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DX TESTS This Weekend (2/6 to 2/9)

SomeRadioGuy

SomeRadioGuy

The Courtesy Program Committee (CPC) of the National Radio Club (NRC) and the International Radio Club of America (IRCA) announces a grouping of special DX Tests for distant listeners for radio stations KTOX (1340 kHz) in Needles, CA; KTPI (1340 kHz) in Mojave, CA; and KKZI (1310 kHz) in Barstow, CA.

The KTOX DX test is scheduled for Saturday, February 6th at 12:01 AM local Pacific Standard Time through 5:59 AM Pacific Standard Time (This equates to 0801 to 1359 UTC on Sunday, February 7).

The KTPI DX test is scheduled for Sunday, February 7th at 12:01 AM local Pacific Standard Time through 5:59 AM Pacific Standard Time (This equates to 0801 to 1359 UTC on Saturday, February 6).

The KKZI DX test is scheduled for Monday, February 8th at 12:01 AM local Pacific Standard Time through 5:59 AM Pacific Standard Time (This equates to 0801 to 1359 UTC on Monday, February 8).

The test material is the “straight up highly caffeinated no sugar or cream added black coffee tests” with just morse code, sweep tones and few other noises that clearly cut through the mud as tested and confirmed by an audiologist.

RECEPTION REPORTS & QSL REQUESTS
All reception reports will be verified through the station directly Reports go DIRECTLY to Steve at ONLY The following address, nowhere else: [email protected]. No snail mail reports, no email to any other station email addresses you may find.

Please, don’t send long wav files, if at all possible, please send mp3 files and rather then sending a 5 or 10 minute recording, it would be advised to send 2 or 3 short mp3s of 20-30 seconds.

PLEASE send them within 60 days of the tests and PLEASE be patient

The IRCA/NRC CPC would like to thank the owner and staff of KTOX, KTPI and KKZI}, Steve Rubin and CPC member Paul Walker Jr. for helping to arrange the test.

Good luck to all DXers!

About the CPC
The Courtesy Program Committee (CPC) is a cross-functional group comprised of members of both the National Radio Club (NRC) and International Radio Club of America (IRCA) for the purpose of coordinating and arranging DX Tests with AM radio stations. These DX tests both allow radio stations to conduct valuable equipment tests on their transmitter and audio chain as well as enable DX hobbyists to receive the testing station from greater distances than would normally be possible. The CPC membership consists of: Chairman Les Rayburn, Paul Walker, George Santulli, Joe Miller and Loyd Van Horn.
 
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All three are possible here, I know KTOX gets out really well on skywave. Heard them in Idaho last fall. KKZI will have to get through KLIX. Solar activity may quiet the easterly DX quite a bit, especially with this giant sunspot right now. This morning, it sent out an X1 flare.
 
What this announcement doesn't say about KKZI is what power it will be using during the DX test. While its assigned daytime power is 5 kW, its night power is a whopping .118 kW. For a successful pickup by most listeners, I'm hoping the daytime power will be used for at least part of the time; however, since the station is currently not on the air otherwise, the owner may be checking to see just how far away that .118 kW can actually be heard.
 
ted chittenden said:
What this announcement doesn't say about KKZI is what power it will be using during the DX test. While its assigned daytime power is 5 kW, its night power is a whopping .118 kW. For a successful pickup by most listeners, I'm hoping the daytime power will be used for at least part of the time; however, since the station is currently not on the air otherwise, the owner may be checking to see just how far away that .118 kW can actually be heard.
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In the test period between midnight and 6 AM a station can run its daytime facility or even test a single tower. As long as these DX tests are done with no commercials they can run full power. DX tests go back to the 1930's when the National Radio Club and the Newark News Radio Club competed to get as many scheduled.

On some Monday mornings, there were as many as a dozen or so different tests in that period. The vast majority of stations were off for maintenance in that period, so many channels were clear and many other relatively less congested.

