria, while Mauritania is apparently still 
off the air. [Conti-NH]

882    UNITED KINGDOM   BBC R.Wales, Washford et al.  SEP 23 0400 - Poor to 
fair; announcement by woman, canned "BBC Radio Wales" into light music. 
[Conti-NH]

936    MOROCCO   SNRT Agadir  SEP 28 2300 - Fair; Berber gasba/taghanimt flute 
music through the hour. [Conti-NH]

1053    ROMANIA   R.Iasi, Iasi  SEP 30 0359 - Poor; trumpet fanfare followed by 
three note sounder. [Conti-NH]

1062    ITALY   Rai Radiouno synchros  SEP 22 0358 - Poor; pre sign-on clock 
tones. [Conti-NH]

1071    unID   SEP 23 0200 - Fair; Koran through the hour.  Measured offset 
frequency 1071.007 kHz so probably Iran. [Conti-NH]

1089    UNITED KINGDOM   TalkSport synchros  SEP 22 0300 - Good with synchro 
echo; telephone talk continued through the hour about Alice in Wonderland, 
"There's a plaque on the wall, Alice in Wonderland... it tells the whole story 
about Alice in Wonderland," but didn't hear enough of the conversation to 
understand the context. [Conti-NH]

1152    ROMANIA   R.România Actualitati, Cluj  SEP 29 0159 - Fair; choral 
national anthem parallel 1179 kHz.  SEP 30 0400 - Fair; "Aici Buchuresti, Radio 
România Actualitati, hora exacta." [Conti-NH]

1179    ROMANIA   R.România Actualitati, Galbeni-Bacau et al.  SEP 29 0159 - 
Fair; choral national anthem parallel 1152 and 1332 kHz. [Conti-NH]

1215    UNITED KINGDOM   Absolute Radio synchros  SEP 22 0300 - Fair; canned 
ID, "On digital radio, online, and on the Absolute Radio app, 1215 AM..." 
[Conti-NH]

1332    ROMANIA   R.România Actualitati, Galati  SEP 29 0159 - Poor; choral 
national anthem parallel 1179 kHz. [Conti-NH]

1386    LITHUANIA   R.Liberty, Viesintos  SEP 28 0300 - Fair; melodic interval 
signal. [Conti-NH]

1467.37    IRAN    IRIB R.Qom, Qom  SEP 23 0200 - Loud het against unID 1467 
which had a solid s7 signal but no readable audio. [Conti-NH]

1503    EGYPT   ERTU El Arish  SEP 23 0200 - Good; Koran parallel 864 kHz.  SEP 
28 2350 - Fair; Koran parallel 864 kHz. [Conti-NH]

1512    SAUDI ARABIA   SBC R.Quran, Jeddah  SEP 29 0158 - Fair; Koran..  
Carrier signed off early at 0201 UTC. [Conti-NH]

1548    AUSTRALIA   4QD Emerald  SEP 30 0900 - Weak het against 1550.002 CBEF 
and unID classic rock.  Het still present at 1000 UTC against CBEF and 
R.Rebelde.  Measured 1548.009 kHz as listed. [Conti-NH]

1548    KUWAIT   R.Sawa, Kuwait City  SEP 23 0202 - Poor; pop music, canned 
Sawa ID. [Conti-NH]

1575    ITALY   Rai Radiouno, Genova  SEP 22 0358 - Fair; pre sign-on clock 
tones, Rai sounder on the hour.  SEP 28 0358 - Fair; pre sign-on tones. 
[Conti-NH]

1635.84    unID   SEP 28 2300 - Observed signal before becoming buried by 1640 
WSJP.  Likely Bluebird or one of many other active Dutch pirates that operate 
in the vicinity of 1635 kHz. [Conti-NH]

Bruce Conti WPC1CAT, Nashua NH; WiNRADiO Excalibur, variable termination 
Super/Ewe antennas 15 x 23-m at 60° northeast and 180° south.


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Posted by: Bruce Conti 
>>

<<
From: roybars...@hotmail.com [CapeDX] 
To: CapeDX 
Sent: Sun, Sep 30, 2018 2:08 pm
Subject: [CapeDX] Sandy Neck Beach, Barnstable, MA. DX 9/21-22/2018

12ft. stick w/amp.   FDM-S2 K=5   Sunset at 6:40 PM.  Temp. at 7 PM was 65 
and wind at 14 MPH.


  2230  UTC   Ant. 60 Deg.


576  Algeria - Fair - French talk, maybe news and at S- 3-5.


657  Spain - Talk


756  Romania 

[IRCA] Archiving spectrum recordings (was: Morning TP Methodology?)

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

--- Begin Message ---
The 'spectrumarchive.org' site mentioned by Russ references the 1986 spectrum 
recording from Providence, RI that Craig Healy made via VCR.  I dubbed this to 
a Perseus file several years ago.
Spectrum recording likely goes back to the early '60s (JFK era).  Not long 
after that Gordon Nelson talked about a "Monday morning recorder" as a sort of 
joke in DX News but I'm fairly sure that his contracting work that included 
dealing with intelligence agencies clued him in to the existence of the real 
thing, most likely using professional-grade wide videotape similar to that in 
the TV broadcast industry.  That would have predated Craig Healy's VCR set-up 
by a quarter century.  Most likely converters with filters were used to move a 
chunk of spectrum into the ~3 MHz or so of spectrum that the tape system could 
record at decent dynamic range.  Conceivably this conversion would be done in a 
way that even a slice of VHF spectrum used for aircraft communications could be 
moved into the recordable base band.

I believe that Thomas Witherspoon has in his possession a number of SDR files 
passed along by Dave Goren to whom I'd supplied a hard drive in 2014.  Besides 
the 1986 and 1991 "VCR DX" files, a good number of 21st century DXpedition 
recordings were included.  Pick the right file and you could relive the 
programming of long-gone blasters such as 1314 Norway.
The hard drive also included a library of aircheck audio files, many from the 
'60s / '70s heydays of Top 40 radio with an emphasis on the Boston and NYC 
markets.
It would be good if the site at least put up a directory of its file holdings 
in both the RF and audio domains, if not going all the way to allow downloads.  
The hard drive I contributed is likely just a drop in the bucket of their total 
holdings.
Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA

<<
In the discussion of history or recordings, some of you might want to check
out this site:  spectrumarchive.org. For SW, there's shortwavearchive.org.
Both of these are run by Thomas Witherspoon in NC, who gave a most
interesting presentation last March at the annual SWL Winterfest. He might
be interested in some recordings. I had promised him some from my old
Northern NJ audio recordings but haven't been able to make the time to
cherry pick those and send them on.


