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 ...
Jurgen Bartels
jurgenb2@...
Dec 4, 2006 1:03 am
984
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
Jurgen Bartels
jurgenb2@...
Dec 15, 2006 6:36 pm
994
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...
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...
... 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 ...
Jurgen Bartels
jurgenb2@...
Dec 17, 2006 11:39 pm
997
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...
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...
Just discovered that Dream can control an RX remotely. ... ignore the error msg that might pop up. Jurgen...
Jurgen Bartels
jurgenb2@...
Dec 22, 2006 1:18 am
1000
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...
About time too! The geomagnetic indices are quietening down again after destroying the DX over the Christmas period. The forecast is for "quiet" conditions...
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...
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...
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....
Jurgen Bartels
jurgenb2@...
Dec 30, 2006 3:04 pm
1005
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 ...
Jurgen Bartels
jurgenb2@...
Dec 30, 2006 11:03 pm
1006
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...
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...
Jurgen Bartels
jurgenb2@...
Jan 1, 2007 9:39 pm
1008
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...
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...
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...
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...
