Recent Verifications

KORT Grangeville ID 1230 email from GM Melinda Fischer. Heard very briefly on Oct 6 this is an AM/FM simulcast with a C&W format. Also heard from "W" Alan Hall, a C&W artist associated with KORT.

KTCR Kennewick WA 1340 was heard on October 12, briefly surfacing through the solid KLKI Anacortes WA signal that day. Station engineer John McDaniel says "...I find this totally amazing since we are only operating at 1 Kilowatt into a 110 foot vertical antenna." I'll agree that 110 foot isn't a lot of height!

KQNG Kihei HI 570 has for obvious reasons always been the KONG DX-pedition mascot station! But a massive challenge too - I've heard it very briefly once before (many years ago) but during KONG14 I managed to hear it with fair strength on a clear frequency at top of the hour. Andy Melamed at kongradio confirmed my reception while forwarding my message.
My 27th confirmed Hawaiian AM. Only 550 and 790 remain of currently operating HI's, and I hope to find 550 when checking later recordings. If the current CP's in Hawaii get into operation, there should be a fair chance of reaching the 30-station mark within a year.

CFPL London ON 980 Verification

Heard briefly during KONG14, email from PD Kevin Bernard yesterday confirmed my reception. First-time log; CKRU is by far the most usual Ontario station on 980. Ontario verie no 35.

CKGL Kitchener ON 570 Verification

Brief email from Mike Collins, GM, confirmed my Oct 9 reception of "News 570". WKBN and WNAX heard at the same time; all three of them now verified.

New Verifications; 600 NA

Veries the past couple of days:

KDLR Devils Lake ND 1240 email from GM and owner Curt Teigen, of Norwegian heritage. KDLR is 81 years old and although Curt has only owned it for a few years, he became interested in its history. The previous owner threw away most of the old stuff including equipment except some items stored in a forgotten place. Read KDLR's history here. There aren't many stations who display their history on the web like KDLR, and that's a shame. I should add that my reception of KDLR was on October 11, and its signal was more like a directional regional-channel station than a non-directional local-channel one. Very impressive.

KKGR East Helena MT 680 email from Les Rayburn with a jpg-QSL from the Big Sky Montana DX Test in November.

KERR Polson MT 750 email from Les Rayburn with a jpg-QSL from the Big Sky Montana DX Test in November. KERR is my 600th verified North American (counting only ALS, CAN, USA) MW station. A most worthy candidate for such an occasion. Of course I had to brag a bit, which is why you can see the QSL displayed here.

A big Thank You to Les Rayburn for his work as DX Test Coordinator!

Verifications

Monday saw a few new veries:

KDIO Ortonville MN 1350 email from their PD expressing interest that KDIO have been heard in other countries the past few months. Heard on October 11.

Newstalk ZB, Auckland 1080, Radio Sport, Auckland 1332 and Radio Sport Wellington 1503 all verified by email. 1080 was heard on October 20 (KONG15), 1332 on October 12 (KONG14) and 1503 on October 27 (KONG16). That doubled my New Zealand MW account, and I got my 50th MW QSL from 10 countries in the Pacific.

Today's Verifications

Two veries received today:

KFBC Cheyenne WY 1240 for a reception in October 2005, and
WNYY Ithica NY 1470 heard in October 2006.

KFBC has been heard quite frequently since 2005 so they have a decent skywave even if the v/s complained that they aren't heard 20 miles away from the 700 watt transmitter. WNYY was also heard several times during October 2006.

WSB Atlanta GA 750 Verification

Hadn't it been for the Big Sky Montana Test night, I wouldn't have heard WSB. I was on 750 monitoring KERR Polson MT when all of a sudden WSB faded up and ID'ed conveniently. Nice surprise; Georgia isn't easy to hear up here.
Email verie from Pete Spriggs today.

Update 6 December:
Verification letter as pdf-file from Josh Roquemore, WSB Radio Engineering today. Cool!

West Coast Verifications

During the evening I received two new veries:

KIT Yakima WA 1280
KXMG Portland OR 1150

KIT was heard during KONG14, Oct 10, while KXMG came up with a good "Magia 1150 AM - Todo Exitos" ID on Oct 31 during KONG16.

Canadian Verifications

Richard King at NewCap NL confirmed two reports for me today:
VOCM St. John's NL 590, and
CHCM Marystown NL 740.

An ever so small celebration for me this, since I got Canadian no. 175. With the pace the Canadians are vacating the MW band, I am beginning to doubt that I will ever reach 200...

Should I Send a 1 USD Bill To Canadian Stations For Return Postage?

No, I shouldn't! I've been asked to put some focus on this from one of our true friends in the radio business, Richard King at NewCap, Newfoundland. Richard takes care of reception reports to the stations in the VOCM network in NL. He often receives a 1 USD bill enclosed with written reports, however this is not enough to cover return postage! Please beware that an overseas letter from Canada costs almost CAD 1.50, compared to USD 0.84 from the US. At the current exchange rate, 1 USD is 1.15 CAD. Obviously a 1 USD bill doesn't cover the postage.

Here are our choices:

Buy Canadian stamps and use a SASE.

Buy International Reply Coupons

(The preferred way) Email Richard! His email address is ckxg at vocm dot com (rephrased here to avoid spambots – do NOT publicize the exact email address). Emailed reports with small audio files is the easiest and fastest way for Richard to maintain his excellent service to DX-ers.