Russ Edmunds

WB2BJH

Blue Bell, PA

Grid FN20id
>>

Mark Connelly, WA1ION  
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Re: [IRCA] Morning TP Methodology?

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I wonder what a new version of the "High Tech DX" article would look like.  
Terminated loops, SDR's, ultralights, FSL's, and latest DXpedition practices / 
site choices would certainly factor in.  Of course there's much different in 
today's playing field of broadcasters, foreign and domestic, as well.

Total Recorder, referenced in that 2003 article, is still my audio capturing 
and editing workhorse.

That's a pretty good track record for a piece of software when you look at how 
many other things are different in the hobby 15 years later.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA

<<
Some moments are made to be remembered, John, especially as codgerdom
overtakes us.

And, as appropriate for a codger, take a trip down memory lane, when
all these things we take for granted now was new and
fresh:  http://www.dxing.info/articles/hitech.dx

At 20:14 2018-09-23, John Fisher wrote:
>Nick,
>
>I do recall seeing that version during one of my early trips to
>Grayland in late 90's, but, as I recall, we didn't hear Indonesia
>909 that nightLOL
>
>Cheers
>
>John Fisher
>
>--
>From: "Nick Hall-Patch" 
>Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2018 3:30 PM
>To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America"
>
>Subject: Re: [IRCA] Morning TP Methodology?
>
>>Thanks for your thoughts on the subject Guy.  And, yes, the idea
>>originated on the Dymek DR-333,  around 20 years
>>ago.  Unfortunately, it wasn't as accurate as the DXFishbarrel is,
>>but it did alert us to Indonesia on 909 at Grayland more years ago
>>than either of us want to remember.
>>
>>best wishes,
>>
>>Nick
>>
>>
>>At 05:14 2018-09-23, Guy Atkins wrote:
>>>
>>>Our locations are approx. 105 miles apart, so I could conceivably make
>>>regular use of your DXfishbarrel. Didn't you used to have a version of this
>>>running on the DR-333 receiver back in the day?
>>>
>>>73, Guy
>>
>>Nick Hall-Patch
>>Victoria, BC
>>Canada


Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
Canada 
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Re: [IRCA] Morning TP Methodology?

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I could do a big write-up on East Coast TA & Latin America methodology.  Some 
of the points on live versus "Memorex" would be similar though local sunset 
rather than sunrise is game time.
Instead of doing that, an activity that would require a good amount of time to 
do right, I would like to comment on what Walt said below:
<>
This is absolutely true.  My own Perseus captures date back to 2009, my SDR-IQ 
ones 2007, and I have ones from other DXers in various formats going back at 
least that far.
Interestingly I also have "Perseus captures" from 1986 and 1991.  These were 
captures originally done via the Craig Healy VCR tape method and then "dubbed" 
into the Perseus a few years ago.
Beyond news and entertainment content, any captures 8 or more years old made on 
this side of the US are likely to contain DX stations which no longer exist.  
In another post I mentioned how northern Europe has been cleaned out in recent 
years.  But I can bring up an old capture file and once again enjoy the awesome 
signal of a Norway 1314 for example.  The same applies to domestics with the 
entire province of PEI now dark.  Fire up the old wayback machine and I can 
once again enjoy CHTN on 720, a former PEI boomer.
So don't trash those old files just as you shouldn't let your aircheck mp3's, 
cassettes, and reel-to-reels hit the dustbin of oblivion.
It's all radio history worth preserving.
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Re: [IRCA] 1566 Benin into Michigan

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I read the 160-m Topband list postings and have noted recent chatter about 
contacts between Europe and the NW US / western Canada along with the more 
typically reliable propagation to the East Coast and Great Lakes areas.
Most of these polar-path contacts have been from hams in Germany, Poland, and 
the Scandinavian countries.
Should there be great TA medium-wave going on in OR, WA, and BC?
Theoretically yes .. BUT .. the most likely stations that would propagate would 
be northerly ones that could skip within the "auroral doughnut hole."
Where are the big gun northern Europe stations?  Other than the UK, largely 
gone.
We all remember the screamers of yesteryear: Norway 1314, Sweden 1179, Finland 
963, Denmark 1062, Holland 747, Germany 756/1269/1422/1593, Poland 1503, 
Austria 1476, Switzerland 765/1566.
Gone .. the whole lot.
The Lithuanian on 1386 is about the last fire-breather in its neck of the woods.
So the hams really have the advantage in working those rare juicy transpolar 
openings since northern Europe is still loaded up with active stations.  MW, 
not so much.
Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA
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Re: [IRCA] Brainstorming - Temporary Antenna Supports

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Thanks to Dave Aichelman, Roy Barstow, and Bill Nollman on the Cape Cod DXers 
list and also Nick Hall-Patch, Colin Newell, Bruce Portzer, Chuck Hutton, Guy 
Atkins, and Ken Brookner on the IRCA list for the many useful suggestions about 
temporary antenna supports.


The info request certainly garnered a lot of sage advice that will not only 
benefit me but (most likely) quite a few other DXers too.


Besides supporting various sorts of wire loops, temporary vertical antennas 
(including those for multi-element arrays) would be another reason to try out 
different support poles.


I am going to check out the numerous links in the suggestions, likely purchase 
one or more pieces, try them out, and put together a webpage with 
recommendations.  I may wish to include some of the comments recently offered.  
If anyone does not want his comments or name included, let me know.


Before finalizing the online article I will do some additional browsing of ham 
and MW DX publications and web content to see what I can find in construction 
articles, DXpedition / Field Day reports, and other comments.


Most likely I'll have some sort of rough draft article up before the end of 
October even if things I order have not yet arrived.  This will reference 
suggestions just made, as noted below, and other information I read later.  
Eventually that same link will point to the final-version article which I hope 
to be a valuable resource on the topic.


Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA, USA


<<
Hi Mark, you may remember my 7.5' tent pole loops, used for my 1st trip to 
Kawaii back in 2012. I still use them and instead of bungee cords to hold them 
together, I now use plastic 'antenna plates' from DXE cut to size to secure the 
'X' shape. My poles are 9mm thick, but there are 11mm poles out there that 
would allow a much larger loop to be built. Using the plastic antenna plates 
also means that you can change the shape of the loops and put mounting brackets 
on each loop to suspend them higher in the air. The best part is they collapse 
down to a small form factor for travel, movement and fitting through small 
spaces. The 'daiche' files, next to last file, is a picture of 2 of them as 
originally designed. Now they have the rigid plastic antenna plate as a center 
support. I use these loops as bi-directional, flag and as phased pairs.




Regards,


Dave Aichelman N7NZH Grants Pass, Oregon
__._,_.___
Posted by: dai...@yahoo.com
>>


<<
Check out,


Max-Gain Systems, Inc.
221 Greencrest Ct.
Marietta, GA.
30068-3825


Phone (770) 973-6251


They have fiberglass poles of different sizes, length, thickness, etc.


