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Title: NRS Relays Radio Free Manitoba 2 6930.2 AM
Post by: Eagle Ears on April 12, 2011, 0158 UTC
 This puppet is hearing NRS fine and dandy tonight!

Radio Free Manitoba 0155

Cheese mash up ,very well done !
Title: Re: NRS Relays Radio Free Manitoba 2 6930.2 AM
Post by: John Poet on April 12, 2011, 0208 UTC
If you call yourself a puppet just once more....

 ;D

0204-  Getting it very weak here, with preamp 2 and NR4 on the R-75.  SIO=141
Two OM conversing, but can't make anything out.



Title: Re: NRS Relays Radio Free Manitoba 2 6930.2 AM
Post by: Eagle Ears on April 12, 2011, 0236 UTC
Skip is starting to go long hear fading quickly ,

Paranoia News North talking about HAARP I think?
3 NRS IDS and a plug for the HFU very funny and true !
Set to club music...0231

 Right on Poet!  ;)

Thanks Doc John
Title: Re: NRS Relays Radio Free Manitoba 2 6930.2 AM
Post by: sat_dxer on April 12, 2011, 0252 UTC
“News” commentary heard here with some QSB, whoever the guy reading is, his voice has a Bullwinkle style monotone pace to it.

Odd to hear abt west coast earthquakes, Mt St Helens… from where the Red river (of the north) is flooding!

gone @0311UT
Title: Re: NRS Relays Radio Free Manitoba 2 6930.2 AM
Post by: sat_dxer on April 13, 2011, 0306 UTC
CW Id @0255UT, then series of IDs then "discussion" of cheese... Radio Free Manitoba ID @0305UT..audio just above the QRN...
Paranoia News North @0329UT
CW Id @0345UT, now on an agenda 21  "discussion"...  
audio gaining on the QRN..
Title: Re: NRS Relays Radio Free Manitoba 2 6930.2 AM
Post by: Zoidberg on April 13, 2011, 0356 UTC
4/13/11
6930 AM
Since 0320z: Jussst barely audible here at home, enough to hear voice, but nothing else clearly (other than the "Hola!" guy every once in awhile).  Could probably copy more clearly if I wasn't so lazy and took a portable outdoors.

Bits and pieces audible via Colorado remote: Partial ID (heard only "Manitoba") around 0324z. Sounds like Elmer Fudd voice talking about "radiation... carbon monoxide...".  Just a carrier or nothing via Ohio remote (overloaded by MW flamethrowers), Oregon and Western Ca. remotes.

0400z: Lost it here at home and via CO remote, just a weak carrier via Oregon tuner.
Title: Re: NRS Relays Radio Free Manitoba 2 6930.2 AM
Post by: sat_dxer on April 13, 2011, 0404 UTC
QRN now gaining on the audio.. any remotes near the 49th (border) to try?

Wiped out by QRN here also...

weak cw id @0409UT
Title: Re: NRS Relays Radio Free Manitoba 2 6930.2 AM
Post by: Zoidberg on April 13, 2011, 0412 UTC
QRN now gaining on the audio.. any remotes near the 49th (border) to try?

Via Global Tuners (you'll need an account and new accounts have limited access for the first couple of weeks), there are some left coast remotes with good antennas in Alberta Ca. (AM and FM only, no sideband), Oregon, and a very good Icom R75 labeled "Pacific DX".  One of the better Midwest tuners is in Colorado.

The Cleveland, OH, PCR-1000 is in a great location but very prone to overloading, so it's tough to copy weak signals.  Good for fairly strong pirate signals tho'.

There's a pretty good remote in Wisconsin - only problem is no narrow filter, so it's noisy for sideband tuning.  A couple of very quiet remotes on the right coast of Ca, in Nova Scotia and ...?  I don't recall the other.

The main challenge with the popular Icom PCR-1000's on Global Tuners is they're very vulnerable to overloading from regional MW flamethrowers.  Those models often work best with the attenuator kicked in, especially if they're hooked up to a good outdoor dipole or other resonant wire antenna.
Title: Re: NRS Relays Radio Free Manitoba 2 6930.2 AM
Post by: sat_dxer on April 13, 2011, 0423 UTC
Hearing Radio True North here in the NW the other night suggests a qth of BC or Alberta. Says he's running 40 watts to a Johnson Viking Ranger II barefoot.
Thanks Lex for the infor on remote tuners..
Title: Re: NRS Relays Radio Free Manitoba 2 6930.2 AM
Post by: Northern Relay Service on April 13, 2011, 2031 UTC
 Glad we are making it out somewhere. The days are getting longer and longer here so our transmissions will be getting later all the time, till June 21 anyways.We will likely get into the mid-western and western parts of NA much better.

  Of coarse you guys down there are already getting that nasty static season. We are still a month off that.
But it will come,sure as winter will again.

 Any and all comments are welcome as we are always trying to improve things.