Re: [IRCA] Someone TESTING on 940 Khz Correction............

[Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert S.Ross VA3SW wrote:

> >     Heard a Station Testing on 940 Khz early this morning..No idea who 
> > it was??? Did anyone else hear this Test??? Or have any idea if a 
> > Station had a Test planned early this morning???

This sounds very much like the "CBS Radio Network, channel 43" tones 
that were/are frequently heard. When that happens, it's not a station 
testing - it's just automation gone wrong. What's usually going on is 
that a station is taking a network feed of a football game, and after 
the game the automation fails to switch the station back to its usual 
program source, so whatever's on the satellite channel where the game 
was just keeps playing, sometimes all night until someone comes in the 
next morning.

Unless you can find someone local to the station that's running the wild 
satellite feed, the odds are pretty low that you'll ever figure out who 
it was - though at least you've narrowed down who it wasn't. Keep in 
mind that even the station itself may not know that they were 
broadcasting this loop overnight!

s
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