Saturday, December 13, 2008

WOON 1240 kHz Woonsocket, RI DX Test

ABDX re-presents the first DX test of the season. The WOON 1240 test did not run on Dec. 21 so an attempt is being made to run the test again.

Date: Sunday morning (late Saturday night), Jan 18, 2009.
Time: 2 - 3 a.m. Eastern Time, 0700 - 0800 UTC.
Mode of Operation: The station will test with 1 kW NDA. The DX test will consist of the following four elements, repeated in this order, for the duration of the test:

--Morse Code ID
--Voice announcement about it being a test broadcast
--Morse Code ID
--WOON Radio Jingle, (sung) "O-N Radio.......in Woonsocket".

QSL Information: You may submit a report via e-mail to Dave Richards at "dave [at] onworldwide.com". (note: use the station callsign as the subject line so it's not disregarded as spam).

You may send postal reports to:

WOON/1240
985 Park Avenue
Woonsocket, R.I. 02895-6332
U.S.A.

A special thank you to Jay, Ron Gitschier and others who made this test possible.

Kevin Redding, ABDX List owner
And all the people at ABDX who made this possible