[IRCA] West Coast to Maine (and such phenomenae)

[saulamdx <saulamdx@xxxxxxxxx>]

Is it possible that the signal was somehow distorted
in its relatively lengthy route to your radios on the
west coast, and that the speed of the code seemed
different? The time of this test was possibly optimum
for the west coast. Every report I've seen of
DXpeditions on the northern east coast (NB, NF)
suggests receptions to western Canada and nw U.S. just
before local (east coast) sunrise. I had the same
experience in NFLD last month...1700 just before
sunrise, also 1050 and 1290 in MB... and Jim Renfrew
had a tentative 1000 in Seattle around the same time
frame. The DXers at Miscou have often had BC and AB
stations, like this. This phenomenon strikes me as
almost as interesting as pulling in Europe, Asia and
Africa, and also makes me wonder if the right antennae
- direction-wise etc - would make the coastal Canadian
maritimes ripe for logging trans-pacifics and down
under.

I hope to go again, and I hope to set up some
experimental wires.


--- Steve Ratzlaff <steveratz@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I wasn't able to participate in the test, but I've
> listened to both Bill's 
> and Barry's audio clips of the morse
> code--transcription follows:
> WCXH WCXH WCHX MONTICELLO, MAINE WCXH WCXH WCXH  (14
> upward-sweep tones 
> follow the code)
> Note the third code group is an erroneous
> transposition of the station 
> callsign! The speed indeed is slow--one could write
> the dots and dashes down 
> and then decipher them afterwards with a code table,
> even if one didn't know 
> the code, at that slow speed. LF NDB's use similar
> slow code for that very 
> reason--the pilot can copy the dots and dashes and
> look up the ident if he 
> really wants to verify the signal on a particular
> frequency is the one he's 
> expecting.
> The use of a comma (dah dah di di dah dah) following
> the city is not often 
> heard. I used to copy the merchant marine press
> broadcasts sent to ships at 
> sea--since the copy being broadcast was
> machine-generated, it used all the 
> various morse code punctuation
> characters--parentheses, semicolons, etc. 
> Most of those characters would only be heard on
> those press broadcasts and 
> nowhere else.
> Best regards,
> Steve AA7U
> NE Oregon
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim Pogue" <KH2AR@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "'Mailing list for the International Radio Club
> of America'" 
> <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 3:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] WCXH-780 DX Test
> 
> 
> >I prepared the code and indeed it was 10 wpm.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of Barry McLarnon
> > Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 8:05 PM
> > To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club
> of America
> > Subject: Re: [IRCA] WCXH-780 DX Test
> >
> > Since there seems to be some confusion about the
> nature of the code
> > (tone frequency, speed) sent during this test, I
> thought it would be
> > useful to post a clip that you folks out west can
> use for comparison
> > to what you heard:
> >
>
http://topazdesigns.com/ambc/audio/wcxh-780-0450-24nov07.mp3
> >
> > It sounds very close to 1 kHz to me, and maybe 10
> wpm or so.  There
> > are also some sweeps at the end of the clip.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > Barry
> >
> > -- 
> > Barry McLarnon  VE3JF  Ottawa, ON
> 
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