CFFX 960 Kingston, ON DX Test
TIME: Early morning of Tuesday January 15 (Monday night).
MODE OF OPERATION: CFFX will test using its 10,000-watt daytime directional pattern.
PROGRAMMING: Regular adult contemporary programming. Special test material will consists of three hourly voice announcements followed by special test material lasting several minutes. These will air roughly at the top of the hour, at approximately 0000, 0100 and 0200 EST, give or take a few minutes depending on the program log.
CONTEXT: CFFX is completing its move to 104.3 on the FM band this morning, and 960 is scheduled to sign off for goood at 0600 EST. As part of the transition, the AM has simulcast the FM for the past three months. This test marks the final phase of the transition, and the test content will also air on 104.3. This is your last chance to log CFFX on 960, so if it takes two alarm clocks to wake you, well, you've been warned!
We will issue QSLs, but I am not yet 100 percent sure who will handle the reports. Either the station, or me, or both of us. Regardless, we will definitely want audio recordings if at all possible, and we want reports sent via e-mail if at all possible. Snail-mail reports only when accompanied by SASE will be acknowledged. The QSL will be the same, regardless. We'll update the QSL situation soon.
Saul Chernos
MODE OF OPERATION: CFFX will test using its 10,000-watt daytime directional pattern.
PROGRAMMING: Regular adult contemporary programming. Special test material will consists of three hourly voice announcements followed by special test material lasting several minutes. These will air roughly at the top of the hour, at approximately 0000, 0100 and 0200 EST, give or take a few minutes depending on the program log.
CONTEXT: CFFX is completing its move to 104.3 on the FM band this morning, and 960 is scheduled to sign off for goood at 0600 EST. As part of the transition, the AM has simulcast the FM for the past three months. This test marks the final phase of the transition, and the test content will also air on 104.3. This is your last chance to log CFFX on 960, so if it takes two alarm clocks to wake you, well, you've been warned!
We will issue QSLs, but I am not yet 100 percent sure who will handle the reports. Either the station, or me, or both of us. Regardless, we will definitely want audio recordings if at all possible, and we want reports sent via e-mail if at all possible. Snail-mail reports only when accompanied by SASE will be acknowledged. The QSL will be the same, regardless. We'll update the QSL situation soon.
Saul Chernos
posted by Brandon at 1/02/2008 03:08:00 PM
5 Comments:
I am new to DX tests. Why do you want audio recordings? Do use the recording for something? Or do you just use it as proof? Do people actually lie about this kind of thing?
Thanks for your question. I think we often forget that there ARE newcomers to our ranks - and we certainly welcome you and any questions you may have.
The audio recordings serve several purposes.
1. They are generally very easy for the station or QSL issuer to review and confirm that a listener really heard the test.
2. It gives the person at the station a completely objective idea of how well they were heard, as opposed to the more subjective opinion of the listener.
3. And yes, sadly, there are sometimes people who lie or "cheat" about these things. Apparently it is some kind of a game to them. One infamous DXer in Italy has been at it for decades, and reports hearing everything from alien spacecraft to your kitchen toaster. Sadly, guys like this sometimes sour a station and they stop sending QSLs to everyone.
OK - I hope this answers your question, and that you try for and hear the CFFX test. Please contact us if you have any other questions.
73s, Jim Pogue
kh2ar [at} comcast.net
Jim,
Thanks for running the test. I heard several stations mixing on 960 kHz around 1AM EST. Morse code character, a time pip and very rapid morse code. Still reviewing recording I made. Heard Spanish in the mix. Hoping I didn't receive Cuba instead of CFFX.
73.
Bye Bye CFFX
However the good news is that the DX Test was reported heard by Paul Crankshaw in Scotland.
Thanks to everyone who organised this exercise.
Steve
Editor
Medium Wave News
Heard the morse IDs shortly after 12:00 and 1:00am from Pennsylvania; CFFX was a new station for me. Thanks for the test but sorry to see the station go!
73,
Brett Saylor
Drake R-8 w/ 100' west-pointed sloper antenna
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