onsdag 3 april 2013

WCPT Willow Springs IL -820



During the amazing conditions the first weeks of January this year I noticed a jumble of stations on 820kHz one morning.
Just before the TOH a weak signal breaked thru with a announcement as  " Chicago´s Progressive Talk AM & FM" .Had no idea who this could be but after checking the NRC Log I understood that I had heard the faint signal of WCPT .
Matt Comings ,Op Mgr confirmed my reception.

CJWW Saskatoon SK -600


This station with its nice  C&W music  was heard the same morning ,10th of January, as the other SK stations. It is situated in Saskatoon , a town on the banks of South Saskatchewan  River with a population of 240 000.
Rod Kitter, PD  confirmed my reception  swiftly, Thanks!

CKSW Swift Current SK -570


Some minutes after I caught CHAB-800 I also found this station with strong signals at the lower AM Band  identifying as   "You´re listening to Country Music Radio along with L R Superwatch...CKSW 5-70 The station you grew up with..."
Dave Funk send me a nice email a few days later:



CHAB Moose Jaw SK -800

During the morning of 10th of January I had a swing of the propagation towards Saskatchewan. On 800 I heard  "another hour of the greatest hits of all time starts now with the classic station - This is 800 CHAB" followed by Creedence Clearwaters Reviveals "Who´ll stop the rain".  I soon received emails from both  Ken Fisher ,Engineer and Jim Strom who wrote:
 Yes! You heard 800 CHAB from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada! Very cool. I'm a retired school teacher working at our radio stations as a hobby-jobby. My grandfather came from Vaasa, Finland a long time ago. I've been told my name, "Strom" is Swedish rather than Finnish. Nice to hear from you. All the best from "the greatests hits of all time, 800 CHAB"!
Jim S.

måndag 1 april 2013

KCLK Asotin WA -1430


In the morning 10th of January  I had good propagations toward the Prairies and the west coast. On 1430khz  I got nice reception of KCLK  with ID as " We are the only all around the clock sport station ESPN Radio AM 14-30 The Sports Fan -KCLK"  The station is located in the small but beautiful Asotin in the southeastern corner of the state of Washington. It´s the last city along the Snake River route to Hell´s Canyon, North Americas deepest river gorge at 2436m. The citys name, Asotin, is from the Nez Perce language (spoken by the Nez Perce tribe) and means  "place of eel" from the abundance of eels caught here.
Mark Bone verified my reception and told me he just started to get involved in Amateur radio

fredag 22 mars 2013

WWWL New Orleans LA -1350

This was a huge surprise when I heard them the 29th October last year in a jumble of stations around the TOH. "Mike and Mike in the morning and Tom Fitzmorris on your drive home, 13-50 AM WWWL" was heard  after my friend Torolf Johnsson gave me a tip that he had heard them at the same time, many thanks Torolf!  
Pat Galloway confirmed my reception with a short email.

LKB/LLE Bergen Kringkaster -1314

In November 2012 there were some test AM transmissions on 1314kHz from Grensedalen on the island of Asköy in Norway. I heard them the 22nd of November with quite good signals. The Tx was an old Western Electric WE 451A-1 from  late 1940, with a power of approx. 60Watts. The antenna was a 15m high vertical.  Ass. C.E. Svenn Martinsen verified my reception, many thanks Svenn!