Just wondering if anyone has contacted stations you DXed and received anything from them, other than an email verification? I'm talking about something like a station shirt, sticker, etc.
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Ever get anything from a station besides an email reply?
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Never said it was. I know for a fact KCJJ sent out a shirt to someone in Miami who heard them at night, so it does happen.
Veries were fun. I had maybe 200 of them back in the Queens NYC DX days. Those glossy blue-and-white CBC cards, for example, were wonderful things to get in the mail, even adequate occasionally to get parental approval from those people who would tell you to clean up that basement -- 'It's filled with DX!'
The bumper stickers and record surveys indeed were terrific hobbies for many. But QSLs were like a pretty girl signing your graduation autograph book -- or even better, like written documentation from a pretty girl's puppy-love letter. In her own writing!
And in the case of the latter, Veries always endured. No verie ever got dumpstered or flushed.
Alas.....
Many here will remember the DX TEST from WWON 1240 Woonsocket R.I. one overnight. Tough state to hear west of West Providence. Off the barefoot GE SR 2 I heard its beeps and toots and joyfully sent them a package with a cassette of it (with some brief neighboring 1230 and 1250 for signal comparison) ..... a picture of the 'den' ...... return postage ...... everything but my house key, where the liquor cabinet was, and the last 9 digits of my SS number.
Nothing came back from WWON. That was it for me. They can go plug there woon into a socket.
Oddly, I got a verie by phone not too long ago. It was on the answering machine, in response to a call I'd made to the station, saying they were coming in atop 1540 on the cheesiest clock radio ever manufactured. I dubbed the call on to an mP3. That reception was from awakening one sunset nap to pop music and a few dozen seafood restaurant spots off WADK. From Newport, in that very same Rhode Island.
The bumper stickers and record surveys indeed were terrific hobbies for many. But QSLs were like a pretty girl signing your graduation autograph book -- or even better, like written documentation from a pretty girl's puppy-love letter. In her own writing!
And in the case of the latter, Veries always endured. No verie ever got dumpstered or flushed.
Alas.....
Many here will remember the DX TEST from WWON 1240 Woonsocket R.I. one overnight. Tough state to hear west of West Providence. Off the barefoot GE SR 2 I heard its beeps and toots and joyfully sent them a package with a cassette of it (with some brief neighboring 1230 and 1250 for signal comparison) ..... a picture of the 'den' ...... return postage ...... everything but my house key, where the liquor cabinet was, and the last 9 digits of my SS number.
Nothing came back from WWON. That was it for me. They can go plug there woon into a socket.
Oddly, I got a verie by phone not too long ago. It was on the answering machine, in response to a call I'd made to the station, saying they were coming in atop 1540 on the cheesiest clock radio ever manufactured. I dubbed the call on to an mP3. That reception was from awakening one sunset nap to pop music and a few dozen seafood restaurant spots off WADK. From Newport, in that very same Rhode Island.
Nope
Audacy radio stations dont even allow the public to contact their stations by email. The contact page on their websites is only for potential advertisers, along with AI generated FAQ's, no phone numbers, email, physical address....NADA!
I've gotten a couple emails back from dx. The last dx was a small station that didn't have a website or email address, but I did send them a letter. Haven't gotten a reply yet.
Kind of On Topic. Sorta of like a verification QSL.
Well, at least maybe for a snicker.
We were at breakfast several years back, the morning when they turned the clocks ahead. Off the GE SRII a nice signal on 1470 was coming in from what turned out to be WBTX, from some dual-city COL in Virginia. I thought I caught the letters, but to make sure phoned them with some info .... program details, a spot or two, a gal doing a detailed weather .... and asked if I heard them. Their answering machine recorded it.
Next day, Monday, around 1PM I got a hearty call from the station's PD. He said yup, that was them. And that was his wife who did the long forecast. He asked if I would do a liner/separator for the station. 'Over the phone is okay'? 'Sure,' he said. So I wrote one out and phoned them back.
The answering machine recorded something like, 'Hi -- this is Steve Green, calling from up in Anthracite Country Pennsylvania .... Saying that we enjoy listening to WBTX 1470 at breakfast every time they set the clocks ahead one hour.'
Dunno if they ever used it. Haven't heard them since.
* Their Timberville COL is a little north of Harrisonburg, and is only a few felled pine tree lengths off Interstate 81, which shusses and honks and pandemonies out the window here, too.
Well, at least maybe for a snicker.
