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DX'er Gets Interviewed On Air By Station He Logs!

SomeRadioGuy

SomeRadioGuy

The interview, complete with a very short clip of my reception, will air during "Drive with Paul Turton" at 5:45pm Friday local time on ABC Newcastle, QLD, Aus. I heard their 10,000 Watt 1233khz transmitter here in Alaska 7220 miles away a few days ago.

Paul Turton's show is on from 3 to 6pm Newcastle time and if you go to the website at ABC Newcastle to stream it, it'll display the shows in your time zone.. so for me in AK Time, it shows Drive starting at 8pm, so that means it would air at 1045pm THURSDAY for me. For those in pacific time, 11:45pm THURSDAY.. and so on, I think you can follow it from there.

I'm told it will also go up as part of the 3 hour podcast each show gets, but it will also be isolated with it's own blurb on the website and facebook page for ABC Newcastle.
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
The interview, complete with a very short clip of my reception, will air during "Drive with Paul Turton" at 5:45pm Friday local time on ABC Newcastle, QLD, Aus. I heard their 10,000 Watt 1233khz transmitter here in Alaska 7220 miles away a few days ago.

Paul Turton's show is on from 3 to 6pm Newcastle time and if you go to the website at ABC Newcastle to stream it, it'll display the shows in your time zone.. so for me in AK Time, it shows Drive starting at 8pm, so that means it would air at 1045pm THURSDAY for me. For those in pacific time, 11:45pm THURSDAY.. and so on, I think you can follow it from there.

I'm told it will also go up as part of the 3 hour podcast each show gets, but it will also be isolated with it's own blurb on the website and facebook page for ABC Newcastle.
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That is great! It seems to be true that MWDX this time of year near our spring equinox jumps to life especially towards the high end of the dial. What I mean is there are many examples of DX from North America to Australia and New Zealand. I remember when 1690 in the Chicago area was heard in Australia several times in March of different years. Have you experienced DX like this before in Alaska around this time?
 
radioman148 said:
That is great! It seems to be true that MWDX this time of year near our spring equinox jumps to life especially towards the high end of the dial. What I mean is there are many examples of DX from North America to Australia and New Zealand. I remember when 1690 in the Chicago area was heard in Australia several times in March of different years. Have you experienced DX like this before in Alaska around this time?
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when i lived in alaska 5 years ago, i cant say that i did.. but i was way way less aware of "international dxing" then i am now
 
I got on the air briefly in the '70s after calling a station in Rice Lake, Wis., that I was listening to during an E-skip opening to Stuttgart, Ark. Forget which station it was, but there are a couple of real blasters up that way, so it was likely 99.1 or 96.1. That was an amazing afternoon, dial filled with booming signals from all over the Upper Midwest, Michigan to Minnesota.
 
CTListener said:
I got on the air briefly in the '70s after calling a station in Rice Lake, Wis., that I was listening to during an E-skip opening to Stuttgart, Ark. Forget which station it was, but there are a couple of real blasters up that way, so it was likely 99.1 or 96.1. That was an amazing afternoon, dial filled with booming signals from all over the Upper Midwest, Michigan to Minnesota.
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One day when I was in SW PA, I had KVRE 92.9 Hot Springs, AR pretty decent for half an hour.. i called up cuse they had a call in/request show, told the secretary where i was listening from.. had to explain i meant FM, not online. .she said "the guys on air will want to hear this one".. they put me on and i had to once again explain that.. and they thought it was pretty darn neat
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
One day when I was in SW PA, I had KVRE 92.9 Hot Springs, AR pretty decent for half an hour.. i called up cuse they had a call in/request show, told the secretary where i was listening from.. had to explain i meant FM, not online. .she said "the guys on air will want to hear this one".. they put me on and i had to once again explain that.. and they thought it was pretty darn neat
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I also called a Michigan station that day, but it was carrying Tigers baseball at the time, so my call didn't get past the switchboard.
 
CTListener said:
I got on the air briefly in the '70s after calling a station in Rice Lake, Wis., that I was listening to during an E-skip opening to Stuttgart, Ark. Forget which station it was, but there are a couple of real blasters up that way, so it was likely 99.1 or 96.1. That was an amazing afternoon, dial filled with booming signals from all over the Upper Midwest, Michigan to Minnesota.
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That probably would have been WJMC-FM on 96.1 from Rice Lake. (Call letters may have changed). A nice catch by any standard. I've caught WJMC-AM on 1240 here at my location in the Chicago area. Distance is 287 miles.
 
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