ZYJ687 Rádio Planalto, Ji-Paraná RO -1390

About a year ago, in April 2011, I found the signals of Rádio Planalto one morning on the offset frequency of 1390,217kHz. Sent them a report that got unanswered, but a followup some days ago resulted in a nice letter and some photos from Laércio Nogueira.  Pretty amazing station entrance..!

Ji-Paraná is the second most populous city in the Brazilian state of Rondônia with about 117.000, located in the  southwestern part of Brazil.  Sadly the city is known for extreme deforestation  of the Amazon rainforest. Between 2000 and 2006 Brazil lost nearly 150.000 square kilometers of rain forest, an area larger than that of Grecce!!

WURA Quantico VA -920

The station been on my "wishing list" for some time  but I never caught its signals until the 27th of December when they came in with great strengh the last minutes of the daytime power and antenna pattern.
The station is easy to recognize with its Tejano music and ID´s as "Radio Unida 9-20AM". Licensed and located in Quantico,VA, on the bank of Pontomac river but the station serves the metropolitan area of Washington.
V/s Al Hammond  welcomed me to the exclusive club of distance listeners among Norweigans, Finnish and Artic Circle visitors..!
Quantico has a population of only 600, but is the site of one of the largest U.S. Marine Corps bases in the world. You also find the Drug Enforcement Admin. training academy, the FBI Academy, FBI Laboratory and the Naval criminal Investigative Service on the base. The famous  Marinecorps Memorial monument can be found at the entrance of the base.

HJNT Radio Huellas, Cali -1470

The fantastic morning of 7th of January I had several stations on 1470 with strong signals. One that excelled with its offset of 1470,068kHz and religious program was "somos Radio Huellas Internacional  HJNT 14-70AM" .
A few days ago I received a beutiful letter from Constanza Coy Sierra  verifying my reception.
Radio Huellas company  also runs a station on 1550 as "Emisora Revivir en Cristo"

KOAN Eagle River AK -1020

The recent years of low solar activity has allowed us here in Southern Scandinavia to  receive some Alaskan MW stations. One day with good conditions was the 5th of January 2011 when the signals from quite a few AK´s and HI´s stations were  received here in Möklinta.
At noon the signals suddenly  breaked thru the noisefloor  and on 1020kHz  a nice  "..on Fox News Talk 10-20 KOAN Eagle River-Anchorage" was heard. No other signals from US was heard at the same time.
I received a confirmation today after a followup. V/s  Tom Lambert, Engineer, who also told me that they have trouble at the moment with their main 10kW transmitter so they use the backup tx 1kW now.
Eagle River is a community within the municipality of Anchorage with a population of 35 000.

HJCV Radio Cordillera, S.F. de Bogotá -1190

I heard them the 7th of January  with a strong and clear signal. Asistente Administrativa Yaned Caro C. verified  my reception today. It is one of four Todelar stations in Bogota.

WNDE Indianapolis IN -1260

The days between Christmas and New years eve was some very good days for NA-DXing.In the morning of 27th December a Fox sports station caught my interest on 1260 as the ordinary ones here use to be CKHJ or WMKI in my listening cottage. At 7 o´clock came the revealing ID as    "Sportsradio 12-60 WNDE AM  -WFBQ HD2 in Indianapolis" . The station use to be heard a few times each year, mostly in the expeditions cites up north. V/s Tom Doran, Dir. of Sales confirmed my reception today.
The city is  sometimes  referred to as "The Circle City"  due to the original design of the City. In the centre of  
the Monuments Circle  you find The Soldiers and Sailors Monument  commemorates Indiana´s war heroes who died serving in wars before World War I .







Indianapolis is also the home of  "The greatest spectacle in racing " Indy 500  at Indianapolis Motor speedway. A huge racing oval that covers 253 acres, big enough to fit Churchill Downs,Yankee Stadium,The Rose Bowl,The Roman Colosseum and Vatican City inside the IndianaMotorSpeedway oval!

HJGH Oxígeno Bucaramanga -1120

The 7th of January 2012 presented the seasons best signals from Colombia at sunrise. The whole band was covered with strong signals during approximately 15 minutes. On 1120kHz I catched a ID as "escuhando Oxígeno Bucaramanga 11-20 AM" . The Qxígeno Network often use local identifications at nights which is a nice habit!
I received today a email from the Director Jahuer Leon confirming my reception.
Bucaramanga with a population of approx. 1,2 million is known as the "Ciudad  de los Parques"  due to the many parks scattered throughout the city and also as "La Ciudad Bonita de Colombia". Located on a plateau in the Cordillera Oriental  of the Colombian Andes.