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Hi folks:
I wanted to pass this along....
William Patalon III
Baltimore, Maryland
Icom R-75, Eton E1XM, Eton S350, Realistic DX-440 105-foot EF-Zepp
This is from
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Today's Topics:
1. TPs / DUs for Sept. 3rd - Great Stuff! (Guy Atkins)
2. DX Tip for WDXR (Patrick Martin)
3. Fwd: Are Sunspots Disappearing? (Russ Edmunds)
4. WILY 1210 IL On late last night + a question!
(HASCALL, DAVID CIV DFAS)
5. TP's for 09-04-09 (vroomski@xxxxxxxxxxx)
6. TP for 4Sep09: More DU? (Walter Salmaniw)
7. NE Oregon TPs, Friday (Steve Ratzlaff)
8. Arizona TP's 9-4-09 (Bill Block)
9. Re: Huge lower band TA opening in WI (Mike Stonebridge)
10. Puyallup, WA TP's for 9-4...DX Dropoff (D1028Gary@xxxxxxx)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 22:52:27 -0700
From: Guy Atkins <dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [IRCA] TPs / DUs for Sept. 3rd - Great Stuff!
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A really, really nice TP morning! I just finished reviewing my Perseus
recordings and it was nice to be reminded about what can be heard here in
suburban Seattle/Tacoma when the propagation is favorable.
I had around 25 stations in audio, with lots of hets on other channels too.
At 1230 Taiwan Fisheries was in with Chinese on 738, but it wasn't until
1302 (when other signals came in stronger as Walt Salmaniw mentioned) that I
caught a bit of Chinese audio on their other 1143 frequency too.
I noted 1475 Malaysia again, off and on with audio beginning around 1255.
After seeing Walt's chart of TPs for just 1/2 hour of this morning's dawn
enhancement, though, I'm seriously envious! What a difference being near the
salt water makes.
>From my Puyallup perspective, some of the regulars were in with much better
than usual audio, and I made MP3s of seven frequencies that I'm going to
post on my blog before the evening is over.
John B.-- thanks for your comment on 963 Dalian Satellite BS (Liaoning RGD)
likely the one dominating the usual Russian CRI. I had them here too, and
it's among the MP3s I will be posting (a selection of orchestral music
during a peak in the signal).
Guy Atkins
Puyallup, WA
www.perseus-sdr.blogspot.com
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 00:07:54 -0700
From: mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx (Patrick Martin)
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Subject: [IRCA] DX Tip for WDXR
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1510 KCKK CO, Littlton, with KGA off at 0230 EDT 9/4 with sports
talk, SNR, cluster of spots at 0240, one with a 303 area code, then at
0258 "Sporting News radio" jingle followed by Mile High Sports, KCKK,
Littleton-Denver". fair. CX aren't too good to the East. (PM-OR)
Drake R8
1500' Eastern beverage
Patrick Martin
KGED QSL Manager
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 05:47:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [IRCA] Fwd: Are Sunspots Disappearing?
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Forwarded by:
Russ Edmunds
Blue Bell, PA ( 360' ASL )
[15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
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FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'
AM: Modified Sony ICF 2010 barefoot
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> NASA Science News for September 3, 2009
> The sun is in the pits of the deepest solar minimum in
> nearly a century. Weeks and sometimes whole months go by
> without even a single tiny sunspot. Are sunspots
> disappearing? Experts discuss the question in today's
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 09:25:01 -0400
From: "HASCALL, DAVID CIV DFAS" <DAVID.HASCALL@xxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [IRCA] WILY 1210 IL On late last night + a question!
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Noted on the Gary de Bock provided (thanks GdB) Eton e-100 was a station
mixing w/Philly on 1210 at 0110 ET. Not being immediately able to tell
format, I first thought of Guyman but then heard classic rock / oldies
and then "AM 1210 WILY" calls. Centralia, IL is not new but rare at LSS
and way better sounding than 3 watts. It is new to my not often updated
ULR log (not as religious about that as Rob).
Question: Is there a way to post to the IRCA reflector from another
email address? I was actually at the PC at 1:15 AM ET and could have
let someone know about WILY. I guess that I could have sent a "twit" :)
to dxer.ca......
73,
Dave in Indy
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 13:36:02 +0000 (UTC)
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Subject: [IRCA] TP's for 09-04-09
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Good Morning,
Listened from 1301-1330 ut. Conditions down from yesterday morning.
Radio Rossii 153 had a nice signal. JOUB 774 top the MW's with a
weak signal.
