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Vis-a-vis KQKD test this Saturday ....

Just saw this thread. I was listening from my two AirSpy HF+ SDRs in both Fargo, ND and Minneapolis, MN. I could hear it coming in from both locations, although neither of them were particularly strong. I don't have great HF antennas though. I was just using the one in my car hooked up to my SDR in Fargo, haha.

Here's a snippet of what I heard in Minneapolis:
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
Nothing IDable here for two full hours, north of Pottsville PA. In fact, not even an ID from ANYTHING. Very few glimmers as well. 1380 sounded like a 1962 graveyard frequency, when the six locals were 250 watts. Slop from 1390 was from something called The Dinosaur (unn WFBL Syracuse).
At 2:36 here (1:36 CDT) I thought I heard some code ID at 800 or so kHz, but nothing sustainable.

Just on the off-chance I could // between the radios and the actual KQKD stream, turns out they were playing Country music, probably regular-schedule fare from their FM -- even with the stream page mainly billboarding 1380. The nearest SDR I could locate was in Muscatine IA ; nothing there except a faint talk station.

All I could make out was what sounded like an interminable flute song for the second hour, sometimes rising to the top. NYC was there -- I suppose it was they -- with some loud SS talk from a guy; sounded like a drama, at 2:53 ET.

Many thanks to Mr. Schacht for the test. Here it was just a good workout, and great handwriting practice, but a gracious tip of the earphones to those who heard it.
Wow -- someone in South Carolina caught it? Bravo !
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No, its a translator.. it doesnt originate its own programming, it cant. The console feeds the stream and this was probably originating from a source after the console
 
No luck here in Houston. Listened/recorded first ~45 minutes, and as others have said, it sounded like a graveyard frequency. KZTS's gospel music was on top most of the time. Others in the mix, but even after listening to the recording again, no sign of the test. Disappointing, but at least I heard KJJR last week.
 
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