Re: [IRCA] Below Average: TP from Orcas Island Oct 13

2006-10-13 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 09:24 AM 10/13/2006, you wrote: >I agree with most of the others I experienced a below average AM, >though there were bright spots. My sweep 90 minutes before Dawn was >almost the worst of the year: Lousy in the extreme. Things did >improve to "Below Average" with Dawn Enhancement, how

Re: [IRCA] Pretty Stinky: Oct 14 TPs

2006-10-14 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 07:21 AM 10/14/2006, John H. Bryant wrote: >Wow, > >Ol Mr. Sun did a number on the band, eh??? I had ten TPs in threshold >audio or more (down from 50 plus). Even worse, only 774, 828 and 1575 >(very briefly) were even strong enough to ID the language. None were >listenable, at all. > >Happi

Re: [IRCA] # TPs with audio

2006-10-15 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 06:58 AM 10/15/2006, you wrote: >Audio on 747, 774 and 828 at 1320-1328. No other audio or carriers were >heard. >Bill Block >Prescott Valley, AZ Bill, things weren't great either on the coast with audios on just 9, with the Japanese being the main players: 531 (late audio at 14:34 probabl

Re: [IRCA] TP 15 Oct / more on 774

2006-10-15 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 07:46 AM 10/15/2006, you wrote: >Another pretty unexciting morning for TP,started at >1400UTseemingly all Asiatic, by 1430UT at least, and with best >signals (such as they were) below 900 kHz. About 6 audios, though >with the erratic fading, others (like 747) probably popped up when I

[IRCA] New audio files uploaded to www.dxer.ca

2006-10-15 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Folks, I just uploaded 5 interesting mp3 files from my trip to the Queen Charlottes last weekend. Included are 2 clips of 1575 VOA Thailand and AFN Japan, 1566 HLAZ signing off Japanese at 13:45, 1242 Voice of Vietnam in English, and an unid Chinese speaker on 1161, not CNR1. Have a listen and

Re: [IRCA] WWV Solar Report

2006-10-15 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 05:34 PM 10/15/2006, you wrote: >At 00:03 16/10/2006, you wrote: >>I have modified the code on the program to issue an additional alert under >>certain conditions. They are: >> >>The Solar Flux increases 20 points over the previous reading. >> >>The A Index increases 10 points over previous. >

[IRCA] 1215 Virgin Radio

2006-10-15 Thread Walter Salmaniw
No, they weren't propagating tonight. I do, however, have a great little clip from last weekend. They were booming in while I was on the Queen Charlotte Islands. Tonight, though, RFO was there with decent audio on 738 about 05:30 UTC. The audio can be found under sounds at www.dxer.ca . Enj

Re: [IRCA] TP today

2006-10-16 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 06:47 AM 10/16/2006, you wrote: >Not too strong yet (1345UT), but lots of carriers. In fact it was a >bit better about 20 minutes ago; hopefully there will be a lift >closer to sunrise. > >There is a carrier on 1475; no audio, but worth watching for Malaysia? > > >Nick Nothing terribly exci

Re: [IRCA] 17 TP with Audio

2006-10-17 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 07:27 AM 10/17/2006, you wrote: >Hello, > >Much improved conditions this morning. Audio heard on17 TP Channels. Upper >MW channels were much weaker than normal. Some of the Japanese stations were >absent 558-666-873, yet 603 R. Korea? with weak audio at 1406 & 936 China? >1347 UTC weak.

Re: [IRCA] Hoo Haw: 68 in Audio: Oct 17 TPs from Orcas Island

2006-10-17 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 07:18 PM 10/17/2006, you wrote: >Chuck & John, > >918 is a real mess now with the terrible echo effect from CNR2. Really >something else. Some morning you can really listen to it. It should be >vbetter in the morning with the A:3 & K:0. I hope they stay >lowMaybe I will try for Barrow ag

[IRCA] TP for 18 Oct

2006-10-18 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Just had a brief session this morning between 14:05 and 14:25. Highlights were Vietnam at a 7/10 on 675 and Malaysia on 1475 with a 6.5/10. Total of 18 audios. I suspect things were improving as I left, so it might have been a pretty good morning overall. JJ were subdued overall. Perhaps a

Re: [IRCA] TA

2006-10-18 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 10:39 PM 10/18/2006, you wrote: >Haven't seen any TA action reported out west. Just a weak to nil >1215 carrier here tonight, but it's been hanging around for a couple of hours. > >best wishes, > >Nick Just got this message at 23:30 local, Nick. Nothing here at all, so I'm not expecting any

