Per tip on FB from Jeff Miller - WWBA 820 is on with day
power.
About a half hour ago had them in quite well up here 40
miles SW of Chicago with an ad for a Ford Dealership in
nearby Tampa.
I can easily null out WCPT and WBAP at night here.
Drake R8A and Quantum loop.
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At 01:55 am WBBM 780 and WSCR 670 Chicago, both off the air.
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WSCR is back on at 04:30 CDT, now parked on 790 until WBBM
comes back.
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Oops - when you type fast you make mistakes.
It's 670 WSCR and 780 WBBM off.
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At 04:00 CDT Chicago's 670 and 780 both completely off
the air.
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At 01:20 CST WBBM 780 completely off the air
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That CW ID for WION's FM Translator helped bag a Verie
from WION a few years back. Have not tried for them
lately so not sure if they still ID that way.
Tom Jasinski
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Hi,
While reviewing SDR files f
There is someone with talk mixing with potent presumed
KAAY with Gosp Music.
When this tentative KVOP is strong there is approx 1hz SAH.
Will record 1090 all night and hope they get strong enough
for good audio.
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99.9% of my recordings for DX'ing and DX Tests have a WWV
time stamp on them usually at the beginning of the
recording. But lately it's difficult to get a good signal
due to digital noise.
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Since coming on the air on Oct 17th of last year, with the
exception of the first few days of various flavors of
music, it has been non stop Mexican music. ID's were four
times per hour.
I have been spot checking their programming and today
noticed a big change. They are airing WMJH 95.3 FM and
WCAZ 990 was in well again this morning at their s/on
beginning at 05:58CST and even better around 07:00.
It's ironic how the FCC works. A station can have a
crappy, distorted signal or splatter across the entire
band for days on end when they don't monitor their own on
the air signal. That's OK
WCAZ 990 noted s/on this morning Dec 12th. at 05:58CST
with vocal NA and ID at TOH. Weak with WMVP slop. I have
to use USB due to somebody in neighborhood with electronic
gadget producing a modulated tone right on 990 LSB.
So, they are still on the air.
What do they owe the FCC?
Tom Jasinski
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WMFN is still playing music, the first day was mostly
American/english songs, later mostly Spanish/Mexican
flavor, then Russian dialect, some German, middle-eastern
and this evening some Asian/Japanese. Their ID is usually
at TOH and BOH or a minute or two later, and occasionally
scattered around
WMFN 640khz Peotone/Chicago ILL, appears to still be on
day power more than an hour past sunset. Get em now!
They are playing Mexican flavor music all day long and are
still at it now (7:05pm CDT).
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Just minutes ago received e-mail confirmation for WMFN
640khz, Peotone/Chicago, for the beginning of broadcasting
activities, yesterday evening.
Reception report was sent to s...@birach.com and the reply
came from "John" at wnwi1080amra...@hotmail.com.
WNWI 1080 is a multi-ethnic station coverin
WMFN 640khz on the air with a variety of music. Earlier
they had a weak signal, suspect this was their night
pattern. They were mixing with WOI. I am in their night
time null.
For the past few hours they have a strong signal
dominating the channel. I suspect this is their daytime
power and pat
at 23"10CDT New station WMFN 640khz Peotone/Chicago is on
the air with music
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WMFN 640 is running an OC. I missed their testing with
audio a few weeks ago. This afternoon I drove out to the
XMTR site. It's too close for comfort, about 20 miles to
my southeast. Their site is exactly where radio locator
has it, SW of Peotone, west of I-57. Their nighttime
pattern shows a
I just check my spam folder and there is a message from
"am-requ...@nrcdxas.org" with the subject line
"confirm" with a long string of alpha-numeric
characters.
Before I open this up, does anyone know if this a ligit
message or some hacker's handiwork.
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One of my semi-local stations, WKBM 930, is splattering on
audio peaks. Clearly heard here 20 miles from their site.
A few days ago I drove out there to prove it is them. Up
close on car radio the splatter is clearly heard 150khz
above and below 930khz.
I sent them an e-mail this evening.
This
WBBM Chicago 780khz is presently off the air.
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>From west of St. Louis the eclipse totality was beautiful.
I did not DX from here, too noisy. And I was too busy
anyway with the family watching the eclipse.
Before I left home in Joliet I setup the R8A with it's
on/off timer to come on unattended at 12:15 pm to 2:30 pm.
