Some loggings from the DX shack Feb. 18-20

A few more loggings by JE. As for my own loggings they are still at home in my stationary PC so I will have to add to ´this later. However, nothing special about the conditions Feb. 18-20.

NA
1210 20.2 0630 VOAR Mt Pearl, NL en av väldigt få NA som gick, men den gick desto bättre! ”Christian Family Radio” och räknade upp en väldigt massa fm-frekvenser. JE
Västindien
1390 20.2 0530 WISA Isabella, PR ”lurades” med att prata en massa om Venezuela, men kom med ”Radio Puerto Rico”. JE
1610 20.2 0600 Caribbean Beacon. Har inte hört den så bra på år och dag. Verkade vara direktsändning med telefonnummer man uppmanades att ringa för att prata med en yngre upplaga av familjen Scott. JE
LA
1310 20.2 0700 YVSM RNV, Barcelona. ”Radio Nacional de Venezuela Canal Internacional”. JE
1360 20.2 0633 HJTU Oxigeno, Cartagena id-ade. Snett som vanligt (1359,969). JE
1370 20.2 0701 HJKX Radio Mundial, Bogota presenterar sig som ”Radio Autentica”. JE
1400 20.2 0620 HJKM Emisora Mariana, Bogota. Är väldigt flitig med id. Gick bäst av alla transatlanter den här morgonen. JE
1470 20.2 0530 YVJW Llanerissima, Valencia med ett väldigt utförligt id. Ligger snett (1470,034). JE

Loggings from the Radio Shack by Jan Edh - JE

Fredriksfors 11.2
My expectations were for something better this night. It looked so good when I checked the ”sights”. And even, it started quite good also...It was a beautiful but quite cold (some -20 C) night. Almost as daylight with a full moon (missing just for a day), shining over heavy new snow on the ground and trees. But as Dan Andersson (he and Hans Olofsson with his SDR 5000 joined later) had put on the heating it was some +10 C inside when I arrived at about 21.00 UTC, I could just put some firewood in the stove and begin listening...And it started well even then; The Philippines on1314, Japan on 1413 and some eastern NA-stations when I changed antenna. A wink of some daytimers even. Then very broad (west coast to the Caribbean and Colombia) but nothing ”interesting”.And it didn´t make it better when I made some misstake with my recording on the IQ and only have two short files from the morning. Of course missing all that great stuff that was audible just that time...
Logg
Asien
1314 10.2 2103 DWXI, Paranaque. Religiöst. JE
1413 10.2 2100 JOIF Fukuoka gick strålande. JE
NA
670 11.2 0706 WSCR Chicago, IL med en sjungen ”bokstavsjingle”. JE
1240 10.2 2130 CKIM Baie Vert, NL med VOCM bra styrka så tidigt. JE
1310 10.2 2307 WIBA Madison, WI med en promo för nattens C2C. JE
1330 11.2 0600 WRCA Waltham, MA med jazz. JE
1430 11.2 0600 CHKT Toronto, ON (egentligen bara tent för det kom aldrig något anrop) med religiös non stop-musik som ”overnightfyllnad”. JE
1450 11.2 0602 AM Gold ”14-50 AM Gold” efter att CNN-nyheterna var slut. JE
1460 11.2 0659 WHIC, Rochester, NY med EWTN. JE
1460 11.2 0659 WDDY Albany, NY. Disney. JE
1460 11.2 0659 CJOY Guelph, ON ”Greatest Hits”. Tredje inom mindre än en minut att id-a tydligt! JE
1470 11.2 0700 WKBV West Bend, WI ”BKV West Bend” och CNN-nyheter. Annars dominerade Vibracion totalt hela natten. På kvällen däremot WLAM med ”True Oldies” och toöpstyrka. JE
1470 11.2 0606 WMBD Peooria, IL kom fram med id efter Fox News men dök snabbt igen. JE
1480 11.2 0700 WSAR Fall River, NY stark. JE
1480 11.2 0600 WGVU Kentwood, MI med BBC World Service. JE
1500 10.2 2200 WFIF Milford. RI ”Life Changing Radio”. JE
1500 11.2 0700 WLQV Detroit, MI med Life Changing Radio över WFED. JE
1510 11.2 0700 WWZN Boston, MA ”Bostpn´s Sport Station The Zone” och inte religiöst som man brukat ha på morgnarna. JE
1520 10.2 21.59 WIZZ Greenfield, MA med ett halvdåligt id där mest ”IZZ” hörs. Hyggligt stark med nostalgimusik. Tyvärr var Voz för stark ett par minuter senare. JE
1540 11.2 0704 CHIN Toronto, ON spansk populärmusik utan annonseringar (även på timmen) men här kom en. Stark. JE
1570 10.2 2200 WNSH Beverly, MA ”Women´s TalkRadio”, men får egentligen bara räknas som TENT eftersom den gick riktigt läsbart bara när det var ”prat” (om jag inte mot förmodan lyckas klämma fram något senare). JE
Västindien
700 10.2 2330 NCB St Vincent - precis så härligt som man vill att en västindier ska låta... JE
1400 20.2 0000 Harbour Light, Grenada (finns den inte med i frekvenstabellen iWRTH?) har varit frånvarande under vinterns NA-konditioner, men nu puffades CBG åt sidan. JE
LA
1490 11.2 0700 HJBS Em. Punto Cinco, Bogota. ”Punto Cinco 14-90 AM”. JE
1550 11.2 0550 HJCB Radio El Sol, Baranquilla delade utrymmet med CBE. JE

