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In article , N8KDV
writes: The band dropped out on me a few minutes ago, and the VOA out of Botswana is competing head to head with WBCQ! 03:20 - Same here, News from VOA, ( S2) Music from WBCQ ! ( S4) |
S9 + 20 here in Harlan Kentucky Using the Ten Tec RX-340 and 260' flat top
dipole at 200 feet up E-W wire. 0234 UTC KB "Diverd4777" wrote in message ... All: - Little experiment.. - Can you hear 7.415.. - What is the signal like - What UTC is it.. - Where ARE you _ And what equpment are you using.. ( Possible to calculate height of reflective layer using info ?? Hmmm.. ) ( A Bit Bored...On this particular Saturday night; going to look through the Second Hand Books again..) at 0:200 7415 a staticy, S3 Dan / NYC; R 75 & 100 foot random Wire |
I'll throw in my 2 cents...
WCBQ with "fluttery" audio competing with VOA. The result of the 2 signals is a steady s-9. I'm using a 50 foot wire and A-D DX-SWL sloper into an MFJ 1026 signal enhancer and a Drake R8B in Ventura, Ca. If the two signals weren't competing with each other, I'd have decent reception of either! -- *John Beattie* "Tom Holden" wrote in message . .. Diverd4777 wrote: All: - Little experiment.. - Can you hear 7.415.. - What is the signal like - What UTC is it.. - Where ARE you _ And what equpment are you using.. ( Possible to calculate height of reflective layer using info ?? Hmmm.. ) ( A Bit Bored...On this particular Saturday night; going to look through the Second Hand Books again..) at 0:200 7415 a staticy, S3 Dan / NYC; R 75 & 100 foot random Wire 0300 S1-3 seesawing with VOA for dominance in Toronto G5RV into DX-394 Tom |
John Beattie wrote: I'll throw in my 2 cents... WCBQ with "fluttery" audio competing with VOA. The result of the 2 signals is a steady s-9. I'm using a 50 foot wire and A-D DX-SWL sloper into an MFJ 1026 signal enhancer and a Drake R8B in Ventura, Ca. If the two signals weren't competing with each other, I'd have decent reception of either! About the same here in Michigan at the moment (0339) head to head at S9. -- *John Beattie* "Tom Holden" wrote in message . .. Diverd4777 wrote: All: - Little experiment.. - Can you hear 7.415.. - What is the signal like - What UTC is it.. - Where ARE you _ And what equpment are you using.. ( Possible to calculate height of reflective layer using info ?? Hmmm.. ) ( A Bit Bored...On this particular Saturday night; going to look through the Second Hand Books again..) at 0:200 7415 a staticy, S3 Dan / NYC; R 75 & 100 foot random Wire 0300 S1-3 seesawing with VOA for dominance in Toronto G5RV into DX-394 Tom |
John Beattie wrote: I'll throw in my 2 cents... WCBQ with "fluttery" audio competing with VOA. The result of the 2 signals is a steady s-9. I'm using a 50 foot wire and A-D DX-SWL sloper into an MFJ 1026 signal enhancer and a Drake R8B in Ventura, Ca. If the two signals weren't competing with each other, I'd have decent reception of either! -- *John Beattie* It's 03:50 here in Hartford MI, and my reception is identical to the details with John's report. Using an Icom R-75 w/110' center-tapped longwire, elevated 7.5 ft. Tony ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
WBCQ sounding clear at 10:37PM Central, just north of New Orleans, RadioLabs
modified Sangean ATS-909, 75-foot random wire. Program highlight: "Janet Jackson's breast has saved the day." You know, you just can't make this stuff up. -- Stinger "Diverd4777" wrote in message ... All: - Little experiment.. - Can you hear 7.415.. - What is the signal like - What UTC is it.. - Where ARE you _ And what equpment are you using.. ( Possible to calculate height of reflective layer using info ?? Hmmm.. ) ( A Bit Bored...On this particular Saturday night; going to look through the Second Hand Books again..) at 0:200 7415 a staticy, S3 Dan / NYC; R 75 & 100 foot random Wire |
At 0500 UCT WBCQ coming in S4-S9 with a goodly amount of fading and a