This may sound easy bu
About a week ago I noticed that WCPT 820 had a horrible
echo effect in their audio. I don't know when it started
as I don't check this frequency that often. This echo
went on for a few more days until I finally notified the
station by e-mail.
And, a day and a half later their audio problem is co
One station I don't pay attention to often is WCPT 820
Chicago. At night they put a rather poor signal here, in
their null to the SW. Perhaps a few 10's of watts are
aimed my way, mixing with WBAP in the background with a
noticeable SAH.
I did listen early this morning to their night signal and
A few weeks ago I received an e-mail notice that I was
dropped from the NRC list. Have been working with Wayne
Heinen and my ISP Tech Support but nothing positive so
far.
Yes, I realize this is the IRCA list, but just checking
with others who are NRC members if they have similar
problems.
Or am
Does anyone have a file with the locations of past
conventions by year.
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The author of the article is Mike Dudding. In December
2007 I manager to hear 1530 KDSN, running day power at
night (thanks to a tip from KAZ). For a minute or so of
clear signal in WCKY null, Mike Dudding, owner and
manager, was airing a recorded ad looking for new sales
staff for KDSN. And I d
Yep! The dreaded WBBM IBOC is back on. WBBM was off the
air Monday morning and I suspected it was to repair their
IBOC. We had a little more than seven weeks of peace and
quiet on 770 and 790.
Tom Jasinski
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Fr
WBBM came back on this morning at 04:14.
Did I hear anything? I sure did! The constant buzz/hash
from some nearby neighbors CFL or monster screen TV or
some kind of motion detector. I hear this broadband noise
all day long. It started about a month ago and is now non
stop. One more nail in th
WBBM 780 Chicago is presently off the air at 02:20 CST
Don't know how long they will be off.
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By copying and pasting the links below they do open up to
a photo of typical stranded 18 or 20 gauge insulated wire.
As Mark DeLorenzo mentioned it should be available at the
local big box store such as Menards or Home Depot.
Stranded wire will be more flexible than with strands
tinned/soldered t
WBBM IBOC has been off for several days now. Off for
repairs or??
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I too have a noisy AM band on my 2007 Hyundai. And, the
radio abruptly went almost deaf a few years ago. Now it
is good only for strong locals.
The noise is caused by the car's computer creating wide
band hash right on my favorite news channel, "News radio
780" making 780khz unusable. This hash
Today in the paper is an obituary for Mary Jane Pohlers,
who helped put Joliet's first FM station on the air in
1960. I recall listening to this station, WAJP shortly
after it came on the air with Al Pohlers, Mary's husband,
as the announcer. The programming sounded "home made" and
probably operat
Last week I drove through Doniphan, Missouri, while on a
trip to Little Rock. KDFN 1500khz was off the air (on
June 22nd and on June 26th) and a local volunteer tour
guide at the town museum said they are "gone".
Can anyone confirm that KDFN has been shut down.
I don't follow closely stations th
A few years ago I had a similar incident with a YB400
falling off a night stand. Afterwards the sensitivity was
way down. An internal inspection revealed the ferrite
antenna rod was broken in half. In my case replacing the
rod brought the radio back to life.
Tom Jasinski
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I wonder how many AM stations today have a backup power
system to keep them on the air during an emergency. The
thread a few weeks back was the powerful AM station being
a life line during a major event like WWL was during
Hurricane Katrina.
Back in the 1970's, during a visit to the WLS site near
WOW GUYS!
Basic NULLING 101!
If a station is east of you, its at 90 degrees relative.
OK Should be easy!
If you aim the end of a ferrite loop antenna pointing at
90 degrees (east/west) you are NULLING that station. Its
still at 90 degrees relative, it did not move, it is
stationary! GOT IT!
Glenn:
Yes, for some unknown reason it has gotten very confusing!
The best way to get a bearing with the quantum loop is to
find the "null" (minimum signal) because it is just a few
degrees wide! Can't get any easier then that. This
mystery station noise signal is too weak to deflect the
s-mete
I just checked 1500khz again this afternoon and as
mentioned yesterday the "null" (minimum signal) for the
noise is around 170 degrees. The antenna is a Quantum QX
Pro located in the attic.
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My null on that 1500khz mystery station with the noise is
approx. 170 degrees from Joliet, IL, slightly east of
south.
