Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Fwd: Chicago Stations Off Air

[Earl Higgins <earlthenut@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is fantastic advance notice to many in the middle two thirds or so of the continent, thanks for forwarding it Wayne.

I assume WFCR is actually WSCR (670). 

I'm wondering what would cause all 3 to schedule downtime at the same time - it's not like they share a tower or a transmitter site. Yes, they are near each other, but not that close. Proof of Performance maybe? Tower painting company offering a special for one night only? ;-)

Does anybody on this list have any contacts at KBOI, KLTT, KDWN, KKOH, KNOM, KAZM, WJAG, WTME or WXME with whom we might be able to arrange a quickie DX test, hopefully with day pattern/power and Morse code? If this past weekend has taught us anything, it should be just how well 50,000w of Morse code can get out! And that was on a crowded channel... (1550).


Sincerely,

Earl Higgins
RX-321 and 15 m end fed wire thing outside
St. Louis, Missouri, USA (W 90.32 N 38.65)
________________________________
From: Wayne Heinen
Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 1:33 PM

Hi all

I received this today, many of you might remember John from DX Party Line. If he send me more I'll post it...

73

Wayne Heinen

----- Forwarded message from John Beck -----

Hi Wayne.

I have appreciated the work of the NRC through the years - especially
the help given to me when I was a producer at HCJB in Quito.  In an
effort to perhaps pay back some of that help I wanted to pass along
the following.

It is my understanding that WGN, WFCR and WBBM in Chicago will be off air from
2 AM to 5 AM Friday morning. It isn't often that these power
houses are all off at the same time. It might give some of us the
chance to catch some stations that are normally covered by these
signals.  This scheduled outage may be cancelled due to weather or
other conflicts.

I will send more information as I hear it.

Thank you.

John E. Beck
WB0RX


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