Re: [IRCA] Michigan DUs for Mon. 9/3/2012

[neilkaz <neilkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good job Tim.  Lets hope next time there's a little more oomph from 657 and you can get audio. No one to my knowledge in the eastern part of the midwest like us has had audio from NZ in decades. A shame to have a strong enough carrier for audio and not hear any, but perhaps their modulation was a bit low at the time.

I'll be trying some mornings later in the week when I get home. My FLG100LN has arrived from Wellbrook and seems to solve the low band sensitivity issues that my Double KAZ has, although I may end up preferring BOGs (more narrow beam) aimed right at NZ/Aus but only have about 360 ft of room here in IL that way and it is a bit noisy to run antennas that way.

My WI spot is superior for TP's being more remote from some pests and very quiet and having a 485 ft BOG about 240-245 degrees. I had 675 almost strong enough for audio there 2 years back. 

re: 612 (which is ruined by WTMJ) in  WI, I had a carrier almost strong enough for audio several years back on 612 from IL on the West BOGs but someone's IBOC came on and wrecked any chance.

re: 760 KKZN ..they were often heard in Aug sometimes o/u back nulled WJR, but I think not on day rig as they seemed stronger when heard in late Aug pre-Denver SS and I think they switched. Perhaps their night pattern is a bit out of whack or perhaps, they are putting day rig back on too early like some stations do.

re: 750.. where's SK's CK-750? Are they sometimes off in the wee hours of the morning? I recall spending lots of time on 750 looking for AK the morning Japan was in a couple seasons ago, and suddenly CK-750 popped on out of no where burying weak talk that I hoped was AK but that actually was heard to be Utah another morning. 

73 KAZ Barrington IL


-----Original Message-----
>From: d1028gary@xxxxxxx
>Sent: Sep 3, 2012 1:27 PM
>To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [IRCA] Michigan DUs for Mon. 9/3/2012
>
>Hello Tim,
>
>Thanks for your amazing DU-DX report from West Michigan, and
>congratulations on your South Pacific catches.
>
><<<   657: Stapping het at 1109 that should have produced audio but it
>seemed more like a dead carrier.  mwlist.org shows New Zealand's 2YC
>Southern Star/RNZ Parliament.  I checked the Parliament stream and it
>was also streaming "dead air".  The RNZ website indicates that it's only
>available when the house is in session.  I don't know what "Southern
>Star" is, but maybe this fills the airtime when the Parliament is not in
>session?    >>>
>
>The "Southern Star" network is a Christian music broadcasting group of
>New Zealand stations which almost always uses the frequencies in
>question during the times of favorable South Pacific propagation to
>North America (from my experience). I have never heard the RNZ
>Parliament programming on any of these frequencies during 11 Pacific
>beach DXing trips.
>
>"Southern Star" typically is best received on 657 kHz on the west
>coast, although the other network frequencies are also occasionally
>heard. A 963-Southern Star ID (that pegged the PL-380's S/N reading at
>the 25 maximum) from the last Oregon Cliff DXpedition is posted at
>http://www.mediafire.com/?5232u1x353foufw
>
>73, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA)
>
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tim Tromp <kilokat7@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: irca <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; ABDX <ABDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Mon, Sep 3, 2012 5:46 am
>Subject: [IRCA] Michigan DUs for Mon. 9/3/2012
>
>
>DXing from West Michigan and perhaps the best morning yet (including
>last year).  Listening session lasted from 1050 UTC to 1130 UTC
>(6:50am-7:30am Eastern, local sunrise @ 7:12am):
>
>576: Het, faint
>
>612: Het, faint
>
>657: Stapping het at 1109 that should have produced audio but it seemed
>more like a dead carrier.  mwlist.org shows New Zealand's 2YC Southern
>Star/RNZ Parliament.  I checked the Parliament stream and it was also
>streaming "dead air".  The RNZ website indicates that it's only
>available when the house is in session.  I don't know what "Southern
>Star" is, but maybe this fills the airtime when the Parliament is not in
>session?
>
>684: Het, faint
>
>693: Het, peaking 1114 but not enough for audio.
>
>702 2BL Sydney: Weak but discernible audio fading in and out during the
>entire listening session.  During the peaks, audio could be clearly
>paralleled against ABC's webstream.  Monotonous interview between two
>males at 1105, Dionne Warwick's song "Walk on by" heard at 1126, about
>20 seconds or so ahead of the webstream.  The most sustainable audio
>I've heard from 2BL to date.
>
>729 Het, faint
>
>738 Polynésie 1ère: Weak French audio, more sustaining audio noted this
>morning than noted in previous listening sessions.
>
>747: Het, faint
>
>827.997: Het, with a strong peak at 1119 then soon gone.
>
>Domestic stuff:
>
>640 KFI noted with a huge local-like signal way over KWPN (for once)
>during 1100 TOH, the best I've heard them here.
>
>750 KHWG Fallon, NV. "K-HOG, The Mighty 7-50" with classic c/w music,
>local-like signal at 1109 UTC.
>
>760 KKZN Thornton, CO "Colorado's Progressive Talk" continues to have a
>big signal here in the morning.
>
>73,
>Tim Tromp
>Muskegon, MI.
>Perseus SDR + phased BOGs
>
>
>
>
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