What is a QSL - and why bother?

What is a QSL? you may ask. Many visitors of this blog will have a very clear answer. It is a confirmation of reception of a particular radio station. You have heard a specific radio station at a certain time, sent them a reception report to tell them that you heard them and how well the signal was received. In return you will (hopefully) get a QSL - a confirmation that you have heard the station. The term 'QSL' initially is an abbreviation of the Q-code used in telegraphy communication, meaning simply 'I confirm our contact' or 'Please confirm our contact'. It has been widely used by telegraphy operators and radio amateurs (hams) over the years. So what has this got to do with broadcasting stations?

It used to be common practice for most radio stations to respond to listener's reception reports by a QSL, either in the form of especially designed QSL cards (verification cards) or by letter. For the listener (or DX-er, as they became known) these QSLs were nice memories of the contact with a foreign station and many radio listeners started listening to foreign stations and sending reception reports (that is, DX-ing) from a collector's point of view. Many even decorated the walls of their listening post with the QSL cards received. What was in it for the station, then? Well, in the early days of radio many stations were dependent upon reception reports from listeners in order to establish how far they were reaching and how their signal was being received. It became a win-win situation and the DX-ers were collecting verifications/QSLs just as stamp collectors collect stamps. Many DX-ers also started collecting stamps as many QSLs from abroad were sent in envelopes with exciting stamps and often the stations would send out promo material, stickers, pennants and so on together with the QSL.

As time passed by the need for reception reports from listeners disappeared but yet many stations kept on sending out QSLs anyway as a matter of courtesy and in many cases because they saw it as an interesting form of interaction with their listeners. Naturally, this was most useful for external service broadcasters and over the years they have often published series of different QSL cards to stimulate listeners to keep sending in reception reports.

Today many broadcasters have no idea what a QSL is and what the point is of confirming that somebody across the sea have heard their station. To most broadcasters, long distance reception is not as exciting anymore as it used to be. After all, you can listen to webstreams or via satellite radio. So what's the point, really. Why are there still people out there who bother to listen to foreign stations the old-fashioned way by a radio receiver and an antenna and take the time to send reception reports?

Well, as I am one of these peculiar persons myself I think the main reason why I keep on doing it is the excitement when after many endeavours you suddenly hear a rare station on the band. Just like a stamp collector will be happy in finding a rare stamp, a verification from a rarely heard station is the icing of the cake. Especially when it comes by ordinary post just it used to in the days before e-mail was introduced. After all, what's so exciting about a short e-mail telling you "Yes, it's us alright!"? I know that many DX-ers have given up and accepted the fact that they will only get e-mail replies in the future. Personally, I think this is sad. This attitude is killing the collecting part of the hobby which was the reason that many of us once started DX-ing. I value a "real" QSL coming by post much more than an e-mail, no matter how rare the station may be. After all, wouldn't a stamp collector rather have the actual stamps in his collection instead of scanned images of the stamps?