LOT of noise, not a 'pleasant listen' at all. In fairness though, the bands are pretty much wiped out tonight. Equipment is an R-75, antennas are an inverted L running NE - SW, approx 60 ft horizontal & 25 ft vertical through an ICE-182 and 75ohm RG6 coax feedline, 8 foot ground rod and an Alpha Delta 40 DX-SWL short sloper (40 ft) running E-W at 20 ft @ feed point and 8 ft @ endpoint. The sloper has more noise than the Inverted L, fading about equal and is running about S2 - S5. Location is Los Angeles, CA .... I see a much nicer report from Ventura, CA which is just a short hop north of LA - though the population isn't as dense (in more ways than one) as LA. I guess that much like we have 'micro-climates' we have 'micro-propogation'. Howard On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 22:41:35 -0600, "Stinger" wrote: WBCQ sounding clear at 10:37PM Central, just north of New Orleans, RadioLabs modified Sangean ATS-909, 75-foot random wire. Program highlight: "Janet Jackson's breast has saved the day." You know, you just can't make this stuff up. -- Stinger "Diverd4777" wrote in message ... All: - Little experiment.. - Can you hear 7.415.. - What is the signal like - What UTC is it.. - Where ARE you _ And what equpment are you using.. ( Possible to calculate height of reflective layer using info ?? Hmmm.. ) ( A Bit Bored...On this particular Saturday night; going to look through the Second Hand Books again..) at 0:200 7415 a staticy, S3 Dan / NYC; R 75 & 100 foot random Wire |
I was doing fine until 0200UTC then I lost the signal all together. I was
listening to VOA 50's style American music. At 0130 they ID'd as VOA. Maybe I wasn't even listening to WBCQ? Shortwave can sure be confusing!!!! I have to do something about my antenna situation. Neil Philadelphia, PA Grundig Satellit 700 |
Too bad I didn't read this last night s. I got up 04:00 PST and turned on
the dx394 - I might just as well have gone back to bed, Very noisy and the signal kept surging and disappearing over all bands. This morning 05:27 PST I have a chinese language broadcast on 7.415 which I am guessing is R. Free Asia via Tajikistan LOL - Passport shows nothing at in the 13:00 block. Antenna is 3 lines of single strand insulated wire 20' high running parallel in N-S arrangement and another similar line slung vertically into tall fir tree. Overall length approximately 240' for horizontal part, and another 50' for the vertical. Both connected to coax center conductor and sheild grounded to earth; receiver grounded as well. "Howard" wrote in message ... At 0500 UCT WBCQ coming in S4-S9 with a goodly amount of fading and a LOT of noise, not a 'pleasant listen' at all. In fairness though, the bands are pretty much wiped out tonight. Equipment is an R-75, antennas are an inverted L running NE - SW, approx 60 ft horizontal & 25 ft vertical through an ICE-182 and 75ohm RG6 coax feedline, 8 foot ground rod and an Alpha Delta 40 DX-SWL short sloper (40 ft) running E-W at 20 ft @ feed point and 8 ft @ endpoint. The sloper has more noise than the Inverted L, fading about equal and is running about S2 - S5. Location is Los Angeles, CA .... I see a much nicer report from Ventura, CA which is just a short hop north of LA - though the population isn't as dense (in more ways than one) as LA. I guess that much like we have 'micro-climates' we have 'micro-propogation'. Howard On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 22:41:35 -0600, "Stinger" wrote: WBCQ sounding clear at 10:37PM Central, just north of New Orleans, RadioLabs modified Sangean ATS-909, 75-foot random wire. Program highlight: "Janet Jackson's breast has saved the day." You know, you just can't make this stuff up. -- Stinger "Diverd4777" wrote in message ... All: - Little experiment.. - Can you hear 7.415.. - What is the signal like - What UTC is it.. - Where ARE you _ And what equpment are you using.. ( Possible to calculate height of reflective layer using info ?? Hmmm.. ) ( A Bit Bored...On this particular Saturday night; going to look through the Second Hand Books again..) at 0:200 7415 a staticy, S3 Dan / NYC; R 75 & 100 foot random Wire |
"Diverd4777" wrote in message ... All: - Little experiment.. - Can you hear 7.415.. It always drops out around 9:00 PM in Va. Propagation seems to go long, and when VOA Africa relay on Ascension Island fires up forget about hearing anything else. It's been this way for months. Probably solar related. The really SUCKY thing about this is 5.105 comes in good all the time at night and all that's on there of late seems to be Brother f-n Stair! I wish that AW would *swap* programming between 7.415 and 5.105 !! I really miss hearing, or not being able to hear John P Lightning RNI on Sunday evenings. Believe me, NO-BODY would miss Brother Stair and that other kook, James Lloyd, if they dissappeared into an RF propagation black hole after 9:00 on 7.415! |
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