I have been using them for many years now and like them.


The sections telescope to get what height one needs.


For my truck mobile I use 2 sections that are 3ft. long that extend to 6ft. 
With 3ft. long I always keep them in the back behind the seats. The wire is 
attached to the poles and takes about 10 to 15 minutes to set up my system and 
ready to record. I can leave the house at 6:30 PM and in 1/2 hour at Menauhant 
beach be ready to go for 7 PM capture.


Take care,


Roy


__._,_.___
Posted by: roybars...@hotmail.com
>>


<<
I like the Jackite fiberglass poles. They twist lock quite easily (but stay 
locked when upright) and you can buy them in many sizes up to 31 feet long. If 
the picture comes through below you can see my setup from this summer in North 
Dakota. That’s about 23 feet at the top and maybe 60 feet wide, much bigger 
than you want but that’s ok, you can buy the shorter poles or buy the 31’ and 
just open what you need. In my case I don’t use the top 2 sections because they 
are much too thin. I also like that a standard guy ring stays put nicely about 
10 feet above the ground with no other hardware needed. That’s where I have the 
white ropes attached. These poles collapse down to 46 inches and if you break a 
section you can buy just the section(s) you need from Jackite. 
https://www.jackite.com/online-store/Windsock-Flying-Poles-c21767998


 
Bill Nollman


Farmington, CT.
>>


<<
I think you might be a little surprised at the telescoping poles, Mark.


32' telescoping fiberglass pole collapses to <4' 
long: http://tmastco.com/main/page_products_telescopic_poles.html


This company provides a 13.5' pole that collapses to 20", carry-on 
luggage dimensions:
https://www.sotabeams.co.uk/mini-telescopic-mast-4-1-m-13-5-ft/
They also provide a mount.


I notice DXEngineering now carries them 
too: https://www.dxengineering.com/parts/sbm-mini-poles


best wishes,


Nick
>>


<<
I use bamboo poles - one or two sections lashed together giving me 26? lengths 
that last for 2 or 3 DX seasons - they tear down easily and transport well... 
survive nasty weather... very rustic as well... non conductive... cheap. Don?t 
contribute to global warming... 


They are what hold up my Flags and End-fed for the Amateur bands. 


Colin Newell - Victoria - B.C. CANADA -

[IRCA] Brainstorming - Temporary Antenna Supports

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Recently I have been experimenting with small form Flag, Kaz, SuperLoop, and 
DKAZ antennas.

My first throw at moveable support poles has been with sections of PVC pipe 
mounted in heavy duty patio umbrella bases.

Typically I will use a 6 to 7 ft. (~2m) piece that fits snugly in the umbrella 
stand and then a skinnier piece of similar height that is inserted a short way 
(less than a foot) into the bottom PVC section.  1/4-20 hardware with a wingnut 
connects the lower and upper PVC sections a few inches below the upper edge of 
the lower PVC piece.

This allows a 10 ft. / 3m side antenna height above the bottom wire height of 2 
ft. / 0.6m (= top of antenna 12 ft. above ground).  With the Flag design, the 
center insulator on each side (where a transformer or termination resistor 
would be installed) is about 7 ft. above ground.

By moving the umbrella stand pole assemblies about on the lawn, different null 
directions can be selected.  Distance between the poles is typically set about 
20 ft. / 6m for Flag and SuperLoop antenna types.  Nylon mason's twine attached 
to a cinder block or brick is attached to each pole just below the top to act 
as a guy rope opposing the pole bending caused by wire tension.  That keeps 
each pole roughly vertical.

With the rather small loop dimensions of 10x20 ft. / 3x6m, a moderate amount of 
low-noise amplification is recommended at the shack end of the feedline.  The 
DX Engineering RPA-1 or a W7IUV amp would be a good choice.

The present design is OK for use in my own yard but a bit clunky for road trips 
to beach DXpedition sites since the hardware needs to be removed from the lower 
+ upper PVC sections junction to allow loading into the car.  Then the antenna 
has to be reassembled on site and knocked down again when departing.  7 ft. is 
about the greatest length I can accommodate with the trunk closed on my Subaru 
Forester.

Ideally I would like to use poles that can be scoped down to about 6-7 ft. and 
extended well above 14 ft.  I have read a number of articles recommending 
telescoping fiberglass poles of various types.  I looked around Home Depot and 
found a few candidates but was unsure if they were completely non-metallic, an 
important consideration for various types of terminated loops.  Also it seemed 
that anything that would extend much more than 12 ft. would not scope down to 
much less than 8 ft.: likely too long to fit in the car.

Many of you are using various painter's poles, lineman's poles, fishing rods, 
etc. to deploy loops (both terminated cardioid and conventional figure-of-eight 
types) at field sites.

Given the idea of non-metallic material and a maximum scoped-down length of 7 
ft., what are everyone's ideas?

These things don't have to tolerate years of bad weather but they should not 
self-destruct during a few hours in high winds typical of seashore or 
mountaintop sites.

The suggestion box is open.  Fire away!

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
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Re: [IRCA] Try Something New This DX Season!

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Thanks Gary.  A lot of the d-i-y info is applicable to many other antenna 
projects as well: tools, shop practices, where to get parts, etc.

Do you have your own central homepage that DXers can use to jump off to these 
links plus all of your DXpedition reports, ultralight reviews, and other 
material?

If you haven't, you might what to use something like Bruce Conti has done to 
aggregate his links as an example.



http://www.bamlog.com/

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA

<<
Like Guy, I'm very appreciative having all the articles, "under one roof".
Thank you, Gary! 73, Walt
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[IRCA] Cape Cod, MA, USA: recent Latin American logs

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Report from Mark Connelly, WA1ION
Times / dates = UTC / 2018
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)

NOTE:
{A} in entry indicates that audio can be accessed from link on the following 
page:
http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/doc1/audio_2018.htm

Receiver: Microtelecom Perseus
See http://microtelecom.it/perseus/

Antenna 1: Cardioid pattern SuperLoop: 9m vertical by 20m horizontal (peak 84 
deg., null 264 deg.)
See http://www.bamlog.com/superloop.htm for similar antenna type.

Antenna 2: Cardioid pattern Flag: 3m vertical by 6m horizontal; to W7IUV 20 dB 
amp (peak 130 deg., null 310 deg.) (moveable) 
See https://www.bamlog.com/flag.htm for similar antenna type.