I think this focus upon e-mail verifiations has made the hobby less interesting. There was a time when it was really exciting to check your mailbox (and I'm talking about snail mail here) every day and when there was a thick envelope with exotic stamps in it you knew you had a new QSL from a distant radio station. The ultimate trophy of the DX hunt. Somehow an e-mail reply will never give the same feeling and I'd rather stop sending reception report entirely than concentrating on getting e-mail replies. No matter how rare the stations heard may be.

Fortunately there are still some stations out there that realize what it is that we want and keep on sending QSLs the good old way, like Granddad used to do. Here are a few examples:

CKDO 1580 in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada still sends out QSL cards and the station has a highly enjoyable oldies format which I enjoy listening to every time they come through.

Japanese AM (medium wave) stations still often confirm reception reports by real QSL cards. Here is one from JOER 1350 Hiroshima which is regularly heard in wintertime.

Our dear friend Carlos Gamarra Moscoso have helped many of us getting QSLS from Peruvian stations over the years. Here is one from Radio La Hora 4 855 kHz.

So maybe there is still hope for real QSLs - or what do you think? Or does it really matter? It would be interesting to hear your thoughts on this.

Loggings from Fredriksfors by JE January 22/23rd

Recent loggings by JE (Jan Edh) made at our DX shack:
NA
550 24.1 0700 WSAU, Wausau, WI. Coast to Coast. JE
570 22.1 2319 CKGL, Kitchener, ON. Tydligen samsändning med Toronto (CFTR) eftersom det var Toronto-reklamer. JE
570 24.1 0620 CKSW, Swift Currant, SK med sin ””SW”-annonsering. JE
570 24.1 0656 CKLG Kitchener, ON reklan och både ESPN och CKGL-annonsering. JE
600 24.1 0605 CJWW Saskatoon, SK med country. JE
670 24.1 0700 WSCR Chicago, IL ”WSCR The Score”. JE
680 23.1 0800 KBRW Barrow, AK gick kanon. Hälsade till alla sin lyssnare ”runt om i världen” som man visste fanns. Ville gärna att de skulle höra av sig. Ville de sedan skicka med en slant så skulle man säkert kunna använda den, eftersom stationen huvudsakligen lever på donationer... JE
870 23.1 0035 WWL New Orleans, LA med trafikrapport. JE
870 23.1 0100 WHCU Ithaka, NY med CBS nyheter, lokalt väder och temperaturer. JE
890 23.1 0103 WGAN Dedham, MA brakade in. ”ESPN 8-90”. JE
890 23.1 0714 CJDC Dawson Creek, B. Bokstavs-id mellan varje countrylåt verkar det som. JE
920 23.1 0700 KXLY Spokane, WA id och ABC-nres. JE
920 23.1 0102 oid med ABC news kom fram från CKNX. JE
920 24.1 0633 KXLY Spokane, WA med ”Newsradio 9-20”. JE
930 23,1 0630 CJCA Edmonton, AB. ”The Light”. JE
950 23.1 0100 WROC Rochester, NY ”Espn Radio 9-50”. JE
950 23.1 0700 KJR Seattle, WA ”KJR goes scoreboard with Fox”. JE
960 23.1 0702 CFAC Calgary, AB ”Calgary´s Sport Station”. JE
970 23.1 0700 KFBX Fairbanks, AK med kanonfin signal. Studebaker-reklam från lokal handlare. .JE
980 23.1 0712 CKNW New Westminster, BC CKNW-call och väder. JE
1020 23.1 0646 CKVH, High Praire, AB ”All Hit Country”. JE
1060 22.1 2305 WBIX Natick, MA med ”Business”. JE
1090 23.1 0000 WBAL Baltimore, MD med id och nyheter. JE
