Maddening, isn't it? I've occasionally had
locally (or area)-generated spurs sitting
EXACTLY on a 9-kHz split frequency, but often
looping in nonsensical directions for the time
of day, propagation paths, etc. After being
dumbfounded, I finally say, "Aw, no WAY that's a
trans-oceanic signal!!" We get really decent
hets from the "real thing(s)" seldom enough here
in the dead center of the continent as it is.
Randy Stewart
Battlefield MO
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[mailto:am-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Glenn Hauser
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 9:49 AM
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America; Walter Salmaniw
Cc: am@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [NRC-AM] 594 India into central USA?
We may now relax --- I monitored 594
continuously from 1130 UT today, and found a
very steady signal which continued past 1430 UT
---- 2.5 hours after sunrise, so never mind
Kolkata (unless it`s groundwave, ha ha). Amazing
coincidence that *something else* would be
putting a signal on its exact split frequency
from its direxion. Not inside my household, at
least. Possibly spur from my local 960 KGWA
which is about the same angle from here. I will
be driving around to confirm that or not. Full report to follow. 73, Glenn
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On Wed, 8/31/16, Walter Salmaniw <canswl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Subject: Re: [IRCA] 594 India into central USA?
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio
Club of America" <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Glenn Hauser" <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, August 31, 2016, 6:39 AM
Isn't
that the beauty of DXing? One just never
knows! Â One day it's one channel, and on the
next, something completely different. This
brings me back to November 3 years ago in PEI,
when 1566 AIR was just booming in for several
hours. Yep, armchair copy at 3:00 in the
afternoon. Anything is possible!  73,...Walt On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at
6:02 AM, Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The end
of August can be a strange and interesting
time for transpolar signals. There were TA
carriers in western Canada a couple of nights
ago after quite a short period of quiet
conditions. Unfortunately, the 29th was the
one morning my SDR recordings failed, but the
signal strength monitor recording looked
lively, and this morning (30th) showed the
first signs of mainland China this season
as geomagnetic conditions worsened.  At
1320UT when we had our grayline to India, JOAK ruled the roost, no argument.
 There were two other carriers as well as JOAK
however....0.4 and 0.6 lower, 0.9 and 1.9Hz
higher, plus a couple of others, and some got
within 10dB or so of JOAK (briefly).
So, I won't join the naysayers on this.  I would
encourage other DXers in the central part of the continent
to hunt for this at that time, though likely it will have to
wait until the current geomagnetic upset works itself out.Â
 Once we're right into the thick of the season, I
suspect chances will become slimmer, as arctic conditions
become more "normal".
best wishes,
Nick
UNIDENTIFIED. Re trans-Pacific MW carrier search: ``at 1146
UT Aug 29, something on 594 seems to peak N/S --- that can`t
be right. Those were on the DX-398``
Now it dawns on me this could well be the megawatt in
Chinsurah, INDIA: ``Akashvani Maitree channel on 594 kHz
beamed to Bangladesh``
Grayline would work as sunset in Kolkata is about 1225 UT,
and sunrise here 1202 UT. Make that trans-polar! (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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