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WDFB Kentucky DX test starts at the stroke of Midnight Sat 2/25

Steve Green NEPA

Steve Green NEPA

I hadn't seen this news appear here ; please pardon any oversight ; sorry for the tardiness ; busy week.
WDFB is in Junction City KY, about 5 miles south of Danville (one of the 50 Danville's in the US). It's a religious daytimer that purportedly will be airing test tones, Morse IDs and clips of past WDFB shows. The TEST is scheduled to last for two hours.
They are a 1000 watt directional daytimer, but plan to do transmitter maintenance, so perhaps that includes some omni stuff.
Word is that the most recent WDFB TEST was 20 years ago.
Vis a vis nulls : I'm somewhat co-linear with WWVA and WDFB, but a lot of you are not! So I hope they play a lot of tones, because DXers might get confused when they play those past clips. Those might contain content similar to some WWVA guy bellowing over whatever issue disturbs him at the moment.
Once again: Sorry about the last-minute holler and previous mention I missed.
 
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Guessing Springfield or Franklin still has the record, then. Springfield is either at 34 or 21, depending on the source. There are 30 cities named Franklin.
 
1170 is usually pretty empty at my home location near Chicago. Not exactly crowded here where I am this month in Pensacola. I'll try to give it a shot next weekend, WDFB's pattern appears to favor where I am right now.
 
Will have to try for this one, I won't be home until at least 9:30 PT due to my second job as a pizza delivery driver. But I do have KSL HD hash all over that frequency and I hope that I can defeat it in some way to get the tones/CW.
 
Coming in fairly well here in the Chicago suburbs at 11:06pm CST. Code and sweeping tones mixing with Brother Stair on WWVA.
 
Just got home. Nothing yet, lots of KSL splatter in LSB and loud HD hash in USB. Ugh HD IBOC. But also ugh on poor eastern conditions. KLOK San Jose is weakly in there on 1170.

KA7U receiver Weiser ID not much better. A sports station, either Bellingham or Tulsa, but no tones, CW, sweeps, whatsoever plus lots of KSL HD hash.
 
WWVA's Brother Stair crushing it here in Maryland. Not even a murmur of anything in the background.

Edit: Checked out a webSDR in TN, now hearing the sweeps, tones and morse code.
 
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Five of 1 AM here, NE PA. Just checking in, hi. One hour left.
Not a peep -- just WWVA. I 'did' have a tone taped from shortly after midnight for a few minutes, but no more after that.
 
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