1090 24.1 0620 KPTK Seattle, WA ”Seattlle´s progressive talk”. JE
1100 22.1 2332 WTAM Cleveland, OH ”Cleveland´s News Station”. JE
1130 23.1 0630 CKWX Vancouver, BC ”News Station 11.30” med trafikinfo. JE
1150 22.1 2325 WHBY Kimberly, WI starkt. JE
1160 23.1 0925 KSL Salt Lake City, UT har jag nog aldrig hört bättre. ”KSL News Radio 11-60”. JE
1170 23.1 0900 KJNP North Pole, AK enastående fint. Häftig kristen musik och massor av varningar för busvädret som man inte borde ge sig ut i. JE
1190 23.1 0930 KEX Portland, OR ”News Radio KEX”. JE
1220 24.1 0800 CJRB, Bossevain, MB gick // 1250, ofta bättre. JE
1220 24.1 0800 WHCW Cleveland, OH. Stark och fin. JE
1260 23.1 0615 CFRN, Edmonton AB ”The Team”. JE
1280 23.1 0617 CJSL Estevan, SK väderrapport och ”Todays best country...”. JE
1280 24.1 0905 CJSL Estevan, SK långt och bra id. JE
1290 24.1 0900 KKAR Omaha, NE sade sig ha ”Americas best talkshow on AM 12-90 Omaha” JE
1290 24.1 0900 WJNO West Palm Beach, FL med lokalt väder. JE
1300 23.1 0442 WXRL Lancaster, NY annonserade och spelade country. JE
1300 23.1 0800 KKOL Seattle, WA ”This is Bloomberg, a satellite radio; KOL och sedan fullständigt stations-id. JE
1300 24.1 0708 KGLO Mason City, IA ”From the KGLO newsroom, the weather” - inte ett spår av WOOD!. JE
1310 23.1 0620 Tent KEIN Grand Falls, MT med ”Music of your life”, verkar svårt hitta id. JE
1370 23.1 0600 KWTC Grand Forks ND EWTN-religiöst. JE
1310 23.1 0600 Tent KZXR Prossner, WA med Radio America-annonsering bara. JE
1310 24.1 0842 WCCO Traverse City, MI ”ESPN 13-10” - helt perfekt och ren nu, sedan jag kämpat länge tidigare och just fått QSL... JE
1330 24.1 0900 WLOL Minneapolis, MN äntligen med ett ”anständigt” call. Stationen har en makalös förmåga att gå bra utom precis på heltimmen som väl är enda tid för ”riktigt” id. JE
1350 24.1 0857 KRNT Des Moines, IA med ”Americas best music”. JE
1360 24.1 0900 KSCJ Sioux City, IA ”A new radio source” påstod man. JE
1370 23.1 0740 KXTL Butte, MT med oldies och id. JE
1380 23.1 0500 KOTA Rapid City, SD med nå´t halvreligiöst dravel med den förskräckliga ”Dr Laura”. JE
1390 23.1 0500 WLCM, Carlotte, MI - blivit lite lättare nu med ny sändare och högre natteffekt mot oss. JE
1390 23.1 0500 WPLM Plymouth, MA med nyheter. JE
1390 23.1 0557 KJOX Yakima, WA med ESPN. JE
1410 23.1 0455 CFUN, Vancouver, BC med ”Talk 14-10” och Dr Laura även här. JE
1430 23.1 0912 KCLK Asotin, WA med ”Sporta Fan 14.30”, ESPN och lokala reklamer. JE
1450 23.1 0904 KONP Port Angeles, WA med nyheter och väder, lokala sponsorer och lite hjälp av GN. JE
1520 23.1 0837 KGOD Oregon City, OR ”La Grand D”. JE
1530 23.1 0905 KFBK San Fransisco, CA stark. En annan NA som störde var förmodligen OH trots allt. JE
1550 23.1 0915 KPRI Ferndale, WA // 1600. JE
1550 23.1 0840 KKAD, Vancouver, WA soul och ”Sunny 15-50 KKAD” JE
1560 23.1 0900 KVAN Burbank, WA med sin jazz. JE
1600 23.1 0831 KGST Fresno, CA. ESPN Deportes. Promo för Fútbol de primera och kommande landskamp i Californien den 28/1 mellan Mexico och Sverige som HK hjälpte mig till att tyda fram. JE
1600 23.1 0900 KVRI Blaine, WA med indiska. Anrop dock på engelska. JE
1660 24.1 0816 KQWB West Fargo, ND ”16-60 ESPN”. JE

