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Conditions here at home have been terrible the past couple of nights. I can barely receive anything that isn't local.

I wonder what's going on?

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crainbebo said:
I was mistaken about 1090. *KMXA Aurora CO* has been airing test tone all night according to SDR reports and this from Bruce Portzer in Seattle who has heard it under his local KPTR
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KMXA-1090 running tone all night

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Wish I had known! KMXA's site is 14 miles away from me and I'm right in the target area of the nighttime DA.

Then again, I don't think I'd be able to get away with listening to test tone all night anyway....
 
tvnut said:
WLXG 1300 Lexington, Ky. Strong at 2 a.m. with a legal ID and into ESPN Radio. A new one for me on 1300 with the absence of WRDZ.
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I didn't realize WRDZ was gone. I was on Lake Shore Drive (Chicago) this afternoon and now one can hear WOOD in Grand Rapids, though there's a lot of fading as you go around corners and so on. I just tried at night (8PM) and I also heard WLXG quite strongly, and this was a first for me as well.
 
In Chicago... just heard WSLM 1220 in Salem, Indiana. Came in quite well. Most likely they are broadcasting at their daytime 5000 W and not their nighttime 82 W. Also, in an amusing twist there is a KSLM 1220 in Salem, Oregon.
 
Mark Roberts said:
Wish I had known! KMXA's site is 14 miles away from me and I'm right in the target area of the nighttime DA.

Then again, I don't think I'd be able to get away with listening to test tone all night anyway....
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KMXA is running the tone again tonight. It started right at 11 pm Mountain. No announcements; the station was right in the middle of programming when the tone started up.
 
Mark Roberts said:
KMXA is running the tone again tonight.
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Can anyone confirm if they're running at 50,000 watts daytime power and pattern?

The very distinctive tone is coming in loud and clear at my location (using my Sangean PR-D4W), which I doubt would be possible if they were operating at 500 watts as they're supposed to!

c
 
cc333 said:
Can anyone confirm if they're running at 50,000 watts daytime power and pattern?

The very distinctive tone is coming in loud and clear at my location (using my Sangean PR-D4W), which I doubt would be possible if they were operating at 500 watts as they're supposed to!
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If the tone is used for technical adjustments and measurements, it is legal to run any operation from midnight to 6 AM.
 
cc333 said:
Can anyone confirm if they're running at 50,000 watts daytime power and pattern?

The very distinctive tone is coming in loud and clear at my location (using my Sangean PR-D4W), which I doubt would be possible if they were operating at 500 watts as they're supposed to!

c
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Unfortunately, I couldn't tell whether it was on day or night power. I'm 14 miles away from the transmitter site and its primary lobe is aimed right at my location.

I didn't hear any carrier interruption that might have indicated a pattern switch.

Here's what the start of the tone sounded like - 3 minutes of program material, 1 minute of 416 Hz tone.

Here was the 10 pm legal ID (almost buried by a music bed; music beds seem to be constant on KMXA's program source):
 
Those KiwiSDRs won't work anymore on my connection. All I see is a "this site can't be reached" error on all SDRs and the Kiwi website. :-(
It's like a quasi-DX test situation, the KMXA test tone. It should get out throughout much of the west and hopefully quite a ways to the east.
 
MarioMania said:
I'm on the Lubbock SDR & I'm hearing KNBR

I'm in Vallejo, I put it on 680, Samething & the SDR
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I've never tried to DX on that SDR before because when I've gone to it, there was just static.

Last night, I just decided to give it another try and what do you know, it was working great.

I guess there's some near by source of background interference at that location that's on intermittently.

Now that I know it works, I will definitely be using that SDR a lot more.
 
In Chicago: Two more on 1300, both in Tennessee: WNQM in Nashville, operating at 50 KW shortly before sunset, and WMTN in Morristown. It's officially 5 KW by day and 92 W by night but I'm guessing it's yet another "all-nighter".

In about 24 hours I've now logged three new ones on 1300 due to the shutting down of WRDZ.
 
MichaelTheZ said:
In Chicago: Two more on 1300, both in Tennessee: WNQM in Nashville, operating at 50 KW shortly before sunset, and WMTN in Morristown. It's officially 5 KW by day and 92 W by night but I'm guessing it's yet another "all-nighter".

In about 24 hours I've now logged three new ones on 1300 due to the shutting down of WRDZ.
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WMTN is semi-local to me and seems to be getting out lately. WMQM had good sunrise and sunset signals, and had sometimes splattered WHIO about 30 miles from Dayton
 
KMXA is definitely 50KW day power and is very strong again tonight. Blowing away XEPRS.
 


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