Re: [IRCA] Mystery station on 1030 KHz

[Barry McLarnon <bdm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 04 April 2006 12:33, JohnCallarman@xxxxxxx wrote:
> "Could still be one of the three, with an automation system that stayed
> plugged in to the net feed instead of the audio it was supposed to run
> .. We've read on the DX lists of countless occasions where this has
> happened at various stations."
>
> I don't know how many times in the '80s and perhaps beyond when we
> listened for Jim Bohannon on WMIX-940, where I worked until late 1981,
> and got the old Mutual network commercial and news insert feeds instead.
>
> It's a common thing at uncaring and unattended local stations.

Good point, John... let's see if we can winnow down the choices by other 
means.  It seems that the station is in the east... it was being heard 
well by Bill in MD and Dave in NJ, and moderately well by me in ON, but 
not by Jerry in WI, who logged KBUF-KS at the time we were all comparing 
notes.  So, I think it's unlikely that WCTS-MN was the mystery station.  
KCWJ-MO is relatively low power (1 kW day / 0.5 kW night), and both 
patterns are directional to the SW, so I don't think it could be them.  
That leaves WDRU, which is 50 kW and has a daytime pattern with a minor 
lobe to the north, where everyone hearing the unid was.  So, WDRU seems to 
be the prime suspect, as Bill indicated in his initial posting.  And they 
do carry SRN news, according to their website.  The other possibility 
might be a station with a recent format change.

Barry

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Barry McLarnon VE3JF  Ottawa, ON

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