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Title: X-FM Low Power testing on 4085Khz AM 0300 UTC
Post by: redhat on February 19, 2017, 0302 UTC

Reports welcome


+RH

Title: Re: X-FM Low Power testing on 4085Khz AM 0300 UTC
Post by: Skipmuck on February 19, 2017, 0305 UTC

Got it with a very nice S5 signal here with light fading and superb audio! 0304 UTC "Corner of the Earth"-Jamiroquai
(Some deep fades)
0308 UTC OM with ID "This is Radio Station X-FM.....", into "Unbound"-Robbie Robertson
(Excellent wideband audio with some great bottom end!)
0312 UTC OM with ID, into "Lime Habit"-POLICA
0316 UTC OM with ID, into "How Long"-ACE (Signal dropped down a bit with more fading now)
0320 UTC Jingle, into "Music Is Math"-Boards of Canada
0325 UTC OM with ID and OFF

Thanks for the test X-FM! It was a success here!  8)

Title: Re: X-FM Low Power testing on 4085Khz AM 0300 UTC
Post by: PirateSWL on February 19, 2017, 0310 UTC

X-FM 4085 AM S1-S2 in NY

0315: Song with a YL singer
0316: Redhat talking
0325: Off the air

Title: Re: X-FM Low Power testing on 4085Khz AM 0300 UTC
Post by: flexoman61 on February 19, 2017, 0311 UTC

0310 S2 peaks with mellow tune playing just above noise floor. Fair copy.

Title: Re: X-FM Low Power testing on 4085Khz AM 0300 UTC
Post by: Markokpik on February 19, 2017, 0312 UTC

X-FM, 4085 AM, 0307, 2/19/17.  Mellow rock ballad, some talk by Redhat, "How long has this been going on?" into another nice mellow song.  Abruptly off or lost at 0325.

S5 with S6 peaks with usual very good audio.
0320 up to S6 with peaks at S7 still with good audio.

Thanks for the music Redhat.

Title: Re: X-FM Low Power testing on 4085Khz AM 0300 UTC
Post by: oly1959 on February 19, 2017, 0313 UTC

Catching X-FM here also just above the high level noise floor here with a signal on the waterfall at a S5 and peaks hitting S6 with bits of audio popping thru. That is about it. I am surprised I am catching it! Thanks Redhat :o

Title: Re: X-FM Low Power testing on 4085Khz AM 0300 UTC
Post by: refmo on February 19, 2017, 0313 UTC

S5 to S6 @ 0310.  A little noisy, very nice bass.  "Unbound" by Robbie Robertson
0312 - ID and into "Lime Habit" by Polica

Title: Re: X-FM Low Power testing on 4085Khz AM 0300 UTC
Post by: JoeFLIPS on February 19, 2017, 0317 UTC

0316- synth voice saying "This broadcast now concludes"  S4-5
0317- "How Long Has This Been Going On"
0319- OM with ID as "The music sounds best on X-FM"
0321- mellow instrumental music
0324- signal faded way down into the noise
0325- off.

 Thanks for the broadcast RH!  :)

Title: Re: X-FM Low Power testing on 4085Khz AM 0300 UTC
Post by: MDK2 on February 19, 2017, 0320 UTC

Weak but copyable in Denver. Thanks Redhat.

Title: Re: X-FM Low Power testing on 4085Khz AM 0300 UTC
Post by: MrMomB on February 19, 2017, 0327 UTC

OK, timing, timing, timing.  Looking at the panadapter and seeing a good signal, while tuning to the frequency, the station goes QRT.  UGH!

Title: Re: X-FM Low Power testing on 4085Khz AM 0300 UTC
Post by: elburndx on February 19, 2017, 0329 UTC

Was hearing weak music and then talk till 03:25 then seemed to go off.

Title: Re: X-FM Low Power testing on 4085Khz AM 0300 UTC
Post by: redhat on February 19, 2017, 0539 UTC

Thanks all for the reports.  This was only 25W carrier and frankly I'm pretty impressed with how well it got out.  The only calamity of the night occurred when the antenna blew over and broke three of the 8 radial wire clips and bent the hell out of the vertical.  We were back on in under 5 minutes.

Thanks again,

+-RH

Title: Re: X-FM Low Power testing on 4085Khz AM 0300 UTC
Post by: jFarley on February 19, 2017, 2236 UTC

Solid S6-7 signal here from s/on to s/off in an SDR recording.  Very nice audio as always.

Signal here was actually somewhat stronger after the repair.

Thanks for the show, rh!

Title: Re: X-FM Low Power testing on 4085Khz AM 0300 UTC
Post by: Rafman on February 20, 2017, 1231 UTC

was s5-7 up at the VA farm, according to SDR recording...

Good to hear you again Redhat!!!

Title: Re: X-FM Low Power testing on 4085Khz AM 0300 UTC
Post by: redhat on February 22, 2017, 0531 UTC

Anyone have recordings?

+-RH