[IRCA] TPs (or lack thereof) for 20 Oct

2006-10-20 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Oh, the pain! Terrible morning so far. 189 and 279 were producing audio, so I thought that the MW band might be pretty good.NOPE. All I got on my first pass between 13:37 and 14:00 UTC was a single audio (barely) on 612. I'll come back and check again in half an hour...Walt Salmaniw,

Re: [IRCA] QSLing

2006-10-20 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 07:34 AM 10/20/2006, you wrote: >When Chuck Boehnke of Hawaii passed away a couple years back, his wife >sent Chuck's QSLs to the Committee and they were only interested in >certain QSLs. Chuck had no ppcs as he did not like them, but all of his >historic CD QSLs from the 50s, Ginny was going t

Re: [IRCA] TPs (or lack thereof) for 20 Oct

2006-10-20 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 07:17 AM 10/20/2006, you wrote: >At 14:09 20/10/2006, you wrote: >>Oh, the pain! Terrible morning so far. > > >Shift to Down Under..EE talk on 567 fair at 1417UT.others on way up? > >Nick Right you are. I'm listening now to 4QR on 612 with a 7.5/10 signal at 14:47 UTC. I managed a

Re: [IRCA] not TP, or not what's expected

2006-10-20 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 07:12 AM 10/20/2006, you wrote: >Somethings's happened. A quick check at 1230UT yielded audio on 594 >etc., but another check before 1400 showed only weak carriers across >the band, even on the big guns. Now, there's rock mx on 774 fighting >with the big hum...doesn't sound like NHK's EE n

Re: [IRCA] QSLing

2006-10-20 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 08:21 AM 10/20/2006, you wrote: >Walt, > >Who is AWR and how do I get in touch with them? Thanks. Patrick, AWR is Adventist World Radio. You could try them at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . The collection, I believe is kept somewhere in the midwest US. Wavescan, the dx program of AWR once had a

Re: [IRCA] TP again

2006-10-21 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 07:52 AM 10/21/2006, you wrote: >Not too bad a morning, definitely Asiatic again, and the "ADK" beacon >was at fair strength on 530. Fair audio on the Japanese big guns >plus CRI on 963. Things petered out pretty rapidly above 1000kHz >however, though might have been better earlier. My ban

Re: [IRCA] TP 21 oct

2006-10-21 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 10:08 AM 10/21/2006, Nick Hall-Patch wrote: >At 15:06 21/10/2006, you wrote: >>. Mostly a JJ morning here, but again highly variable. I would >>about to change frequencies when a signal would suddenly pop up. > > >Not only was that true, Walt, but I believe the low band Japanese >signals at

[IRCA] RFO 738

2006-10-21 Thread Walter Salmaniw
For what it's worth, I didn't hear any TAs doing a quick bandscan on MW, but RFO Tahiti on 738 has pretty decent audio (7/10) with French talk at 05:10 UTCWalt Salmaniw, Victoria -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database:

Re: [IRCA] TP down 22Oct06

2006-10-22 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 07:31 AM 10/22/2006, you wrote: >TP conditions seem to be down this morning. Still lots of weak >carriers, but reasonable audio is harder to come by. Even 774 has >been uncharacteristically quiet at times, and there was a moment when >even 1566 didn't have a carrier. > >1475 has a big carr

Re: [IRCA] TP down 22Oct06

2006-10-22 Thread Walter Salmaniw
>Slept in a bit today so monitored only between 14:23 and 15:52. Only 7 >audios: 594 (NHK1), 747 and 774 (NHK2 with the latter a solid 7. Note: 828 >was inaudible...only a 3/10), 972 (Korea presumed but only a 6), 1287 (my >highlight with JOHR there at a 7.5/10 rating at 14:35 and still th

Re: [IRCA] Helpful webpage for homebrew preselectors.

2006-10-22 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 01:31 AM 10/22/2006, you wrote: >I have found the information on this page very useful in my building of a >mediumwave preselector: > >http://www.geocities.com/amdxlog/index.html Just tried, but it's now "temporarily unavailable" since the data transfer limits have been exceededwhat a p

Re: [IRCA] Unbelievable morning!!!

2006-10-23 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 01:37 PM 10/23/2006, you wrote: >The only thing that I heard was Japan on 774 and it was just above the noise >level. > > > >Bill Block >Prescott Valley, AZ I only was able to listen between 13:53 and 14:22 and had 22 audios, mostly pretty weak (6/10). With how poor things have been of late

Re: [IRCA] Unbelievable morning!!!