Pacific
940 23.1 0702 KXNE Honolulu, HI, Jag tyckte CJOX lät konstig, så jag kollade, Massor av hawaiimusik och fint anrop... JE
1500 23.1 0858 KUMU Ohau, HI med lokal reklam och fint anrop. ”The Team”. En jätteöverraskning, inte minst för tiden! JE

The best MW opening ever?

The best ever?
Last weekend, January 23-25, was probably one of best ever for dx-ing in Sweden. And January 18th let lots of (for me) new Canadians through
Well, it´s impossible to compare what would have happened in the ´50-ies and ´60-ies. If you´ve had todays receivers and antennas and those nights with almost no electronic disturbances and a mediumwave band almost empty of European broadcasters after midnight.
But this weekend was impressing compared to anything!
I was in the schack in Fredriksfors Thursday night and Friday morning. I heard a lot of new stations. But what would have happened if I´ve had the possibility to be out there also in the afternoons and the evenings. Some friends heard for instance some 20 Alaskan stations in the afternoon on Sunday, when also KUMU 1500 (HI) was heard for a couple of hours. And seldom (or possibly never) heard daytimers came in at about 21 UTC.
The only thing to be sure of is that there´s a lot of stations I have never heard. Of course thouse are the best ones.
And one more thing; If I´ve been there on Sunday afternoon I probabaly would have got stuck there because of lots of heavy (wet) snow,
But still, what´s left is quite astonishing as far as we also have some problems with local disturbances due to "villages" as Delsbo and Fredriksfors with housing and some small industries.
On Friday morning I heard two stations from Hawaii!. KUMU 1500 has been widely heard this winter, but AM 9-40 was a real surprise. Both coming in with quite a good signal and 9-40 with just the right music to get that feeling of something exotic.
But there were also a quite a few other stations I hadn´t expected to hear here in the central part of Sweden. With the use of the (not longer so new) SDR-technology and propagation of exceptional standards many stations earlier only "possible" to dx-expeditions in the far north of the Nordic countries has been possible to catch also some 1 000 kilometers to the south. At about the same hours stations came though from Alaska, Washington, California, Texas and New York.
We are talking of really "broad" propagation.

But it wasn´t only a weekend of great catches of new stations.
I also had a most interesting email from Greg Maiuro of AM 1400 WOND in Pleasantville, NJ. The station came in earlier this winter when CBC Gander took a short breath in just the right place.
Greg, who has worked in sports media for almost 30 years has his own talkshow on Friday nights on WOND. And he got his eyes on my report of reception.
Now he has asked me to be on his show this Friday night when he´s warming up for the Superbowl a couple of days later. He´ll phone me at about 11.45 PM UTC, that is 6.45 EST there in Pleasantville, and we´ll talk a little about my listening hobby and what I think of the Superbowl.
Jan Edh - JE

Loggings from Fredriksfors after Xmas.

A few words about the antenna park at our listening shack. They are:

300 degrees beverage, approx. 1 200 metres
317 degrees beverage, approx. 1 000 metres
90 degrees beverage, approx. 800 metres

A few beverages are of a two-wire design which means they can be used in two different directions:

345 and 165 degrees beverage, approx. 700 metres
285 and 165 degrees beverage, approx. 800 metres
255 and 75 degrees beverage, approx. 900 metres
240 and 60 degrees beverage, approx. 800 metres

This gives us 11 different directions but that doesn't help much when conditions are poor. Also, we are often having severe local electrical interference, especially on the 317-beverage. Sofar the source of these disturbances has not been located.
There is also one delta loop designed for 60 metres SW plus one G5RV dipole antenna.

As I live quite far from the shack (some 350 km's) I am not able go there very often. Here are some loggings from just before the end of 2008.