==

*** PAN-AMERICAN DX ***

550 | COLOMBIA | HJHF, Señal R. Colombia, Marinilla, SEP 2 0001 - Woman in 
Spanish (// 570 HJND) with Radio Nacional de Colombia ID; mixed with unID Latin 
American & WSJW. [Connelly*Y-MA]

570 | COLOMBIA | HJND, Señal Radio Colombia, Bogota (El Rosal), SEP 2 0001 - 
Woman in Spanish (// 550 HJHF) with Radio Nacional de Colombia ID; over WMCA. 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

580 | PUERTO RICO | WKAQ, San Juan, SEP 2  - WKAQ cinco ochenta punto com 
website mention; good. [Connelly*Y-MA]

590 | CUBA | R. Musical Nacional, Santa Clara, SEP 2 0101 - Radio Musical ID; 
over others with WEZE running blank carrier. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

600 | COLOMBIA | HJHJ, R. Libertad, Barranquilla, SEP 2 0058 - Radio Libertad 
ID; over R. Rebelde and WYEL. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

600 | PUERTO RICO | WYEL, Mayaguez, AUG 31 0100 - WKAQ net ID // 580; over 
mess. [Connelly*Y-MA]

610 | BRAZIL | ZYL268, R. Itatiaia, Belo Horizonte, AUG 31 0100 - A Voz do 
Brazil mention, Itatiaia jingle and ID; over WGIR. {A} + SEP 2 0001 - 
Portuguese language sporting event; over Cuba, WIOD. [Connelly*Y-MA]

610 | COLOMBIA | HJKL, La Cariñosa, Bogota, AUG 31 0801 - Woman with "La 
Carinosa" ID; over WIOD, Rebelde, others. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

620 | BRAZIL | ZYH590, R. Assuncao Cearense, Fortaleza, AUG 31 0101 - Fast 
Portuguese talk by man; mixed with Rebelde Cuban. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

630 | PUERTO RICO | WUNO, R. Uno, San Juan, SEP 2  - NotiUno Seis Treinta 
ID; over WPRO, Cuba. [Connelly*Y-MA]

650 | COLOMBIA | HJKH, RCN Antena Dos, Bogota, SEP 2 0100 - Antena Dos Colombia 
ID; over Progreso Cuban. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

680 | PUERTO RICO | WAPA, San Juan, SEP 1 2359 - Advert with phone number, Wapa 
jingle; under WRKO. [Connelly*Y-MA]

690 | BRAZIL | ZYH587, R. Shalom, Fortaleza, AUG 30 2359 - Portuguese preacher; 
over CKGM, HJCZ. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

690 | COLOMBIA | HJCZ, W Radio, Bogotá, AUG 31 0100 - "W" ID's, Spanish talk; 
mixed with Brazil, others. + SEP 2 0300 - Segment of vocal, then talk // 700 
HJCX; under CKGM. [Connelly*Y-MA]

700 | BRAZIL | ZYK686, Nossa R., Sao Paulo, AUG 31 0059 - Woman & man in 
Portuguese, palabra de dios mention; loud, well over HJCX, others. {A} + SEP 2 
0301 - Man in Portuguese preaching; now atop. [Connelly*Y-MA]

700 | COLOMBIA | HJCX, W Radio, Cali, AUG 31 0259 - W Radio ID in talk, thanks 
to Mauricio Molano (RealDX) for ID help. {A} + SEP 2 0300 - Segment of vocal, 
then talk // 690 HJCZ; mixed with Brazil. [Connelly*Y-MA]

720 | COLOMBIA | HJAN, Emisoras Unidas, Barranquilla, AUG 31 2359 - Emisoras 
Unidas ID; over others. [Connelly*Y-MA]

730 | COLOMBIA | HJCU, Cadena Melodia, Bogota, SEP 1 0001 - Melodia ID in 
reverberated talk by man; poor in jumble. [Connelly*Y-MA]

740 | CUBA | R. Angulo, Sagua de Tánamo, AUG 31  - Radio Angulo ID, chimes; 
dominant. [Connelly*Y-MA]

750 | VENEZUELA | YVKS, RCR, Caracas, SEP 1  - Radio Caracas Radio and RCR 
750 AM ID's; to good peak over static. [Connelly*Y-MA]

760 | BRAZIL | ZYH588, R. Uirapuru, Fortaleza, AUG 30 0259 - Man in Portuguese 
then woman mentioning president, A Voz do Brazil mentions and fanfare music, 
"Radio Uirapuru AM, Fortaleza" ID; loud. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

760 | COLOMBIA | HJAJ, RCN Radio, Barranquilla, AUG 31 0800 - RCN La Radio ID; 
dominant. [Connelly*Y-MA]

770 | CUBA | R. Rebelde, Victoria de las Tunas, SEP 1  - Sports // 670 et 
al.; clobbering WABC. [Connelly*Y-MA]

800 | BONAIRE | PJB, TransWorld Radio, Kralendijk, SEP 1  - ID Radio 
Transmundial desde Bonaire, las Antillas Holandesas; loud. + SEP 2 0100 - Woman 
with Radio Transmundial ID; good. {A} [Connelly*Y-MA]

810 | COLOMBIA | HJCY, Caracol Radio, Bogotá, SEP 2 0100 - Caracol Radio ID; 
dominant. [Connelly*Y-MA]

820 | CUBA | ?, SEP 2 0100 - Wobbler mixed with WNYC. [Connelly*Y-MA]

840 | HAITI | Radio-Télé 4VEH, Cap Haitien-Petite Anse, SEP 1  - Man "Ici 
radio 4VEH"; over mess. [Connelly*Y-MA]

870 | CUBA | R. Reloj synchros, SEP 1  - Man with "ocho de la noche" time 
and woman with ID "Radio Reloj desde la Habana, Cuba"; good, way over WLVP. {A} 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

910 | CUBA | R. Cadena 

[IRCA] Maine online SDR

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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The KiwiSDR list now includes an entry
"10 KHz - 30 MHz SDR WA2ZKD/1 | Rockport, Maine"
http://rx2.wa2zkd.net:8073

Though having nowhere near the grabbing ability of Bill Whitacre's Lubec, ME 
receiver (when on), it does a reasonable signal-to-noise job.

Antenna appears to be non-directional as signals from the Great Lakes area are 
more prominent than they are here with my SuperLoop sticking a null into the 
245-285 degree sector, more or less.

Until Bill's DKAZ or BOG fed radio comes back on line, this might be the best 
East Coast USA KiwiSDR for eastern South America during aurora and Europe / 
Africa / Middle East much of the rest of the time.  Use it in conjunction with 
this Florida one ( http://qth.ddns.net:8073 ) for a pretty good view of what's 
audible in the eastern US.

Rockport, Maine should not be confused with Rockport, Massachusetts of Granite 
Pier fame (though both locales are good DXing sites).

