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WOON/1240 DX test coming up

N

N1WVQ

Next Sunday (12/21), WOON/1240-Woonsocket, R.I. will be conducting a DX test from 02:00-03:00 E.S.T. (07:00-08:00 G.M.T.) in cooperation with ABDX-American Broadcast DXers. It will consist of a Morse Code ID, announcement of the programming being a test broadcast, Morse Code ID again & finally a jingle: "O-N Radio...in Woonsocket." Station owner/general manager/morning host Dave Richards will be verifying reports. The U.S.P.S. address is below. There's also an e-mail address found on the website. Put the callsign as the subject line.

Send reception reports to:
WOON/1240
Attn. Dave Richards
985 Park Av.
Woonsocket, R.I. 02895-6332
U.S.A. (if required)

Recordings are not necessary but would be welcomed & appreciated.

WOON's last DX test was over 10 years ago. If you've already heard WOON, the station has moved to diplexing off of the WNRI tower since that time.

This is the 1st of 4 tests from Southern New England. Yet to be heard this winter are: WARL/1320, WHTB/1400 & WSAR/1480. Those announcements will come later as they're announced.

73 & good DX!
Jay, N1WVQ/V31VQ/WQBI410
 
I will definitely be listening. Here in Michigan, Rhode Island is a very hard target. I have yet to receive anything (AM or FM) from the Ocean State, so this will be nice if I can hear it. I've already knocked New Hampshire off of my list this month.

Also, WOON is 693 miles from my location. A positive logging would make this my longest 'graveyard' catch.
 
Very nice! You can send reception reports to:

Dave Richards
c/o WOON
985 Park Av.
Woonsocket, R.I. 02895-6332.

Or use the e-mail on the ON page www.on1240.com.

Audio doesn't have to be included but will be appreciated!

There will be 3 other tests coming from Southern New England but they're from Massachusetts stations: WARL/1320, WHTB/1400 & WSAR/1480. Those tests will be announced. In any event, I hope that you are able to hear WOON tonight!

I'll have to see what can be done next year (either early 2009 or Winter 2009-10) about getting the more powerful R.I. stations to do tests.

73 & good DX tonight!
Jay, N1WVQ/V31VQ/WQBI410
 
Since Rhode Island is roughly the size of one county in most US states, they are a very elusive target for several non-New England DX'ers like myself. I'll definitely listen for the upcoming New England DX tests this winter. I've logged a few from Massachusetts already, but I could always use more.

A few other states I need are Maine, Vermont and Delaware. Do you have a pull on any of their stations? :)

Unless if it's a station i've already heard, I always stick around for the DX tests. My best DX test reception is KMTI 650 from Manti, UT, heard very clearly with morse code and sweep tones underneath WSM. I wish some of the West Coast stations could do DX tests.
 
The WOON DX test has been rescheduled for this Sunday, January 18th from 2-3A.M./07:00-08:00Z. Same format as listed before! Don't be shy about it being on a Class C (or Class IV if you prefer) frequency!
 
AckDX said:
Same here, but WBUR I think powers down very low at night.
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No, WBUR (AM) stays 1000 watts ND day and night. 1240 is one of those "graveyard" frequencies on which most stations are limited to 1000 watts and get to run it both day and night, often resulting in a nighttime "jumble" outside of each stations local coverage area. Most stations on 1240 are not required to power down at night.

Immediately northwest of Boston here in Somerville, MA I get WOON (faintly) in the daytime, not WBUR (AM), which can only be heard (faintly) in the greater Boston area right along the immediate coast over the water, if IBOC from local 1260 WMKI doesn't kill it. At night, 1240 is a multi-station jumble here.
 
WOON was atop the frequency here in NEPA, with the radio directed that way. I heard just the code part, in what sounded like a lower-than-1kHz tone (maybe 700 Hz?).

The radio was a GE SR II. No external antenna. I tuned in at 2 AM, and had to turn the radio at first for it. The GE picks up off its sides. But from 2:04 to 2:34 the code IDs were detectable, cutting through everything. In fact, I didn't get a single ID from anyone else on the frequency for the half hour. Not only that, but there was no other discernable FORMAT heard the whole half-hour. There are 1240's in the region from Selinsgrove, Wilkes-Barre and Reading, but not a peep out of any of them. Maybe if they all did their broadcasts in Morse Code they'd show a boost in the overnight book.

I tried posting the reception on the forum here, but had trouble logging in, and spent the remainder of the test time trying to forage through passcodes.

The code came through fine. Again, except for a few fades, virtually every . - - - - - - - - -. was audible in part. Was I not hearing what, if anything, was programmed between the beeps?

I can send a casette or a sound file, Dave. Lemme know which is more convenient.

It's only been a very casual renaissance of AM DX for me in NE PA since I moved here ... maybe 300 stations ... but this is the first Rhode Island log! Thanks, Dave!
 
Steve,

I will tell Dave to look here and if you haven't passed along your message to Dave please do so as you could get a bumper sticker.
 
Heard that test that was 10 or so years back, while living in central Virginia- not likely here on the Suncoast. Glad to see a test out there nonetheless.
Good luck all

Greg Myers
Holiday, FL
 
Hya Greg!

This Born-Again DXer remembers your name from the National Radio Club or the IRCA. How they going? (Got kin and friends in metro Holiday .... I hope to join them soon ..... and I want my ashes spread over the stretch of 19-A between Clearwater and Dunedin when The Big Null arrives if Lindsay Wagner is out of town and unavailable :)

A DX question :

On the WOON reception CD I sent to them, there had surfaced what sounded like an 'AM 14 - 30' ID.

On 1240.

Anyone have any ideas?

I'd put the sound file on here but don't know how.
 
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