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560 17.9. 0200- USA: WGAN Portland ME. TIK
560 17.9. 0355- USA: WQAM Miami FL. “CBS Sports Radio”, the 5th station in this QRG during September. TIK
580 17.9. 0200- CAN: CFRA Ottawa ON. TIK
610 16.9. 0300- USA: WIOD Miami FL. Last weak medicore signal but replied to my reception report. Now two nights in a row with outstanding signal for hours. Improved antenna? TIK
680 17.9. 0200- USA: WRKO Boston MA. TIK
710 16.9. 0157- CAN: CKVO Clarenville NL. Ann. “Here on 7-10 VOCM” and played Rihanna while 590 played country. A half an hour later //VOCM. TIK
730 17.9. 0200- CAN: CKAC Montréal QC. “Radio Circulation”. TIK
790 17.9. 0328- USA: WAXY South Miami FL. “104.3 and AM 7-90”. 940 WINZ tentative. TIK
830 16.9. 0429- USA: WCRN Worcester MA. TIK
850 16.9. 0300- USA: WFTL West Palm Beach FL. With WEEI. Later probably KOA too. TIK
1260 17.9. 0358- USA: WMKI Boston MA. Radio Disney. TIK
1290 16.9. 0328- USA: WKBK Keene NH. “AM 12-90 WKBK” nice suprise in a busy QRG. On 1300 0433z ad to “Central Florida”. TIK
1310 16.9. 0233- USA: KNOX Grand Forks ND. “Newsradio 13-10 KNOX AM, Grand Forks”. Later UNID “Newstalk” ja CIWW. TIK
1310 17.9. 0300- USA: WLOB Portland ME. TIK
1400 17.9. 0203- CAN: CJWI Montreal QC. TIK
1450 16.9. 0300- USA: WPGG Atlantic City NJ. Now legal ID (WPGG) with the normal “WPG 14-50”. TIK

Central America

560 17.9. 0331- CUB: CM.. R Rebelde, Moa. First time here. Rebelde also 620 etc. TIK Editoi
570 16.9. 0300- CUB: CMDC R Reloj, Santa Clara. With USA. TIK
630 16.9. 0401- CUB: R Progreso, Pinar del Río. Also 640. TIK
730 16.9. 0302- CUB: R Progreso, La Fe, IJ. Here more rare, also next night. TIK
820 16.9. 0300- CUB: CM.. R Reloj, Contramaestre. TIK
840 16.9. 0401- CUB: CMHW Doblevé, Santa Clara. TIK
1140 16.9. 0357- CUB: CMIP R Surco, Ciego de Avila. Ja CBI. TIK
1230 16.9. 0400- CUB: CM.. R Progreso. Earlier USA station. TIK

South America

690 16.9. 0428- CLM: HJCZ W Radio, Bogotá. Ann. “… Doble U Radio, Doble U Radio”, which was confirmed by JMS and PW. XEWW??!!. HK (tack igen Henrik) then told that ex-Radio Recuerdos is now W Radio. TIK
760 17.9. 0229- CLM: HJAJ RCN Barranquilla. TIK
830 16.9. 0430- VEN: YVLT R Sensación, Caracas. New “VEN” for me. TIK
1100 16.9. 0400- CLM: HJAT Caracol Colombia, Barranquilla. Also Emisora Atlantico 1070 was loud. TIK
1350 16.9. 0330- CLM: HJOC RCN, Santa Marta. Giving call sign HJOC, strange. TIK

Condx on the 15th of September were not very good despite of promising indexes. So nothing new found (so far). During the weekend I emailed a bunch of reception reports and even got some answers.

567. CBN St. John’s NL 640 kHz

CBN is one of the most common Canadians here (with VOCM, 930 CJYQ/CFBC and 1400 CBG). I haven’t sent any report to them before this, so I was happy to get a quick replay from Denise Wilson, Managing Director.

568. WIOD Miami FL 610 kHz

WIOD is one of few new NA stations of the season logged so far. Grace Blazer, Program Director replied to me quite quickly. She is also working for 940 WINZ, which should be possible to hear as well.

