Carl Blare

This morning here at the KDX Monitoring Station the long wave band is very active.

This morning here at the KDX Monitoring Station the long wave band is very active.

On 162kHz an intense digital data transmission is running continuously with a wideband signal whose strongest outer edge is at 171kHz, is reduced at 189kHz, and the fading edge is at 189kHz.

At 207kHz another type of digital transmission is taking place, a continuously repeating upper mid range pitch that sounds like “woot, woot, woot, woot.”

225kHz a repeated morse code transmission sending “F Z.”

This would not be a good morning for KDX-LW, which is only weeks from going on the air.

My station had been off for awhile but the radio was still on 1550 hearing all the faraway gobble, when one station started coming though the clouds and being fairly clear. A woman’s voice was promoting a gospel event and several times I thought she said, “WELC 1550” but when I looked it up I found that WELC is on 1150, so that wasn’t right. The closest “sound alike” call letter I could find was WPFC in Baton Rouge, Louisiana which has 42 Watts at night, but does play gospel music. So I turned my transmitter back on and am streaming 1550 Baton Rouge, which should make any other DXers out in the night really think the dial is alive.

Then I thought, there are Part 15 transmitter buffs who are not interested in programming. What they should do is stream audio from a far away station on their same frequency, and no one will have any idea the signal is local. Everyone will believe it is a DX skip from far away.

About 25 times already I have come to this website and been screamed at by an annoying voice that comes out of the speaker saying, “Congratulations! You Won!” On the screen is a flashing neon message declaring “YOU ARE THE 100,000th VISITOR. CLICK HERE FOR YOUR REWARD”

I had no intention of being in Las Vegas (which is Spanish for “Lost Keester”). I am only a low power radio man with 100mW and a 10-footer.

How many others have been the 100,000th Visitor? What did you win?

This is a beautiful building in Richardson, Texas, used by Collins Radio as control room/observation deck to overlook moveable antenna arrays. From these control rooms, engineers could easily look out over a field of antenna to test different configurations and physical layouts.

http://www.kdxradio.comlph_files/Richardson_mothership.jpg

Photo courtesy of Wiki Commons

The low power long wave radio network is in the talking stage, related to our long wave transmitter projects, and these thoughts rattled in the head while raking leaves.

The low power long wave radio network is in the talking stage, related to our long wave transmitter projects, and these thoughts rattled in the head while raking leaves.

Last week I registered the domain name “worldroundradio.net,” without actually having a need for it. I just liked the fact that nobody else is using my main slogan. It could be a radio network site, or it could simply link to the kdx site.

I also learned that no one owns the domain name lrn.net or lrn.com
I am not going to register those names, so if you want to own the LRN domain name, now’s your chance.

If you do register lrn as a domain name I could provide the website it points to, and the programming, which is to be submitted by low power net members, could be programmed and streamed as a joint-effort by me and you.

For the network, if it happens and if I am the stream site, I would add a SAM broadcaster that would be programmed to start program audiofiles at their scheduled time, along with network IDs and announcements.

After a cluster of network program feeds is concluded, the LRN Network would go silent and the local stations would fill with their own local programming, just like traditional network-affiliate relations.

Some programs could be fed at several times, giving stations a choice of when they decide to fit it to their schedule. And so on.

Like old time radio networks, the LRN could be active only during certain times of the day.

The leaves were raked, I came indoors, typed this e-mail, and plan a cup of coffee.

This warning is not about rock music, it is about a space rock that turns out to be real, as reported to The Low Power Hour by Tha Dood AM 1620

This warning is not about rock music, it is about a space rock that turns out to be real, as reported to The Low Power Hour by Tha Dood AM 1620

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/11/asteroid-2005-yu55/

Someone made reference to this upcoming event recently on the EAS post.