2006-10-23 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 11:46 AM 10/23/2006, you wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> As I type this at 1625 UTC, a couple hours after LSR, I still have >> Vietnam 675 coming in at about S5. > >The only thing I couldn't believe about this >morning was the lousy reception on the >Southern tip of Vancouver Island -- some >300 m

Re: [IRCA] Unbelievable morning!!!

2006-10-23 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 07:28 PM 10/23/2006, you wrote: >Walt, > >I did not check the A&K this morning. Any idea what they were? If they >weren't decent, I wonder why all of the DX on the coast then? Strange. >But cx were not the norm. I was not getting really Northern stuff like >JJ & KK all that well. No Russians no

[IRCA] TP for 24Oct06

2006-10-24 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Well I had to experience the late TPs at least once. Normally I'm long gone to work, but today I was able to monitor until 8:44 AM local/15:44 UTC. There's still several audios. I had a total of 25 audios, most from China it seems. The JJ were OK, but not exceptionally strong. About half of

Re: [IRCA] DX Conditions 10/24

2006-10-24 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 10:15 AM 10/24/2006, you wrote: >Conditions were better today than it was yesterday with audio on 747, 774 >and 828 and a few carriers. > > > >Bill Block >Prescott Valley, AZ Funny, and Patrick found things not nearly as good!Walt. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Check

[IRCA] TA hets from the west coast

2006-10-24 Thread Walter Salmaniw
I hear a number of weak hets across the MW band tonight. 963 was particularly strong, even compared to 1215 at about 02:45 UTC. On recheck at 02:58 gone...Walt. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.11/493 - Rel

[IRCA] audio on 1215

2006-10-24 Thread Walter Salmaniw
I've got fair audio from Virgin Radio on 1215 right now at 03:07.Walt Salmaniw, Victoria -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.11/493 - Release Date: 10/23/2006 ___

Re: [IRCA] Great LowBand Morning

2006-10-25 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 10:58 AM 10/25/2006, John H. Bryant wrote: >First morning DXing back home and it was a good one. Wish that I'd >gotten up at regular time, but the rack was warm and I didn't hit the >dials until 45 minutes before sunrise 1405 UTC. With work commitments, I only had a brief session betwe

[IRCA] TA hets on the west coast

2006-10-25 Thread Walter Salmaniw
About 10 weak hets noted at 01:30 UTC on the west coast, with 1575 being the strongest. We'll see whether this develops into anythingWalt Salmaniw, Victoria. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.11/496 - Rel

Re: [IRCA] TA hets on the west coast

2006-10-25 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 07:43 PM 10/25/2006, Nick Hall-Patch wrote: >If it did, I missed it.there are possibly a few more at 0240UT, >and 1215 shows potential for developing an audio trace or two, but >it's going to take some beefy signals to dominate the domestic splatter > >Nick Nick, 1134 is there in audi

Re: [IRCA] TA hets on the west coast

2006-10-25 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 07:31 PM 10/25/2006, you wrote: >0223 -0230 scan here, 1575 1512 1503 1422 1215 1206 1197 1134 1125 >1098 531 >None with audio. > >Don Moman Don, I count 59 TAs between 03:09 a d 03:28 with 1134 in audio, but many 4's and 5's on our 10 scale. Pretty impressive count. Of course, get ri

[IRCA] TAs continued

2006-10-25 Thread Walter Salmaniw
I've added more TA hets for a total of 69 hets. Audio is a 7 on 1134 now (03:49), and also had audio on 1008, and 1017. The usual strong 1215 is not yet presentjust a 3 or so. Many more "almost" audios.Walt Salmaniw, Victoria -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked

Re: [IRCA] TA hets on the west coast

2006-10-25 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 08:56 PM 10/25/2006, you wrote: >At 03:28 26/10/2006, you wrote: > >>Don, I count 59 TAs between 03:09 a d 03:28 with 1134 in audio, but >>many 4's and 5's on our 10 scale. Pretty impressive. > > >So far, 747 is the only one I've caught with audio tracesmany >years since TA audio on that

Re: [IRCA] TP 26 Oct

2006-10-26 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 06:12 AM 10/26/2006, you wrote: >At 1310UT, some pretty fine conditions2 stations on 621 with >audio for exampleoh my. > >Go get 'em. > >best wishes, > >Nick Right, Nick. I've been listening from 12:32 and have lots of weak audios. The Russian LW are in this morning with audio heard

