Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] WCBS 880 OFF AIR

[Saul Chernos <sauldx@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, WCBS (and WFAN) was indeed off the Thursday night, not Friday night. Regardless of the error, I am really glad the outage was pre-announced to us. The lesson I take home from this is that when we get word like this, we keep our options wide open and monitor the channel more carefully aft other possible times. Aside from informant error, it can also happen that an engineer's plans change - for any number of reasons.

The other lesson I take home is that WFAN and WCBS often go off together. I believe they are co-located. Regardless, they've both been off together often enough before, so no real surprise there (I too had forgotten).
We're DXers. We monitor the bands in case something happens. When we get advance word like this, perhaps we respond with extra vigilance on the channel and other possible channels. Nothing Bruce had would have been new for me, and I decided not to bother setting up the outdoor antennae for this given that we had thunderstorms and I was also busy on FM with the annual Perseid meteor shower.
This - and a weekend aurora - has totally whetted my appetite for the coming AM season. Plan is to dust off both outdoor antenna on the Labour Day weekend and have them ready for set-up right afterwards, when this place is no longer used as a family summertime cottage.
Anyhow, I really appreciate Paul letting us know about the outage.
Saul Chernos
Burnt River ON



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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 23:31:14 +0000

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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 19:31:04 -0400
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] WCBS 880 OFF AIR

It was actually a day earlier, on Friday, August 14 (Thursday night into Friday morning), from 1 to 4 EDT.
 
Bruce Conti, on the "DXing - sponsored by the National Radio Club" Facebook page, from his New Hampshire location, reported reception of Cuba's Radio Progreso on 880 and 660 (WFAN was off, too), as well as CKLQ Brandon, Manitoba, on 880.  
 
Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee
 
 
 
 
 
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From: Kraig <Kraig@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sat, Aug 15, 2015 6:34 pm
Subject: Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] WCBS 880 OFF AIR
 
 
I listened to the SDR capture from 0455-0805 UTC (12:55 AM to 4:05 AM) 
on
Saturday, August 15, 2015.
 
We were hoodwinked.
 
If you have SDR capture,
don't waste time listening as WCBS never left 
the
air.
 
73,
 
Kraig
 
 
 
 
 
 		 	   		  
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