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Last week I sent an e-mail to WPSO in New Port Ritchey,
Fla. regarding the noise heard up here on 1500khz. I
raised the possibility that it may be originating from
their transmitter. Their reply mentioned that they will
look into this issue soon.
It's hard to imagine how a 250w station could gen
For those of you who collect photos of AM towers here is a
link to a photo of KFAB towers when the station was in
Lincoln, Nebraska, back in the 1920's according to the
tag.
Goto photo #91.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1449408411986912.1073741895.1435919713335782&type=3
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For the past two nights am hearing someone on 1500khz with
very noisy sidebands. The noise sounds like a mix of
teletype signals and a popcorn popper. Same thing heard
on USB and LSB. It nulls roughly N/S. KSTP is in weakly
with sports and this noise does not fade in and out with
them. Detroit
I heard that brief announcement for maint shutdown a
minute or two before midnight EST during the TOH break for
John Batchelor show. The announcement did not mention when
or how long this off period would be. It took me a few
minutes to fire up the computer and log into e-mail
account. During th
WJR 760khz should be going off the air for maint. tonight.
Heard brief announcement just minutes ago while listening
to John Batchelor show.
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I believe the SSB Rendition Russ heard was the background
music for a promo/ad for the 700 Club airing on WBOB.
Separately I sent Russ a short clip with that ad.
It began immediately after SRN News around 00:05EST.
Tom Jasinski
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Finally finished playback of first hour of test. Started
00:01 with SRN News, followed by ad for the 700 Club,
Saturday at 3 on WBOB. Code stated at 00:08 in the middle
of the word Jacksonville.
Nice mix of Code, Sweeps, Staircase, Phone off hook
jingles and Claxon/Steam Boat whistle sound. At
WBOB loud and clear over WMT at 00:05
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Since early this summer WYLL 1160khz night xmtr has been
putting out distorted splatter. Most noticeable is on
940, and between 1020 and 1040. And this is heard at
home, from 10 miles away. It is much worse up close to
the site. This is very similar to the problems they had a
year ago. Whateve
ID on the hour "AM 1030 WNVR Vernon Hills/Chicago and AM
1300 WRDZ LaGrange/Chicago, Polska Radio Chicago...also
mentions 910 WRKL and 1580 WLIM.
Unfortunately they do not put a strong signal here,
plagued with locally generated noise.
And yes, I do speak a little Polish.
Tom Jasinski
Joliet, IL
Some time today AM 1300 came back to life (ex R Disney)
with Polish Language program. Does not sound like it is
parallel to any other Polish language station in the
Chicago area. Will listen at TOH for an ID.
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At 2pm this afternoon I did a routine band scan and found
WRDZ 1300 LaGrange/Chicago on the air with the Radio
Disney feed. Three minutes later the signal disappeared.
Suspect someone testing Xmtr after the severe weather we
had here last night.
Tom Jasinski
Joliet, IL
WRDZ 1300 LaGrange/Chicago, IL, Radio Disney, noted off
today. I don't check every day but they were still on a
week ago. Frequency is wide open, suspect KOLY with music
w/weak signal within a hour of local sunset.
Tom Jasinski
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In those 17 points there was no mention of IBOC
"Interference".
Back in the good old days I could listen to WBZ with a
crystal clear signal. Now it's trashed by IBOC hash. So
much for clear channel protection!
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WRDZ 1300 LaGrange-Chicago, was off the air for the past
few days. Today they are noted back on, still with R.
Disney feed and WRDZ ID near TOH. What is the future for
this station?
Tom Jasinski
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WRDZ 1300 Radio Disney from La Grange, ILL that serves
Chicago is off the air. Radio Disney finally comes to an
end.
Tom Jasinski
Joliet, IL
On 9/18/2015 5:36 PM, Ben Dangerfield wrote:
It's Friday 9-18 and WWJZ-640, Mt. Holly, N.J. is off
the air. Does this mean that this Radio Disney station
Have been hearing bits of music from WRCR 1700 under
KGBB and IBOC hash from WVON 1690 for the past week. And
for the past few days the non-stop thunderstorm static has
ceased improving CX. Finally yesterday morning, 7/22 at
04:41EDT caught a decent ID "Favorite Music AM 1700
WRCR" male v
KDWN 720 was heard here SW of Chicago with WGN on the air
back in the late 1980's. At that time I was using my 2
1/2 ft spiral wound loop. Was able to get a very narrow
null on WGN roughly 40 miles south of their XMTR. I would
give it a try tonight if they are still ND.