153 RUSSIA, 1305 good signal with Radio Rossii id.
189 RUSSIA, 1307 fair with woman in Russian.
279 RUSSIA, 1307 fair with woman in Russian.
594 Level 4 carrier 1328.
738 Level 5 carrier 1325.
774 JAPAN, JOUB 1301 weak with Japanese.
792 Level 5 carrier 1309.
828 JAPAN, 1313 very weak.
838 Level 4 carrier 1315.
846 Level 4 carrier 1315.
981 Level 4 carrier 1316.
1035 Level 5 carrier 1317.
1053 Level 5 carrier 1317.
1134 UNKNOWN, 1318 threshold audio at times.
1143 Level 4 carrier 1319.
1152 Level 3 carrier 1319.
1278 Level 3 carrier 1320.
1287 Level 4 carrier 1320.
1377 Level 5 carrier 1321.
1422 Level 4 carrier 1321.
1467 Level 4 carrier 1322.
1503 Level 5 carrier 1322.
1566 REPUBLIC OF KOREA, 1302 weak with in and out signal.
1575 THAILAND, VOA 1323 poor.
1584 Level 4 carrier 1324.
1593 Level 3 carrier 1327.
Dennis,
Salmon Creek, WA
JRC 545 with ewe NW
A=5 K=2
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:46:16 -0700
From: Walter Salmaniw <salmaniw@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: [IRCA] TP for 4Sep09: More DU?
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As so often seems to be the case, the phone rang at 11:00 UTC (4:00 am local) for another delivery. I returned about 13:15 to hear the dawn enhancement full bore. From 12:58 until then, the Perseus was busy recording via the W wire which has always performed exceptionally well for the Asian stations, and today seemed to be no exception with both HLAZ 1566 and VOA going strong on 1575. I then switched over to the S directed loop to be rewarded with plenty of DU activity. At 13:32, I'm still hearing 738, but mostly with Australia, and not RFO, although after having 2NR (although the NZ station can't be ruled out), RFO returned at pretty good strength at 13:34. Perhaps conditions are bit more disturbed? SF 69 A5 K2 reported. The Maori station on 765 is still in with good strength at 13:36 as I type this. 783 Access Radio is quite strong too, so seems the NZ stations are really making it up here this morning. Plenty of fun to be had. 801 sounds like Radio Rhema at 13:3!
9...wow, this is late! It's coming in very well too with inspirational vocals. I think this was a mighty fine morning! (just checked and it is Rhema // to internet feed). Things are now faded away at 13:45 or 6:45am local, well past local dawn. A fun, but truncated morning! ...Walt
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 07:05:42 -0700
From: "Steve Ratzlaff" <steveratz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America"
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Subject: [IRCA] NE Oregon TPs, Friday
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Much poorer for Far East Russia LWBC today; no Asians heard on MW. But MW DU
reception was not bad with audio: 567 poor; 594 poor; 621 poor/weak; 648
poor; 657 poor with EE music; 702 poor; 738 poor, Tahiti at first then
switching to DU only; 774 poor; 828 poor/weak; 891 poor/weak two DU
stations; 1116 poor.
891 with one station hitting medium level at 1332 with sports news, last to
fade away around 1335 utc.
Steve
NE Oregon
R75, longwires
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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 07:09:16 -0700
From: Bill Block <billwblock@xxxxxxx>
To: IRCA Hard-Core <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [IRCA] Arizona TP's 9-4-09
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Listened from 1235-1305 ut and conditions were a little better than yesterday. More carriers were heard than yesterday and several were close to audio.
774-3LO heard at 1247 ut.
Bill Block
Prescott Valley, AZ
Drake R8
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Message: 9
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 09:20:21 -0600
From: "Mike Stonebridge" <stonbrdg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] Huge lower band TA opening in WI
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> Nothing here on the west coast, yet, Neil, but it's not quite dark yet
> either....Walt
Walt:
Nothing in here last night, not even on LW. However, a couple of nights back
189-Iceland was in poor audio plus there were carriers on 153, 162 and 180.
Nothing yet on MW. So far this season is starting off where the last one
ended, very poor, but then it's early days.
Mike in St Isidore, AB
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Message: 10
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 12:09:30 EDT
From: D1028Gary@xxxxxxx
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Subject: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA TP's for 9-4...DX Dropoff
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Hello All,
Inspired by the great TA reports last night from the Midwest (and
yesterday's hot TP conditions here), I was hoping for another great DXing session
this morning-- but it was quite a decline from yesterday.
Once again DXing with the modified ICF-2010 and the 36" tuned passive loop,
I listened from 1300-1330, and found only the powerhouse frequencies
(594, 747, 972, 1566 and 1575) with much audio. The "second tier" Asian
frequencies which had audio yesterday had only moderate carriers today, and DU's
(always pretty tough here) were limited to strong carriers on 639 and 783
(presumably the Kiwi, but never heard with audio).
About the only station that was as strong as yesterday was the 738 "ragged
carrier" Asiatic TP, which came up in weak audio around 1315 that sounded
like Chinese to me (the 1143 Taiwan Fisheries parallel had only a weak
carrier at the time). There was audio from 738-Tahiti in the null of the
nasty-carrier TP, but only for a short time around 1320. I guess one of the rare
advantages of using loops instead of fixed external antennas is that you
can easily get a fairly precise bearing on a mystery station, like the 738
problem child.
73, Gary
Modified ICF-2010 (30" loopstick) + 36" Collapsible-frame PVC loop
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