Re: [IRCA] USA 1670kHz (Questions)

[Bill Harms <wharms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Barry:

This is an experimental station operated by iBiquity, the company which 
is promoting IBOC.  They have run irregular tests of IBOC on it for 
about 3 years and I believe was the first station to run IBOC in MW.  
They were originally licensed to operate on 650 kHz but as far as I know 
never used this frequency, at least not heard by me. The calls use a 
similar pattern to USA ham calls. But the X in the first position in the 
last three letters is give-away and signifies that this is an 
experimental station. The following URL is a clip that I recorded almost 
three years ago - http://bill.dxclipjoint.com/01670-20040503-1758-wd2xxm.mp3

Bill Harms
Elkridge, Maryland

BARRY DAVIES wrote:
> Hello Bill
>   At 1kW WD2XXM would likely make it to the UK. What is the purpose of the station and why the funny calls?
>   Barry
>
> Steve Whitt <mwneditor@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   ** U S A. After a long time absence, assumed WD2XXM 1670 Frederick,
> Maryland is back on the air. They are running a hybrid IBOC signal and
> the analog is running non-stop music clips about 10 to 15seconds long.
> No announcements heard yet. 4/1 1400 [EDT = 1800 UT]. They are
> supposed to be 1 Kw according to my information, so they probably can
> be widely heard on the East Coast (Bill Harms, Elkridge, Maryland,
> dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
> --
>
>
>   

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