660 28.12 01.43 WFAN New York NY very strong over the Holidays. 'Sports Radio 66'. Q3-4. RFK
660 30.12 06.10 CFFR Calgary AB '660 News'. Q2-3. RFK
680 29.12 03.03 CFTR Toronto ON '6-80 News'. Q3. RFK
710 28.12 07.04 KIRO Seattle WA ID as "Kiro FM". Q2-3. RFK
760 29.12 01.45 WJR Detroit MI 'Newsradio 7-60 WJR'. Q2. RFK
770 28.12 06.40 CHQR Calgary AB with old radio plays. Q3-4. RFK
840 28.12 06.07 WHAS Louisville KY '...24 hours a day, depend on 8-40 WHAS'. Q2-3. RFK
850 29.12 07.00 WEEI Boston MA 'Blueberry Comics'-spot. Q2-3. RFK
880 28.12 01.15 WCBS New York NY 'WCBS Newsradio'. Q3. RFK
930 28.12 01.05 CFBC Saint John NB w. 'Daydream believer' by the Monkes & other oldies. Q3. RFK
950 29.12 02.35 a station carrying 'Westwood One' but no ID. Q3. RFK
950 29.12 02.45 CFAM Altona MB w. religious progr. Q2. RFK
960 28.12 01.00 WEAV Plattsburgh NY with 'Fox Sports News'. Q2-3. RFK
960 29.12 02.34 CFAC Calgary AB 'The Fan 9-60'. Q2. RFK
970 29.12 00.23 WZAN Portland ME w. sports. Q2. RFK
1010 29.12 01.41 CFRB Toronto ON w. traffic report, competing with WINS. Q3. RFK
1020 29.12 00.26 KDKA Pittsburgh PA "Newsradio 10-20 KDKA". Q2-3. RFK
1040 29.12 02.33 CKST Vancouver BC 'Team 10-40'. Q3. RFK
1080 28.12 01.53 WTIC Hartford CT very common, Q3. RFK
1120 28.12 06.30 KMOX St Louis MI w. 'Green onions' by Booker T & MGs + ID. Q3. RFK
1140 29.12 02.29 CHRB High River AB w. religious half-hour programmes. Q3. RFK
1210 29.12 02.20 WPHT Philadelphia PA 'The Big Taöker'. Q2-3. RFK
1270 29.12 01.18 CJCB Sydney NS 'Country 12-70'. Q2. RFK
1300 29.12 01.11 WJMO Cleveland OH w. religiousprogr. 'Cleveland's Inspiration Station'. Q2-3. RFK
1320 29.12 02.15 a station carrying BBC news heard on the 345-degree beverage. RFK
1440 29.12 02.10 WHKZ Warren OH w. religious progr. Q2-3. RFK
1470 25.12 07.03 WLAM Lewiston ME is probably the station announcing ESPN radio 1470 here. RFK
1480 25.12 07.00 WSAR Fall River MA w. 'Jingle bells' & ID. Q3. RFK
1500 29.12 00.57 WLQV Detroit MI w. spot for 'Christian Job Line'. Q3. RFK
1580 29.12 00.47 CKDO Oshawa ON w. 'CKDO Better Coffee Break' promo and great oldies format. Q3. RFK
1680 29.12 00.40 WOKB Winter Garden FL w. EE ID, then into French. Q3. RFK

