Tuesday, January 31, 2006

WWAA AVONDALE ESTATES, GA 1590 VERIFICAION

"John" at AIR Atlanta 1690 sent me an e-mail this afternoon verifyed my December 2005 reception report. WWAA is very common on my location when conditions favour the southern states of USA. "Progressive talk" formate.

CONDITIONS IMPROVING

Good conditions again this morning. WXTC Charlestone, SC had a very good signal on 1390 dominated the frequency with "Heaven 13-90" slogans. Several other South State stations also heard. Finaly a good recording of WJNO West Palm Beach, FL 1290. Also an other US station on 1290 witch I belive was WKBK Keene, NH. I have a 2 houer recording from 1290 witch I hope will give me something.

KWIP DALLAS, OR 880 VERIFICATION

Diane Burns, President of KWIP "La Campeonata", Dallas, OR 880 sent me a letter and nice sticker today verifying my October 2005 report. KWIP is the biggest Hispanic Radio Station in Oregon. Heard with a good signal during KONG12.

Monday, January 30, 2006

KRRD CENTERVILLE, UT 1600 VERIFICATION

Edward C. Distel, General Manager of KRRD Centerville, UT 1600 verified my October 15th 2004 reception report with an e-mail today after a follow-up to him this morning. KRRD have change it's call sign to KXTA. They still have spanish and "Radio Recuerdo" slogans.

Friday, January 27, 2006

JOQB NIIGATA 1593 VERIFICATION

A letter and nice QSL-card verified my October 12th (KONG12) report to JOQB Niigata, NHK2 1593 to day. Station heard with exelent signal during the "local ID" break at 1319 UTC.

Thursday, January 26, 2006

EXELENT BOLIVIA CONDITIONS LAST NIGHET

The K-index raise fast last evening and that gave me some very good conditions to Bolivia around midnighet UTC. The common stations Radio Eco 4410, Radio Estambul 4498.3, Radio Yura 4716.8 and Radio Virgen de Remedios 5745.24v was very strong. Niche catch was Radio Tacana 4781.50 and Radio Constelacion 4761.49. Tacana had a good clear signal.

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

RADIO RIO MAR, MANAUS 9695 VERIFICATION

Pe. Martin James Laumann sent a very nice letter verifying my 15th May 2005 report to Radio Rio Mar, Manaus. My 120 brazilian station verified.

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

RADIO MIRAFLORES, LIMA 1250 VERIFICATION

Walter Gutierrez sent me a short e-mail verified my 27th Marz 2004 report of Radio Miraflores, Lima this evening. Radio Miraflores is heard quite often at my location with it's relegious "La Voz de la Liberacion" programme. My 45th Peruan verified.

Monday, January 23, 2006

LAST DAYS CONDITIONS

More or less the same conditions the last week. Newfoundland very good long before midnight UTC, followed by common East Coast USA. Mornings have brought many stations from Cuba and some good openings to Florida. The 21st gave me WIOD 610 with a huge signal. Also very strong x-band signals some mornings. KVNS Brownsville, TX 1700 have been very common, but also WEUP Huntsville, AL 1700 had a good signal one morning. Not mutch from South America on my location the last week.

Saturday, January 14, 2006

EXELENT CONDITIONS CONTINUES

The 2 last days have been exelent towards North America on mediumwave. Stations fades in before 22 UTC and the mornings have brought some very strong signals as far west as Ontario, Michigan and Illinoise. Also some Cuban stations have had strong signals. Today I heard WRXB 1590 S. Petersburgh Beach, FL with an identification in the jumbel of stations. Some other loggins: CHWO 740, CIGM 790, WCRN 830, WZAN 970 among a lot others.

MAGYAR KATOLIKUS RADIO 1341 VERIFICATION

Received a very nice QSL-letter from Magyar Katolikus Radio 1341 today. Michaly Gyömöre was the verie signer. Perfect verification text. This station is heard during disturbed conditions when BBC is not dominating the frequency.

Thursday, January 12, 2006

GOOD CONDITIONS CONTINUES

Again good conditions this morning. WYLL Chicago 1160 had a very good signal 0824 UTC with a lot of stations identifications. Some interesting signals on 1420. This evening the bands are very open so perhaps we got some more of this.

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

GREAT CONDS THIS MORNING

Very good signals from North America the last 24 houers. Al ready at 2200 UTC the band was full of East Coast stations. Stations like WWKB 1520 and WQEW 1560 had very strong signals. Also CFAV Laval, PQ had a huge signal at that time. The morning brought many stations from Ohio, WTAM 1100, WERE 1300, WHK 1420 among others. The morning also gave me two new ones WHCU Ithaca, NY 870 and WEAE Pittsburgh, PA 1250. This was one of the best North American openings noted here for many years. Let's hope it continues.

Monday, January 09, 2006

XERTA RADIO TRANS-CONTINENTAL 4810 VERIFICATION

Nice QSL-card + letter received from XERTA Radio Trans-Continental 4810 today. Same via e-mail was received a couple of weeks ago.

Saturday, January 07, 2006

CONDITIONS THIS MORNING

CPN Lima Peru 1470 had a very goog signal 0600UTC this morning followed by Peru also on 1590, 1500 and 1250. A station witch have been heard several times on 1390 with a very bad modulation was again heard this morning. I presume this station is from Peru also. Very difficult to hear what the announcer say. Not mutch during my local sun rise. Propagations are not so good as I was expected. The sun "conditions" look very promising.

Friday, January 06, 2006

JOQC MORIOKA 1386 VERIFICATION

JOQC Morioka, NHK2 1386 sent nice card and stickers for my 9th October 2005 (KONG12) report. I also heard JOJB and JOKB during this expedition on 1386. JOQC was heard with a very good signal with no interference from the other Japanes on the 9th.

Thursday, January 05, 2006

CONDITIONS

Conditions the last 24h is slowly improving. The Newfoundland stations came early, already around 21h UTC, last evening followed by common east coast stations. But, the signals som how stoped up. This morning brought CPN Radio 1470 with a huge signal at 0800 UTC followed by som Venezuelan and Colombian stations.

Wednesday, January 04, 2006

KKNW SEATTLE, WA 1150 VERIFICATION

George Bisso at KKNW Seattle, WA 1150 verified my October 17th 2004 (KONG10) report with an e-mail this morning. WA station nr. 21 verified. KKNW had a good signal during the very good KONG10 expedition.

CONDITIONS

2006 have had a slow start regarding radio conditions. But last nighet the band start to open up towards North America again. WFNA Charlotte, NC 1660 had a good signal at 2345 UTC and several East Coast stations had good signals. Same this morning but nothing special was noted. Hope propagations improving the next days!

Monday, January 02, 2006

WTAX SPRINGFIELD, IL 1240 VERIFICATION

Michelle Eccles, PD on WTAX 1240 send me an e-mail verified my October 17th 2004 (KONG10) report today. She thought she send me an letter on my orginal report but seems it was lost in the mail!

Sunday, January 01, 2006

First post

Hi, afther reading blogs for a time I finaly got my own. Fine start of 2006. I will post radio related things such as logging's qsl's etc. HAPPY NEW YEAR to all!