Les knows of what he speaks.. he and I have had some long conversations.. i
was initially a bit unsure and hesitant, but I will stand by him on
whatever he produces for test material.

Plus... a little error in morse code playback? So what, makes it more
noticeable. Who else is going to be running long form mrose code?

Paul

On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 11:32 AM Les Rayburn <les@highnoonfilm.com> wrote:

> WNJC 1360 will run the test again tonight (late night Saturday/early
> Sunday Morning) starting at midnight EST.
>
> Hopefully the station will get issues with power switching corrected and
> be able to run the test with full day power of 5,000 watts tonight.
>
> David—two points regarding test material:
>
> 1.) Years ago, we did an extensive series of tests with a licensed
> audiologist and a ‘focus group’ of his patients who were all 50+. The tests
> involved mixing a recording of a regional channel at night with various
> test material.
>
> The test material was mixed (in both channels of audio) at different
> levels.
>
> Material tested included Morse Code, sweep tones, off-hook telephone
> sounds, marching band music, Christmas music, long tones at different
> frequencies, voice ID’s in both male and female voice, station jingles,
> etc.
>
> The tests conclusively demonstrated that the following material cut
> through the noise best:
>
> Sweep Tones (by a ‘country-mile’)
> Morse Code at 900hz-1kHz
> Long tones at 900hz-1kHz
> off-hook telephone sounder
>
> Station jingles (with female voices) were way down on the list. So adding
> more of them to the playlist would actually hurt chances of distant
> receptions.
>
> Changes in propagation over the course of a few minutes can often make big
> changes in how a signal is received. But science says the mix we’re using
> is optimum.
>
> 2.) The Morse Code ID’s are computer generated, with the Farnsworth rate
> adjusted.
>
> We’re all grateful for Duke and the owners of WNJC for these long-duration
> tests. Considering the test last night was at 1200 watts, it got out to
> amazing distances.
>
> 73,
>
> Les Rayburn, N1LF
> 121 Mayfair Park
> Maylene, AL 35114
> EM63nf
>
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>
> On Sep 12, 2020, at 11:13 AM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea@arrl.net> wrote:
>
> I removed Paul from the Reply List, he will be happier.
>
> George, if you were hearing those tones, you were hearing WNJC. I
> think there should have been more "Station Identification Jingles"
> broadcast, they were recognizable for exactly what they were and the
> station call letters were quite readable.
>
> But even with Morse code identification could be a problem, I was a
> professional radiotelegrapher for many years and I had to have the
> Morse repeated four times before I could be sure I copied the whole
> thing - but what else could it be - but because of the error in
> spacing
> "D E" as two words, I wanted to be sure I could say "I heard WNJC" in
> Morse when there was another error in that! There wasn't just the
> incorrect spacing of "DE."
>
> Best wishes,
> David Ring
> N1EA
>
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 10:05 AM George Santulli <gsantulli@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> Heard same sounds here in northern Virginia too, fun, but WNJC unneeded
> here. G
>
>
>
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea@arrl.net>
> Date: 9/12/20 9:20 AM (GMT-05:00)
> To: odxa@groups.io
> Cc: Dave Marthouse <dmarthouse@gmail.com>, Les Rayburn <
> les@highnoonfilm.com>, Paul Walker <paul@myhits106.com>, IRCA List <
> IRCA@groups.io>, ABDX List <abdx@abdx.org>, badx@groups.io, Phil Bytheway
> <DXM.EiC@gmail.com>, CapeDX <capedx@yahoogroups.com>, Hard-Core-DX <
> Hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, NRC-AM <nrc-am@googlegroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [HCDX] [odxa] WNJC 1360 DX Test Sept 13 & 14th
>
> WNJC 1360 DX Test
>
> WNJC with spooky tones, on 1360 kHz for special reception test now maybe
> music, but now Morse VVV D E WNJC WNJC WNJC.
>
> There should be no word space between D and E.
>
> Tones perfectly readable, with co-channel interference.
>
> I like the off-hook telephone sound! Very imaginative.
>
> Music gets lost in the noise, but I can tell spooky music right before
> sending beeps are broadcast.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> David Ring
> N1EA
> MARSHFIELD, MA USA
>
>
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