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Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] 594 India into central USA?

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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From: am-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [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
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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!  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! Â73,...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.
 ÂThere 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. ÂI 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
 ÂOnce 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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