National Radio Club WNRC and KNRC Radio
National Radio Club WNRC and KNRC Radio |
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Aircheck of KNRC-AM broadcasting from somewhere during the Boise NRC/WTFDA Convention. Listen for the "History of Rock & Roll", oldies, and Bill Drake's voice. ID is heard. Recorded 7 Sept @ 02:45AM. Lasts about 7min. 4.56meg. You hear "duck" voice at about 5:05 for "Minnesota Department of Water Safety", and later at 6:10 a Budweiser commercial, followed by a weather forecast (anyone recognize the voice?), and a very clear ID!!
Frequency: 1710. Rcvr: Sony ICF2010 w/preselector. Antenna 1,800 foot BOG e/w. Recording location: Grand Marais, MI. Heavy interference from unknown station with female folk song at start with what sounds like organ music at start. At 5:30 male voice in an unidentified foreign language. Splatter from 1700 KBGG. (Nobody has fessed up to being the operator of this mystery station. Anyone know where this came from?)
I'm always amazed at two things in our hobby. First, is the ability of low power to be heard at great distances. Second, is the ability of members to did these signals out of the noise. In the fall of 2004, I conducted a test with one of the editors of the DX Audio Service to see if low power could be detected. The transmitter was 1 watt, into an Isotron antenna, located in Lima OH. The transmission was AM, with a loop of a sweep tone and the slow Morse Code characters "NRC". The word was put out, and what you hear below are the results.