By TJ on November 13, 2008
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.
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By TJ on November 12, 2008
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.
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By TJ on November 11, 2008
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!
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By TJ on November 8, 2008
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.
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By TJ on November 5, 2008
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.
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By TJ on November 4, 2008
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.
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By TJ on November 4, 2008
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.
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By TJ on November 4, 2008
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.
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By TJ on November 4, 2008
Second verification yesterday arrived from Mike Rose, Operations manager and Program director at CKPC in Brantford, ON. He kindly confirmed my October 14, 2007 reception of the station. Yet another KONG17 logging. Thank you, Mike.
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By TJ on November 4, 2008
First verification received yesterday came from Minnesota. Program director and morning host at KBRF-AM, Brian Andrews, sent me a nice e-mail where he confirmed my October 15, 2007 (KONG17) reception of the station. Thank you, Brian.
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By TJ on October 30, 2008
A nice e-mail from KLIZ found its way to my inbox this afternoon. The e-mail contained a verification of my October 15, 2007 reception of the station (KONG17), and attached to it was some information about the station as well as an mp3 file with a greeting from one of the program managers. Thank you!
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By TJ on October 13, 2008
A brief but nice e-mail just arrived from the General Manager of KNOX-1310. He kindly confirmed my October 15 2007 reception of the station.
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By TJ on October 4, 2008
A nice e-mail arrived earlier this evening from Chief Engineer Joe Gurney at Astral Media Radio. He kindly confirmed my 16 October 2005 (KONG13) reception of CKTB, and also attached the station’s logo. Thank you, Joe, and also thank you to OJ Sagdahl for providing the contact info.
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By TJ on September 30, 2008
I spent some time earlier this afternoon looking through some of my older unverified reports, and decided to resend a couple of them. Among them was a report to KLOO in Corvallis, Oregon. I heard that station briefly on October 18, 2005 (KONG13). After a short while I received two e-mail messages from Program Director Bill Lundun, who both confirmed my report and also had put together an mp3 file for me with a personal message, the station’s legal ID like it really sounds when other stations don’t attempt to bury it in noise, and an aircheck from KLOO’s local programming. Thank you for a great reply, Bill!
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By TJ on September 22, 2008
A couple of minutes after the arrival of the KVTA verification, the next one could be found in my inbox. This time it was a short but positive e-mail from the CE of KLFE in Seattle, WA. He kindly confirmed my October 22, 2007 reception of the station. KLFE is commonly heard in Kongsfjord, but for some reason I hadn’t written until now.
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