In the early 60's on Monday mornings at Cleveland, OH, I heard things like KTIP in Porterville, CA, with 250 watts on 1450 on a test, along with Paradise, CA, on 930 with 500 watts.
 
ted chittenden said:
What this announcement doesn't say about KKZI is what power it will be using during the DX test. While its assigned daytime power is 5 kW, its night power is a whopping .118 kW. For a successful pickup by most listeners, I'm hoping the daytime power will be used for at least part of the time; however, since the station is currently not on the air otherwise, the owner may be checking to see just how far away that .118 kW can actually be heard.
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What was mistakenly omitted from this announcement was the test will be done using the details spec'd in the stations construction permit, 1kw non directional
 
no KKZI, technical problems.
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
The KTOX DX test is scheduled for Saturday, February 6th at 12:01 AM local Pacific Standard Time through 5:59 AM Pacific Standard Time (This equates to 0801 to 1359 UTC on Sunday, February 7).

The KTPI DX test is scheduled for Sunday, February 7th at 12:01 AM local Pacific Standard Time through 5:59 AM Pacific Standard Time (This equates to 0801 to 1359 UTC on Saturday, February 6).
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Paul, I'm going to presume that the local PSTs you show are correct. If so, you have the UTC times reversed. In the first case, it would be +32 hours the way it's written, and in the second case, the signal would have to be going backwards in time by 16 hours.)
 
Weiserguy said:
Paul, I'm going to presume that the local PSTs you show are correct. If so, you have the UTC times reversed. In the first case, it would be +32 hours the way it's written, and in the second case, the signal would have to be going backwards in time by 16 hours.)
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tvnut said:
Plus Feb 6 is Friday and Feb 7 is Saturday.
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fri the 6th sat the 7th sun the 8th is what i meant times are right
 
KTPI not noted in WA. Sat on 1340 for 15-20 minutes after midnight...and then nearly fell asleep at my desk. KIHR OR, KJOX WA, and graveyard slop noted (a C2C station probably KLOO)
Also not noted by several California DXers that were much closer to KTPI. Were they even on?
I missed KTOX, apparently it was Friday early AM. I was sleeping because I had a subbing job that day.
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
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Let's just clear this up. This is how it should read. It's accurate as of when I post it (Sat 2/07 @ 9:13 AM PST):

The KTOX DX test already happened on Saturday, February 7th at 12:01 AM local Pacific Standard Time through 5:59 AM Pacific Standard Time (This equates to 0801 to 1359 UTC on Saturday, February 7). This one is over!

The KTPI DX test is scheduled for Sunday, February 8th at 12:01 AM local Pacific Standard Time through 5:59 AM Pacific Standard Time (This equates to 0801 to 1359 UTC on Sunday, February 8).

The KKZI DX test is scheduled for Monday, February 9th at 12:01 AM local Pacific Standard Time through 5:59 AM Pacific Standard Time (This equates to 0801 to 1359 UTC on Monday, February 9).
 
Weiserguy said:
Let's just clear this up. This is how it should read. It's accurate as of when I post it (Sat 2/07 @ 9:13 AM PST):

The KTOX DX test already happened on Saturday, February 7th at 12:01 AM local Pacific Standard Time through 5:59 AM Pacific Standard Time (This equates to 0801 to 1359 UTC on Saturday, February 7). This one is over!

The KTPI DX test is scheduled for Sunday, February 8th at 12:01 AM local Pacific Standard Time through 5:59 AM Pacific Standard Time (This equates to 0801 to 1359 UTC on Sunday, February 8).

The KKZI DX test is scheduled for Monday, February 9th at 12:01 AM local Pacific Standard Time through 5:59 AM Pacific Standard Time (This equates to 0801 to 1359 UTC on Monday, February 9).
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No...

the tests were scheduled for the 6th, 7th and 8th.

KKZI wont happen because of technical issues
 
I reached out to owner Steve Rubin this morning and he knows its on, but does not know what power level it's running. There was a power outage Thursday night thanks to SoCal Edison and he's having enough trouble accessing the remote control that he needs to held out there but he lives all the way in San Jose and hasn't been able to get there himself or have a contractor person out there.

When he had this problem once before, KTPI came back up at 20 watts.
 


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