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WNJC 1360 DX Test This Weekend!

SomeRadioGuy

SomeRadioGuy

From Duke Hamann, Chief Engineer:

For the 2nd time in the stations history, this Saturday September 12 at 12 AM EST till 6AM EDT and Sunday September 13 at 12 AM EDT to 6 AM EDT WNJC 1360 AM in Washington Twp, NJ will be running a 2 night DX test. We will be running our full daytime power of 5000 watts. Listen for sweep tones, CW
Morse code and other material created by Les Rayburn to hear our station over the noise. Reception reports can be sent to [email protected].

Duke will provide a Qsl card if you email and specifically ask for them be, otherwise it may be a simple email reply. If you want a paper QSL, it will require an SASE.

Also, Give Duke time to reply. He’s a busy guy.

Pass the word To email and Facebook places and suchforth and what not
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
From Duke Hamann, Chief Engineer:

For the 2nd time in the stations history, this Saturday September 12 at 12 AM EST till 6AM EDT and Sunday September 13 at 12 AM EDT to 6 AM EDT WNJC 1360 AM in Washington Twp, NJ will be running a 2 night DX test. We will be running our full daytime power of 5000 watts. Listen for sweep tones, CW
Morse code and other material created by Les Rayburn to hear our station over the noise. Reception reports can be sent to [email protected].

Duke will provide a Qsl card if you email and specifically ask for them be, otherwise it may be a simple email reply. If you want a paper QSL, it will require an SASE.

Also, Give Duke time to reply. He’s a busy guy.

Pass the word To email and Facebook places and suchforth and what not
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Thanks for letting us know.
 
Here is the Radio Locator's artist depiction of WNJC's daytime pattern.

https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WNJC&service=AM&h=D

So they do send some juice my way. We are just north of Pottsville PA at upper left. The sweep WNJC tones probably will make it past the grumble.

Very local WPPA 1360 Pottsville turns around their 5000 watt day signal and aims most of the 500 nighttime watts south. And using 3 of their 5 towers, WPPA corsets in their night signals from Hartford and Cincinnati. So what has been logged here at night? What else? WDRC Hartford and WSAI Cincinnati!

Thanks the the appointment headphones heads up, Radio Guy!
 
Thanks to all involved for arranging the test. I will give it a try.

I have logged the station back in 1985 when it was WWBZ with the city of license as Vineland, NJ. I can't remember, but it might have been a DX test then too.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if their "DX test" has been going for a lot longer than two days, since I was able to pick them up at night back in early July:

https://www.radiodiscussions.com/sh...-of-the-Week&p=6329564&viewfull=1#post6329564

kevtronics said:
I don't know how or why, but last night here in the Northern half of New Jersey, I heard 1360 WNJC from near Philadelphia in South Jersey, about 60 miles away, even though both their 5000-watt daytime and 800-watt nighttime signals are supposed to be sharply directional to the South with a deep null in my direction (protecting WDRC in Connecticut).
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Well I tried listening for most of the first hour in Northern Illinois. I listened to the online feed a few times to get familiar with what to expect.
I tried on two different radios including my PR-D5. I thought I may have heard it once or twice in the jumble, but cannot confirm. Hopefully I'll get another chance either later this morning or tomorrow.
 
The frequency was a jumbled mess, but I managed to hear several morse code IDs, sweep and steady tones between 11:04 - 12:10 pm CDT. Reception got slightly better after 11:45 pm CDT. Apparently they ran 1250 Watts non-directional. Tomorrow they plan on running 5000 Watts directional pattern.
 
CADXER said:
The frequency was a jumbled mess, but I managed to hear several morse code IDs, sweep and steady tones between 11:04 - 12:10 pm CDT. Reception got slightly better after 11:45 pm CDT. Apparently they ran 1250 Watts non-directional. Tomorrow they plan on running 5000 Watts directional pattern.
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Congratulations. I thought I may have heard it, but not certain. A jumbled mess it was. I was hearing a sports talk station most often. I couldn't get an ID on that either. Any idea what that was?
 
Tried to catch this test in west central Georgia last night but no luck. Just caught a rotation of the usual suspects WMOB Mobile AL 200, WSAI Cincinnati OH 5000 and WCHL Chapel Hill NC 1000.

Will try again tonight.

Thanks for setting up this test!
 
radioman148 said:
Congratulations. I thought I may have heard it, but not certain. A jumbled mess it was. I was hearing a sports talk station most often. I couldn't get an ID on that either. Any idea what that was?
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I think your sports station might have been KSCJ Sioux City, IA. Heard them just prior to the test with Iowa local high school results and an ID at 11:00 pm.
 
SomeRadioGuy, since you're in contact with the engineer at WNJC, maybe you can get an answer to this: When did WNJC start using its licensed 4-tower array during the day and 2 towers at night directional?

I ask because several times between 1995 and 2005, I was able to listen to WNJC west of Philadelphia with a pretty good signal, and the rumor at the time was that the station operated 'under an STA' using 1 tower nondirectional day and night for 'an extended period'.
 
JBraddock said:
SomeRadioGuy, since you're in contact with the engineer at WNJC, maybe you can get an answer to this: When did WNJC start using its licensed 4-tower array during the day and 2 towers at night directional?

I ask because several times between 1995 and 2005, I was able to listen to WNJC west of Philadelphia with a pretty good signal, and the rumor at the time was that the station operated 'under an STA' using 1 tower nondirectional day and night for 'an extended period'.
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Not really sure and I'm not sure that's something I'll get an answer to.
 
Does anyone know how long the test lasted? I tunned to 1360 at around 3:15AM CDT and hung out there for about a half hour. A jumbled mess most of the time, but WSAI did break through a few times. All of which were for less than a minute. No WMOB or anything else that I could identify.

BUT, I also did hear some unusual stuff. Beeps, which could have been fragments of morse code, along with various "tones" ascending and descending. I heard the beerps and the "tones" two or three times each durimg the course of the half hour. Bottom line is that I think I may have heard fragments of the test, but I'm really not sure. Assuming, of course, that it was even still going when I tuned in.

In any event, my thanks to SomeRadioGuy for his time and effort for helping arrange the test and making us all aware of it.
 
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