In the last week of October I received strong signals from WCBS 880 New York. Click the link for a YouTube recording. On the internet I could find a QSL report from 2016, but nothing of a more recent date.
WCBS Newsradio 880 is operated by the Audacy group in the United States. Audacy apparently owns 235 radio stations. In 2017 they took over CBS radio, which might explain why I couldn’t find a QSL of a more recent date as Audacy appears to be not very “friendly” to DX-ers or even listeners overseas in general. All of their websites can’t be viewed in Europe for example, unless you use a VPN to bypass the IP blocker. And if you do so: contact email addresses are nowhere to be found.
So in addition to a traditional mail, on which I didn’t receive a reply, I sent them a Facebook message for my reception in January this year. All I got was a generic message expressing their appreciation… Disappointing that a group with a 1.5 billion USD revenue can’t do a little bit more in terms of public relations.
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Ja Peter het is zwaar nu geen QSL, beetje zout in de wond, jaren 60 s’nachts in de koude huiskamer ontvangst met net zo’n type radio WCBS op 880 per post zo ging dat een QSL kaart.
Mooie tijden, succes.
If you ever hear Heavy Metal music on 1620 AM , it is my station here in US east coast . I always wonder if my signal could under the right conditions bounce down in a distant land ,though not likely it is possible .
What is your station Carlos? Is it one of the Low Power ones? They have been heard here in Europe. There are no licensed stations from Europe active on this frequency anymore, and pirates often seize operation late night/early morning when propagation is best. Only issue is that on 1620 Radio Rebelde is quite a bit stronger and heard often here (but it isn’t always in the air).
73s, Peter