Re: [IRCA] Southern Star New Zealand I-BLOCKED in Michigan

[Bill Whitacre <bw@xxxxxxx>]

Good stuff Tim!  Based on your report from yesterday I was lured into resurrecting the E-W elements of my Wellbrook delta phased array yesterday.  No joy.  Not only were there only threshold traces last night on usually decent TAs but this morning I was barely able to claim carriers on 612, 1098 and 774 at various times between 1000 - 1030+utc sunrise here in DC.

Pretty disappointing after a visit to Grayland a couple of weeks ago.  ;-)

So I got on sdr.hu and found a decent signal from 1098 on a receiver in Hawaii.  Reasonable modulation for once with a program of island-ish music and male announcer in local language.

Looking forward to another DXpedition to someplace with room for antennas and a helluva lot less noise than here @ home.

Bill Whitacre
Alexandria, VA

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> On Aug 27, 2017, at 8:15 AM, Tim Tromp <kilokat7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 670 WSCR was IBOC free this morning, which opened up the adjacent channels
> to DX.  670 KLTT was also heard clearly under Chicago and a new one for the
> log book with religious programming.  During this, I'm "watching" a carrier
> come up on the Perseus on 657, which would otherwise be occupied by strong
> IBOC hash from WSCR, but the hash is absent this morning.  As time passes
> and sunrise approaches, 657 builds in strength, but with it comes weak IBOC
> hash from another unknown source, but likely far off in the distance.  Per
> Barry M's search page, KLTT is also HD, so I assume they are the long
> distance culprit spewing out this hash.  My excitement of logging KLTT was
> short lived as it's IBOC is now beginning to ruin any chance of hearing the
> threshold audio coming up on 657.  Sticking it out, and carefully listening
> against Star's streaming audio, start/stop times of talking vs. music
> matched what I'm hearing, and high notes in some of the spiritual songs
> also boosted my confidence when they matched the very weak audio I was
> hearing, which was just enough to maintain SAM lock on the Perseus.  Hard
> to log New Zealand at this point, but I hope WSCR's IBOC stays off for a
> few days to try again.  657's carrier was also the last one to hang on this
> morning before finally disappearing around 1128 UTC - that's 24 minutes
> past my local sunrise.
> 
> 73,
> Tim Tromp
> West Michigan
> Perseus SDR + Southwest phased BOGs
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