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
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[IRCA] Brazil blasters recent audio 760, 700

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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Late August featured some very good southerly propagation here.  Much more will 
be reported later but here are a couple of the louder signals of Brazil to give 
you an idea.

On 760, from UTC 30 AUG / 2359 to 31 AUG / 0002 we have this clip of Radio 
Uirapuru, Fortaleza.  ID near end of clip.  It comes in here fairly often in 
the early evening but seldom this loud.  In fact I would say this is the 
strongest I've heard them at a site not right on a beach.  Distance to the sea 
from here is 3 miles / 5 km on that bearing.
https://app.box.com/s/i2kokpc9088d0gvfckef25oqlczik1np

An hour later the propagation had shifted somewhat more westerly and southerly.

On 700 from 0059-0101 UTC / 31 AUG, Nossa Radio, Sao Paulo, was in at better 
than average strength.
https://app.box.com/s/ctsjkalhar43zehn6rjmcg59cxx03hux

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
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
See http://microtelecom.it/perseus/

Antenna: Cardioid pattern SuperLoop: 9m vertical by 20m horizontal (peak 84 
deg., null 264 deg.)
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[IRCA] East Coast DXing activity

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Three reports from New England DXers - first one is from Bruce Conti, second 
and third from Roy Barstow

International MW DX (UTC)

531ALGERIA   Jil FM, F'kirina Wilaya d'Oum El Bouaghi  SEP 9 0458 - Fair; 
choral marching band national anthem, parallel 549 kHz. [Conti-NH]

549ALGERIA   Jil FM, Sidi Hamadouche  SEP 8 0458 - Fair; Koran and brief 
announcement, then signature time marker on the hour and pop music, parallel 
531 kHz. [Conti-NH]

783SYRIA   Syrian Radio/R.Damascus, Tartus  SEP 8 0030 - Good, with 
Mauritania off the air; Mideast orchestra vocals. [Conti-NH]

837SPAIN  COPE synchros  SEP 8  - Good; time marker, "Las dos, la una 
Canarias," into news, "Ultima hora en Cope, estar informado." [Conti-NH]

864EGYPT   ERTU Santah  SEP 8 0020 - Fair; Koran. [Conti-NH]

882UNITED KINGDOM   BBC R.Wales, Washford et al.  SEP 8 0025 - Fair; talk 
about Africa economy, parallel 198 kHz. [Conti-NH]

936MOROCCO   SNRT Agadir  SEP 8 0600 - Fair; Koranic vocal with drumming 
through the hour. [Conti-NH]

1089UNITED KINGDOM   TalkSport synchros  SEP 8  - Fair with synchro 
echo; canned ID, "On digital radio, 1089 and 1053 AM, TalkSport," and 
presenter, "We are here until 6 o'clock in the morning," into news. [Conti-NH]

1107SPAIN   RNE5 synchros  SEP 7 2330 - Fair with pronounced synchro echo; 
news/talk in Spanish. [Conti-NH]

1188IRAN   IRIB R.Payam, Tehran  SEP 8 0045 - Fair; wailing Koran, 0100 
signature ascending notes marking the hour. [Conti-NH]

1215UNITED KINGDOM   Absolute Radio synchros  SEP 7 2330 - Fair to good; 
"Grounds for Divorce" by Elbow, "Walking on the Moon" by The Police.  Must 
admit that I wasn't familiar with the Elbow song, identified by 'recently 
played' listing on the Absolute Radio website then matching it to a YouTube 
video. [Conti-NH]

1359ETHIOPIA   Voice of the Tigray Revolution, Mekele  SEP 9 0300 - Fair; 
typical Ethiopian flute instrumental through the hour. [Conti-NH]

1467.37IRANIRIB R.Qom, Qom  SEP 8 0040 - Fair, het against presumed 
1467.00 Saudi Arabia; Koranic vocal.  Measured 1467.372 kHz. [Conti-NH]

1503EGYPT   ERTU El Arish  SEP 8 2335 - In/out with Spain; Koran parallel 
864 kHz.  Thanks to Roy Barstow for the tip. [Conti-NH]

1503SPAIN   RNE5 La Línea de Concepción//Piñeira  SEP 9 0600 - Poor with 
synchro echo; time marker into servicios informativos parallel 1107 kHz. 
[Conti-NH]

Many unID's left on the table, including 648, 702, 1278, 1287, 1332, 1503, 
1512, 1539, 1575 kHz.  Too noisy to get anything definitive.

Bruce Conti WPC1CAT, Nashua NH; WiNRADiO Excalibur, Intona USB 2.0 Hi-Speed 
Isolator, MWDX-5, variable termination Super/Ewe antennas 15 x 23-m at 60° 
northeast and 180° south.


-- 
Bruce Conti
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=

Subject: Menauhant Beach DX September 7-8 2018
(Roy Barstow)
 2300  UTC.   Ant.  120 Deg.


576  AFS - T - R. Veritas, Meyerton - Man talking in English about politics. 
Weak w/static.


621  Botswana and Spain -  Spain into news and Botswana singing and drumming.


729  AFS - Cape Pulpit - Capetown - Instrumental music into ID. by a woman but 
static crashes drowned it out - Man then w/news. Good on LSB and better than 
730.


828  AFS - Magic 828 - Cape Town - Best on 827 with heavy beat music.


846  AFS - Komga - Good S 6-7 - Vocal and heavy on the drums - Excited 
announcer in English and no ID. TOH.

< br>

840  Salvador - Good on top - Music, woman talking and man giving ID.


1179  Mozambique - Quelimane - Fair at S 4-7 with Portuguese singing along with 
drums. Best on 1177.750 // 1206.


1206  Mozambique - Inhamban -  //  1179 but not as strong.


 A nice file



   2315   120


828  Capetown - S-6 - After a techno beat song into a slower vocal by a woman.


846  AFS - Komga - S 4-6 - All talk.


945  Sao Tome E Priecipe - F air at S 5-6. - Man talking in Portuguese - Best 
end of file.  NEW


981  Algeria - Mid-East singing with a fair amount slop.


1089  UK - Good w/talk and stronger than 1090.


1206  MOZ. - Fair - Portuguese slow vocal into a Portuguese rap song.


1575  UAE - T -  with Iran jammer.



2330120


729  AFS and Spain about equal.


828 and 846  AFS both around S 5-7.


