AM DX test tonight!

[k9rzz]

Sorry for late announcement, I just learned of it myself! Starts in 25 mins:


Saturday, December 13, 2008
WOON 1240 kHz Woonsocket, RI DX Test


ABDX presents the first DX test of the season.

Date: Sunday morning (late Saturday night), Dec 21, 2008.
Time: 2 - 3 a.m. Eastern Time, 0700 - 0800 UTC.
Mode of Operation: The station will test with 1 kW NDA. The DX test will consist of the following four elements, repeated in this order, for the duration of the test:

--Morse Code ID
--Voice announcement about it being a test broadcast
--Morse Code ID
--WOON Radio Jingle, (sung) "O-N Radio.......in Woonsocket".

QSL Information: You may submit a report via e-mail to Dave Richards at "dave [at] onworldwide.com". (note: use the station callsign as the subject line so it's not disregarded as spam).

You may send postal reports to:

WOON/1240
985 Park Avenue
Woonsocket, R.I. 02895-6332
U.S.A.

http://www.dxtests.info/2008/12/woon...i-dx-test.html

[kb2vxa]

Veeeery interesting! In the summer of 1999 I was at the transmitter site removing the old Collins 20V-2 transmitter now retuned for 160M and in operation at K2PG West Creek NJ. They have a nice digital solid state unit now into a 1/4 wave tower 1KW daytime (250W nighttime I think) operation. Too bad my memory isn't what it should be, I had a nice chat with the CE but don't remember his name. I had a bit of fun chasing my friend's son around with a snake I found in the transmitter shack though.

Good luck if you can hear the test, there's an awful lot of QRM from the 250W nighttime stations on that most crowded part of the band.