569. YVKH Radio Recuerdos, Caracas 1300 kHz

It has been a challenge to find working email addresses to Latin American stations. I have now heard 26 Venezuelan MW-stations but only got 4 QSLs – almost half of them I have never reached – emails have been bouncing. But YVKH Radio Recuerdos, Caracas replied in 2 days. I believe that this station has been more common in the past, I heard it for the first time on 2.9.2013. V/s was Juan Carlos Bello, Gerente de Mercadeo. Juan Carlos wrote eg.: Es un placer saber que, en lugares tan lejanos a Venezuela, escuchan nuestras transmisiones y esperamos que pueda seguir escuchándola. Un gran saludo desde Venezuela y esperaos que siga encontrando nuevas estaciones que sumar a su contgeo.

Last two weeks there has been a good or at least fair propagation almost every night. Unfortunately it has been almost every night to Venezuela and Colombia with few decent nights to Ecuador, Cuba and Puerto Rico. So far USA prop has provided mostly old familiar stations from the East Coast but I have now logged 3 new US stations for this season: 610 WIOD Miami FL, 1130 KTCN Minneapolis MN and 1540 WDCD Albany NY. In the 10th of September 1200 KFNW West Fargo ND was a real suprise with very good signal – same time propagation to East Coast was minimal.

The 11th and 12th nights should be quite ok too. My recordings for these nights are still at the listening station.

North America

1200 10.9. 0259- USA: KFNW West Fargo ND. Shocking big signal: “Faith 1200 KFNW AM West-Fargo, Fargo Moorhead”. TIK
1260 10.9. 0259- USA: WSUA Miami FL. English ID in the messy QRG: “WSUA HD …”. TIK

Central America

840 10.9. 0300- CUB: CMKC R Revolución, Palma Soriano. TIK
900 10.9. 0400- CUB: CMKP R Progreso, San Germán. Beating Mara Ritmo. TIK
930 10.9. 0328- CUB: CM.. R Reloj. For the first time here. “R R”. Same night Canadian noticed at 2155z. Reloj also eg. 950 and 960 kHz. TIK
1000 10.9. 0100- CUB: CMNM R Granma, Media Luna GR. TIK
1020 10.9. 0028- CUB: CMAP R Guamá, Bahía Honda PR. Probably already heard at 2300z. Later Reloj too. TIK Editoi
1260 10.9. 0258- PTR: WISO Ponce PR. WAPA-ids. TIK
1350 10.9. 0100- CUB: CMFL R Ciudad del Mar, Aguada de Pasajeros. Yidenys Roca González replied to my winter report. TIK

South America

600 10.9. 0356- CLM: HJHJ R Libertad, Barranquilla. TIK
680 10.9. 0331- VEN: YVQR R Continente, Cumana. “Transmite Radio Continente”. Earlier WAPA dominating, now Continente alone. Split [680.021]. Also hrd 9.9. 0400z. TIK
700 10.9. 0355- VEN: YVMH R Popular, Maracaibo. [700.007]. TIK
1010 10.9. 0128- CLM: HJJR Caracol, Neiva. Infernal splatters from 1008. TIK
1070 10.9. 0202- CLM: HJAH Emisora Atlantico, Barranquilla. “Emisora Atlantico”-jingle. Heard long with a good signal [1070.001]. TIK
1140 10.9. 0302- CLM: HJE67 Caracol Radio, Villavicencio. First time in Finland? TIK
1320 10.9. 0232- VEN: YVWP R Apolo, Turmero. TIK
1380 10.9. 0256- VEN: YVNG Ondas del Mar, Puerto Cabello. TIK
1470 10.9. 0331- B: ZYJ676 R Rondonia, Cacoal (RO). TIK

Other days:

650 8.9. 0302- CLM: HJKH RCN Antenna 2, SF de Bogota. Also 9.9.
700 9.9. 0330- EQA: HCRS2 R Sucre, Guayaquil.
940 8.9. 0331- CLM: HJTL RCN, Cucuta.
1100 9.9. 0400- CLM: HJCN R BBN, Bogotá. TIK
1350 9.9. 0255- CUB: CMLM R Libertad, Puerto Padre.

Since the last QSL-post few new ones have arrived.

563. Ceský rozhlas 2 954 kHz
This was reported as I found out that I don’t have CRo home service QSL. Nice QSL card was in the mail in one month. I think that Ceský rozhlas doesn’t have any local programmes on MW. With QSLs from Radio Dechovka and Country Radio currently no more stations to QSL from Czech.

564. TWR Parakou 1566 kHz
This one was the first QSL from Benin. Email confirmation from TWR.

565. WBCQ Monticello ME 9330 kHz
These guys don’t QSL via email. So I sent them SAE and IRC. QSL-card arrived via mail in one month. This station is audible probably every night.

