TJ's DX place

OK, it is time to summarize the verifications received during January. Not many, but at least one representing a new state for me – Arkansas.
New verifications in January continued »

These are the verifications I received during the last weeks of 2009. All stations verified via e-mail, and one of them also sent a QSL card in addition. Listening QTH in parenthesis.

• 560 KPQ Wenatchee WA (Kongsfjord)
• 830 WCRN Worcester MA (Lista)
• 960 KNEB Scottsbluff NE (Kongsfjord)
• 960 WTCH Shawano WI (Kongsfjord)
• 1150 KSEN Shelby MT (Kongsfjord)
• 1200 KFNW West Fargo ND (Kongsfjord)
• 1200 WKOX Newton MA (Lista)
• 1250 WGHB Farmville NC (Lista)
• 1290 WMCS Greenfield WI (Kongsfjord)
• 1320 WATR Waterbury CT (Lista)
• 1320 WDER Derry NH (Lista)
• 1480 WSAR Fall River MA (Lista)
• 1510 WLAC Nashville TN (Kongsfjord)
• 1520 WWKB Buffalo NY (Kongsfjord)
• 1550 KRPI Ferndale WA (Kongsfjord) E-mail and QSL card
• 1590 WVNA Tuscumbia AL (Kongsfjord)
• 1600 WAAM Ann Arbor MI (Kongsfjord)

One of the rarer catches, one could say. "540 WFLA" (WFLF) was heard on October 25, 2008, during a DXpedition to Lista in south-western Norway. A nice e-mail received last week confirmed my reception of the station.

"That's us". This is the text in an e-mail I just received from Blake Messer at KIFW, in response to a follow-up report. The station was heard during KONG17.

Well … It is now 2 – TWO – months since my previous update here. Shame on me!

OK, a few verifications have arrived here recently.
December brought four verifications:

• WTMJ Milwaukee WI 620
• WNAM Nenah-Menasha WI 1280
• KRLC Clarkston WA 1350
• CKJH Melfort SK 750

WTMJ honoured me with a friendly letter and a nice T-shirt. The other three verifications were all e-mail responses. WNAM was in response to a KONG15 logging, while the others were heard during KONG17.

So far in January I have received these e-mail verifications:

• KNRS Salt Lake City UT 570
• KPDQ Portland OR 800
• KUJ Walla Walla WA 1420
• WFTL West Palm Beach FL 850

WFTL was heard at Lista in October 2008, while the three others were KONG17 loggings. Florida is a new state in my QSL collection.

I have received a few more verifications since the beginning of last week. They are:

• KJRB Spokane WA 790
• CHRB High River AB 1140
• WWVA Wheeling WV 1170
• KGAL Lebanon OR 1580

In addition to the North American stations, I have also received a verification from Japan: Eagle 810 in Tokyo.

QSL no. 10 so far this month just arrived. In an e-mail, Doug McDowell kindly confirmed my October 23, 2007 (KONG17) reception of KCKW. Thank you, Doug.

If CJYQ is frequently heard in Scandinavia, KZZN in Littlefield TX is not. I heard KZZN briefly with a clear station ID on October 17, 2004 (KONG10), while another stronger station on the frequency kept silent for a couple of seconds. In an e-mail this evening, Monte Spearman kindly confirmed my reception of KZZN. Thank you, Monte.

CJYQ was the first North American medium wave station that I ever heard. It was in the spring of 1983, and CJYQ was a very frequent guest in our loudspeakers at that time. I sent several reception reports, but I never saw a response from the station.

Things have changed since then. The station is no longer the dominant station on its frequency in our corner of the world, although it can still be heard quite often by those who have opportunities to listen regularly. I have no such opportunities for the time being, but I happened to pick up CJYQ on a DXpedition to Lista in October this year. A new report was sent, and this time I received a reply. Brenda Silk sent me a nice e-mail where she confirmed my October 24, 2008 reception of CJYQ Radio Newfoundland. Thank you very much, Brenda!

In a brief but nice e-mail this evening, GM Rick Green confirmed my October 25, 2006 (KONG15) reception of WNDE. The station was heard just a couple of minutes before I had to turn off my radio receivers to prepare for the return home.

Third and final verification yesterday arrived right before midnight, our local time. Then an e-mail dropped in from Tom Koza, CE for KTNQ and several other stations. In the e-mail, he kindly confirmed my October 15, 2007 (KONG17) reception of the station, and added some information about the transmitters and antennas in use. Thank you, Tom.

And there arrived the second verification for today! While examining some of my SDR-IQ recordings from October 15, 2007 (KONG17) I realized that there was more than one English-speaking station on 760. This was right after midnight, UTC, and I couldn't really think about any possible candidate for the second signal. WJR was there as usual, of course. OK, some minutes later there was a clear ID for KCCV, a station I hadn't heard about, and which couldn't be found in the KOJE list. I sent a report, and a few minutes ago I received a friendly e-mail from Eben Fowler, Director for broadcast operations at Bott Radio Network. He confirmed my reception of the station. My KS station no. 2. Thank you, Eben.

And the verifications keep coming. Today's first verification just arrived from Patrick Pfeiffer, VP/GM at KSJB. He kindly confirmed my reception of the station on October 18, 2007 (KONG17). Thank you, Patrick.

Third and final verification yesterday came in late in the evening, and was from a station I nearly had given up. In his e-mail response to my follow-up, Larry Rice, Manager at KBRB in Ainsworth, Nebraska, confirmed my October 18, 2006 reception of the station. KBRB was heard during KONG15. Thank you, Larry.