[IRCA] TPs for 26Oct06

2006-10-26 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Lots of audio this morning...39 at last count, but strangely unsatisfyingvirtually no "armchair" copy which makes it fun to listen. Instead, most of my audios are 6's which yield no content, unfortunately. Perhaps more will appear as dawn approaches...Walt. -- No virus found in this

Re: [IRCA] TPs for 26Oct06

2006-10-26 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 07:56 AM 10/26/2006, you wrote: >At 14:23 26/10/2006, you wrote: >>Lots of audio this morning...39 at last count, but strangely >>unsatisfyingvirtually no "armchair" copy which makes it fun to >>listen. Instead, most of my audios are 6's which yield no content, >>unfortunately. Perhaps

[IRCA] Lacklustre TP morning 27Oct06

2006-10-27 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Despite wonderful A/K indices of 1/1, nothing too exciting monitoring between 13:47 and 14:15. A total of only 9 audios, mostly at the low end of the band. Even the usual JJ powerhouses were only heard at fair levels. I was sure expecting a lot moreoff to work!.Walt Salmaniw, Vic

Re: [IRCA] CJRJ 1200 BC

2006-10-27 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 12:32 PM 10/27/2006, you wrote: >sadly, progress in the new station on 1200 > >from Northwest Broadcasters site >http://members.shaw.ca/nwbroadcasters/recentnews.htm this item: > > > - *10/27/06 - CJRJ AM 1200 Vancouver has begun transmitter testing. > The station operates with 25 kW with

[IRCA] More phaser musings

2006-10-27 Thread Walter Salmaniw
900 is a local station just a km or so across the water from my place. I never expected to be able to do anything with this signal which is normally S9+60. Well, with the phaser very carefully adjusted, I knocked the primary Village 900 signal down to less than S9, and underneath can hear a pl

[IRCA] 1200 happenings

2006-10-27 Thread Walter Salmaniw
With the new super powerful CJRJ, I thought I'd try my hand at phasing. I could hear something in the background. On went my Misek phaser (thanks again to Steve Ratzlaff for putting one together for me), and after a little bit of fiddling, I was able to completely null out CJRJ (virtually anyw

Re: [IRCA] More phaser musings

2006-10-27 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 08:40 PM 10/27/2006, you wrote: >Walt, > >Great going. Very likely it is Wenatchee. They run lots of Sports. Dave >Williams is about a km from KAST across the water and KAST is S9+60 DB >also. He can null KAST down to a jumble carefully. Gordon Nelson used >to null WBZ Boston a couple miles aw

Re: [IRCA] 1200 happenings

2006-10-27 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 08:45 PM 10/27/2006, you wrote: >Great going once again Walt. 1200 here is a mix of Soquel CA and >Vancouver. The strange thing is, both are Hindi. It is hard to tell the >difference. hi. WOAI is off the Eastern beverage. It will be >interesting to see what happens in the morning with the spla

Re: [IRCA] More phaser musings

2006-10-28 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 08:46 AM 10/28/2006, you wrote: >Walt, > >Bill Harms has some nice fine tuning set up on his phaser. Bill says it >makes all of the difference in the world. I am going to add that to mine >as it will help. > 73, > >Patrick Adding a vernier should be pretty easy. I might do the same too, a

Re: [IRCA] TP for 10-28

2006-10-28 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 07:24 AM 10/28/2006, you wrote: >For the first time in several weeks I heard no TP's today! No audio or >carriers were hear. > > > >Bill Block >Prescott Valley, AZ Interesting, Bill. I thought it was pretty decent, especially towards China. My monitoring was cut short by a call to the hos

Re: [IRCA] More phaser musings

2006-10-28 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 12:34 PM 10/28/2006, you wrote: >Walt: > >What kind of fine tuning controls do you have? The Quantum Phaser I >have does not come with them. > >I tried it both ways, with and without the vernier drives. I was >able to get deeper nulls with them. Sometimes just a hair made the >difference o

Re: [IRCA] More phaser musings

2006-10-28 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 12:40 PM 10/28/2006, you wrote: >At one point I remember looking into a fining tuning pot. The price >was more than than I cared to spend and there was a problem with >doing major surgery on the inside to make it fit right. So, I >decided against it. Although the outside mounted vernier s

Re: [IRCA] TP for 10-29

2006-10-29 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 06:23 AM 10/29/2006, you wrote: >Yesterday I heard no TP's and today I heard audio on 567, 594, 603, 648, >693, 702, 729, 747, 774 and 828! The most interesting was 648 with two >stations heard from 1325 to 1402 UT. One station had a woman taliking and >the other had a man talking. At 140

