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AM 1340 Telephone Busy Signal

SomeRadioGuy

SomeRadioGuy

DXERS: On and off for the last few months, SOMEONE on 1340khz has been running a telephone busy signal over and over all night long.

This has been best heard in an area form Western-ish Ohio, up to Southern Ontario and over to Western New York. I don't recall it been logged/reported south of say WV and the further west/north you go then Ohio and the further east you go than say Syracuse, it gets real week. It's being heard in the central Vermont area tonight for the first time, but very weak. It's also being weakly heard in the Twin cities.

From what I've heard it seems like it's best in a line from outside Cincinatti up to Rochester, NY

Whats going on?
 
1340 kHz is a very crowded "graveyard channel". Are you sure you're not just hearing a beat frequency created by multiple stations' carriers mixing together? A busy signal is around 400 Hz, and while AM radio station carriers are supposed to be within 20 Hz of the exact frequency, it is possible some station's transmitter is faulty and is ~400 Hz off-frequency.
 
I've heard the recording and it's 100% a telephone busy signal. Pretty clear on a Cleveland area SDR. Some have speculated WNCO, Ashland OH
 
kevtronics said:
1340 kHz is a very crowded "graveyard channel". Are you sure you're not just hearing a beat frequency created by multiple stations' carriers mixing together? A busy signal is around 400 Hz, and while AM radio station carriers are supposed to be within 20 Hz of the exact frequency, it is possible some station's transmitter is faulty and is ~400 Hz off-frequency.
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Positive... we've heard several recordings of this

Of note, on Thursday Dec 12 (today) someone in Canton Ohio is hearing a pretty good signal from this station in question 2 hours before local sunset
 
gr8oldies said:
Speculation seems to be the deleted, but apparently still standing, WSTV, Steubenville, Ohio.
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Why would WSTV be running programming? someone who heard the telephone busy tone later heard what sounded like a sports network delivered by telephone. I highly doubt it's WSTV, the license has been dead 7 years
 
We now have very good reason to think this is WXKX Clarksburg, WV. There is someone 7 miles away from their tower at 840am eastern time on Friday December 13th whos getting a telephone busy signal at s9+25 signal levels.
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
We now have very good reason to think this is WXKX Clarksburg, WV. There is someone 7 miles away from their tower at 840am eastern time on Friday December 13th whos getting a telephone busy signal at s9+25 signal levels.
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Somebody call the station and find out! Oh wait, the line is busy...
 
kevtronics said:
1340 kHz is a very crowded "graveyard channel". Are you sure you're not just hearing a beat frequency created by multiple stations' carriers mixing together? A busy signal is around 400 Hz, and while AM radio station carriers are supposed to be within 20 Hz of the exact frequency, it is possible some station's transmitter is faulty and is ~400 Hz off-frequency.
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Beat frequencies between Ancient Modulation stations theoretically shouldn't exist, although stuff happens at times. A standard telco busy signal is a combination of 480 and 620 Hz sine waves, turned on and off at 0.5 second intervals.
 
kf4rca said:
A pirate, testing.
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Uh, no.. this station has been heard with network programming from a sports network and i already posted who we now think this may be
 
Hang up and keep calling back until they hang up and someone answers with the station's brand.
 
gr8oldies said:
Speculation seems to be the deleted, but apparently still standing, WSTV, Steubenville, Ohio.
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Not likely. They left the air because the leased land that their tower sat on went up for Sheriffs Sale.
Have not been there personally but my understanding is that the new owners had the tower demolished.
 
WXKX filed for STA yesterday...

[SIZE=-1]WXKX IS PRESENTLY OFF THE AIR DUE TO LACK OF PROGRAM AUDIO. THE TELEPHONE LINE DELIVERING AUDIO TO THE TRANSMITTER SITE HAS FAILED, AND THE TELEPHONE COMPANY WILL NO LONGER REPAIR THE LINE. APPLICANT IS SEEKING OTHER WAYS TO DELIVER AUDIO TO THE TRANSMITTER AND WHEN IT SECURES AN EFFECTIVE METHOD, THE STATION WILL RETURN TO THE AIR.[/SIZE]
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Its making it back to the CO.
That excuse sounds like BS to me. I believe all the public service commission rules require it to provide service to a paying customer!
 
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