Christmas loggings from the Fredriksfors Radio Shack

Xmas greetings from our Radio Shack!
This time me and Ona (my faithful dog & best friend) will spend the Christmas without Donald Duck as we have no TV here in the shack. DD on Xmas Eve is one of the most consistent Swedish Christmas traditions there is but honestly I am just as happy with my radio. At the moment, there are very few transatlantic signals as the solar conditions are not very favourable and solar winds are too speedy. Still, let's hop for better conds soon. Over to the log from the Fredriksfors shack sofar. All times are UTC.
I wish you all a very Merrry Christmas and GOOD DX!
NORTH AMERICA
560 23.12 07.58 WQAM Miami FL with several IDs. Q2-3. RFK
580 21.12 23.33 CFRA Ottawa ON with promo for a local Xmas market. Q3. RFK
590 19.12 22.00 VOCM St Johns NL very strong as many of the parallel fq's. 620 is often the strongest, followed by 710. RFK
600 19.12 22.05 CBNA St Anthony NL with CBC 1. Q2. RFK
610 21.12 23.20 CHNC New Carlisle QC with a very enjoyable rock- and countrymix, primarily songs in French. Q2-3. RFK
610 22.12 00.50 WIOD Miami FL spot for ”Torneau Watches”. Q2-3. RFK
640 19.12 22.10 CBN St Johns NL had CBC News. Q3. RFK
680 19.12 22.15 KBRW Barrow AK is generally heard at most times of the day here when the path is open. Was playing blues. Q3. RFK
770 22.12 08.30 CHQR Calgary AB with ”Coast to Coast AM” about the film ”Jesus in India”. Q3. RFK
780 19.12 22.13 CFDR Halifax NS ”Kicks Country” very common. Q3. RFK
790 22.12 08.17 CFCW Camrose AB had country + OID NA. RFK
800 21.12 21.40 VOWR St Johns NL carrying a programme of string music. Q3. RFK
830 19.12 22.28 WRCN Worcester MA recommended us to “buy a Chevrolet in beautiful Worcester….” Q2-3. RFK
910 22.12 08.15 CKDQ Drumheiler AB”Q-91” country. RFK
930 21.12 05.20 CJCA Edmonton AB “9-30 The Light” with gospel music. Q3. RFK
950 20.12 00.20 CKNB Campbellton NB ”95 CKNB Satellite Weather” then oldies. Q3. RFK
980 21.12 05.00 CJME Regina SK ”Newstalk 9-80 CJME”. Q2-3. RFK
1020 21.12 23.05 KDKA Pittsburgh PA had ”Let it snow” in the talk show (Cto Coast AM?) and it was indeed snowing a lot outside here. RFK
1040 22.12 08.05 CKST Vancouver BC with ESPN. Q2. RFK
1050 21.12 05.40 CHUM Toronto ON playing ”I’m gonna knock on your door” by Eddie Hodges. This was the first no 1 entry of the Swedish chart "Tio i Topp" (Top Ten) when it started back in 1961.. RFK
1060 21.12 05.28 CKMX Calgary AB ”Classic country 10-60” with “Honky tonk angels” also heard //SW 6030 kHz. RFK
1060 22.12 22.00 WBIX Natick ME ”The Business Station”. Q2. RFK
1090 22.12 07.58 KPTK Seattle WA with ”Web-Ex” spot. Q3-4. RFK
1130 19.12 22.35 WBBR New York NY very strong with news plus unid NA in the background. RFK
1160 20.12 00.05 WYLL Chicago IL with phone-in show on faith issues. Q3. RFK
1160 22.12 07.54 KSL Salt Lake City UT dominant, at least two more NA on the channel. RFK
1180 21.12 23.00 WHAM Rochester NY identifying as ”Wham”. Q2-3. RFK
1190 19.12 22.36 WLIB New York NY advertising “Wal-Green” plus a promo for “Metropolitan Baptist Church”. Q3-4. RFK
1260 21.12 22.20 WMKI Boston MA "Radio Disney" sam+ unid NA talk station. RFK
1310 21.12 11.25 CHLW St Paul-Bonnyville AB in the middle od the day. Commercial for ”Lifelock.com”. Q2. RFK
1320 22.12 05.01 CHMB Vancouver BC ID ”This is AM 13-20 CHMB” then into Chinese. Q3. RFK
1400 21.12 20.05 CBG Gander NL with local weather report from the studio in St Johns. Q3-4. RFK
1510 21.12 22.50 KGA Spokane WA coming through very well on both our East Coast and Prairie beverage (300 and 317 degrees). Often the most common one in Fredriksfors. RFK
1570 22.12 04.48 CKBW Winkler MB ”….the heart of country music, 15-70 CKMW”. RFK
1580 19.12 23.40 CKDO Oshawa ON has a nice oldies format, not to mention that they also verify with real QSL cards. There is still hope! RFK
1630 20.12 05.10 KRND Fox Farm WY one of the few X-banders heard. ”La Grande 16-30”. RFK