Tom Jasinski
Joliet, IL
Eraly this morning around 1am CT they were near 967.2khz.
Way too weak for any audio.
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Tonight and briefly last night noted WBBM's IBOC off.
last night I caught the tail end of the off period. It
ended at 23:12CDT. Tonight it is again off at 23:00 CDT.
Maybe someone can benefit from this.
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WIND noted running OC much of the time - first noted last
night and doing it again now, 00:40 EDT. They had an
audio feed for a few minutes at bottom of the hour, then
back to OC.
Perhaps somebody can take advantage
of this.
Tom Jasinski
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Thanks for the tip - but I am too close to WYLL's night
xmtr site and can't null them - they are ENE of here. All
I can get from WPIE are bits of audio way under WYLL.
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No WCCO, Very very weak WSM now, Cuba on 1020, no KDKA,
Cuba on 590 with music. Briefly no WSB on 750.
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There is no WSM here either- weather related power outage?
No sign of CBF3 with R8A and Quantum loop - too far away -
just noise.
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>From Saul Chernos
650 WSM - thought it was off.French briefly quite decent
there...CBC //860 Toronto. CBF3 Lebel-sur-Quevillon QC -
NEW. It i
Great source for patterns. Noticed there is no 1610khz in
the list.
Tom Jasinski
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> Radio-timetraveller has updated its great MW coverage
map folders:
> http://radio-timetraveller.blogspot.com/
> Click on
WKNR dominant here SW of Chicago w/ESPN -way over
KOA.
Un-needed for log, first heard as WJW many years
ago.
Thanks for the tip.
Tom
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I am about 50 miles southeast of WSQR and even here they
are being beat up by Cuba.
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From:"Mark Connelly"
Date:Wed, December 31, 2014 11:17 pm
To: a...@n
The Radio Shack Multimeter that was selling for around
$7.50 is listed as Cat. #2200039 "46 Range - PC Interface
Digital Multimeter", comes with manual, test leads and USB
Cable. As I mentioned previously the list price was
$78.00.
Tom Jasinski
From: Kraig
To: Mailing list for the Internationa
To All:
I was at local Radio Shack this morning for some stocking
stuffers. They are marking down a digital multi-meter,
with USB input to your computer.
List price was $78.00, marked down price was $7.50!!
While supplies last. Get one now if you need one!
My personal thoughts are that they a
WCIS in well just past TOH with "The Cross"
slogan and gospel music.
Luckly WJR is easily
nulled tonight.
Thanks for the tip on this
one.
Tom Jasinski
Joliet, IL
Quantum
XP Pro loop and R8A
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I am not hearing WBYS - instead it sounds more like
WBOL "AM 1560 Taking you back to the
basics W B O L" male announcer with
oldies. WBOL is listed at D1 250W.
Tom
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1560 IL probably on da
WYLL 1160khz night signal is splattering from 1020 to
1080khz and from 1240 to 1290khz. Can easily hear
this at home and on car radio in and around Joliet.
First noticed this about a week ago. With two
radios, one tuned to 1160 and a second on 1040 the WYLL
audio matches the splatter.
Their n
Clearly heard Second and third batch of sweeps and
staircase waves at 7 past. and 12 past. The
last set included phone off hook noise.
Tom
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At 00:00:30 heard weak code, followed by sweeps and then
Staircase waves.
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CHRF 980 gets out well at SRS. They were clobbering WONE.
I sent them a reception report and this is the reply,
below.
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From:"Yvan Ruel"
Date:Fri, Octobe
QSL card in the mail today from WH2DXE-1, 1750khz, Victor,
NY, for the 1st test period on 10/15/2014.
VS/Jerry Whitney
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Just a heads up that partial eclipse of sun will occur
across most of northern north America this afternoon.
The moon's shadow will progress from west to east. The
eclipse will begin around 20:30UT off eastern Russia and
be over western Alaska at 21:00UT, and NW corner of
Washington at 22:00UT.
KASM in with good signal - on day power, with oldies
music, dominating 1150 here.
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Between 23:34 and 23:35UTC had very weak test tone.
R8A and Quantum loop
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You can add KKLF 1700khz Richardson, TX to the list of
stations carrying Friday night HS Football coverage.
Tuned in late on car radio last night and noted station
carrying wrap up of just ended Allen HS football game.