566. CFRY Portage la Prairie MB 920 kHz
Heard during the great condx of January. Program director Ryan Simpson replied in 2 days. MJ heard this last night in Vaasa!

SDJ Stockholm Radio, Stavsnäs 1674 kHz
This utility station replied quickly even on Saturday. They also sent later a traditional QSL card via mail.

Propagation has been very good after the 2nd of September (which was the peak of condx I suppose). Some highlights found from the files:

North America

1140 7.9. 0200- USA: WQBA Miami FL.
1540 5.9. 0158- USA: KXEL Waterloo IA. Also ZNS and CHIN here.
1540 7.9. 0200- USA: WDCD Albany NY. “15-40 AM WDCD”. Reactivated. Other identified NAs: 1520 WWKB, 1510 WUFC, 1500 WFED, 1410 WPOP, 1360 WDRC, 1310 CIWW, 1190 WLIB, 1130 WBBR, 1050 WEPN, 1030 WBZ, 1010 WINS, 880 WCBS. 1310 WLOB, 1370 WDEA and 1390 WEGP were broadcasting WEEI Red Sox Radio Network. Of course also usual suspects from Eastern Canada were heard.

Central America

640 2.9. 0300- GDL: Guadeloupe 1ère, Point-à-Pitre. Also next night.
740 2.9. 0331- PTR: WIAC 740 La Original, San Juan PR. Also more common 580 WKAQ and 680 WAPA.

South America

590 2.9. 0300- CLM: HJCR W Radio, Medellín. Quite rare CLM. “Doble U Radio”.
610 2.9. 0230- CLM: HJKL La Carinosa, Bogotá.
700 2.9. 0300- EQA: HCRS2 R Sucre, Guayaquil. [699.993].
710 2.9. 0332- CLM: HJNX R Red, Medellin. Big split about [709.905], music px and ID: “Radio Red de RCN …”. Tnx to HK for solving this. I was hoping for more rare catch!
740 3.9. 0300- B: ZYH446 R Sociedade da Bahia, Salvador, BA. Suprsise during these condx (and antenna) [740.007].
770 2.9. 0131- VEN: YVKK R Nacional de Venezuela, Valencia. [770.004] With RCN.
920 6.9. 0202- PRG: ZP1 R Nacional del Paraguay, Asunción. New country for me! Audible quite long with talk programme.
1040 2.9. 0301- CLM: HJCJ/HJUB Colmundo R, Bogotá/Pasto. “Radio Colombia”.
1110 3.9. 0028- VEN: YVQT R Carupano, Carupano. New one for me, no reports on OLL during the last years. Used to be common.
1200 6.9. 2300- B: ZYH585 R Clube Fortaleza CE. [1200.010] Early, later WXKS and CFGO.
1390 3.9. 0229- VEN: YVZA R Fé y Alegría, Caracas. [1389.996] Half hour earlier another station on [1389.998]. Common stations at this night: 730 Melodia, 770 RCN, 930 Bogotá, 940 Maxima, 1070 Santa Fe, 1190 Cordillera, 1340 Amor Estereo.

556. Radio Merkurs 1485 kHz
Merkurs can be heard every night here in Finland with its strange music format. Just last week I heard them playing Finnish Schlager from 1980s! Raimonds Kreicbergs replied in 4 days to my email. Suprisingly I found out that this is actually my first Latvian station. I have Radio Riga confirmed, but it was USSR back then!

557. KBS World Radio, Gimje 9515 kHz
KBS replied via snail mail with QSL-card (pictured), programme schedule and an old-fashioned reception report form/aerogram.

558. WJCC Miami Springs FL 1700 kHz
GM Alex Saint Surin replied to my f/up report and told that they will mention my reception in their programme!

559. WDAY Fargo ND
QSL from North Dakota is always nice. Stephen Tschida, Production Manager replied and told that their power has been increased from 5 to 10 kW. In his long replay Stephen also writes: WDAY receives letters like yours several times a year, and since we celebrated our 91st anniversary last May, you can imagine how voluminous our file is where we archive those cards and letters. Granted, we have not been getting QSL cards for 90 years, but we do have some dating back to the 1970’s. Most have arrived from Finland, andn also from your neighbors around that part of the Arctic Circle. I have personally become quite familiar with your hobby, from the detailed descriptions of how your fellow DXer’s spend their vacation time for weeks on end, and the equipment that they use. It’s always a pleasure to hear from you folks.

