Re: [IRCA] Arranging and Conducting DX Tests(WAS: WWNH 1340 Heard In California??)

[Radiofldude@xxxxxxx]

Les:

No need to thank me for arranging or conducting DX Tests.   

Frankly, it's just as much fun for me to conduct them as it is for those  who 
I know are trying to pick up whatever station it is.  I haven't  seriously 
DX'ed in over 2 years and I miss it, but I don't have the energy or  the 
equipment to do it anymore.

My Kenwood 104AR Digital Display Tuner  with a long wire antenna on the same 
site as a 1/2 wave broadcast antenna turned  out to be my best DX, often 
getting WABC and WOR better in NW Mississippi better  then I ever did from Eastern 
Connecticut.

All I ask is when people  complain about not getting QSL's or a station 
unwilling to do a tests, please  remember.. often times it requires a fair amount 
of extra participation and  effort on the part of already exhausted personel. I 
could said, "DX Test  Cancelled" knowing I had to be up at 6am in the 
morning, but I stuck it out as  long as I could because i knew people were depending 
on me.

Paul  Walker
_www.walkerbroadcasting.com_ (http://www.walkerbroadcasting.com) 
_www.walkerbroadcasting.com/blog.html_ 
(http://www.walkerbroadcasting.com/blog.html) 
www.myspace.com/walkerbroadcasting


In a message dated 11/6/2006  6:01:01 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, 
les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  writes:
Paul,

Many thanks for the test. Like many dx'ers, I recorded  the entire test and 
am playing
it back today with headphones searching  for those signals. Passed on reports
here, it appears to have been well heard  towards the North and Northwest of
the antenna site, but I haven't seen any  other reports of receptions
much past the Mississippi, so I wouldn't get my  hopes on a confirmed
reception in California just yet.

Conditions were  quite good last night, but with graveyard stations, coast to
coast receptions  under any circumstances are pretty rare.

Again, our thanks not only for  this test, but the many, many others that 
you've
helped to arrange or  personally conducted. DX'ers couldn't ask for a better
friend "in the  business". :)

73,

Les Rayburn, N1LF
NRC/IRCA Broadcast Test  Coordinator
Please call anytime 24/7 if your transmitter
will be off the  air for maintenance.
(205) 253-4867

----- Original Message -----  
From: Radiofldude@xxxxxxx
To: am@xxxxxxxxxxx ; AM@xxxxxxxxx ;  irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ; 
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Cc:  les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 3:38 PM
Subject:  [NRC-AM] WWNH 1340 Heard In California??


I got a call at 12:15pm  eastern today.... it went something like this...

ME: Good Afternoon,  LoveRadio....
Caller: Hi, is this the station that put on the DX Test last  night?
Me: Yes, yes it is.. we're WWNH!
Caller: Well, you, uh, might find  this hard to believe but.. you were heard 
in California last night!!
Me:  WOAH! Where in California?
Caller: Vacaville............

WOW, if this  is in fact verified by Les and myself, it will *probably* 
qualify as the  longest distance.

Paul 
 
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