[IRCA] KRSN 1490khz and WFIF 1500khz Maintenance Tests

["Les Rayburn" <les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

KRSN 1490khz Los Alamos, NM Maintenance Test

Date(s): Sunday Morning (Late Saturday Night) January 28, 2007

Time: 0100-0110, 0200-0210, & 0300-0310 Mountain Time. Ten minute long test 
period at the top of each hour.

Modes of Operation: Special DX Test. 640 Watts, Non-Directional

Programming: Phonetic voice ID's, Morse Code ID's, Sweep Tones.

Notes:  This will be a challenging test, as KRSN is on an STA that allows 
them only 640 watts. The antenna is a short (about 80 foot) folded unipole 
mounted on a 150 foot tower. The top of the tower supports several bays of 
cell phone antennas.

KRSN has a new Harris transmitter, which they will be testing.

QSL Information: Reception reports via e-mail are preferred. Send reports 
to:
dxtest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

For those who cannot send e-mail reports, the address for Postal reports is:

KRSN AM 1490
145 Central Park Square
Los Alamos, NM 87544
Please include an SASE for reply.

A recording of the test is requested. The following formats (only) are 
acceptable:
.MP3 or .WAV for e-mail attachments. Audio CD or cassette for Postal 
reports. If a recording is not available, please include a detailed 
description of your reception including the sequence of test elements, 
description of sweep tones, etc.

Our special thanks to Mike Westfall, N6KUY for working so hard to arrange 
this test with his local graveyard station.
Also our gratitude to both Dave and Gillian Sutton, the station owners for 
scheduling their maintenance around the needs of the DX'ers!
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WFIF 1500khz Milford, CT Maintenance Test

Date(s): Saturday Morning (Late Friday Night) January 26, 2007

Time: 12:01AM (Eastern Time) until 12:11AM (Eastern Time) Test is
10 minutes long in duration.

Modes of Operation: WFIF is testing their new remote control system to be 
sure that the station can be switched on/off remotely or during emergencies. 
3KW Non-Directional. WFIF is a daytimer, so this is a rare chance for many 
to log them.

Per their engineer, Mr. Willie Barnett, the test will consist of "voice ID's 
and several tones, along with a "wavering" tone. If people have Cool Edit 
(or Audition) they can use the spectrum display and that tone will show up 
as a horizontal sine wave in the spectrograph. That makes it very easy to 
see, as well as hear".



Programming: Voice ID's, tones, and a "wavering tone".


QSL Information: Reception reports via e-mail are most desired. Postal 
reports are not encouraged and may not be responded to at all, based on 
station's limited resources and manpower.

E-Mail all reports to Mr. Willie Barnett, Chief Engineer at:


WFIFeng@xxxxxxx

A recording of the test is requested. The following formats (only) are 
acceptable:
.MP3 or .WAV for e-mail attachments. If a recording is not available, please 
include a detailed description of your reception including the sequence of 
test elements, description of sweep tones, etc. Screen capture images of the 
horizontal sine wave can also be sent as file attachments.

Our special thanks go out to Mr. Barnett, for keeping us in the loop for 
weeks now, as the new remote control system installation was completed. 
While this is a short test, it could have been conducted with no notice 
given to the DX community, and we're grateful that he worked so hard to 
include us.



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Les Rayburn, N1LF
NRC/IRCA Broadcast Test Coordinator
Please call anytime 24/7 if your transmitter
will be off the air for maintenance.
(205) 253-4867 

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