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DXNews&wing Dxmshe l .a Volume 72. No. 22 - March 7,2005 (ISSN 0737-1659) 17 .. Newfoundland DXpedition, #14 I 2 .. AM Switch 26 .. GYDXA-1240 6 .. DDM) 32 .. 'Ouget DX 12 IDXD '?. ,, .. ," 35 .. Musings of the Membeq # . '... From the Pgblisher .. ill ~alcbentk$k, that can, and do, help broadcasters Julthk long-time NRC member Bumey B. McClurkan, Irv- week several DXers in Ohio assisted ; stahon m ing, TX died recently. Our sincerest condolences tracing some interference. This kind of P.R. helps to his family. all of us. We'll find that stations will be more likely My apologies to Bill Hale for re-running the #17 to work with us rather than showing us the door. AM Switch in #20; the missing entries are in this "Now for something real bizarre. I've talked issue. When it rains, it pours.. but 1think I'm past to several stations about tests, and they say they having to deal with computer problems for awhile. just don't have the time, or people to do a full I hope. blown test. However, with the help of another Note that this issue is the last weekly DXN for DXer, we came up with an idea. A few stations are this season; we start skipping weeks now and go willing to sell us a spot at a dirt cheap rate. On one monthly again from April through September. station we were told it would be only $4.00! I Professional Sports Networks ... From Barry would be interested to know if any of you would S. Finkel: "With the start of spring training, it is try for a station which would send CW for a full time to send me the Major League Baseball flag- minute just prior to the top of the hour at 2 to 5 in ship and network information. With the start of the morning. As was the case with the WFIL test, non-weekly DX News,the sooner I have the infor- the only thing I heard was tones. If we can't get a mation, the sooner I can get'it in my column. Does station to do a full-blown test (which they are not anyone have any more NBA information? obligated to do), perhaps a 60- or 30-second mini- CPC Report ... From Fred Vobbe: "Your NRC test may work. CPC has been working on tests which we hope will "Hopefully some of the contacts will pan out pan out. Plans are to send a large stack of letters and we'll add some tests. And if you hear a test out to broadcasters. The stations I'm contacting that the NRC CPC schedules, please don't thank include those suggested in a list poll several me, thank the folks above that contributed tomake months ago, sugg&<tionsfrom folks who contrib- uted stamps and suggestions, and a few letters were sent via a list member to the engineers he knows who have said they would ask their man- agement. "At this time I would like to acknowledee some of the CPC Good Citizens. These folks hehd out 25 April 8 April 18 1 29 Aug 5 hug. 15 by sending stamps: Bill Dvorak, Ken Lyon, Harold 26 Sepr.9 Se~t.19 Richards, and Terry Jones. Thanks, .,,auvs! Your do- nation will be put id good use. DX =ne Machine "CPC is about setting up tests for the hobby, From tbepages of DX News. but it includes other things. Some contacts have been made with big stations (to some of us we call 50 years ago "' from the March 51 1955 Dm: them pests), and I have asked them to try to let us Seife*,Glendale,OHtoldofhiseffortsinproduclngthe know when they would be down for maintenance. tape for the NRC DX Pmf3- from WI(RG550 on 2/20, Knowing that some of the big guns are offcan be a %$hg the editing just 6 hours before the broadcast. help in being on the channd 'io see if something 25 years ago .. from the March 3,1980 DXN: After will rise up out of the ether. If we have enough hearing Belize-834 mention repeaterson 910,930, and time, I may try contacting some odd station for a 940, IDXD Editor ChuckHunon,Decatnr, GAwaselated test. For me, if WLW, WOWO, and a few others to be able to bag the 910 station. were off for an impedance measurement, I would 10 years ago ... from the ~~h 6, 1995 ~m:R~~ die to know what resides under these powerful Moorevs Fu~Upefiormanceloop signals. I've also tried to educate the radio engi- "me neer, as well as station management, that DXers plete on the various types of loops used for DX'ing. 3 KAGO. OR Klamath Falls - Coordinate adjustment to N42-12-56 