WFLI Lookout Mountain TN 1070

I'm overwhelmed by the kindness and helpfulness of Jeff Gregory (WA4HLV) at WFLI!

Jeff confirms my January 4, 2013 reception this way: "It was a very hard copy, but after listening to the audio clip about 20 times, there is, as you said, a "WFLI" about 20 seconds in. By the rhythm it was said, I believe it was our announcer Carl Human. You heard us at 2229Z, which was the very last minute we were on 50,000 watts that day. In the month of January, we drop to 2500 watts at sunset at 2230Z and shift our directional pattern to the southeast."
"WFLI has been on the air in Chattanooga since the year 1961. It was built by Mr. Billy Benns, who was an expert on directional AM. WFLI was the top station in the market in the 1960s with a rock and roll format. The Benns family still owns the station today; and the format is a mix of religion, politics, news, sports, talk, music, and infomercials."

KOY Phoenix AZ 1230

KOY - "the valley's home for smooth jazz" - was heard on December 7, 2012 - a day which still needs further investigation. Thank you Dave Sanford for confirming my reception tonight, and thank you OJS for identifying this station!

KOY was my QSL #1400 from North America (Alaska, Canada and USA; MW only).

WRSA St. Albans VT 1420

Thank you OJS for finding this station back in December 2010, and thank you Jon Hosford, Director of Engineering at Montpelier Broadcasting, for confirming my reception!

WSAM Saginaw MI 1400

Thank you OJS for finding this station! My reception was confirmed by Jeff McDermott at MacDonald Broadcasting.

ZYL268 Rádio Itatiaia, Belo Horizonte MG 610

Rádio Itatiaia was heard in Kongsfjord on September 18, 2011. I was close to giving up my reminders when I suddenly received a nice confirmation by email from Luciani Oliveira, Coordenadora de Comunicação.

WXEX Exeter NH 1540

Last night there were several alerts about increasing conditions for reception of North American stations, and at 2101 UTC I could hear an ID for long time wanted WXEX. At 0618 EST today I got a very nice email from Steve Thomas: "Good Morning Arnstein and yes sir……that’s our Legal ID I picked up in your audio file.  Well done sir!

To answer your question, our power at 4:01PM Eastern Standard Time would be 2,500 watts (Critical Hours power from 2:30 to 4:30PM in the month of January) and then we take a huge step down to night power after that."

Thank you OJS both for alerting and for pointing out this station!

KOLY Mobridge SD 1300

"Yes, the recording was KOLY in Mobridge, SD, USA.  On December 9, 2012 at 8:00 AM CST/7:00 AM MST, KOLY AM at 1300 Khz would have been operating on "Pre-Sunrise" power of 500 Watts as the "full-power" of 5,000 Watts is not for a full 15 minutes later at 8:15 AM CST/7:15 AM MST", John Schreier writes.
Thank you OJS for finding this station!

WMRD Middletown CT 1150

A very nice email from Don DeCesare, President and General Manager of Crossroads Communications, confirmes my reception of WMRD. "I've mentioned you and your friends on the air more than once, as we now consider you part of our regular audience!", Don writes :-)
To the left is a photo of Don interviewing the young mayor of Middletown on 4th of July.
Thank you Don, and thank you OJS for finding this station!

WWWL New Orleans LA 1350

In the morning of November 6, 2012 I heard sports and an announcement for WWL when I was listening to 1350 AM. I sent an email to New Orleans to ask if this possibly could be WWWL. The first reply turned my hopes down, but two days later they came back to me with this:
"I have some good news for you.  I have researched this some more and found the true answer.  On Monday November 5^th we had a lot of different programs to juggle on the air and had to switch around some of our programming to other stations.  This night was the only night that Monday Night Football was broadcast on WWWL-1350-AM and the news that followed that broadcast is what you heard in Norway.  I am pleased to report to you the recording you sent me was in fact from 1350-AM in New Orleans.  The voices heard were our Saints play by play man Jim Henderson and our news reporter Shana Rose.  Further, this is a remarkable feat as 1350-AM is only 5,000 watts and after dark it is changed to a directional signal pointing south."
Jim McCutcheon is my man in the Big Easy!

KJOX Kennewick WA 1340

Amy Raye LeMasters kindly confirmed my reception of KJOX, heard from Smøla with a nice signal on October 31, 2012. "Your email was quite the topic of discussion in our building today! I was genuinely excited to hear you were able to pick up KJOX 1340 AM here in Kennewick, Washington", Amy writes.

WTDR Gadsden AL 1350

Less than 30 minutes after I heard WWWL, I also picked up WTDR on 1350 AM on November 6, 2012. Both were indeed most wanted! James C. Burton, Operations Manager/Production Director,  writes: "Yes, what you heard was in fact WTDR 1350 AM. Funny thing is, had you listened before October, you would have heard something completely different. We were airing a News Talk format until 10/5, then we began simulcasting an FM station out of Oxford (Thunder 92.7). As you can see below we have two other AM stations, and there is actually a third station (1490 AM) which is what 104.3 and 99.1 are simulcasting off of. I'd never actually heard of DX'ing until I received this email and Googled it, and that is really cool that you can pick us up! Let me know if you can pick up any of our other stations".

WIP Philadelphia PA 610

WIP was a nice surprise on December 9, 2012. Thanks a lot to Andy Bloom, Operations Manager, for confirming my reception.

KTUV Little Rock AR 1440

La Pantera 1440 AM KTUV was heard on its offset frequency for more than an hour on October 30, 2012 - in my opinion the best day for NA DX so far this season. Henrik Klemetz helped me identify the station, and Henrik even phoned the station to find a valid email address. A few days later Mel Contreras sent me a most welcome email to confirm the reception. Thank you, Henrik and Mel!

WYCB Washington DC 1340

Hearing “Need a song of inspiration? Here is one now, on 13-40 WYCB” gave me a kick, and so did the email from Kent Kramer, Chief Engineer. 

Thank you OJS for finding this station!

WEOK Poughkeepsie NY 1390

I found this most wanted station on a recording from the evening of October 30, 2012. Thank you Tom Morgan, Chief Engineer / Program Director, for confirming the reception!