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DX Listener Reports for WVAL, Sauk Rapids, MN, USA |
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Dear Mark, I had the real pleasure of
catching station WVAL on 800 kHz when listening to radio stations on
an expedition to the Finnish Lapland. My receiver was a software
defined communicationsreceiver Perseus and as an antenna I used a
3,000 ft longwire to west, 292 degrees. 31 January 2021 10.19
pm local time (1 Feb 04.19 am GMT). I am 54 years old and married with Kristiina. I work as Professor of English at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu where I teach English and Cultural Studies. My main field of research is American and British literature, and I have published a number of books in this area. I am particularly interested in postcolonial and ethnic studies. Joensuu is a lively town in eastern Finland only 60 kilometers to the border with Russia. There live about 75,000 people here, and the most important trades are commerce and services. Besides the University, founded in the late 1960s to provide experts for the needs of Eastern Finland, many other schools are located here, too. Joensuu is best known for its annual rock festival: the Ilosaarirock (www.ilosaarirock.fi) festival with 35,000 participants is going strong and attracts lots of young people to the town every July, but not this year, of course. Dr. Jopi Nyman, JOENSUU, FINLAND |
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| Mark! My name is Ole Forr. I'm a 63 year old radio entusiast from Norway (Europe). I like to try to pick up North American AM stations. Together with friends OJ Sagdahl and Bjarne Mjelde, we have an antenna project in Northen Norway (Kongsfjord). On October 17, 2020, it sounds like we had a good opening to Sauk Rapids, MN, as I was able to hear both WBHR 660 and WVAL 800. At 1:00 a.m CDT for WVAL, country music followed by a station Jingle "....W-V-A-L Sauk Rapids-Saint Cloud." See our blog at: http://arcticdx.blogspot.com/ Thanks. Ole Forr, Sor-Fron, Norway. | ||
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October 14, 2020: At 00.32 a.m. Central Daylight Time
I noticed a country song on 800 AM, which my Shazam app
recognized to be "My Blue Angel" by Aaron Tippin. At
00.33 a.m. non-stop Merle Haggard with "Kentucky Gambler."
The signal disappeared for a while, but then at 00.45 a.m.
the identification, "This is AM 800 WVAL." More country
music after that. Heavy interference from CKLW
Windsor, Ontario the whole time. At this point I just
can't help bragging a bit :) that I've seen Merle Haggard
live way back in 1977 in the holiest of all country venues,
the
Grand Ole Opry...Best regards,
Jussi Suokas, JOENSUU, FINLAND
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I am in the 40's and live in Ume in northern Sweden. This is a university town with a population of about 120.000. I have a wife and two girls (9 and 7 years). I work as a researcher in Molecular Biology at Ume University, and I have been enjoying DX-ing since I started listening to shortwave on my parents' Arena gramophone/radio receiver back in the 80's. My report is from October 27, 2012, at 10:00 pm CDT (0300 GMT/UTC). The location was Parkalompolo, a small village in the far north of Sweden (north of the Arctic circle). My receiver is Perseus software defined receiver and the antenna was a 1000 meter wire beamed towards the central parts of North America. There was also interference from other stations using 800, one of them was Radio Canon in Mexico. I think your transmitter did a good job indeed that day! I heard "Country, we're 800 WVAL," then a country song was heard. That station is definitely among the best "catches" I have done in recent years. Any info about your station is of interest too. Thank you very much in advance and the best to you from Sweden, Jan Oscarsson |
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