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Offline ku4a

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WBOB DX test
« on: September 03, 2021, 1534 UTC »
SPECIAL 50 kW DX TEST LATE NIGHT TONIGHT—TONIGHT—TONIGHT

The Courtesy Program Committee (CPC) of the NRC/IRCA is pleased to RELAY this announcement of a DX Test from WBOB 600 kHz in Jacksonville, FL tonight starting at Midnight Eastern Time (0400 UTC) at their daytime power of 50,000 watts.

The announcement came Thursday night at 9:28 PM Central time on Facebook from noted DX’er Jerry Kiefer. His announcement was as follows:

Last minute AM DX test Friday night 9/3 starting at Midnight Eastern. 50 kw WBOB 600 Jacksonville will be playing classic Top 40 with full fidelity CRL processing. They will QSL via e-mail. Contact Chief Engineer Jerry Smith. They run a two tower, figure eight DA beamed North by South Southwest. Please spread the word.

No other details available, but that leaves us all with about 18 hours to prepare. Get those antennas up, and phasers tested. Headphones on, and SDRs or recorders running. Suggest watching the “I Love AM Radio” Group on Facebook for additional details.
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Re: WBOB DX test
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2021, 0442 UTC »
Heard the sweep tones at 0429 with awesome strength, but the music is struggling with two other stations.
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Re: WBOB DX test
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2021, 0456 UTC »
Sounding good here with minimum interference - 44444
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Re: WBOB DX test
« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2021, 0457 UTC »
Heard sweep tones @ 0422 and 0428 but CKAT "Country 600" North Bay ON is pretty much dominating the frequency here in MI.
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Re: WBOB DX test
« Reply #4 on: September 04, 2021, 0544 UTC »
I had a S9+30 signal on the SDR in Knoxville-Oak Ridge, TN
Is the email
bobtx@protonmail.com
correct?
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Re: WBOB DX test
« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2021, 0849 UTC »
ku4a,

tnx for the heads up on this one   :) 
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Re: WBOB DX test
« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2021, 1408 UTC »
600kHz WBOB Jacksonville, FL  0605z 4 Sep /21 cw VVV VVV VVV DE WBOB WBOB
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