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1520 Mineola Long Island moving to 1530

Steve Green NEPA

Steve Green NEPA

Poster Kevin Tekel to the NYRMB -- I think he's from Jersey -- posted this just today:

Former 1530 directional daytimer WDJZ from Bridgeport CT left the air forever in 2017. That void indeed clears the way for the daytimer 1520 WTHE / WFYI / WJDM Mineola to exchange being bombed into the ocean at SSS by WCKY Cincinnati instead of by WKBW. Should be a good interim tradeoff.

But I'm reminded of the time when I was a kid, and there was a much-publicized event in DX society about the overnight KFI 640 tested their signal, with FCC clearance, on 641 ! Does anyone else here remember that?

I listened for the KFI event and didn't hear a thing. CBN 640 used to sign off at something:07 and the usual 640 was a gurgly Cuban station. Heck -- back in the 60's school years there wouldn't have been many heterodyne problems because of KFI 641. Or 642. Or maybe even 645.

Anyway : I'm asking you folks about orthordox DXing ethics. Did anyone who heard the KFI 641 test regard them as 'a new catch'? And since I've alrady heard WTHE 1520 here in PA on a few SSS's, is it legal for me to consider them a brand-new logging if and when they come in on 1530?

I'll go with the judgement of the majority here.
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
Anyway : I'm asking you folks about orthordox DXing ethics. Did anyone who heard the KFI 641 test regard them as 'a new catch'? And since I've alrady heard WTHE 1520 here in PA on a few SSS's, is it legal for me to consider them a brand-new logging if and when they come in on 1530?

I'll go with the judgement of the majority here.
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I think it was personal. I counted different power levels as separate catches. I had KFI once on a 10 kw auxiliary transmitter runn at reduced power to emulate CONELRAD operation, and counted it separately. I counted different call letters separately, as most DXers did.
 
I would count Mineola 1520 and Mineola 1530 as separate stations, even if from the same site. I don't know I'd do the same for 640 and 641. At 645, I think so.
I don't count auxiliary facilities from the same site, whether transmitter or tower. I can't tell you how many times WBBM, when at Itasca, switched transmitters at 10 a.m., either to alternate or to go to the backup.
I do count day and night transmitters of the same station from different sites (WYLL 1160, for instance).
I do count station transmitter moves as separate stations whether permanent (WBBM Itasca and WBBM Bloomingdale) or temporary (WMVP Downers Grove and WMVP Tinley Park – with WLS).
I don't count call letter changes no matter how often. It's the same equipment I'm hearing.
 
tvnut said:
It's the same equipment I'm hearing.
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That's how I'd look at it. Whether it's call letters or a slightly off frequency DX test. Two site operations might be a little different, but I'd still look at it as one station/one catch/

And SSS? Here all this time I thought it stood for 60s/70s record producer Shelby Singleton's own record label. :)
 
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