Home
New  Equipment
Used Equipment
Specials
Our Office
What We Do
Customers
Rate Card
Web Links
Personal
 

Radio Broadcast Technical Consulting and Sales

Customer

KVBR Radio
 1340 KHz/1 KW Day & Night
Brainerd, MN
The telephone number is 218-828-1244

Dear Mark, I am a radio enthusiast who enjoys listening for long distance radio signals. About two years ago I heard WVAL on 800 AM and got your confirmation, thank you once more for that! Now, on November 1, 2011, I had the pleasure of hearing KVBR broadcasting on 1340 kilohertz.  At 11:59 PM an ad (or PSA?) with many diseases mentioned, phone# 888-980-3325 and web “Oneworld .. com”, your station identification: “.. money matters .. Weekday mornings at 9, 1340 K-V-B-R, Brainerd’s Business Radio” and ABC News.  Even though the reception was possible for a short time only, it was fantastic to hear your program so far away, I really enjoyed it!

I spent a week in October/November 2011 in Lemmenjoki (Love River!) listening to North American AM-stations. My setup consists of a Perseus SDR-receiver and the antenna system, consisting of long wires hanging on the branches of trees, was designed for DX reception on the AM broadcast band.  Because of the long antennas and favourable atmospheric conditions I was able to pick up your signal. 

With best wishes from Finland,
Sincerely,
Hakan Sundman
Helsinki, Finland

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.

 

The reception of KVBR Brainerd MN on 1340 kHz,  November 1st - 2nd 2011 at CDT, just at your local midnight:

12.00   The end of a network program, and the identification by a male announcer:
                “..Money Matters..weekday mornings at 9, at 13-40 KVBR Brainerd Business Radio.”
12.00   Fade out, possibly into network news.              

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

Dear Mark,  Thank you for confirming my reception of KKIN AM 930 a while ago.  Cool to see the report with my picture on a Web page!

In the meanwhile, I have continued careful listening through the data files from my DX-ing expedition to the North of Finland just in front of Christmas.  While I heard KKIN on December 19, there was also a fairly decent atmospheric skip your direction on December 18, 2010 at 6:05 AM Central Standard Time.  On that day, I had the pleasure to hear KVBR AM 1340 programming.

The KVBR signal was audible just for a short moment, after the hourly news, and I was able to hear a promotion given by Jim Bohannon, the famous talk show host. He says something in the order of the following:  "Hi, this is Jim Bohannon inviting you to join me..on Brainerd´s Business Radio 1340 K-V-B-R...conversation of the hot topics of the day...politics...Wall street..."

As with KKIN, I was listening with my Perseus SDR ( Software Definer Radio) utilizing a 3000-foot long-wire antenna pointed roughly your direction.

Very best regards
Hannu Niileksela
Helsinki - Finland

November 17, 2010 e-mail: Subject: KVBR 1340 AM heard loud and clear in Finland!  Hi friends, I am an eager listener of medium and short wave broadcasting stations from all over the world.  Especially I am interested in North American stations that are heard regularly here in North Europe in the middle of the winter with signals travelling over the North Pole to thousands of miles away.

I had the pleasure to listen to your station KVBR AM on 1340 Kilohertz on the 17th of November 2009 at 04.55 am to 05.05 am CST.  The signal strength was moderate and fading moderate. 

My receiver is an American SDR – IQ (Software Defined Receiver) with an 800 meter (2625 foot) long  antenna pointed towards the Midwest U.S.

Here are some program details to authenticate reception (time CST ): 04.55am Talk programme by a male announcer.  04.59 am Station identification by a male announcer: “You are listening to 1340 KVBR , Brainerd Business Radio.“             

I am a 56-year-old telephone engineer living in Central Finland near Jyväskylä, home of well-known university and also the headquarters of Valmet Paper Machinery. During some 40 years I have heard  broadcasting stations from some 200 countries.  My special interests are North American stations.

It was very nice to listen to your station in the middle of snow and darkness in Lapland, North of the Arctic Circle in the company of wolves and reindeer !  I was there with a friend on a DX-pedition.  In the temperature of some minus 40 degrees Centigrade we erected five antennas of some 800-1000 metres in length (what a feat it was !) and sat in a small cabin for a week listening to North American AM-stations.  We logged some 450 in all!  The only company were some local inhabitants with their dog, reindeer, and a couple of wolves.

I´d like to send my best wishes to all Finnish-oriented people living in your area.  Wishing you successful broadcasting and greetings from Finland with warm greetings

Mr Yrjo Kainulainen , MScEE
Palokka, FINLAND, North Europe
Greetings from Oulu, Finland! My name is Jari Ruohomäki and I send this letter to you because I was able to listen to your station´s program here in Finland with my special equipment.

I am 48 years old and have a 22-year old daughter Anniina who is a university student of logopedics and a 18-year-old son Antti.  I am a teacher of biology and geography for pupils from 13 to 16 years.

Oulu is the 5th biggest city in Finland with more than 130 000 inhabitants. It is situated just at the northern end of the  Gulf of Bothnia in the northern  part of Finland, more than 300 miles north of the southern coast and Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Oulu is the center of culture, traffic, sports and industry of northern Finland.  Please check http://www.oulu.ouka.fi/ for more information of Oulu. Please note that you can change the language in to English from the left upper corner.

Since 1973 my main hobby has been listening to foreign radio stations. As you may know this hobby is called dx-listening. Since the beginning of the 1980´s I have concentrated on listening to North-American AM stations. The conditions for listening are quite bad here in the region of Oulu. Therefore I go each winter with a friend of mine to the most northern part of Finland called Lapland for a listening expedition. We spend a week or two in an isolated cottage. The conditions are much better there because of less interference from human activities and from European AM stations. It is also possible to have long wire antennas which are ideal for our listening purposes. For the expedition we usually go to Lemmenjoki, some 200 miles north of the Arctic circle and 350 miles north of Oulu. It was right there I was able to hear your station, too. Please check for a full story of the expedition: http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/lem287rep.dx
It was written by  Mika Mäkeläinen with whom I spent 10 days in Lapland.

I was able to hear your station as follows:
- FREQUENCY: 1340 AM
- DATE: 30TH DECEMBER 2009
- TIME: 4.06 AM CST
The male announcer gives the station identification from 30 to 33 seconds: “ ... that´s the look at the forecast for Brainerd business radio 13-40 KVBR”

My receiver is a Japanese made JRC NRD 535D communications receiver with an inbuilt digital frequency computer. When I heard your station my antenna was a 3300-feet-long copper wire which was directed to North-America, towards your area to be exact. In fact, I had five different antennas in Lemmenjoki pointing to five different North-American directions.  Yours,

Jari Ruohomäki
OULU, FINLAND
Find KVBR on the Web at:  http://www.brainerdradio.net/kvbr

Back to the WJJY/KBLB/KUAL page

  Back to Customers page   

 

  Return to Home Page

page last edited 12/07/2011