Geo - Magnetic storm
 

I'm curious on how well other SWL's on this newsgroup are recieving
their favorite stations. Currently here in Calgary, Alberta, Canada,
the shortwave reception is dismal. In the last couple of days and
nights, the ONLY station I can recieve, is WWV on 10 Mhz. Nothing
else at all, using a 75' wire on two recievers.
Fred Burgess

Fred Burgess wrote:
I'm curious on how well other SWL's on this newsgroup are recieving
their favorite stations. Currently here in Calgary, Alberta, Canada,
the shortwave reception is dismal. In the last couple of days and
nights, the ONLY station I can recieve, is WWV on 10 Mhz. Nothing
else at all, using a 75' wire on two recievers.

Over the weekend, it seemed shortwave broadcast reception was terrible.
But activity on the ham bands (during the CQ Worldwide Contest) was pretty
good. I worked quite a few Europeans with just my low dipole and 100
watts. Go figure!

Art N2AH

"Fred Burgess" wrote in message
...
I'm curious on how well other SWL's on this newsgroup are recieving
their favorite stations. Currently here in Calgary, Alberta, Canada,
the shortwave reception is dismal. In the last couple of days and
nights, the ONLY station I can recieve, is WWV on 10 Mhz. Nothing
else at all, using a 75' wire on two recievers.
Fred Burgess

Brother Stair is coming in loud and clear here on 9475. He's playing an
old tape. I've already heard a wonderful false prediction of an
economic collapse immediately following the elections of November 1988.
He's also told us that the methods the Comminists use to hold onto power
will be coming into the US. Food prices will double! Gas will become
so expensive we won't be able to drive!

The Prophet had also found an old ( even at the time) Oct. 31,1981
edition of the Arizona Republic. Turns out that the bomb shelters of
Tuscon are in inadaquate, and nearly all of it's residents would be
incenerated in a firey inferno if the Soviet Union unleashes a full
scale attack there!!

Well, it could have happened!!

Frank Dresser

Decent reception of the majors, Auntie Beeb on 12.095 mhz currently and 9.740
mhz this morning; Radio Australia on 9.580 mhz was decent during their early
morning broadcast also; C.B.C. Northern Service on 9.625 mhz was buried in
static last night; A.F.R.T.S. on 10.320 mhz from Pearl Harbour has been
readible during the World Series (yea fish); 80-75 meter reception has been
spotty with Wednesday night's 3.870 mhz West Coast A.M.I. net slippin' into
static, and Western Public Service System's 3.952 mhz displaying roller coaster
propogation reception....Would like to extend kudos to San Diego's Sports XPRS
1090 khz, for suspending their overnight St. Louis Sporting News Radio , and
instead broadcasting continuous news updates of SoCal's devastating mega
fires! XPRS proved that community comes before sports overall ! BRAVO!!!

In the afternoon, Been receiving 12.095 from Ascension Island and in the
evening, 5.975 from Antigua.

Around 5:00 picked up old an Jean Shepherd broadcast on 7.415;
- Funny !

Picking up Radio Australia on 9.580 in the a.m; and Radio Canada
on 9.515 until 11:ish..

It gets bad at night sometimes, Not great but useable...

Dan
( R-75 & 100 foot random wire)
]
In article , Harris
writes:


Fred Burgess wrote:
I'm curious on how well other SWL's on this newsgroup are recieving
their favorite stations. Currently here in Calgary, Alberta, Canada,
the shortwave reception is dismal. In the last couple of days and
nights, the ONLY station I can recieve, is WWV on 10 Mhz. Nothing
else at all, using a 75' wire on two recievers.

Over the weekend, it seemed shortwave broadcast reception was terrible.
But activity on the ham bands (during the CQ Worldwide Contest) was pretty
good. I worked quite a few Europeans with just my low dipole and 100
watts. Go figure!

