[HCDX] News from the IRCA/NRC Joint Broadcast Test Committee

["Jim Pogue" <KH2AR@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

KWWN 1100 kHz Las Vegas, NV

 

     Bill Croghan, WBØKSW, Chief Engineer for Lotus Broadcasting of Las
Vegas tells us the new KWWN has been on the air now for about three days as
of Sept. 21, running unmodulated carrier (except for ID?s) often at less
than 1 KW for tuning and testing. 

     ?It has been many short tests mostly at the lower power levels, but we
have run the day pattern at the full 20 KW,? he relates. ?As you might
imagine, a 20 KW two tower day pattern wasn?t to difficult, but the 2 KW
night pattern with four towers, on the next property over from two diplexed
1 KW stations located near in frequency, has been a challenge. We expect to
start running longer tests, still primarily unmodulated, next week and the
week after and hopefully will ask the FCC for Program test authority in the
next two weeks. After receiving that, we will probably start sending the
Deportes, Hispanic ESPN programming with ID's at the top of the hour for
KWWN. It?s a long drawn out process that must proceed at the FCC required
rate and through the hoops they mandate. I'll let you know when we start
doing more.?

     Once they are through the testing phase, Bill has promised a full
fledged DX Test over KWWN. If you hear them testing before then, you can
send your reception reports to: Lotus Broadcasting, c/o Bill Croghan, 8755
W. Flamingo Rd., Las Vegas, NV  89147.

 

 

KCKN 1020 kHz Roswell, NM

 

     Jerry Kiefer has promised us a DX Test (maybe 2) from his station.
Right now it looks like early November.
     ?I?ll have an exact date shortly, sometime the first week or two of
November on a Sunday night to get some good winter skywave,? Jerry said in a
recent e-mail.

 

     Our thanks go to retired BTC Coordinator Les Rayburn for getting the
wheels turning on these two tests. We?ll provide more information when the
details are nailed down.

 

Jim Pogue ? KH2AR@xxxxxxxxxxx
www.dxtests.info

 

IRCA/NRC Joint BTC Coordinator

 

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