Re: [IRCA] TP for 10-29 and one more DU

2006-10-29 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 07:05 AM 10/29/2006, you wrote: >Walt > >I have seen this more than one time when you have good conditions I will >have poor conditions and when you have poor conditions I will have good. >Now at 1504 I just lost the carrier from JOAK and my local sunrise was at >1347! > >Bill Block >Presco

Re: [IRCA] More phaser musings

2006-10-29 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 11:33 AM 10/29/2006, you wrote: >Is this coarse/fine done by putting two pots in series, a high value >(maybe 5k?) and a low value (250 ohms)? An alternative would be >to use a 10-turn pot with a mechanical counter dial, these can get >costly. The two pots would create an "electrical vernier"

Re: [IRCA] TP for 10-30

2006-10-30 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 05:53 AM 10/30/2006, you wrote: >Only one with audio today and that one is JOAK-594. I heard very weak >carriers on 747 and 1566. > > >Bill Block >Prescott Valley, AZ Out here on the coast, I only quickly scanned the band at 14:45 to 14:55 and found quite a number of audios including the JJ

[IRCA] WOAI 1200

2006-10-30 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Fantastic reception of WOAI on 1200 way over our local Vancouver station CJRJ. Not sure what's happening propagationally but it's sure favouring reception to the SE! All this heard at 06:30 UTCWalt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free

Re: [IRCA] TP 1 Nov

2006-11-01 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 06:03 AM 11/1/2006, you wrote: >Lots of carriers this morning so far, but not much audionot like >yesterday at the same time. > >Nick I seemed to have missed the boat, as usual! Got up early at 13:26. I have a fair number of audios. China seems down (ie 963 is inaudible) but Japan is

[IRCA] TP for 1Nov06

2006-11-01 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Monitored between 13:26 and 14:55. 17 audios on MW plus 279 . All except 2 on the bottom half of the band. Nothing DU today. Mostly the JJ, but the odd KK and Chinese. The band was practically dead for TPs on my last pass at 14:49. Most of the audios occurred on my first pass until 14:09,

Re: [IRCA] TP 2 Nov

2006-11-02 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 06:05 AM 11/2/2006, you wrote: >Again, not a very strong Asiatic morning so far. If anything the big >JJ guns are weaker than yesterday, China isn't there on 963 at all >etc. Only thing of note is apparent Fiji on 639, judging by >direction finding using the loop, and islandish music. > >

Re: [IRCA] TP for 11-3

2006-11-03 Thread WALTER SALMANIW
Hi, fellas. Reporting in from the delivery room at my local hospital. Before being called at 05:00 local to come in, I did a quick band scan. Lots of weak carriers, but nothing obvious in audio, but I did the sweep in under a minute. Dullsville for sure! ...Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC -

[IRCA] 810 WGY heard in Victoria, BC

2006-11-03 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Sure having fun with the Misek Phaser. I successfully phased out the usually very powerful KGO in San Francisco to here a nice ID for WGY Schenectady, NY just before the TOH at 02:59 UTC (6:59 PM local). KGO was only barely audible. Within 5 minutes, though, KGO was back with vengeance. This

[IRCA] 830 WCCO

2006-11-03 Thread Walter Salmaniw
830 is quite a jumble here in Victoria. Normally, the strongest stations seem to be CKKY in Wainwright, Alberta (with NHL hockey Oilers Radio Network) and football play by play from KNCO Grass Valley, CA. Through the mess, I was able to phase in WCCO Minneapolis, MN with Gopher Sports and WCCO

Re: [IRCA] 810 WGY heard in Victoria, BC

2006-11-03 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 08:04 PM 11/3/2006, you wrote: >Very nice, Walter. This is the kind of stuff one can do with a good phasing >set up. Most likely you could retweak the controls and knock KGO down again. >73 KAZ...who would have given this hobby up years ago if not for phasing. You know, Neil, despite hearing

Re: [IRCA] 2 TP's weak

2006-11-04 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 06:09 AM 11/4/2006, you wrote: >Good Morning, > >Only two with audio heard on MW. 774 JOUB very weak and VOA 1575 Thailand >with a little stronger weak signal. Brief very weak audio on long-wave 279. >Listened from 1343 to 1406 UTC. > >Dennis, >Vancouver, WA >JRC 545 & EWE NW Yep, Denn