Art N2AH

"Fred Burgess" wrote in message
...
I'm curious on how well other SWL's on this newsgroup are recieving
their favorite stations. Currently here in Calgary, Alberta, Canada,
the shortwave reception is dismal. In the last couple of days and
nights, the ONLY station I can recieve, is WWV on 10 Mhz. Nothing
else at all, using a 75' wire on two recievers.

Fred,

I wasn't able to pull in much of anything on SW over the past couple of
days-- even WWV on 10 MHz, "Old Reliable", was very weak here. However, the
ten meter ham band was surely open. I wasn't able to participate in the
contest this past weekend (I live in a CC&R situation and wasn't able to get
to our club station) but I was able to listen to ten meters on my ATS 803A.
The "beacon" portion of 10 meters was amazingly busy with signals of beacons
from all over. Just jotting down beacons filled up 1/2 page in my logbook.

I live in Minnesota, and propagation here is quite "iffy" for a good part of
the year due to our geographic location; however, this past weekend, I was
able to pick up beacons in Hawaii (KH6AP, at just 20 watts!), Texas, the
East Coast, Mexico and east-coast Arctic Canada. All of the beacons are QRP,
with some of them being as low powered as 500 mW. I am very glad to see ten
is open again, as it is my favorite of all the ham bands.

Jackie

Fred Burgess wrote:

I'm curious on how well other SWL's on this newsgroup are recieving
their favorite stations. Currently here in Calgary, Alberta, Canada,
the shortwave reception is dismal. In the last couple of days and
nights, the ONLY station I can recieve, is WWV on 10 Mhz. Nothing
else at all, using a 75' wire on two recievers.
Fred Burgess

Reception has been very poor at times during the past few days but even
so, you should be hearing more than just WWV on 10-Mhz. Might be a good
idea to check out your antenna, especially the connections.


-----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =-----
http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World!
-----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =-----

elg110254 wrote:

Decent reception of the majors, Auntie Beeb on 12.095 mhz currently and 9.740
mhz this morning; Radio Australia on 9.580 mhz was decent during their early
morning broadcast also; C.B.C. Northern Service on 9.625 mhz was buried in
static last night; A.F.R.T.S. on 10.320 mhz from Pearl Harbour has been
readible during the World Series (yea fish); 80-75 meter reception has been
spotty with Wednesday night's 3.870 mhz West Coast A.M.I. net slippin' into
static, and Western Public Service System's 3.952 mhz displaying roller coaster
propogation reception....Would like to extend kudos to San Diego's Sports XPRS
1090 khz, for suspending their overnight St. Louis Sporting News Radio , and
instead broadcasting continuous news updates of SoCal's devastating mega
fires! XPRS proved that community comes before sports overall ! BRAVO!!!

I've been listening to KNX (Hollywood) on 1070 with continuous fire
coverage for the last couple nights. I couldn't help noticing that they
eventually started to repeat the same stuff over and over. Calls for
volunteers at San Bernadino Int'l (1600 refugees in a big hangar),
school and freeway closure info, and so on. I turned it off after about
an hour or so.

Today (Wednesday afternoon) is suppose to be the 'BIG ONE.'

--
^~^~^Monitoring The Spectrum^~^~^~^
*********Hammarlund129X & 140X**********
^^^^^^^^Heathkit Q Multiplier^^^^^^^^^
*~*~++++++GO BEARCATS++++++~*~*~
GE P-780
"starman" wrote in message
...
Fred Burgess wrote:

I'm curious on how well other SWL's on this newsgroup are recieving
their favorite stations. Currently here in Calgary, Alberta, Canada,
the shortwave reception is dismal. In the last couple of days and
nights, the ONLY station I can recieve, is WWV on 10 Mhz. Nothing
else at all, using a 75' wire on two recievers.
Fred Burgess

Reception has been very poor at times during the past few days but even
so, you should be hearing more than just WWV on 10-Mhz. Might be a good
idea to check out your antenna, especially the connections.


-----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =-----
http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World!
-----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =-----