Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] The KBXD 1480 DX Test

[Ira Elbert New III <ien3@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

So...did the test occur or not? I heard Morse Code at 0403 that morning. However, I was tired so I could have been imaging the whole thing.

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On Mar 17, 2013, at 9:53 PM, "Paul B. Walker, Jr." <walkerbroadcasting@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I wanted to wait to address the masses and see what information I could gather.
> 
> I have a friend on the other side of the bay from Mobile, AL near Fairhope, Alabama who says he heard morse code on 1480 Saturday Night/Sunday morning. i am the one who created the test material for 1480's test, so i sent him the file that should've played when he said he heard it. He tells me the file I sent .. he's about 80 percent sure that's exactly what he heard.
> 
> Jerry at KBXD tells me he was out of town and the tones did run at the scheduled times, but due to a  mechanical malfunction, the station stayed on 1900W/4 tower  night power-pattern instead of the 50KW/6 tower day power-pattern.
> 
> Now, as to why the tones weren't heard on the stream.. it is entirely possible the stream is fed off a program bus of the console..... and the tones were played after the stream but before the transmitter.
> 
> We will most likely reschedule the test again in a few weeks.
> 
> Paul
> 
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