English coverage ended at 10:42pm CDT and immediately
changed to normal SS Me
Slightly off topic - excellent article in October issue of
Smithsonian magazine. It compares the early days of
Radio Broadcasting with present day internet. Good
reading material.
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Back in 1969 while in the US Navy as a Radioman, I
visited Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. I had the privelage to
visit that Armed Forces Radio station on the base and was
given a guided tour. And yes, I did log them but it
was within about 50 miles or so of the base. If
I recall correctly they were on
The new log book arrived today - prompt service. I just
ordered it a few days ago!
Thanks to all who helped put this together!
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On October 23, 2014, in the afternoon - partial eclipse
between 40% and 60% over all but far NE US. Moon's shadow
will be above the earth about 400 miles, This could
result is some great northern DX CX on that afternoon and
early evening.
But, the biggie is coming in 2017!
I know this is still
The 1930 US census had a question under the heading of
HOME, ownership, renting, etc. In Column #9 it asked
about a Radio Set. (Does the family residing at this
address have a Radio Set? Y/N) That question reflects
how important radio was back then!
Perhaps in the year 2020, the 100th annivers
Thanks for the tip Paul. Finally had a chance to
replay my recording from Monday night and Tuesday morning
on 1160 with WYLL off.
At 05:00 EDT have a weak
but readable "ESPN Ithica" followed by
107.1 WPIE ID and "your home for the
Yankees. " And later there is mention
of the finger lakes
At 5:25 pm CDT WCSJ 1550khz and 103.1 FM Morris, IL are
still off the air.
Morris got hit pretty hard
last night in the storm. I have heard that hundreds of
big trees and limbs were down on power lines.
Last night on 10 pm news the forecast was for high winds
in this area with gusts up to
WYLL came back on briefly at 04:26 for a few seconds
with what sounded like a pulsating power level. Back
on at 04:30 with a good signal.
Earlier had
someone with oldies and another with "ESPN
1160".
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At 04:15 CDT, Chicago's WYLL 1160khz is off the air after
some very severe weather passed through the area last
evening.
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WSJP 1640 Sussex, Wisc., they were there last night - gone
this morning.
On for a brief period to keep
license active?
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When CBE 1550khz Windsor, Ont., went silent a few years
ago I started looking for a photo I took of their XMTR
site in 1970.
I finally found the old photo.
If anyone is interested in getting a copy just
send me an e-mail.
Tom Jasinski
Joliet, IL
About a week ago Todd in Minnesota mentioned WZAM 970
Marquett/Ispheming, Michigan, is probably on day power at
night. They have been noted here every night the past
week.
If anyone needs the U P of Michigan now
is your chance. There are frequent "ESPN U P" slogans
throughout the hour and weat
Hopefully this new 640khz station near Peotone will be
directional to protect WOI to the west. This might give
me some breathing room. And, hope xmtr site would be on
east side of Peotone and not on the west - close to
Joliet!
Years ago nearby Aurora/Sandwich on
930khz was occupied, then 750k
Today in the mail received KCKM 1330khz QSL card,
bumper
sticker and business card from Bob Souza,
Owner and CE.
Again, thanks to all
who were involved with the DX Test.
Tom
Jasinski
Joliet, IL
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At 9:42pm Central time I did a loop check on WMVP 1000khz.
They are where they should be, slightly east of north
indicating they are xmting from Downers Grove, IL, their
normal site and not from WLS tower which is almost due
east.
What if they are just running
Non-directional off of one tower a
Nothing back yet from WFNY for reception
report for DX Test.
Tom Jasinski
Joliet,
IL
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I do recall back in the late 1950's or early 1960's when
WLS would do the Conelrad test on 640kcs.
In
the mid-1960's former IRCA member Ed Marr and I had the
privilege of visiting the WLS Xmtr site. The site was
less than three miles from my home back then.
One of the site engineers on duty
There is an odd looking antenna visible from I-294
expressway on north east side of O'Hare Air Port near
Chicago.
This antenna is located on top of a
cluster of buildings on west side of expressway. It
resembles the ribs of an upside down umbrella
approximately 20 or 30 feet in diameter.
Can
Today in the mail received QSL (my PPPC) for WWXL 1450 DX
Test on 3/1/2014.
Veri signer is Jody
Ritchie.
Thanks to Paul Walker for getting the
word out for this short notice test.
Tom
Jasinski
Joliet, IL
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