[IRCA] No sign of woon

[<rfoxwor1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No sign of WOON in central Fla during, at least, first 20 minutes.
Cx to NE seem poor. Beacons WPHT in/out weakly under a loud
Cuban, and WBBR in/out under messy 300 Hz loud het. WOWO
1190 poor, fady.

I contend that repeated 5 minute, or even 1 minute tests, offer
a better chance of hearing a station test, if you think that cx
are so variable from night to night, than a long test that may
happen on a poor morning, as this one apparently has done.

The counter argument of course is that time the DXer can
dedicate to that effort. Unless the DXer has a SDR.

Absence of many early reports here is not a good sign.

I tried tuning up to 1242 to "peak up" any audible CW
but no luck. If they had run 3000 Hz or even 5000 Hz CW
IDs I could try for that with BFO on (by tuning 1243, 1245
etc in CW mode) but there seems to be inertia to having
such IDs included in DX tests. I'd like to see IDs at 600,
1000, and 3000 Hz. If I was not hearing the first ones
(in AM mode) I could try the higher pitched ones in CW mode.

- Bob Foxworth


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