[IRCA] KCKN Test Heard in Ottawa

[Barry McLarnon <bdm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Given the late hour of the test for us easterners, I decided to rely on 
timed recording.  I have a permanent setup for recording that runs every 
night, grabbing 8 minute segments starting at :29 and :59 past the hour.
I set up to record some additional segments for the test intervals that 
were scheduled near :15 and :40, nulled KDKA as best I could, and hit the 
sack.  This morning I discovered that I'd screwed up the recording 
settings, and none of those additional recordings had run at all... my 
heart sank. :-(

Fortunately, all was not lost!  My regular BOH and TOH recordings were 
still there, and at 0230 EDT I found some weak Morse IDs and sweeps.  And 
it got better!  At 0329, strong sweeps followed by talk, and at 0331.45, a 
nice KCKN voice ID before they returned to C&W music - "Kickin' (?) 
Country's home, New Mexico's KCKN 10-20".  To top it off, I caught another 
voice ID at 0400.  Yowzah!  Like Jim Renfrew and probably several others 
in the east, my only previous NM catch had been KHAC-880 a few years ago 
when WCBS was off, and that one didn't include a voice ID.

Aside from occasional C&W, oldies were frequently heard, with several 
identifiable songs... I assume that this was unneeded KJJK-MN.  Reloj was 
heard throughout the night, and after 0600 WKZE-CT made an appearance.

Thanks to all who made the test possible.  Now, if we could just get 
something similar organized from Oregon!

Barry

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Barry McLarnon VE3JF  Ottawa, ON

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