[IRCA] DX Test Results

[Saul DX <sauldx@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here is the list of who heard what - or tried and didn't - or maybe did. Please excuse the delay in sending this. I am having computer troubles to the extreme. The only good news being that the new lap and notebook systems I've just bought are being set up this afternoon. This list is based on reports to four lists I subscribe to, and from people who have independently e-mailed me. Most cool, of course, is the reception in New Zealand of WKVQ, as well as various TA receptions. It's not meant to be a complete list of every one who heard the tests, but an indicator of where the tests were heard, or not heard, or possibly/marginally heard. Enjoy!

Saul Chernos
For the IRCA-NRC DX Test Committee


1440 WFNY NY GLOVERSVILLE - HEARD:
* MN George Sherman - Heard what may have been code at start, partial calls, assorted sound - This appears to be the farthest reception reported to the DX lists
DC Bill Whitacre
IL Tom Jasinski
MA Allan Dunn
MA Robert Young
MI John Rieger
MI Tim Tromp
NJ Bob Antoniuk
NY Jim Renfrew
OH David Faulkner
PA Brett Saylor
PA Russ Edmunds
PA Mark Clark
TN Steve Francis
VT Steve Howe
VA George Santulli
WV David Yocis
WI Bill Dvorak
WI Tim Noonan
ON Robert Ross
ON Mike Brooker
ON Barry McLarnon
ON Dave Pyatt

1440 WFNY NY GLOVERSVILLE - MAYBE HEARD:
ID Frank Aden - Code at 0105?
OK Glenn Hauser - Heard few beeps of morse code, probably WFNY, but not enough to cop

1440 WFNY NY GLOVERSVILLE - NOT HEARD:
CO Wayne Heinen - Tapes revealed nothing but KMAJ
NE Rick Dau - A no-show at this locality
OK Bruce Winkelman - 1430 KTBZ had IBOC off overnight, but only WGEM
PA Rene Tetro - I tried. Local WNPV 1440 Lansdale made it difficult despite driving into a null
AB Nigel Piumblett - No trace of the test
BC Nick Hall-Patch - Mostly Wetaskiwin with a talker underneath
MB Shawn Axelrod

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1540 WKVQ GA EATONTON - HEARD
***** NEW ZEALAND - Bryan Clark
*** SCOTLAND Paul Crankshaw - Heard in Troon. With details about reception reports and morse IDs, Sleigh Ride playing in the background. Bahamas dominant
*** UNITED KINGDOM Barry Davies - 4000 miles, morse code, heard best at 1540.06 u/ZNS1 Nassau
*** SCOTLAND Ken Baird
* OR Pat Martin - If it wasn't for the morse code - first hour. Second hour much stronger, beautiful morse code ID followed by instrumental music
* AB Nigel Pimblett - Despite auroral conditions and noise from KFBK. Heard zero from first test but some very weak code just after 0700 UTC on second test
* MT Tom Kraft - Morse test tones twice using a Kenwood R-600 and KIWA loop
* CO Robert Wien - Morse code IDs
* CO Wayne Heinen - Nothing until morse ID & Christmas guitar music popped through
CT Mike Bugaj
CT Bill Nollman
CT Ron Musco
DE John Cereghin
DE Peter Jernakoff
IL Neil Kazaross
IL Tom Jasinski
IN David Hascall
MA Robert Young
MA Keith McGinnis
MI Tim Tromp
MN George Sherman - On barefoot Tecsun PL-310
NE Rick Dau
NJ Rick Shaftan
NJ Jim Chenard
NY Art ????? (in Ithaca)
NY Jim Renfrew
OH Michael Procop
OH David Faulkner
OK Glenn Hauser
OK Richard Allen - 822 miles on barefoot SRF-T615, sometimes with fair signal strength
OK Bruce Winkelman
PA Brett Saylor
PA Mark Clark
PA Scott Levitt
PA Russ Edmunds
SC Powell Way
TN J.D. Stephens, Brandon Jordan and Jim Pogue at Shelby Forest State Park near Memphis
TN Willis Monk
TN Kevin Redding
TN Doug Smith
TN Steve Francis
VT Steve Howe
VA George Santulli
WV David Yocis
WI Tim Noonan
WI Bill Dvorak
MB Shawn Axelrod - Code IDs at u/KXEL
ON Robert Ross on Sony SRF-T615 ULR barefoot at 675 miles
ON Tony Ward
ON Dave Pyatt
ON Barry McLarnon
ON Greg Shoom
ON Saul Chernos

1540 WKVQ GA EATONTON - NOT HEARD
WA Pete Taylor - Wishful thinking: Too much KXPA and KFBK IBOC
BC Nick Hall-Patch - Nothing obvious noted out on the west coast for the first 15 minutes

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1250 WYTH GA MADISON - HEARD
* MB Shawn Axelrod - Sweep tones only, with CHSM nulled.
DC Bill Whitacre
IL Neil Kazaross
IL Paul Walker
IL Tom Jasinski
MD Bill Patalon
MI Joe Miller
MI Tim Tromp
PA Russ Edmunds
PA Mark Clark
PA Brett Saylor
TN Steve Francis
TN Jim Pogue
TN Willis Monk
WV David Yocis
WI Bill Dvorak
ON Barry McLarnon

1250 WYTH GA MADISON - NOT HEARD
UNITED KINGDOM Barry Davies - Sadly the station's 1000 watts did not stray across the pond
CA Stephen Airy - A local on 1240 the opposite direction doesn't help
CT Ron Musco - Mess of other stations
CT Mike Bugaj - Sports and music - nothing heard of test
NY Jim Renfrew - Nothing so far at 0116 with Oakville ON and Ft. Wayne IN dominant
OK Glenn Hauser - Nothing identifiable
BC Nick Hall-Patch - Only tried second part of the test, no sign here
ON Greg Shoom
ON Saul Chernos - Not a hint with Oakville dominant

1250 WYTH GA MADISON - MAYBE HEARD:
IL Paul Walker - Two real brief sweep tone type sound effects; other then that, the signal is buried in the mud and can't tell if the music is form WYTH or someone else
MO Earl Higgins - Occasional weak tones around 1:03 and 1:09 ELT, not really enough to put into the log books, so for now this will have to be the one that got away
NE Rick Dau - Might have heard something that sounded like a code ID at 0113 ELT, but KYYS in Kansas City just too strong
OR Pat Martin - Getting tones and sounded like weak morse code a couple of times. Once at :22, but hard to tell. I really did not expect to hear anything, but something is in there. I will try again next hour. PA Mark Clark - Way too much WDDZ but there seemed to be a weak morse ID in the mud at 0123, otherwise nothing

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