Re: [IRCA] Someone TESTING on 940 Khz Correction............

["Robert S.Ross VA3SW" <va3sw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/01/2011 7:47 AM, Scott Fybush wrote:
> Robert S.Ross VA3SW wrote:
>
> > >     Heard a Station Testing on 940 Khz early this morning..No idea 
> > > who it was??? Did anyone else hear this Test??? Or have any idea if 
> > > a Station had a Test planned early this morning???
>
> This sounds very much like the "CBS Radio Network, channel 43" tones 
> that were/are frequently heard. When that happens, it's not a station 
> testing - it's just automation gone wrong. What's usually going on is 
> that a station is taking a network feed of a football game, and after 
> the game the automation fails to switch the station back to its usual 
> program source, so whatever's on the satellite channel where the game 
> was just keeps playing, sometimes all night until someone comes in the 
> next morning.
>
> Unless you can find someone local to the station that's running the 
> wild satellite feed, the odds are pretty low that you'll ever figure 
> out who it was - though at least you've narrowed down who it wasn't. 
> Keep in mind that even the station itself may not know that they were 
> broadcasting this loop overnight!
>
> s
> _____


Thanks Scott,  for this info........I do recal hearing several of these 
Satellite  Feeds in the past and I did wonder if maybe that was what I 
had??? However......I was not able to copy all of the text the Male 
Announcer said....so I wasn't sure if he gave a Callsign....or a Radio 
Feed type of ID. In the past when I have heard these, it seemed like it 
was a continuous loop with lots of IDs quite frequently. In this 
case...there was only the one ID heard, and the tones I heard didn't 
seem to be a continuous loop...more random in nature???

Anyways........another mystery Station for the log!!!

Regards...ROB VA3SW

Robert S. Ross
London, Ontario CANADA
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