Here's notice of an upcoming DX test...

PLEASE NOTE: Even if you don't hear a test, be sure and drop a card,
letter, or e-mail to the station personnel, thanking them for going to
the trouble to run a test!

Sunday, March 14, 2004 - WTOP-1500, Washington, DC will conduct a DX
test from midnight - 1am EST. The test will consist of WTOP's regular
all-news format; the station identifies frequently. The test will be
run at WTOP's full power of 50000 watts, and will switch to a
daytime-directional antenna pattern for the duration of the test.

Reception reports may be sent to:

WTOP Radio
3400 Idaho Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016

WWW: http://www.wtopnews.com/

(Arranged by Lynn Hollerman for the IRCA CPC.)

Also, if you hear a test, PLEASE, PLEASE let me know, via either
e-mail or in rec.radio.shortwave! And if you send a reception report
to
a station, please remember to include return postage with your
report...


Lynn.
)
Visit the IRCA Web site at http://www.ircaonline.org

For all practical purposes all of WTOP's secondary service area is in the
Atlantic.

On 9 Feb 2004 15:57:58 GMT, wrote:

Here's notice of an upcoming DX test...

PLEASE NOTE: Even if you don't hear a test, be sure and drop a card,
letter, or e-mail to the station personnel, thanking them for going to
the trouble to run a test!

Sunday, March 14, 2004 - WTOP-1500, Washington, DC will conduct a DX
test from midnight - 1am EST. The test will consist of WTOP's regular
all-news format; the station identifies frequently. The test will be
run at WTOP's full power of 50000 watts, and will switch to a
daytime-directional antenna pattern for the duration of the test.

Reception reports may be sent to:

WTOP Radio
3400 Idaho Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016

WWW: http://www.wtopnews.com/

(Arranged by Lynn Hollerman for the IRCA CPC.)

Also, if you hear a test, PLEASE, PLEASE let me know, via either
e-mail or in rec.radio.shortwave! And if you send a reception report
to
a station, please remember to include return postage with your
report...

Will the test also take place on the other WTOP frequency of 820 kHz?


Jake Brodsky

"Never mind the Turing Test, what about the Turing Graduates?"

In article , Peter H. wrote:

For all practical purposes all of WTOP's secondary service area is in the
Atlantic.

WTOP-AM 15 comes in great in New York City...but who up here
cares about traffic on the Beltway? :-)

--
Sven Weil
New York City, U.S.A.

On 10 Feb 2004 03:33:20 GMT, Jake Brodsky wrote:

Will the test also take place on the other WTOP frequency of 820 kHz?

Well, since WTOP will be running its regular all-news format, which is
simulcasted 24/7 on 820 and 107.7/Warrenton, VA, I guess so

But I don't think they're going to do anything special with the 820 or
107.7 transmitter power/direction/etc.

Mike

Did WTOP have to get a special temporary authority to use daytime
power/pattern for this?

If not, what portion of the rules grants the authority to do so in the
middle of the night. "Experimental time?"

Ted.




From:
Organization: Airwaves Digest http://www.Airwaves.com
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave,rec.radio.broadcasting
Date: 9 Feb 2004 15:57:58 GMT
Subject: WTOP DX test

Here's notice of an upcoming DX test...

PLEASE NOTE: Even if you don't hear a test, be sure and drop a card,
letter, or e-mail to the station personnel, thanking them for going to
the trouble to run a test!

Sunday, March 14, 2004 - WTOP-1500, Washington, DC will conduct a DX
test from midnight - 1am EST. The test will consist of WTOP's regular
all-news format; the station identifies frequently. The test will be
run at WTOP's full power of 50000 watts, and will switch to a
daytime-directional antenna pattern for the duration of the test.

Reception reports may be sent to:

WTOP Radio
3400 Idaho Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016

WWW: http://www.wtopnews.com/

(Arranged by Lynn Hollerman for the IRCA CPC.)

Also, if you hear a test, PLEASE, PLEASE let me know, via either
e-mail or in rec.radio.shortwave! And if you send a reception report
to
a station, please remember to include return postage with your
report...


Lynn.
)
Visit the IRCA Web site at http://www.ircaonline.org

Sven Franklyn Weil wrote:
In article , Peter H. wrote:

For all practical purposes all of WTOP's secondary service area is in the
Atlantic.

WTOP-AM 15 comes in great in New York City...but who up here
cares about traffic on the Beltway? :-)

I bet if they go to daytime pattern in the evening, the folks in London
and San Francisco will also know when 495 is blocked at the 355 exit.
It'll be really interesting to see.
--scott


I actually like listening to WTOP on my way up the coast. I tune to WINS
next, and then to WBZ, so I get the traffic reports all the way up.

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Ted Langdell wrote:
Did WTOP have to get a special temporary authority to use daytime
power/pattern for this?

If not, what portion of the rules grants the authority to do so in the
middle of the night. "Experimental time?"

You got it - 47CFR73.72.

Lynn.

Jake Brodsky wrote:
Will the test also take place on the other WTOP frequency of 820 kHz?

Another DXer asked me that same question; I asked the person that said
they'd run the test if that were the case, and I have yet to have heard
back. But if they're simucast, I'd imagine it will - but I know nothing
about the pattern on the 820 station.

Lynn.

"Tim Brown" wrote in message
...

I listen to them up here in the Boston area whenever the ionosphere is
co-operative. IMHO, they have the best sounding audio on the AM dial.
Very clean high-end, notably free of IM - almost sound like FM. Anyone
know what they are using for processing? ---- and they don't play
"songs"!

Ask the question on the "mailbag" section of DCRTV.com . WTOP people read
and post regularly.

I visited their transmitter a few years ago. The modulation monitor needle
just stuck in the region near 100% - yet I agree they sound good. Shows
what you can do if you only have voice to deal with - and a good engineering
staff.