Radio Broadcast Technical Consulting and Sales

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KQDS Radio
1490 KHz/1 KW Day & Night
Duluth, MN

The KQDS telephone number is 218-728-9500

Greetings from Finland, from the northernmost corner of Europe!  I’m one of the distant listeners who has picked up your broadcasts on radio waves with my special communications receiver, here on the northern latitudes of the world. This communication indeed took place with a radio receiver, not via Internet. I was lucky to hear two stations that your company produces services for, so I’m happy to report them in hope that the material could be confirmed with an email verification.  Thank you already beforehand for the reply.

I’m a 51-year old Sales Development Director, and my favorite pastime since early 1970s has been to listen to the distant radio stations with my special receiver - I still like to listen to a distant radio station with a communications receiver, together with the adjacent noise and interference, though a net stream is available for many stations. 

I live in the capital area, which is the southernmost coastal area of Finland.  Every winter I rent an old house in the northern part of our country, in the region called Lapland.  This location is very remote, 30 miles to the nearest small town to buy daily supplies; and there are just a few houses in the whole area, which is called Love River in English. The only purpose for me to go into the middle of nowhere for one full week is to listen to the North American AM stations in perfect peace and tranquility.

Reception of KQDS Duluth MN 1490 kHz, exactly at the same date and time, November 1^st – 2^nd 2011 at CDT midnight:

12.00   A male announcer gave the identification with a station promo:
               “..weekdays noon to 3, on KQDS AM, Duluth-Superior. The Fan 14-90!”
12.00   The sports talk continued, but the noise level and interference took over the frequency.                

I used a special communications receiver, Perseus SDR, and the aerial was a directional beverage, 3000 feet, directed to central USA. As Perseus SDR receiver is a software defined radio with a large scale recording function to cover the AM band at the same time, I was able to record the medium wave band with this software program, and to listen carefully each frequency on the top of the hour, afterwards. That’s how I was able to record and hear two stations on different frequencies at the same time. The signal strength and the reception in general was moderate during this short reception on both of these frequencies.  Thank You for taking time for this international correspondence!

Best regards,
Hannu Tikkanen
Espoo, Finland

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