We were at breakfast several years back, the morning when they turned the clocks ahead. Off the GE SRII a nice signal on 1470 was coming in from what turned out to be WBTX, from some dual-city COL in Virginia. I thought I caught the letters, but to make sure phoned them with some info .... program details, a spot or two, a gal doing a detailed weather .... and asked if I heard them. Their answering machine recorded it.
Next day, Monday, around 1PM I got a hearty call from the station's PD. He said yup, that was them. And that was his wife who did the long forecast. He asked if I would do a liner/separator for the station. 'Over the phone is okay'? 'Sure,' he said. So I wrote one out and phoned them back.
The answering machine recorded something like, 'Hi -- this is Steve Green, calling from up in Anthracite Country Pennsylvania .... Saying that we enjoy listening to WBTX 1470 at breakfast every time they set the clocks ahead one hour.'
Dunno if they ever used it. Haven't heard them since.
* Their Timberville COL is a little north of Harrisonburg, and is only a few felled pine tree lengths off Interstate 81, which shusses and honks and pandemonies out the window here, too.
For a "media" company, that is regressive and arse-backwards.
No wonder their stock is in the tank and the company went down the tubes.
What's its stock price now, still a big fat zero?
Maybe because they’re all news but Philly’s KYW has an email address for comments and complaints
KCBS has something similar I think. I know they still advertise their traffic hotline (though they're really pushing the "app" nowadays, which recently gained a "voice message" feature for traffic reporting).Maybe because they’re all news but Philly’s KYW has an email address for comments and complaints
As far as QSLs, I got strated in this hobby waaay too late, so it's all a wasteland. But I did manage to get one QSL from RNZI on shortwave a few years back (it's a pretty easy catch, as their signals seem to be aimed in the general direction of the US west coast).
I tried with the BBC World Service (a distinctly harder signal to catch, since they're definitely not aiming any signals my way), but they don't send QSL cards (digital or otherwise) anymore, which was disappointing.
At any rate, the QSL from RNZI was my first and so far only, and, the way things appear, it will probably be my last.
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Some years ago, I'd regularly write snail mail letters to my DX catches (mostly FM skip) and got a not insignificant number of t-shirts, stickers, some tote bags and keychains. Best haul was CD101 in Columbus that sent several shirts, a couple of mousepads (remember when that was a big thing?) and a load of stickers.
It was tough to get a QSL card with full details from the BBC WS even during the golden age of shortwave listening. They'd send you a card, but there'd be only the bare essentials on it.
I issue EQSL's for reports of our 5900 khz broadcast Fri 21-22UTC via Kostinbrod/Sofia, Bulgaria to Europe. But I e xpect a report with SINPO code and at least some details... and in many cases, i must have audio from the dxer too
I used to do a lot of ham band DXing, and collected hundreds of QSLs, but the noise floor the past few years has been so high that I've been using web SDRs exclusively. Sometimes I get an urge to send a reception report, but then I remember that what I'm doing on someone else's SDR isn't really reception.
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There's a guy who does a show called "Cruisin the Decades" that's also broadcast on shortwave who sends QSLs:
cruisinthedecades.com
Here's a list of the stations it's on, including shortwave:
About Cruisin' The Decades - Cruisin' The Decades
Cruisin’ The Decades is a one-of-a-kind weekly 60-minute radio program broadcasting over 100 years of recorded music, playing one song per decade from the 1920’s to the 2020’s. Cruisin’ The Decades shines a spotlight on several genres of music, while focusing on the history, technology of...
cruisinthedecades.com
There's a guy who does a show called "Cruisin the Decades" that's also broadcast on shortwave who sends QSLs:
Here's a list of the stations it's on, including shortwave:About Cruisin' The Decades - Cruisin' The Decades
Cruisin’ The Decades is a one-of-a-kind weekly 60-minute radio program broadcasting over 100 years of recorded music, playing one song per decade from the 1920’s to the 2020’s. Cruisin’ The Decades shines a spotlight on several genres of music, while focusing on the history, technology of...
And KSKO is the reason the show went from a local Akron, OH show to now internaitonally syndicated
Brad saw me one day talk about a live KSKO show being simulcast on WRMI SW... didnt know he could do that so he started buying time to air recordings of CTD on WRMI, just the Akron, OH version.
A few weeks in, i asked what the show was about and decided to start carrying it as a mostly Akron based show. A few weeks in, he created a global version of the show.... and has repeatedly said KSKO asking to carry it was the impedimus to syndicate to show, now on like 60 stations including the Armed Forces Networks!
Wow that's cool!
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