Re: [IRCA] TAs Last Night

["Jim Renfrew" <jrenfrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been checking most early evenings, and there hasn't been too much other 
than the usual big signals.  I didn't try later in the evening.  I haven't 
had a whisper on 1476 or 1386, even during the best days in November and 
early December, and being good mid-channels you'd think there would be 
something!  1494 R. Corsa used to be indistinguishable from France synchros, 
but I believe they run Bleue on one and Info on the other, so Corsica is a 
nice logging, a separate radio "country" by some standards.    Good work! 
Jim Renfrew, Holley NY

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry McLarnon" <bdm@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 11:06 AM
Subject: [IRCA] TAs Last Night


> I'm a bit surprised to see no mentions of TA reception last night... I 
> guess
> I had my own private opening.  I suspect it was geographically fairly
> selective, and didn't extend out west.  I almost missed it myself - just 
> did
> a quick check of the band before hitting the sack a little before 
> midnight,
> and found nothing special across most of the band, but some BIG TA hets at
> the high end.  The French stations on 1377 and 1557 were absolutely huge,
> blowing past the domestic QRM.
>
> Checking the less common channels, I found a man and woman in teletalk on
> 1476... I wasn't sure of the language, but I brought up the R. Euskadi
> Irratia (Spain) stream on the net, and sure enough, it was them.  Down to
> 1386, where I found a big carrier, but couldn't quite coax enough audio 
> out
> to be sure it was the Euskadi outlet there.  On to 1494, where I found FF
> talk that was // to the France Bleu/R. Corsa streaming.  SS on several 
> other
> top end channels, such as 1602... big het on 1611, but Vatican there is
> unneeded, so I didn't spend time on it... orchestral music on 1539 (an
> extremely tough channel here due to huge 1540 domestics), presumably 
> Germany.
> I then found a man and woman talking on 1575, and paralleled it with the 
> RAI
> Radio 1 stream.
>
> At that point (0600 UTC), I had to call it quits and get some sleep, but 
> it
> was fun while it lasted!  1476 Spain and 1494 France were new loggings 
> here.
> I've seen this before, where the rebound from a solar disturbance can
> produced enhanced propagation of some sort, especially on the more 
> southerly
> TA paths.  Whatever the mechanism, it's a welcome change, especially 
> during
> the January blahs...
>
> Barry
>
> --
> Barry McLarnon VE3JF  Ottawa, ON
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