Hey everyone, just spreading the word about a DX Test tonight. 1430 WION Ionia MI will be on full 4.7KW power starting at Midnight ET, 9PM PT. Sounds like there will be sweep tones involved and some "highly separated musical selections." 1430 here is a mess with KCLK, KYKN, KBRC and KLO, but perhaps I can pull this out if conditions are great. Normal format is adult hits, I-1430 with a 92.7 translator. Good luck!
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Dx test tonight - wion-1430 mi
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Terrific, Crain!
A few questions ....
a) What are sweep tones? Are they like an ambulance or a patrol car siren?
2) If you have the info, for how long is WION supposedly scheduling this?
c) I'd always thought that midnight/overnight testing on AM was allowed, because of limited interference and screaming. Yet California's midnight is their 9 PM. ....
Thanks for the tip!
A few questions ....
a) What are sweep tones? Are they like an ambulance or a patrol car siren?
2) If you have the info, for how long is WION supposedly scheduling this?
c) I'd always thought that midnight/overnight testing on AM was allowed, because of limited interference and screaming. Yet California's midnight is their 9 PM. ....
Thanks for the tip!
Steve:
A.) sweep tones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvkipAlRKq
3.) What does california's time have to do with it? It's all about the time zone the station is in
Er, donʼt you have that backwards—12 Eastern = 9 Pacific?
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No luck here in NE PA. Were they indeed on? 4700 omni watts should have been atop the frequency.
But there was nothing apparent to glean from what sounded more like 1450 rather than 1430. I didn't hear any sweep tones. A gal announcer saying '24/7/365' turned out to be doing an ad for Walgreens was the only discernible audio. That couldn't have been from WION ; commercials are not allowed on test broadcasts. In the mix was a foreign-language voice and a female vocal song.
Shucks. I had poised an HQ 180, a GE Superadio II and a battery'ed Grundig G-8, with their antennae pointed every which way, to no avail. WION should've been atop the channel.
Perhaps some of you folks had better luck! And thanks for the tip, Crain! It was a pretty good DX workout for this geezer in the midnight hour, hi.
(@ SomeRadioGuy : I'd been asking if stations in the East which tested overnight between midnight and sunup our time would be allowed to blaze away with whatever music and tones into places where it wasn't midnight yet. Apparently, It can be allowed.)
But there was nothing apparent to glean from what sounded more like 1450 rather than 1430. I didn't hear any sweep tones. A gal announcer saying '24/7/365' turned out to be doing an ad for Walgreens was the only discernible audio. That couldn't have been from WION ; commercials are not allowed on test broadcasts. In the mix was a foreign-language voice and a female vocal song.
Shucks. I had poised an HQ 180, a GE Superadio II and a battery'ed Grundig G-8, with their antennae pointed every which way, to no avail. WION should've been atop the channel.
Perhaps some of you folks had better luck! And thanks for the tip, Crain! It was a pretty good DX workout for this geezer in the midnight hour, hi.
(@ SomeRadioGuy : I'd been asking if stations in the East which tested overnight between midnight and sunup our time would be allowed to blaze away with whatever music and tones into places where it wasn't midnight yet. Apparently, It can be allowed.)
Distilling a lot of information on this, WION uses CQAM AM Stereo. The CQAM generator/exciter has some capabilities to correct some antenna anomalies, but it can't correct everything. They want to reduce IPM, which in this case apparently means Incidental Phase Modulation, and also to flatten and make symmetrical the audio frequency response of the antenna system. All of this should result in better quality audio, particularly Music. Now they also have a translator, in Ionia on 92.7 and a CP in Lowell for 100.3. Both are 250 Watts.
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