Still Do AM Radio DXing?

[Dave Doherty]

When I worked at WOKO in Albany (WDDY these days, with several call changes
in between), we would get QSL cards from the Scandanavian countries all
winter long.  We had a 5kW nighttime DA that sent most of the power a little
east of north - maybe 20 or 30 degrees.  It wasn't a true polar path, but it
was right up the great circle route to that part of the world.

Maybe the hobby has always been so alive there because of the long winter
nights...

-d

--------------------------------------------------
From: "SteveOrdinetz" <hykker@wildblue.net>
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 10:15 PM
To: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Subject: Re: Still Do AM Radio DXing?

>
>  Dave Doherty wrote:
>>One of my clients up on Alaska put a new AM on the air.  About a month 
>>ago, he got a QSL request from someplace in Scandanavia. So it's not a 
>>totally lost hobby.
>
> About a year ago we got a reception report from Norway (I think) of WSNO 
> Barre, Vt.  He emailed us an mp3 of the legal ID.  It was down "in the 
> mud" but definitely there.  I think we sent him a bumper sticker as a 
> "QSL".
>
>