864  Egypt - Koran - Fair.


936  Mrc. - All talk.


1206  Moz. - fair.


1296  Cope


1431  DJI - Weak w/ music.


1503  Egypt - Koran - Fair.



   2345 120


A surprise

657  AFS - R. Pulpit - Meyerton -  English talk - Man said, what they were 
talking about and mentioned 17%.

 Best on 656.  NEW


810  Cuba - With a game and WGY and others.< /p>


891  Carrier but to much slop.


1026  Spain - Talk. // 1044


1278  Iran - T - With talk but static and slop.


1305  Spain - Good.


1503  Egypt - Good w/Koran.


1512  ARS - Nice carrier but weak audio with Quran prgr.



 

[IRCA] 590 WEZE MA off air

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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590 WEZE Boston, MA has been off since sometime yesterday (Sun.).


VOCM dominated the channel when I listened around sunset.  By 9 p.m. EDT / 0100 
UTC, Cubans (Rebelde, Musical) were in the mix.


Daytime listening Mon. 10 SEP just has noise from local power grid.


This could be a DX opportunity for those of us in eastern MA, RI, southern NH & 
ME for whom WEZE is a typical "pest."


Not sure how long this outage will go.


Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA

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[IRCA] 837 (Cape Cod, MA, USA - recent logs)

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 Chuck, thanks for your information on this.  It appears to be correct via two 
sources.

http://www.mwlist.org/mwlist_quick_and_easy.php?area=1=837

http://kiwisdr.sytes.net:8073/

The second link above is for the KiwiSDR located at Tenerife, Canary Islands.  
Though far from sensitive, it should have some evidence of a signal on 837 by 
day if the station is active.  It didn't.

I probably should have been clued in by 837 not being competitive strength-wise 
with 621 when conditions were skewed southerly.  This wouldn't be the case if 
837 was active from the Canary Islands as well as Spain.

The affected log, therefore, should be amended to read:

837 | SPAIN | COPE synchros, AUG 24  - Pop vocal, 5+1 pips, news in 
Spanish; fair to good. [Connelly*Y-MA]

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA, USA

 

-Original Message-
From: Chuck Hutton 
To: Mark Connelly 
Sent: Thu, Sep 6, 2018 1:47 am
Subject: Re: [coastalroundtable] Cape Cod, MA, USA - recent logs



Mark - 


Unless they have returned recently, Canarias has been gone from 837 for many 
years.


Chuck



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[IRCA] Cape Cod, MA, USA - recent logs

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Report from Mark Connelly, WA1ION
Times / dates = UTC / 2018
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)

NOTE:
{A} in entry indicates that audio can be accessed from link on the following 
page:
http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/doc1/audio_2018.htm

Receiver: Microtelecom Perseus
See http://microtelecom.it/perseus/

Antenna: Cardioid pattern SuperLoop: 9m vertical by 20m horizontal (peak 84 
deg., null 264 deg.)
See http://www.bamlog.com/superloop.htm for similar antenna type.

==

*** TRANSATLANTIC DX ***

153 | ROMANIA | Antena Satelor / Romania Actualitati, Brasov Bod, AUG 24 0100 - 
Antena Satelor ID, folk female vocal; noisy. [Connelly*Y-MA]

162 | FRANCE | France-Inter, Allouis, AUG 24 0100 - Apparent blank carrier; 
fair. [Connelly*Y-MA]

171 | MOROCCO | R. Mediterranee Internationale, Nador, AUG 24 0100 - Arabic 
male vocal, percussion then woman with Medi Un ID; good. [Connelly*Y-MA]

183 | GERMANY | Europe No. 1, Felsberg, AUG 24 0100 - Six chimes, ID "Vous 
ecoutez Europe Un, il est trois heures"; good. [Connelly*Y-MA]

189 | ICELAND | RÚV Rás, Gufuskálar, AUG 24 0100 - Electronic interval signal, 
woman in Icelandic with "Ruv" mention; fair. [Connelly*Y-MA]

198 | UNITED KINGDOM | BBC R.4, Droitwich et al., AUG 24 0100 - ID "BBC World 
Service, the World's Radio Station", 5+1 pips, news; to good peak. 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

225 | POLAND | Polskie Radio, Konstantynow, AUG 24 0100 - Radiotelevisie Polska 
ID, 5+1 pips, fanfare music, news by man & woman; fair. [Connelly*Y-MA]

234 | LUXEMBOURG | RTL, Junglinster, AUG 24 0100 - French news by woman; fair. 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

252 | ALGERIA | R. Algerienne, Tipaza, AUG 24 0100 - 5+1 pips (last higher 
pitch), news by woman in French; well over Ireland. [Connelly*Y-MA]

531 | ALGERIA | Jil FM, F'kirina Wilaya d'Oum El Bouaghi, AUG 23 2359 - English 
language boy band vocal // 549; fair. [Connelly*Y-MA]

549 | ALGERIA | Jil FM, Les Trembles, AUG 24  - // 531 with pop vocal, 
several Jil FM ID's; fair on LSB to dodge WDEV slop. [Connelly*Y-MA]

585 | SPAIN | RNE1, Madrid, AUG 24 0100 - ID "Radio Nacional de Espana, 
servicios informativos"; fair in slop. [Connelly*Y-MA]

621 | CANARY ISLANDS // SPAIN | RNE1 synchros, AUG 24  - Radio Nacional de 
Espana ID; poor in WZON slop. [Connelly*Y-MA]

657 | SPAIN | RNE5, Madrid, AUG 24 0001 - Spanish news by man; to fair peak. 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

738 | SPAIN | RNE1, Barcelona, AUG 24  - Pips, fanfare music, RNE ID; poor 
in CHCM splatter. [Connelly*Y-MA]

774 | SPAIN | RNE1 synchros, AUG 24  - News // 738; fair over Egypt 774.25 
growl. [Connelly*Y-MA]

837 | CANARY ISLANDS // SPAIN | COPE synchros, AUG 24  - Pop vocal, 5+1 
pips, news in Spanish; fair to good. [Connelly*Y-MA]

855 | SPAIN | RNE1, Murcia et al., AUG 24  - // 774 with slow male vocal, 
pips, RNE news intro; to good peak. [Connelly*Y-MA]

864 | SPAIN | RNE Radio Nacional Cast. La Mancha, Socuéllamos, AUG 24 0100 - 
RNE news intro; dominant. [Connelly*Y-MA]

909 | UNITED KINGDOM | BBC Radio 5 synchros, AUG 24 0100 - BBC Five Live news; 
in WABK slop. [Connelly*Y-MA]

936 | MOROCCO | SNRT, Agadir, AUG 24 0100 - Likely this with Arabic vocal, 
strings across top of hour. [Connelly*Y-MA]

954 | SPAIN | Onda Cero, Madrid, AUG 24 0100 - Pips, woman in Spanish; in WROL 
slop. [Connelly*Y-MA]

999 | SPAIN | COPE, Madrid, AUG 24 0102 - News by woman in Spanish; briefly 
over bad WINS IBOC hash. [Connelly*Y-MA]

