On 03/01/2011 7:47 AM, Scott Fybush wrote:
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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Thanks Scott, for this info........I do recal hearing several of these
Satellite Feeds in the past and I did wonder if maybe that was what I
had??? However......I was not able to copy all of the text the Male
Announcer said....so I wasn't sure if he gave a Callsign....or a Radio
Feed type of ID. In the past when I have heard these, it seemed like it
was a continuous loop with lots of IDs quite frequently. In this
case...there was only the one ID heard, and the tones I heard didn't
seem to be a continuous loop...more random in nature???
Anyways........another mystery Station for the log!!!
Regards...ROB VA3SW
Robert S. Ross
London, Ontario CANADA
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