560. WIPR San Juan PR “Maxima 940” 940 kHz
WIPR is quite common Puerto Rican station here. I got answer via Facebook, where Joel E. Rivera, Vicepresidente de Radio wrote a nice replay message to confirm my reception. The 6th QSLed PR this year.

561. VOAR Mount Pearl NL 1210 kHz
This is one of the most common Canadians here although frequency is very bad because of Absolute Radio on 1215. CE R. Brian Matthews replied to my f/up report.

562. KDKA Pittsburgh PA 1020 kHz
Classic station! CE Vic Pasquarelli replied in a week with short email.

555. HCDE2 UCSG Radio, Guayaquil 1190 kHz
Last November I noticed very good propagation to Ecuador and heard my first MW-Ecuador-stations UCSG Radio 1190 and Teleradio 1350. Now finally I got replay from UCSG via Facebook. If I understood correctly, they would like to talk with me via Skype. With my Spanish, it sounds mission impossible.

From Sunday to Wednesday I had my “unmanned station” on. The first identified station from the files was ZNS1 Radio Bahamas, Nassau on 1540 kHz! It was the first time I heard the Bahamas. Same night (19th) probably PJD2 was on 1300 kHz (a bit below) and UNID male in English on 560 kHz (Guyana? as it didn’t sound as WGAN). Next nights some usual suspects from CAN/USA: 590&620 VOCM, 640 CBN, 790 VOWR, 930 CJYQ (peaking S9+15dB on 21st), 1130 WBBR, 1140 CBI, 1190 WLIB (the biggest suprise) and 1400 CBG. Mostly propagation was to Colombia with lots of fading and weak signals. New one for me was HJED Caracol, Cali on 820 kHz. Others the worth of mentioning were 930 HJCS La Voz de Bogotá and 1400 HJKM Emisora Mariana, Bogotá.

A flow of QSL to my follow-up reports, mostly thanks for v/s information I got from Ykä, YK.

543. HJIP BBN, Envigado 1590 kHz
This religious Colombian is much less frequent here than Radio Maria 10 kcs below. They replied to my f/up with a short email.

544. HJAK La Voz de la Patria, Barranquilla 1310 kHz
This is easy to recognize as it is on split frequency 1309.7 kHz. Not very common anyway and 1310 has few other Colombians plus Venezuelan station too. They replied via Facebook.

545. YVMD Radio Venezuela “Mara Ritmo” 900 kHz
When condx are to Venezuela, this Mara Ritmo has been quite common on 900 kHz. Usually I hear them sending lottery numbers! They replied via Facebook.

546.-550. VOCM St. John’s NL 590 kHz, CKCM Grand Falls NL 620 kHz, CKGA Gander NL 650 kHz, CKVO Clarenville NL 710 kHz and CHCM Maryston NL 740 kHz
These are among the most common NA stations here in Finland. Last December I heard local ads from each of these, but failed to get any reply via email or Facebook. But now Programme Director Richard King confirmed my reception. He commented each clip I sent and wrote eg: 620 kHz mentioned Stroud’s Auto, which airs on that station. (It is actually my voice on that commercial) . Thanks Richard (and YK for v/s info)!

551. HIAJ Radio Amanecer, San Francisco de Macorís de Bogotá 1060 kHz
Amanecer used to be quite common on 1570 kHz but it is not heard there anymore. In the end of December 2012 I managed to hear them on 1060 kHz which more rare frequency. There was quite nice propagation peak that time – heard also etc. WJNO West Palm Beach FL same time. HIAJ replied to my f/up with a short email message. This is my first QSL from Dominican Republic!

552. CBNA St. Anthony NL 600 kHz
This is quite common station to hear but maybe not so common to hear with local ID. Terry Brett replied to f/up with PDF-QSL.

553. CJOB Winnipeg MB 680 kHz
This is easy catch in Lappland. Here in South it needs better than average condx as WRKO Boston MA and CFTR Toronto ON are in the frequency. V/s Scott Pettigrew made some kind of record: QSL in one minute!

554. WLOL Minneapolis MN 1330 kHz
WLOL broadcasts Relevant Radio -programme. I heard it only once last winter, WRCA is usually dominating. Rose M Schauer, Donor Listener Relations Manager replied quickly to my email. This is my 150th QSL from North America (Canada, USA).

