Re: [IRCA] USA 1670kHz (Questions)
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Re: [IRCA] USA 1670kHz (Questions)



I'm confused.

Am I to understand that WD2XXM is back on the air currently? I listened 
several times
during the day yesterday but heard not a peep. Of course, my DXing equipment 
is
all in boxes after the move. Reduced to using the car radio, and a DX-398 
with
RS loop until I can unpack.

I'd love to log this one. Can someone on the East Coast verify that it's on 
the
air today? Or even better post a clip?



Les Rayburn, director
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Harms" <wharms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" 
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Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] USA 1670kHz (Questions)


> 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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