1017 | SPAIN | RNE5, Burgos//Granada, AUG 24  - // 855 with fanfare, RNE 
news intro; fair. [Connelly*Y-MA]

1044 | SPAIN | SER, San Sebastian // Valladolid, AUG 24  - Orchestral 
music, 5+1 pips, "Cadena SER, servicios informativos"; good. [Connelly*Y-MA]

1080 | SPAIN | SER synchros, AUG 24  - At about :20 WTIC's carrier cut 
for two sec. revealing two stations in Spanish, one  with news by woman // 1044 
(so SER net), other news by man (unID, possibly Cuba). [Connelly*Y-MA]

1089 | UNITED KINGDOM | TalkSport synchros, AUG 24 0059 - Adverts; echoey, poor 
in slop. [Connelly*Y-MA]

1098 | SPAIN | RNE5 synchros, AUG 24  - // 1107 with slow vocal, pips, RNE 
news; poor. [Connelly*Y-MA]

1107 | SPAIN | RNE5 synchros, AUG 24  - // 1098 with slow vocal, pips, RNE 
news; to fair peak. [Connelly*Y-MA]

1125 | SPAIN | RNE5 synchros, AUG 24 0100 - RNE news intro through WBBR slop. 
[Connelly*Y-MA]

1179 | CANARY ISLANDS // SPAIN | SER synchros, AUG 24  - // 1044 with 
Spanish news by woman; to fair peak. [Connelly*Y-MA]

1386 | LITHUANIA | R. Baltic Waves / R. Liberty, Viesintos, AUG 24 0100 - 
Russian talk, Svoboda mention; poor. [Connelly*Y-MA]

1413 | SPAIN | RNE5 synchros, AUG 24  - // 1107 with slow vocal, 5+1 pips, 
fanfare music, RNE news; to fair peak. [Connelly*Y-MA]

1422 | ALGERIA | R. Algérienne, Algiers, AUG 24  - 

Re: [IRCA] 9-4-2018 evening logs,first South American am dx

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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HJJX Bogota 770 power 100 kW per MWLIST. 
http://www.mwlist.org/mwlist_quick_and_easy.php?area=4=770

Good catch in land-locked TN: much more regular along the coast of course.

760 HJAJ and 1000 HJAQ are parallel with RCN network and are often heard here, 
frequently dominating those channels.

The other Spanish on 770 is quite likely Rebelde Cuba // 600, 670, 1180, and a 
gaggle of other frequencies.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA

<<
HJJX-Radio Cadena Nacional-770-Bogata,Colombia.2116-2218 EDT.9-4-2018.Much
Spanish talk mainly by man .Some seemed to be prerecorded.Mentions of
Colombia,Radio Nacional,Radio Cadena.At 2148 I.D. as"Radio Cadena
Nacional."Heard in the null of WABC.Possibly mixing with another Latin
American station.Very poor-fair with brief good peaks.Anyone know what the
power on this is ? My first South American AM station logged ! Grundig
S450DXL barefoot. 

Carl DeWhitt,KI5SF,Maryville,TN
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Re: [IRCA] [CapeDX] East versus West battle Royale (aka, The Thunder down under...)

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If the idea is to investigate what signals propagate at what times and under 
what geomagnetic conditions, why wouldn't you want to use all the best tools 
for the job?


The Amish may still be getting along with horses and buggies but most of us 
have moved on to cars.


SDR's, of course, can be used for live DX just as much as an R-390A, HQ-180A, 
Drake R8B, or AOR 7030 can.  My opinion has always been to utilize a mix of 
captures and live DX (where you can adjust antenna settings, use phasing and/or 
high-Q tuning, and chase on-air or online parallel audio).


Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA



Original Message-
From: R. Colin Newell 
To: Mark Connelly 
Cc: irca 
Sent: Tue, Sep 4, 2018 9:55 pm
Subject: Re: [CapeDX] East versus West battle Royale (aka, The Thunder down 
under...)


What’s an SDR? 


I’m going to record spectrum when hell freezes over.  :-) 


Colin Newell - Victoria - B.C. CANADA -

On Sep 4, 2018, at 6:35 PM, Mark Connelly  wrote:



I think you would only have to get up early if you haven't yet figured out how 
to use an SDR with scheduler software.


My 



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Re: [IRCA] [CapeDX] East versus West battle Royale (aka, The Thunder down under...)

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I think you would only have to get up early if you haven't yet figured out how 
to use an SDR with scheduler software.


When I went to Ireland in 1977, I used to listen to East Coast USA and Canada, 
including hometown news, by tuning in on my Realistic TRF just before sunrise.


On a business trip to California in 1991, I heard several Japanese stations 
(774 best) on my Sony ICF-2010 around 5-6 a.m. before hitting the shower and 
then the road to go into work.


 If it's auroral, pre-dawn can even be productive here.  Not having the stamina 
that I had in younger years, I would take advantage of today's technology and 
run the scheduler every time.


Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA

 

-Original Message-
From: R. Colin Newell 
To: Mark Connelly 
Cc: irca 
Sent: Tue, Sep 4, 2018 2:48 pm
Subject: [CapeDX] East versus West battle Royale (aka, The Thunder down 
under...)

Hey! We deal with greater distances, lower powers and we have to get up 
early...
Ever gotten up early? Violates the Geneva convention. :-) 

Colin Newell - Victoria - B.C. CANADA -
Left Coast of America...

> Rick S., Rodanthe NC OBX FM25go
>>> 
> 
> 
> Sounds good Rick.  On the IRCA list, West Coast DX gets the lion's share of 
> attention.  If some of here in the east get busy, we can help to shift the 
> "balance of power."  

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Re: [IRCA] [nrc-am] Fwd: [CapeDX] Menauhant Beach DX on 8/26-27/2018

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<<
I will be out on the beach right after early November when I get some free time 
and I'm going to try and top this.


Rick S., Rodanthe NC OBX FM25go
>>


Sounds good Rick.  On the IRCA list, West Coast DX gets the lion's share of 
attention.  If some of here in the east get busy, we can help to shift the 
"balance of power."  Certainly Roy's Cape Cod beach DXpeditions have been the 
highlight this summer.  With Bruce Conti likely to make an autumn visit to PEI, 
Bill Whitacre hitting coastal Maine, your likely efforts, and the usual home 
and beach mini-DXpedition activities around Cape Cod / metro-Boston, things 
could get interesting.  Maybe Cappahayden, Newfoundland gets activated; in any 
event Allen Willie up there in NL and Sylvain Naud in eastern QC may be 
reporting.


Those plagued by poor location, excessive noise, etc. could still jump on 
web-based SDR's in FL, Bonaire, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Europe, etc. to 
provide useful information to those of us actually DXing on our own receivers.