W121-47-51. Bill Hale w-r_hale@sbcg~oba~.l,el WKMT NC Kings Mountain - Application is to increase day power to become U1 10000/ Hswitcb 6121RoaringSpringoDlivc 106 from the adjusted coordinates of N35-15-48 W81-19-29. North Richland Hills, TX 76180-5552 KAZN CA Pasadena - Application is to increase day and night power levels to become U4 17000/4200 and to relocate their transmitter site to that of KMRB-1430 at N 34-07-08 W118-04-54 (see later item). Two additional towers would have to be added for the KAZN patterns. [Re-application] (Publishm's note: This edition of"AM Switch" includes the missing AMS K 72 #20. Through my error, #17 KSGT WY Jackson - Applies to relocate their transmitter site to a new, 186' tower at N43- was published in its place -pis.) 27-45 W110-47-37. This happens to be a common location with that of a CALL LETTER CHANGES proposed new 1490 facility in Jackson. J QMGZU New Call KDWA MN Hastings - Applies to move to a new transmitter site at N44-44-14 W92-49-42. 540 KMEO CA Camel Valley MME n KSPA CA Ontario - Applies to increase day power and add Critical Hours operation. If NEW TX Midland KPOE granted, KSPA will become U7 50000/1000 CH 10000. KXTA CA Los Angeles KTLK KTBK TX Sherman - Licensed for U1 10000/700 from two antenna sites, this applica- WNTR MD Cumberland WCMD tion requests U1 10000/1000, with a relocation of the nighttime tower to KPLY NV Reno KJFK N33-25-23 W96-39-45 and CoL change to Richardson, TX. The owners are KTm OR Toledo KCUP attempting to fill in coverage voids of their 1310 facilty to the northeast sub- KQYN CA Twentynine Palms KNWH urbs of Dallas. KTLK CA Santa Barbara KIST -- AMENDMENTS TO CONSTRUCTION PERMITS SUBMIlTED KJJL WY Cheyenne KlUA P.O. BOX 1478 KCCV KS Overland Park - Licensed for D3 6000/0, KCCV has a CP (built) to add KMYR KS ~ichita KGSO 7 15 HAHRISON nighttime service as U4 6000/200. This amendment requests the "addition WRTP NC Chapel Hill WLLQ TOPEKA. KANSAS 66601 of augmentations to the night standard pattern to compensate for several KKWY WY Fox Farm KRND .- sources of re-radiation in the vicinity of the array". CPs ON THE AIR KDJQ ID Meridian -This new, as yet unbuilt station, is now planning to diplex their WLLL VA Lynchburg - CP for U1 9000142 is on the air. night site with KTIK-1350, using 250 Watts using 2 toweys. The agreement WRNE FL Gulf Breeze - Program Test Authority granted for U2 4000/1000. with KGEM-1140 fell through and KDJQ has until April 10,2005 to complete WXNC NC Monroe - CP to increase daytime power and add CH operation is on the air their CP or lose it. Last resort time for them. Their day site is the same, but as Dl 400010 CH 2400 from a new tower at N34-59-16 W80-31-05. they did have to move the tower location a bit. ldaho Power is NOT going to WMLB GA East Point - Program Test Authority granted for U5 500001160. Station stlll abandon their transmission line right-of-way that cuts through the center of has a pending Application to change the City-of-License (CoL) to Vining~, the proposed transmitter site. Now that's planning. Georgia and increase their nighttime power from a new 3-tower site at N.73- WPEN PA Philadelphia - Licensed for U2 5000/5000, WPEN has a CP to relocate the 49-54 W84-28-40 for night operation only. If granted, they would becornr nighttime transmitter site to that of WWDB-860 with two added towers and U4 50000/450 from two sites. increase day and night power levels to become U4 50000150000. Between WWGA GA Waycross - New station is now on the air with U1 lOOO~OOOwith a news/ that action and now, WPEN has amended the CP twice with different con- talk format. figurations. This latest amendment requestsU4 5M)00/5WO using the WWDB WMTR NJ Morristown - CP forU 500017000 is on the air. [Correction to item in lssur site for daytime operation and their original site for nights. 211 KCPW UT Tooele - Licensed for U7 50000/13 CH 3100, KCPW has a CP to increase KSNA CA Shasta Lake City - CP for U3 100011000 is on the air. Although the FCC their night and CH power levels to become U8 500001178 CH 35000 from a classifies KSNA as "DA-2", the day and night antenna parameters are identi- new transmitter location at N40-43-15 W112-02-29. Last week we reported cal. The AM Log lists it as U3, and we'll go along with that.