Re: [IRCA] 2 TP's weak

2006-11-04 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 06:50 AM 11/4/2006, you wrote: >Interesting, here in Arizona the best carriers were on the bottom part of >the band! The only carrier on the top part of the band was 1566. > >Bill Block >Prescott Valley, AZ >Drake R8 Oh the pain! Getting up so early in the morning on a Saturday. Unfortunat

Re: [IRCA] phasing

2006-11-04 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 05:14 PM 11/4/2006, you wrote: >I've been reading the phasing posts with interest, to make a long story >short I recently moved my radios to another room much closer to my 2 400' >LW's and find that the antennas with the much shortened coax leads are >overloading my Quantum Phaser with it'

[IRCA] TP for 5Nov06 Signs of life

2006-11-05 Thread Walter Salmaniw
A nice improvement compared to yesterday's fiasco. A total of 12 audios plus 2 on LW. I monitored between 13:55 and 15:13. The start was very slowlooked a lot like yesterday. Just as I was contemplating getting back into bed, the upper band really came aliveat least with many lively

Re: [IRCA] TP for 11-5

2006-11-05 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 07:21 AM 11/5/2006, Bill wrote: >Only one carrier was heard today and that was on 828 and it was just above >the noise level. > >Bill Block >Prescott Valley, AZ >Drake R8 We sure live in different worlds, Bill. This morning was far better than yesterday's with 12 MW and 2 LW audios as I've

Re: [IRCA] Is 1200 CJRJ Vancouver BC on the air yet?

2006-11-06 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 06:45 PM 11/6/2006, you wrote: >KAZ, > >Yes, they seem to be 24/7 as far as I can tell. > >73, > >Patrick > >Patrick Martin >KAVT Reception Manager Yes, they seem to be on all of the time I check. I really enjoy the Indian music. I have it playing right now through my Collins R390A receiv

[IRCA] CJRJ 1200

2006-11-06 Thread Walter Salmaniw
They play mostly non-stop east Indian music and only occasional IDs. At 04:40 they said, "You are listening to a test broadcast from RJ 1200", and then returned to music These IDs are heard only a few times an hour...perhaps only at 20 min past the hour and 20 min before? I'll monitor for the

[IRCA] CJRJ 1200

2006-11-06 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Nope, there's another ID at 04:55: "You are listening to a test from RJ1200" in English and back to the music...Walt. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.13.29/520 - Release Date: 11/6/2006 _

Re: [IRCA] TP 7 Nov

2006-11-07 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 07:32 AM 11/7/2006, you wrote: >nothing very exciting, usual audios, but 1566 and 1575 were better >than they have been the last few days. Also, 612 seemed to be DU, >not quite good enough for readable audio, but the loop said it was DU. > >Nick I, on the other hand, found conditions quite

[IRCA] TA on the west coast

2006-11-07 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Virgin Radio on 1215 is there with weak audio right now at 05:50 UTC. Heard lots of carriers earlier but no audio, but have shifted focus to Alaska..Walt. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.13.32/523 - Release Da

Re: [IRCA] TP 8 Nov

2006-11-08 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 06:51 AM 11/8/2006, you wrote: >Quiet conditions, looks like there might be some good listening >building at 1450UT. Lots of carriers, some quite powerful, audio on >second tier channels like 945 (China) and 1134 (Japan) > >Nick A very good morning (the best in several weeks for me) des

Re: [IRCA] TA or not TA, that is the question

2006-11-08 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 08:09 PM 11/8/2006, you wrote: >Given this run of K=0, we should be struggling through the TA's on >the west coast, but no.1215 has had a carrier here for a couple >of hours, rose briefly to audio traces around 0400, then >collapsed.Maybe a dozen wispy carriers elsewhere, and that ha

[IRCA] TP for 9Nov

2006-11-09 Thread Walter Salmaniw
OK, something weird happened this morning. I monitored between 14:38 and 15:31 this morning. There seemed to be a lot of local splattermore so than average. For example 600 CKBD Vancouver was particularly bad. Nonetheless, conditions looked very promising with audio on 558, 567, 585, 594,

Re: [IRCA] TPs 2 LWs 0

2006-11-10 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 06:42 AM 11/10/2006, you wrote: >Good Morning, > >Only two TPs heard this morning. 774 & 1422. Listened from 1350-1439 UTC. No >long-wave stations received. > >Dennis, >Vancouver, WA >JRC 545 & EWE NW Hi, Dennis et al! We're weathering a major wind storm as I'm monitoring. I got to the

