Re: [IRCA] TA's on the West Coast - Sept 17th (UTC)

["Neil Kazaross" <neilkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Awesome !! If I logged County Sound Radio here or in Grafton, I'd consider 
it my best catch ever from the midwest. Fri night in Grafton I had a decent 
carrier there when the Brits peaks around 0410 but I think it needed about 5 
dB more for some audio. I wish I could have stayed in Grafton (better for 
TA's than here and much quieter) to compare TA's with you guys but this is a 
work week I really cannot take off.

Your northerly waterpath certainly is useful for TA's. I'd do whatever I 
could to enhance my antennas for the NE to N directions if I were you.

Re: France..I have logged 1278 before but wasn't able to drum up audio yet 
this season. Your 1494 is likely France if // the many France Infos, and 
Corsica if // France Bleu (864 Paris ..but you are likely creamed by CFPR) 
Holland 1395 was my only new TA of last weekend other than a special catch 
and reco for you to be detailed later. I couldn't get any clean audio from 
unneeded 1008, but CFRB Is really strong on 1010.

Re:Germany DLF 1269 was really nice Saturday night (do you have trouble from 
1270 ?)

Spains to look for are also 1413 (surprisingly good at times) and 1305 was 
good at times as was 1314. 1602 Spain is also surprisingly easy. Most 
normally is Vitoria which plays lots of mx, but a couple years ago in a 
super Spanish opening I had SER under them.

I couldn't get clean audio from unneeded Belgium on 1512 like many of you, 
but did have 927 in with my WOKY local on 920 phased (I was smart to buy 
north of Milwaukee so on TA antennas, they are backend and phasable w/out 
phasing the TA sigs)

1503 I had Spain later. You should look for the UK local that relays 5 Live 
overnight. I suspect Iran's signal was also there on Friday which was a good 
mideast night. 1521,1512,1575,1431, 1584 and maybe the 1539 het was mideast 
as well. But I have never managed to pull any audio on 1503 from Iran so the 
country goes unheard.

If you can phase null KFBK 1530 at your distance, it is worthwhile to look 
for Vatican. I had their IS thru semi-phased WCKY at 0345 on Saturday. There 
was some eurolang talk and they run many langs at that time and use 1 IS 
between prgms. http://www.radiovaticana.org/en1/FM93_3_ing.asp is the sked 
for 1530 during the times we can hear them. To listen to that online go here
http://www.radiovaticana.org/en1/diretta.asp and click on channel 2.

73 and good luck...KAZ in awe of your County Sound 1566

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "WALTER SALMANIW" <salmaniw@xxxxxxx>
To: <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] TA's on the West Coast - Sept 17th (UTC)




Hi everyone



It’s Walt, Chuck, and Bruce with the first night’s DX from
the Queen Charlotte Islands. We have Beverages pointed at Asia and 
Australia,
a 300’ north-south wire, and an outdoor loop that can be used for DUs or TAs
depending on how it’s configured.



TA’s last night were absolutely amazing, with audio on too
many channels to count. The best catch
was Country Sound Radio on 1566, listed as 750 watts! Many Spanish, French, 
British, and German
stations were quite strong. 1053 Britain
was almost local quality at times, with other UK
stations noted on 909 1089 1341 and 1215.
French stations on 1206 1377 1278 and 1557 were all quite loud at
times. They, along with stations like
DLF-1422 and Holland-1395 were often stronger than adjacent channel 
domestics. Spain
took over as time went on, with audio on 684 999 1044 1215 1485(Cadena SER)
1116 954 1224 and maybe a few others. A
few other logs: Holland-1008, Belgium-1512, Germany-1017, Iceland-189. There 
were plenty of unids that will bear
watching the rest of the week: 1251 981 (in Arabic, probably Algeria)
1584 1503 1494 531 1314 and many others.
It took a while to finish setting up after dinner, so we missed whatever
opening there might have been to eastern Europe and the Middle East,
but last night was certainly a good start to put it very mildly.



TPs this morning were plentiful, but not impressive. Mostly, we heard the 
usual assortment of
Japanese, Chinese and Korean stations that have been heard during previous
expeditions at Grayland and the QCI’s.
Hopefully, things will be better tomorrow.







----- Original Message -----
From: Neil Kazaross <neilkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sunday, September 16, 2007 8:47 pm
Subject: Re: [IRCA] TA's on the West Coast - Sept 17th (UTC)
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> Nicely done but time in 0328 and if you have a 2 to 3 Khz SAH
> look for Spain
> as they are at least as good here as Virgin even on northerly
> antennas that
> would favor UK over Northern Spain... 73 KAZ Grafton
> WI/Barrington IL
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Patrick Martin" <mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 10:30 PM
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>
>
> > At 0828 the British ancr said something about One million
> dollars? Into
> > rock music.
> >
> > Patrick Martin
> > KAVT Reception Manager
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