** U S A. 940, Dec 16 I start listening about 0652 UT, trying to stay awake, and revive at 0708 when some very slow Morse code is barely audible, best with LSB tuning on the DX-398. It stops before I can copy much, but I think an M, an A and an O. As in LIMA OHIO. It would actually have been easier to copy a bit faster vs the QRM. Continue straining to hear anything from the scheduled WCIT Lima OH DX test, but the pileup is barely surpassed mostly by WMIX in IL, with 0710 YL song, 0712 ID ``WMIX, a service of --- Broadcasting``, `SCICTT` [Santa Claus Is Coming To Town]. Ending at 0713, some sweep tones: who but WCIT would send those? Keep listening until quit at 0725, but no more from WCIT, just Xmas music, probably more from WMIX; 0715 Jingle Bells, 0716 ad, 0718 `Merry Christmas from Nicole``, 0720 weather by YL. Despite this sparse info, I`m quite certain I was getting WCIT, and should match with what others heard. It`s 250 watts directional only, NW-SE, which makes it an even better catch here to the WSW. There`s no avoiding WMIX from here, very close to the same azimuth. City-to-city distance Lima-Enid is 802 statute miles = 1291 km. I`m now reporting this to m...@cmgroup.co and would appreciate QSL. BTW, I also publicized the test on WORLD OF RADIO 1699 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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