[IRCA] WION test verification info

2019-02-25 Thread Phil Bytheway via IRCA
--- Begin Message --- I Emailed the station re verification, here is the reply: "We'd be happy to verify reports via off...@i1430.com, please put "TEST OF SIGNAL" in the subject line, and allow a litlte time for us to personally write back. We're a small staff, but have a big sound and what we

[IRCA] WION Test

2019-02-24 Thread Russ Edmunds
Don't think this made it through earlier... Starting 0034 heard various test tones through about 0112 then mostly indistinguishable from the QRM ( CHKT, WENE, WKOX ) until 0127 when bits and pieces of Elton John's "I'm Still Standing" and part of the canned promo/ID, happily, including the

[IRCA] WION Test

2019-02-24 Thread Russ Edmunds
Starting 0034 heard various test tones through about 0112 then mostly indistinguishable from the QRM ( CHKT, WENE, WKOX ) until 0127 when bits and pieces of Elton John's "I'm Still Standing" and part of the canned promo/ID, happily, including the calls. Received using SDRPlay RSP1a SDR and

Re: [IRCA] WION test

2019-02-24 Thread Mike Keval Brooker
I didn't even find out about the WION-1430 test until too late. No chance I would have heard them anyway with a local pest on the frequency (CHKT). 73 Mike Brooker Toronto, ON On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 12:32 PM Rick Dau wrote: > I tried for it on the KiwiSDR out of Muscatine, Iowa, but didn't

Re: [IRCA] WION test

2019-02-24 Thread Rick Dau
I tried for it on the KiwiSDR out of Muscatine, Iowa, but didn't hear a thing, even though I wasn't getting any splatter on 1430 from semi-local WOC-1420. In fact, I heard nothing but noise on 1430, no sign of even St. Louis or Indianapolis, making me suspect that operator Allen Kiddoo had