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Re: [IRCA] [ABDX] 1710 possible

Mystery solved.  With a little help from some underground radio friends,
I've learned this was a test transmission originating somewhere around
Timmins, Ontario (roughly 480 miles NNE).  The transmitter was 35 watts
into an inverted L antenna.  The testing is for CHIM-FM's future 1710
transmitter that they reference on their website.  The test broadcast I
heard wasn't officially CHIM but rather the person tweaking their
transmitter from what I gathered.  It's unknown if CHIM plans on running
the same output power when 1710 goes live.

Here's a clip of what I heard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6GENjxJsfs

It's on again right now at 2358 UTC as I type this and the op hinted he
might boost it up to 50 watts tonight.

73,
Tim Tromp
West Michigan


On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 1:19 PM, neilkaz neilkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [ABDX] <
ABDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
> Their website has a link for streamed audio which I checked and it works.
>
> If a part 15, perhaps they are running more than legal part 15 power as I
> suspect a few here in the US do.
>
> Your noise floor with the DKAZ aimed N is so low, that getting a part 15
> via skip wouldn't shock me.
>
> 73 KAZ
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: "Tim Tromp kilokat7@xxxxxxxxx [ABDX]" <ABDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Sep 27, 2015 12:02 AM
> >To: IRCA Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America <
> irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, abdx <abdx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: [ABDX] 1710 possible "CHIM FM", pirate?
> >
> >A bit of a mystery tonight in Michigan. I was tuning around the band and
> >found a stronger than usual signal on 1710. Religious talk and Christian
> >pop music from what I could tell with a decent signal but horrible
> >distorted modulation (at times it sounded better using the FM mode on my
> >Perseus). There have been occasional mentions of Canada between songs.
> >Strangely I've also heard what sounds like current weather conditions read
> >by a female robo voice, similar to the TIS stations that rebroadcast NOAA
> >weather radio, but this doesn't sound like one of the usual TIS stations
> >that now populate 1710 from the East. This is sometimes given between
> >songs for about 30 seconds or so. 0500 UTC now and still going. A bit of
> >Googling returned a hit for CHIM FM out of Timmins, Ontario:
> >
> >http://www.chimfm.com/
> >
> >Note the reference to 1710 AM.
> >
> >I have no confirmation or ID yet (that I can understand anyway) but
> >everything seems to point to this station (signal even seems best on the
> >North D-KAZ).
> >
> >Anyone know what's going on here? If it's a Part 15 station then I
> >shouldn't be hearing it from here. Is anyone else hearing this one? How
> >about you Ontario guys?
> >
> >I also found this thread on Radioinsight interesting:
> >
> >
> https://radioinsight.com/community/topic/chim-fm-possibly-making-an-unlicensed-return-to-terrestrial-airwaves/
> >
> >73,
> >Tim Tromp
> >West Michigan
>
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