[IRCA] TAs from WCNA

2006-11-10 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Early in the game tonight, but I have hets on 576, 1008, 1089, 1215, 1269, 1575 and 1584 now between 01:20 and 01:30 UTC. All weak (mostly 2s, with the occ 3). With the A/K still at 0/0 there is potential for action from Europe.Walt. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Check

Re: [IRCA] TP 11 Nov

2006-11-11 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 06:47 AM 11/11/2006, you wrote: >Odd conditions at 1440UT.774, 747 and 828 quite good audio at >times w/EE language lesson, but most other channels didn't even have >a carrier on them, yet 864, 1287 and 954 had weak audio (also >presumably Japanese). > >Seems quite variable though as 5 m

Re: [IRCA] TP 11 Nov + Phasing

2006-11-11 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 09:56 AM 11/11/2006, you wrote: >I must say, I really appreciate the fine tuning pots the >Ratzlaff/Misek phaser incorporates. I use them every time that I'm >serious about achieving a maximum null. Maybe 20% of the time, the >fine tuning just confirms what I found with the course tuning...

Re: [IRCA] TP 11 Nov + Phasing

2006-11-12 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 07:08 PM 11/11/2006, you wrote: >Walter Salmaniw wrote: >> Are others able to >> null strictly by sound without looking at ! the dials? Walt >> Salmaniw, Victoria, BC > >Actually I have difficulty trying to do it visually, just by ear works >better

Re: [IRCA] NE Oregon TPs

2006-11-12 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Steve had a good morning, as did I on the west coast. Pretty much an exclusively Japanese morning with a total of 19 audios. The usual JJ power houses were back with some pretty impressive signals, although I did note deep fades. For example, listening to the prolonged NHK2 sign-off of 828 JOB

Re: [IRCA] TP 14 Nov and Malaysia strong!

2006-11-14 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 07:06 AM 11/14/2006, you wrote: >Up to 1500UT this morning, conditions were down considerably on >yesterday. Only the NHK big guns with any audio, and many regular >carriers were weaker or even not there. > >Nick Nick, I agree completely, but after 15:00 things really picked up. 1475 Borneo

[IRCA] TP for 14Nov06

2006-11-14 Thread Walter Salmaniw
I monitored between 14:38 and 15:42. A total of 15 audios with many more "5s". Also 279 was a 7, and SQM was strong, as was ADK. Not much at all until 15:00 when things started to take off. Many of the audios only came through after 15:00. My highlight was listening to 1475 Malaysia in pre

Re: [IRCA] DX Podcasts

2006-11-14 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 03:19 PM 11/14/2006, you wrote: >Can anyone tell me if the very fine DX Podcast is still being made available? >Also >if anyone has found other good radio related podcasts, I'd love to get a list >of them. Hi, Les. My very good friend Colin and Newell and Brent Taylor from the east coast

Re: [IRCA] TP for 14Nov06

2006-11-14 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 07:37 PM 11/14/2006, you wrote: >At 16:49 14/11/2006, you wrote: > >>I'll be interested to see what Nick's propagation monitor had to say >>about dawn enhancement today. ..Walt Salmaniw, Victoria > >Quite right, Walt. Things on the upper band got interesting after I >threw in the towel.

[IRCA] 1475 Malaysia audio file available

2006-11-14 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Fellas, I just uploaded two sound files. One is for our newest AM radio station on the west coastCJRJ 1200 in Richmond, BC with a clip of their music format and ID. Next is the sign-off of Malaysia 1475 this morning from 15:29 to 15:33 with the best signal I've heard all season. Both are

[IRCA] 1475 well heard again!

2006-11-15 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Just to alert you guys that Malaysia 1475 is again very well heard from 15:02 with western EZL musicbetter in fact than yesterday! .Walt Salmaniw, Victoria -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.14.5/534 - Re

[IRCA] TP for 15Nov06

2006-11-15 Thread Walter Salmaniw
A MOST interesting session. Pretty much exclusively JJ it seemed, and confined to the upper band. The lower band was very subdued, and it was only the upper half of the upper band that really came to life, but after 15:00. Malaysia was great for the first 30 minutes, but was a bit more anemic

Re: [IRCA] TP 16 Nov

2006-11-16 Thread Walter Salmaniw
I had only a short window to monitor this morning, between 15:14 and 15:28 UTC. 13 audios heard, mostly on the upper band. Maybe not quite as strong today as yesterday. Malaysia was there still, but a bit less robust. VOA Thailand 1575 outperformed HLAZ today. Audios on 747, 774, 828, 1134,

Re: [IRCA] TP's for 11-17

2006-11-17 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 06:41 AM 11/17/2006, you wrote: >TP's heard for 11-17 were all on the low part of the band and all were heard >with very low signals. They were 594, 648, 747, 774, 828, 864, 963, 1044, >1053 and 1188. > > >Bill Block Same here, Bill. A crummy morning with a grand total of only 3 audios be

Re: [IRCA] mystery 1521; any ideas?

