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Stations Who Send Me Swag For My Reception Reports

SomeRadioGuy

SomeRadioGuy

XEPRS Sent me a mousepad and asked for a picture in a very Alaska setting.. here I am along McGrath, Alaska's main Road, Chinana Avenue holding the mouse pad.. behind me is Tatalina Mountain and behind the camera is KSKO

XEPRS is audible here every night, usually at least "Fair" sometimes really good but often times, with KFNQ Seattle chattering away very weakly, but noticable in the background. One night, XEPRS was banging away in the clear like a ton of bricks so I thought I'd send them a reception report.

Here's the audio:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dDgsd30-pwbU5MtfDfekvzaS1TzI3t4D/view?usp=sharing



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That is a great picture and it's always nice when radio stations recognize our efforts. By the way, I am LOL on that bike lane covered up with snow.
 
ZantennaG1 said:
That is a great picture and it's always nice when radio stations recognize our efforts. By the way, I am LOL on that bike lane covered up with snow.
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Not a bike lane..... that sign is in the ditch... its just alerting drivers there could be.. and often are bikes, in warmer weather.

There's a speed limit sign behind and to the left of the camera too
 
So, I've got no swag-bag to share, but sometimes the stations I get in contact with will email me back, and we'll have a good time.
The closest I ever got to the postage is when I sent in a reception report to KKMG Pueblo (165 miles away) during a strong tropo event. Like you, @SomeRadioGuy, I waited until I could get a really crisp and clear ID. I went to their website and posted a message to their management, and shockingly, I got a response from one of the show hosts (Dylan Shepard), saying how neat that was. I got the on air mention that afternoon, but, no collectables here.

I actually wish I had reached out more often during E-skip, as well as the Tropo to Texas that I had, but I was either lazy or nervous.
 
ZantennaG1 said:
So, I've got no swag-bag to share, but sometimes the stations I get in contact with will email me back, and we'll have a good time.
The closest I ever got to the postage is when I sent in a reception report to KKMG Pueblo (165 miles away) during a strong tropo event. Like you, @SomeRadioGuy, I waited until I could get a really crisp and clear ID. I went to their website and posted a message to their management, and shockingly, I got a response from one of the show hosts (Dylan Shepard), saying how neat that was. I got the on air mention that afternoon, but, no collectables here.

I actually wish I had reached out more often during E-skip, as well as the Tropo to Texas that I had, but I was either lazy or nervous.
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I on the other hand end up on national tv when i send in reports.. lol. Well, i did once!
 
I'm glad to see some stations still recognize DX reception reports. The days of QSL cards and letters from a chief engineer are long gone due to technology.

But I wonder if there are any stations that will still send you a QSL card?
 
KilowattKat said:
I'm glad to see stations still recognize DX reception reports. The days of QSL cards and letters from a chief engineer are long gone due to technology.

But I wonder if there are any stations that will still send you a QSL card?
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Hams, I'd imagine, especially old-timers. But broadcasters? Good question.
 
I don't send reception reports to stations except for whenever DX tests occur and I can get in touch with the CPC / Les Rayburn / Joseph Miller. Very few even care about distant listeners and don't know what "DXing" is. They play music, spin commercials, and talk to listeners on social media, but do not have any understanding about E-skip or meteors.
I've only received DX correspondence from KXOO 94.3 Elk City OK, and KNYE 95.1 Pahrump NV (the latter asking them about the 'Ace Country' I heard on 95.9...asking if it was also from that area, the GM said it was - KACP Pahrump - which later moved frequencies).
 
crainbebo said:
I don't send reception reports to stations except for whenever DX tests occur and I can get in touch with the CPC / Les Rayburn / Joseph Miller.
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Or me.. since im part of the team. im probably the easiest reachable/quickest to respond

Nor should we expect stations to understand skip. When in PA, I had a CO Springs station try and tell me what I was claiming was impossible.. the audio clip convinced them otherwise.

:)
 
KilowattKat said:
I'm glad to see some stations still recognize DX reception reports. The days of QSL cards and letters from a chief engineer are long gone due to technology.

But I wonder if there are any stations that will still send you a QSL card?
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Japan stations will, but you MUST.. MUST send the report by snail mail. They will NOT respond by email. that goes for ALL of them. I think the only one who has an online form is NHK for their world service shortwave outlets, I think... and maybe Radio Nikkei
 
This is one of my favorites - not really swag, but this web page by a Northern Ireland DXer who snagged stations from the US back in 2009 and received a few surprised letters back when he sent audio clips in, including a "that was me reading the news!" from WVAS Montgomery, AL: https://band2dx.webs.com/tafm09.htm
 
In the 70's from Florida, I used to send reception reports and collect QSLs. A couple of swag items I remember... For an FM skip reception, KSCS in Ft. Worth sent me a station tee-shirt, and CKFH-1430 sent me a car window decal ("CKFH Get it on up the dial").

Not swag, but other interesting memories... I noted in an FM E-skip reception report to a station in New England that one of my local stations was interfering with them. The Engineer or PD in the QSL letter graciously noted that THEY were the ones doing the interfering.

I received a QSL letter in response to a long unanswered report to KFJZ (I think after more than a year) from the Engineer who had found my letter and remembered he was the one on duty running the test that night.

I picked up a strong FM e-skip from an Oklahoma station one evening on the car radio as I neared home. The DJ was giving out the phone number for requests, and since it was after 7pm (cheaper long distance phone), I called to let him know I was hearing his station in Tampa, FL. He mentioned it on the air.

A reception report to KOMA-1520 netted a QSL and an info letter about the IRCA club.
 
I was looking up McGrath, AK to see where it is. It is about 48 square miles, looks like an 8 X 6 mile rectangle, and has about 400 people. Paris, France is only 41 square miles, but has quite an edge on McGrath at about 2.2 million people.
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
I was looking up McGrath, AK to see where it is. It is about 48 square miles, looks like an 8 X 6 mile rectangle, and has about 400 people. Paris, France is only 41 square miles, but has quite an edge on McGrath at about 2.2 million people.
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Not even.

300 people and the inhabitated part of mcgrath is mostly 2 1/2 miles long by maybe a mile wide.
 
Sometimes, there seems to be a dozen definitions for what a "town" is, and I can barely keep things straight. @Schroedingers Cat obviously pulled from the United States Census Bureau (through Wikipedia), and the USCB is a bit...special it seems. They follow the definition of township here, which can encompass McGrath and surrounding areas deemed to be similar, whilst @SomeRadioGuy , like me, goes off of the regular town definition.
 
MCG is the Airport Code for the McGrath Airport. The Runway is 5900 feet, and looks to be about an 18/36 orientation.

On the satellite view, the town looks like something you might have seen on "Northern Exposure" or "The Proposal".

vfrmap.com

Put in MCG in the box.
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
MCG is the Airport Code for the McGrath Airport. The Runway is 5900 feet, and looks to be about an 18/36 orientation.

On the satellite view, the town looks like something you might have seen on "Northern Exposure" or "The Proposal".

vfrmap.com

Put in MCG in the box.
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Go to google maps, type in ksko radio mcgrath, alaska.... it'll bring you to the corner of mcguires drive and chinana avenue.. drop the orange guy on the blue dot that shows up.. youll likely end up facing the airport fence...... turn the guy around and take a peak.
 
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