By TJ on November 13, 2006
On October 11, another e-mail found it’s way to my inbox. This came from Richard King, Program Director at CKCM. He kindly confirmed my March 10, 2006 reception of the station during a DXpedition to Lista in the south-westernmost area of Norway.
Read more on CKCM Grand Falls NL 620 verification…
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By TJ on November 13, 2006
A most welcome e-mail on October 6 from Kate Malo, Traffic Director, confirmed my October 2005 reception of KSUM Fairmont MN 1370. This was also a KONG13 logging, and response to one of my follow-ups.
Read more on QSL from KSUM Fairmont MN 1370…
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By TJ on November 13, 2006
I know … This blog has been terribly silent lately.
Busy times. I have participated in another KONG DXpedition – KONG15 this time – and I have begun listening to all the recordings from that event. With four radios in action, it is not few hours of recordings to get through, so I know what to do during the long, dark winter evenings that are ahead of us … :)
Read more on Some new QSLs…
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By TJ on October 3, 2006
Not much has happened here in my DX blog for quite a long time. However, it is now time to wake it up again, as a new season is just to begin.
Read more on But the blog wasn’t dead ……
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By TJ on June 18, 2006
I sent out a few reminders on Friday June 16, and the work
resulted in one immediate response. E-mail from General Manager
Les Tuttle at WNAX Yankton SD confirmed my October 16, 2005
reception. The station was heard quite well for a short while
with several IDs.
Read more on WNAX Yankton SD 570 verification…
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By TJ on June 18, 2006
Yes, that’s true. A long and friendly letter arrived on Friday
June 16 from Leilani Dahilig, Station Manager at KTWG Agaña, Guam.
In her letter she verified my reception of that station, KTWG
Agaña Guam 801 on October 14, 2005, as well as my reception of
their sister station KCNM Garapan, Saipan 1080 on October 15.
KTWG has become fairly easy to hear up in northern-most
Scandinavia, but KCNM is still very difficult, due to North Korea
on the same frequency.
Along with the letter, I also received several CDs with various
radio dramas on them, which I am looking forward to get a chance
to listen to.
Read more on Two in one – Guam and Saipan verification…
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By TJ on June 18, 2006
An e-mailed reception report with an attached audio file resulted
in a quick and friendly response from Bob Bonefant, Program
Director at WBKV. Along with his letter, where he confirmed my
October 17, 2005 reception of the station, he also enclosed a
coverage map, a couple of stickers and a business card.
Read more on WBKV West Bend WI 1470 verification…
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By TJ on June 16, 2006
Some verifications still arrive through the “classic” postal
system. A letter arrived around the beginning of June, causing
yet another of the US states to change it’s status here to
“verified”. The letter was written by Jim TerLouw, General
Manager at KNZZ. He confirmed my October 18, 2005 reception, and
also told about the station and the area.
Read more on KNZZ Grand Junction CO 1100 verification…
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By TJ on June 16, 2006
It has been some time since I last wrote in this blog, so a few
updates are necessary.
Some days ago I received a most wanted letter from CFYK in
Yellowknife, NT. Marty Brown, Senior Communications Officer at
CBC North wrote to confirm my reception of the station on October
19, 2005. Along with the letter, where he also told about the
city of Yellowknife and it’s interesting history, he also sent
some information about the National Anthem of Canada. How could
he know that I am a collector of national anthems? :-)
And just to mention it; Northwest Territories are new to me. Then
it is only left to get Yukon Territory verified in some way.
Read more on CFYK Yellowknife NT 1340 verification…
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By TJ on May 25, 2006
Mail (e-mail or “snail-mail”) from Hawaii does not reach me every
day. But it happens now and then, and it is always highly
welcome.
Some days ago I found a letter in my mailbox; a friendly letter
from Reggie DeRoos, program director at KUAI-720. In the letter,
Reggie DeRoos confirmed my October 17, 2005, reception of the
station, and also told about the station and the island of Kauai.
I want more letters like this one. :-)
Read more on KUAI Eleele HI 720 verification…
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By TJ on May 21, 2006
For those of you who have accessed these pages by using the www.braatveit.no address, be aware that it for some time now only has worked as a web forward address to this one: www.braatveit.net. For some reasons I decided to discontinue the .no domain and use a .net domain instead for the future. The braatveit.no domain will no longer be in use by me at all from the beginning of June, 2006. After that, only www.braatveit.net will be valid, or www.braatveit.net/dx to get directly to this blog.
Read more on braatveit.no soon history…
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By TJ on May 15, 2006
Another most welcome e-mail found yesterday came from Pierre
Lonewolf, Chief Engineer at KOTZ in Kotzebue, AK. The station is
heard regularly in Kongsfjord, often with a superb signal, but
with it’s NPR programming it can be quite hard to catch a local
identification. Well, I heard it on October 18, 2005, when they
just had begun that day’s broadcast, and their locally produced
morning show was aired. Pierre Lonewolf kindly confirmed my
reception, and he also attached some photos of the transmitter
site and surroundings.
Read more on KOTZ Kotzebue AK 720 verification…
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By TJ on May 14, 2006
An e-mail from Gary Cummings, general manager at KMAX, was my next
finding among the e-mail messages that had arrived during my
absence. He confirmed my reception of that station on October 18, 2005, yet another of the many KONG13 loggings. Thanks to Bjarne Mjelde for helping me solve this one.
Read more on KMAX Colfax WA 840 verification…
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By TJ on May 14, 2006
After having been away for a couple of days to visit friends, I
came home earlier today and began checking my e-mail. First
interesting finding was a nice message from Aric Vance, broadcast
engineer at the owner company of KZNS. He confirmed my October
17, 2005 reception of KZNS “The Zone”.
Read more on KZNS Salt Lake City UT 1280 verification…
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By TJ on May 14, 2006
A nice e-mail from breakfast presenter at ABC Capricornia, David
J. Anderson arrived on May 10, confirming my reception on October
18 (UTC) 2005. This is the medium wave station from Australia
that I have reported, and I am very pleased with the quick
response to my report. Mr. Anderson said he would send a
verification by mail.
Read more on 4QD Emerald 1548 verification…
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