Rick, have you talked with Brett Saylor who occasionally visits Duck, NC, not 
too far from you on the Outer Banks?  He sent me a couple of Perseus files 
which turned out to be DX not too different from what we get in New England, at 
least in terms of Latin American / Caribbean stations.


Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA

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[IRCA] Fwd: [CapeDX] Menauhant Beach DX on 8/26-27/2018

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 Roy Barstow's report - in the car at Menauhant Beach: Falmouth, Cape Cod, MA.


Possibly of interest.
 

-Original Message-
From: roybars...@hotmail.com [CapeDX] 
To: CapeDX 
Sent: Sun, Sep 2, 2018 5:41 pm
Subject: [CapeDX] Menauhant Beach DX on 8/26-27/2018



  

  

UTC   2323  Ant.   120  Deg.


648  Botswana - Mopipi - Preacher in English doing his thing.  Weak at S-4


700  Brazil - R. Globo, Teresina - In fair w/game.  // 1220


729  AFS - Cape Pulpit - Cape Town - Best on LSB. Man talking in English about 
the faith. The prophecies, chapter and verse.


750  Brazil - No ID. Portuguese w/ game.


810  Brazil - Fortaleza - With a game and mixing w/ unknown station.


846  AFS - Komga - S-4-5.  2 men talking in unknown l anguage - Maybe 
Afrikaans. As of late most consistant from that part of the world.


1290.3  Brazil - Sao luis.




  2330   120  Deg.


620  Brazil - Portuguese with a game.


648, 828, 846 Bot and AFS still in.


860  Brazil - CBN - Rio - Maybe an add by a fast talking woman in Portuguese 
and back to the game.




 2345  ; 120  Deg.


760  Argentina - LU6 - Emisora Atlantica - Mar del Plata -Good signal and on 
top of freq. - Call in show - Man mention of Del Plata and Atlantica - Into a 
short song w/ man shouting, Hey.  Another mention of Del Plata and man and 
woman with talk and another caller.
# 12 from Argentina - I think I have enough argies in my marble bag, so it's 
time to play.


830  Unknown - SS - With mention Port ar vay or port ar vale - Musica station. 
ID. at 2345:15 with 4 repeats of 3 notes. Mixing w/WCRN. Have to tape this and 
try again to send it out. Time will tell.


1030  Unknown - w/ game


1080 p; Brazil -  Fast talking man in Portuguese, maybe a preacher - Under 
WTIC.


1100  Brazil -  Global - Sao Paulo - With talk




    120  Deg.


610  Brazil - R. Itatiaia - Belo Horizonte. - All Portuguese talk - mostly on 
top with Rebelde under.


700  Argentina - Spanish talker into 5+1 pips - ID. and more talk. On top of 
others.


720  Pips at least 4. 720 has not been very productive of late.


72 9  AFS


800  TWR - Strong with, "Wonderfull Words of life" and now into our Spanish 
programming.


840  Brazil -  Man in Portuguese manifesting with a loud voice.- W/ many 
mention of Brazil.


910  Cuba -T - Mention of Cuba and Havana and back into music.


1190  Brazil - Portuguese - Man said, Serafina, so presume R. Rosario, Serafina 
Correa - Fanfare, whistles, swipes and mention Brazil - Into music and under a 
local station.


1270  Argentina T -  5+1 pips into possible N.A.




   0015   120  Deg.


621  Botswana - Selebi- Phikwe - First part of file it was Spain- Then mixing 
w/Bot. Then Botswana on top w/ a loud preacher in English. After that both 
mixing.  NEW  //  648


650  A mess.


828 AFS - 840  Haiti with French song. 846  Rel. music w/heavy beat




  0015  120  Deg.


1170  Brazil - R. Italaia - Curit iba - 2 woman in Portuguese talk under WWVA.




  0030   160  Deg.


850  A mess.


1030  WBZ with Argentina and presumed Columbia with music.




  0045  160  Deg.


OK - 729 and 846 ARS.


780  Brazil - Woman in Portuguese talk in the mix, no ID. No buzz this file but 
strong at 0030.


890 and 900  Cuba.


1470  SS Unknown - Sounded like a bassball game going on and believe Milwalkee 
mention.




   0100 160  Deg.


560  Argentina - 5+1 pips but no ID. so tent. Been dogging this one for awhile 
but no definite ID.Mentioned R. Nal. and they use the 5+1 pips and 2+1 pips at 
the half hour.


580  PTR - Strong and all alone.


600  4 pips with last one higher in tone.


729 Darn, just AFS here.




  0300 120  Deg.


Looking for 1530 STP but no go. But did pick this up.


1530  HND. - R. La Guarachera, Choluteca - Man giving ID. twice, then a bird 
call and woman saying, La National. After that buried in the mix..




That's it  This summer ha s been like a different world of DXing. Previous only 
1 from Argentina and about 4 from Brazil.  Now Many from Argentina and about 2 
dozen + from Brazil and throw in many from Southern Africa.


I went to Menauhant Beach for more DX last night as it was cool. Will check out 
files soon.


OLD ROY FROM OLD CAPE COD


























 
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[IRCA] Airspy HF+

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Can the Airspy HF+ record the whole MW band (530-1700) for later replay?


Mark Connelly, WA1ION
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[IRCA] A few audio clips from Roy Barstow's Elad capture (Cape Cod)

[Mark Connelly via IRCA]

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The USB stick from Roy Barstow arrived and I went over the RF capture file he 
made at 0100 UTC / 27 AUG.

Conditions were somewhat auroral at the time.

First is the recording of an English language station on 729 believed to be 
South Africa.

This is 729 as recorded in the AM mode:
https://app.box.com/s/5nek1vwhx1k5ub7rzju360rcryun5vtq

Here it is on lower sideband mode:
https://app.box.com/s/wgnbznastzu8oc20oz8quphd76vmjfdv

Any identification help will be appreciated.  I may eventually submit this to 
the RealDX group.

Overall the capture was slightly more interesting than average though the site 
Roy uses in Falmouth, MA is besieged by powerhouse signals from the metro-NYC 
area, worse than here in that respect.

Here are a few other audio clips from Roy's file:

610 Brazil
https://app.box.com/s/scpd4yf9z6oind73k0f6zw52cirfi429

1220 Brazil 
https://app.box.com/s/qmiua5ruy2c6h7wwcxp0bmszoygh6yk0

1290.3 Brazil
https://app.box.com/s/4pg1w9vf7jyzj01h2nrohmsy7cbhbp3q

800 PJB Bonaire
https://app.box.com/s/0pnl09qu54yfzviijq2lrop59m1owx8i

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA--- End Message ---
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