2006-11-18 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 12:20 PM 11/18/2006, you wrote: >At 20:02 18/11/2006, you wrote: >>Radio Peking's CRI program from Urumqi in Russian is the one heard >>on car radios this side of The Pond. >> Barry >> > >That would be a catch here, Barry, thanksI'll see if I can find a >parallel, because conditions hav

Re: [IRCA] Sweep tones 680khz

2006-11-19 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 11:05 PM 11/18/2006, you wrote: >Not loud, but in there. > >Good start. > >John K9RZZ >Milwaukee KKGR 680 totally dominating the frequency at 07:00 UTC with sweep tones and very rapid CW, well over a sports station. On the other hand, KANA 580 was barely there with sweep tones, but nothing

Re: [IRCA] KERR 750

2006-11-19 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 11:11 PM 11/18/2006, you wrote: >Blasting in with C&W totally creaming KXL with Honey by Bobby Goldboro, >after a nice ID > >Patrick Martin >KAVT Reception Manager Same here, Patrick, although KXL is trying it's best! Nice ID noted at 07:44 UTC.Walt. -- No virus found in this outg

[IRCA] 1290 KGVO

2006-11-19 Thread Walter Salmaniw
Multiple IDs for Newsradio KGVO and back into Coast to Coast at 08:06 UTC...Walt. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.14.7/537 - Release Date: 11/17/2006 ___ IRCA mailin

Re: [IRCA] BIG SKY DX Test wrap up.

2006-11-19 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 07:22 AM 11/19/2006, Bill Harms wrote: >On a personal note, only one of the stations was definitely heard >here in Maryland - KERR 750. Hi, Bill! Since migrating over from the SW world (where they NEVER have dx tests, save Radio St Helena), I decided to see what all the fun's about and d

Re: [IRCA] My life is complete!

2006-11-19 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 11:44 PM 11/18/2006, you wrote: > > No luck yet on 930 (KSEI QRM), 1290 (KAZA), 1310 (KMKY) > Well, Mike, I'm just listening to 1310 and heard a clear ID for "40 years of broadcasting KEIN", under KLIX Twin Falls, ID. and CHLW with Lakeland and Cat Country IDsWalt. PS: Liste

Re: [IRCA] KANA-580

2006-11-19 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 12:27 AM 11/19/2006, you wrote: >Actually I did hear weak code at 0227 (not taped) and again at 0257 >(taped) but no sweep tones. I have to wonder if they are running >their nighttime 197w. > >Pete Taylor Pete, I was thinking the same thing. They were extremely weak, compared to 680. I

Re: [IRCA] TP 22 Nov

2006-11-22 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 07:39 AM 11/22/2006, you wrote: >At 14:59 22/11/2006, you wrote: >> Numerous hets, and some >>audio on 1386. Don't know what that is. > >Might be NHK2 //774, Chris??? > >Nick Yet another babe to deliver overnight, so no monitoring from hear. I do not at 16:05 NHK2 with audio still on 828 at

Re: [IRCA] 12 Volt DXing and computers

2006-11-26 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 04:47 PM 11/26/2006, you wrote: >> I am thinking of converting some of my equipment over to 12 volt >> DXing so I can take advantage of remote locations. I can power my >> R8B with no problem, but what about computers? I have search for a >> power supply made for my laptop, but it looks like

Re: [IRCA] 12 Volt DXing and computers

2006-11-26 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 04:29 PM 11/26/2006, you wrote: >At 16:50 2006-11-26, you wrote: > >>I am thinking of converting some of my equipment over to 12 volt >>DXing so I can take advantage of remote locations. I can power my >>R8B with no problem, but what about computers? > >Have you tried a modern inverter? I use

Re: [IRCA] CKWX-1130 (MAYBE)

2006-11-26 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 09:48 PM 11/26/2006, you wrote: >Possible reception of CKWX-1130. > >At 0021 EST, I am listing to 1130 and Bloomberg Radio with the BBC news >business report. The signal fades and a man says, "It's 9.19" and into a >story about the Canadian military. Then a story about some type of museum >and

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