Woofferton Test Transmission 15640 am 1245 utc 4 Jul 2018

[Ct Yankee]

Sorry about the lag time in this posting, I was sans computer - just had pen and paper..  This was from the beach at Meigs Point, Hammonasett State Park (Long Island Sound), Madison, Connecticut.  I had the PL-880 with its accompanying wire.

1245z Loop of music snippets from variety of ethnic genres.  Computer OM with "You are listening to a test transmission" every so often.  Less frequently email given: transmissiontest@gmail.com
1257z Off

[Ct Yankee]

Reply to my reception report:

Hello,

Thank you for your report and I confirm the details are correct. These transmissions were to fault-find on a 250/300 kW sender at the UK HF transmitter station at Woofferton.
 
These duration of these tests can be variable as the engineers can sometimes need a long time to establish a fault or they may interrupt the test, make an adjustment and resume. This is particularly so if the fault is of an intermittent nature.
 
Babcock, Woofferton is the only remaining UK HF sender broadcast station and also is the only one with this transmission test audio and email address.
 
The audio is contained in a file play-out system and incorporates non-copyright music and voice announcements from one of the engineers, Martin 2E1EKX at the transmitter site.
 
Thanks for your interest.
 
73
 
Dave G4OYX,
 

[Josh]

Nice catch! What do they bcast when they're working as designed?

[Ct Yankee]

This is from the short-wave.com site of Woofferton broadcasts on 15640:
                 
                Station                      Start         End          Days         Language   Power AZ  Transmitter Site

15640    VOICE OF AMERICA   17:30   18:00   .23456.   Oromo   300   126   Woofferton   IBB
15640    VOICE OF AMERICA   18:00   19:00   1234567   Amharic   300   126   Woofferton   IBB