While looking at Pizza I noticed that around our sunset a grey line exist from here to Vancouver. So it should be possible to pick up signals along that path ...
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Tim Bucknall
harmonichy
Dec 7, 2006 12:26 pm
only on spectrum lab as far as i know i was going to have a tune around the band until that stupid solar flare trashed the band ... From: Jurgen Bartels To:...
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John Faulkner
bfmtvc
Dec 7, 2006 8:35 pm
Apologies for test. Seems I have been hard bouncing for the last three days! (sounds painful eh!) John...
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Giampiero Bernardini
giampi58
Dec 8, 2006 2:35 am
Some tips made in Bocca di Magra (La Spezia), Italy: 700 Radio Eldorado S.P., Brazil talks Fair 0401 04/12 740 Sociedade da Bahia, Brazil, talks PP Fair 0358...
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John Faulkner
bfmtvc
Dec 8, 2006 10:06 am
I haven't bothered to do much serious listening for the last couple of nights because of the conditions. However, listening between midnight and 1am I was...
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John Faulkner
bfmtvc
Dec 9, 2006 11:43 am
Conditions are still very poor in view of the recent solar disturbances but there were a few weak TA signals getting through. Here's a breakdown: 23:00 - 23:30...
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John Faulkner
bfmtvc
Dec 9, 2006 4:39 pm
At last, it looks like the recent disturbed period has ended. Perhaps the MW band will now gradually recover. K indices have returned to low values today. ...
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John Faulkner
bfmtvc
Dec 10, 2006 5:31 pm
Trying again ... ... From: John Faulkner <john.faulkner@...> To: MWC Group Subject: Conditions: 10-12-06 BCC to:...
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John Faulkner
bfmtvc
Dec 15, 2006 11:53 am
If the severe storm conditions were not severe enough for you yesterday evening, things worsened connsiderably after 03:00 such that Kiruna recorded a value...
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John Faulkner
bfmtvc
Dec 15, 2006 3:55 pm
As members of the Skywaves FM/TV forum will know we are currently in the middle of a period of very severe geomagnetic storm activity. This will affect medium...
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Jurgen Bartels
jurgenb2@...
Dec 15, 2006 6:36 pm
I found a way to start Dream twice and each Dream demodulates a different signal. So you can listen to 2 stations 9kHz apart, see attached screenshot. How? Due...
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John Faulkner
bfmtvc
Dec 15, 2006 9:16 pm
Fantastic! I must look into this soon and get it all working in time for the return to good conditions (he says with fingers crossed VERY tightly). It has to...
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John Faulkner
bfmtvc
Dec 16, 2006 3:25 pm
1320 YVWP R Apolo, Turmero. Lots of chat, Clear ID, announcements and eventually lively Latin rhythms. W 0225 16/12 JF 1520 WVOZ R Voz, San Juan PR. ID and...
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Jurgen Bartels
jurgenb2@...
Dec 17, 2006 11:39 pm
... I guess Dream should be worked on: allow a 2nd instance to run with an output to R while the 1st instance outputs to L. That would also make obsolete the ...
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John Faulkner
bfmtvc
Dec 20, 2006 11:31 am
The band 'seemed' to have recovered very well during the early part of the night as WTWP, WWZN, WKBW, WPTR and WQEW were all fair to good levels! The X band...
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John Faulkner
bfmtvc
Dec 21, 2006 10:38 am
1640 WSKH Sussex WI. Radio Disney programming W 0710 21/12 JF ... Better conditions around sunrise this morning with the uppermost part of mediuim wave active...
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Jurgen Bartels
jurgenb2@...
Dec 22, 2006 1:18 am
Just discovered that Dream can control an RX remotely. ... ignore the error msg that might pop up. Jurgen...
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John Faulkner
bfmtvc
Dec 25, 2006 10:13 am
Merry Christmas to all. Nothing to report partly due to antenna faults but also (when I managed to get the ewe working again) I heard next to nothing. Possibly...
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John Faulkner
bfmtvc
Dec 28, 2006 3:22 pm
About time too! The geomagnetic indices are quietening down again after destroying the DX over the Christmas period. The forecast is for "quiet" conditions...
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Richard Witney
richardwitney
Dec 28, 2006 4:03 pm
Apologies for off topic but it is radio related. In my town, and most likely many others, there used to be a service that was a primative forerunner to cable...
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John Faulkner
bfmtvc
Dec 29, 2006 6:51 pm
1060 WBIX Natick MA. ID "This is ... ... WBIX" then promo for the Stephanie Abrams Travel show on Sunday W 0127 29/12 JF 1280 WCMN Notiuno, Arecibo. "Noti...
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Jurgen Bartels
jurgenb2@...
Dec 30, 2006 3:04 pm
Despite an early signal from 650 Greenland, the night was quite poor, the morning did not look promising either with a few weak signals, even X-band was gone....
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Jurgen Bartels
jurgenb2@...
Dec 30, 2006 11:03 pm
Now I have used Winradio G305G and R390A on Beverages and EWE for a few days. My first concern that it would overload turned out to be no real problem. Only ...
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John Faulkner
bfmtvc
Jan 1, 2007 9:31 pm
1140 CBI Sydney NS. CBC programme // 1400. W 0636 01/01 JF 1540 ZNS1 R Bahamas, Nassau. "... new dawn ... on Radio Bahamas" sung jingle ID between old...
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Jurgen Bartels
jurgenb2@...
Jan 1, 2007 9:39 pm
31.Dec 1540 0302 WDCD "1540 D-C-D" slow music 1470 ?? 0700 SS Cadena National 0800 1470 0707 CJVB Vancouver, chinese px, schedule does not list 0000-0600 1500...
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John Faulkner
bfmtvc
Jan 2, 2007 12:30 pm
1600 WMNE Riviera Beach FL. Radio Disney ID just before the top of the hour W 0200 02/01 JF 1650 KWHN Fort Smith AR. "This is Newstalk 16-50 KWHN" ID Vw...
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John Faulkner
bfmtvc
Jan 2, 2007 12:32 pm
Another bounce, another test! Something still not right here. John...
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John Faulkner
bfmtvc
Jan 2, 2007 1:21 pm
Glad to see you had *some* west coast reception Jurgen. It seems there have been excellent MW conditions over the last few days up in the north of Scotland...
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John Faulkner
bfmtvc
Jan 2, 2007 1:34 pm
Thanks for the review Jurgen. I have been considering getting something like this. It would be good to put this receiveer at the side of the AR7030 and try...
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Jurgen Bartels
jurgenb2@...
Jan 2, 2007 9:02 pm
During the last days I compared the 3x3x8m EWE against my BOGs. The EWE is located 4m in parallel to the feedpoint of the BOG and looks the same direction as...