539. YVTW Radio Alegría, Chivacoa 1020 kHz
1020 is nowadays a bit rare SA channel, but I managed to hear Alegria last year in November. Juan Pablo Planas replied in 10 days.

540. Asian Sound Radio 963 kHz
The most common Asian UK station on 963 is Buzz Radio (ex-Buzz Asia), but sometimes Asian Sound Radio pops up. I got an answer on Facebook.

541. CJLV Laval QC 1570 kHz
CJLV replied to my f/up that clip is “inaudible”. I sent them another clip from January and “JPaul” wrote me quickly back: Oui c’est bien notre station que vous avez capté , C’est étonnant que les ondes traversent l’océan. merci de nous écouté.

Thursday and Friday nights had poor propagation on Mediumwaves. So far the most interesting station I found has been Egypt on 1476 kHz. Last night band opened to Venezuela and Colombia around 0200 UTC. Signals were quite weak and many stations were sending football. 1190 YVZD R Cultural del Táchira, San Cristóbal and 1380 YVNG Ondas del Mar, Puerto Cabello were identified.

Top news on FM is that MSO heard Big 92.7 FM from India in the 1st of August on 92.7 MHz! New all time FM country for Finland.

The nicest suprise last February for me was to hear PJD-2 The Voice of St.Maarten, Philipsburg 1300 kHz with a good signal and excellent station ID: “This PJD-2 radio celebrating 40 years …”. You can listen to MP3-file here: 1300kHz PJD-2 The Voice of St.Maarten, Philipsburg 260213 0059.

I sent an email to the station and also sent a Facebook message but until today I didn’t get replay. But now MarieClaire, marketing manager, sent me a brief message on Facebook:

Sint Maarten is quite new DX-country. Until 2010 it was a part of Netherlands Antilles, but now it is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The northern part of the same island is “Saint-Martin”, a part of France.

I have had time to add every QSL I’ve got to my blog – have received too many 🙂 67 QSLs in 142 days. So here is a basic list what I’ve got in 2013:

LKB / LLE Bergen Kringkaster 1314
Country Radio 1062
NRK Finnmark 153

Free Radio 80s 1017
BBC R Nottingham 1584

RNE1 Extremadura 648
RNE5 Comunitat Valenciana 558

IRIB R Tabriz, Āzarbāijān-e Sharqi 1026
IRIB R Semnan, Semnan 1008
R Ashna, Kabul 1296
VoRussia, Orzu 927
IRIB R Mahabad, Mahabad 882
IRIB R Khorāsān-e Razavi, Mashhad 684

RA Brandon 5995

WARV Warvick RI 1590
CJCB Sydney NS 1270
CJRS Montreal QC 1650
WWVA Wheeling WV 1170
CHIN Toronto ON 1540
CJBK London ON 1290
WTIC Hartford CT 1080
WHIO Dayton OH 1290
CKAC Montréal QC 730
WBBR New York NY 1130
CKOC Hamilton ON 1150
CFMJ Richmond Hill ON 640
CKDO Oshawa ON 1580
WTAQ Green Bay WI 1360
WBT Charlotte NC 1110
CFRB Toronto ON 1010
WZAN Portland ME 970
WJNO West Palm Beach FL 1290
WGVU Kentwood MI 1480
CKSL London ON 1410
CFCO Chatham ON 630
WEAV Plattsburgh NY 960
WLOB Portland ME 1310
WOAI San Antonio TX 1200
WHBY Kimberly WI 1150
CHRB High River AB 1140
WMVP Chicago IL 1000
KKXA Snohomish WA 1520
KRKO Everett WA 1380
CFTR Toronto ON 680
KFNW West Fargo ND 1200
CJME Regina SK 980
CKMX Calgary AB 1060
CJYE Oakville ON 1250
WLQV Detroit MI 1500
WQAM Miami FL 560
CINA Missisauga ON 1650
WAKR Akron OH 1590
WGN Chicago IL 720
WSAU Wausau WI 560
CKSW Swift Current SK 570
WXEX Exeter NH 1540
WAMG Dedham MA 890
WFNN Erie PA 1330
CKLW Windsor ON 800
WRED Westbrook ME 1440

HOQ62 Ritmo Stereo, Chitré 890
R Rebelde 710
R Rebelde, Victoría de las Tunas 770
WAPA San Juan 680
XEQ Bésame AM 940, Ciudad de México DF 940

YVMN R Coro, Coro 780
R Bendita Trinidad, El Alto 1540
R Bendita Trinidad, Tarija 1480