Thanks Paul and others involved in setting this up. That the first test (KBOZ) isn't happening, at least right away, is no big deal. Everyone has to understand that, with the health and economic crises out there, nothing can be expected to go without hitches and glitches.
We can look forward to the KJJR test.
I suspect that WCBS will be a show-stopper on this end but who knows? Morse code or sweep tones coupled with a lucky fade might do magic. If T-storms are reasonably far off, I'll be recording 880 audio 0600-0700 UTC Saturday morning. Lower sideband probably does best to dodge 882 BBC R. Wales.
1090 would have been similarly challenging with WBAL dominating, LSB marred by 1089 TalkSport, and USB mucked over by IBOC from 1080 WTIC.
Mark Connelly, WA1ION | South Yarmouth, MA | FN41vq
On Tuesday, April 28, 2020 Paul B. Walker, Jr. <abdx@abdx.org> wrote:
I posted on Facebook that the KBOZ DX Test had been cancelled and engineer Todd Clark in Kalispell, MT offered up one of his stations for a test.
KJJR 880 Whitefish, MT(Kalispell) will test for 1 hour at 10kw non directional Saturday May 2nd 12:01am to 1am mountain time. It will consist of morse code, sweep tones, along with various telephone sound effects
There will be no paper QSL's issued for this test. Only emailed confirmation. Send an email to walkerbroadcasting@gmail.com with "KJJR 880 DX Test" in the email (You MUST put that in that subject line so I don't accidentally delete it thinking its spam!). The reply will likely be a simple email reply with details of the station and confirming the details of what/when you heard it. You WILL get a reply from me in due course, please give me some time!
This is done on short notice and being kept simple as to not burden anyone involved. Thanks to Les Rayburn for creating the test material and Todd Clark for generously offering up the station. I've already seen communication between him and the station, asking them to block out an hour from the logs, so he can tinker around with things at the tower site.
I know, I know.. we've had a few false starts on DX tests, but I can only do what I can do.
Any questions? Email me and I'll be glad to answer. Pass this word to other DX email groups, facebook groups, websites, etc
Paul
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