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Asfalt Telegrafen will broadcast on 1440 AM

December 14, 2025 / Peter Reuderink / 0 Comments

eQSL from Asfaltstelegrafen, Ludvika, Sweden

Asfalt Telegrafen is a hobby station that received a temporary license to broadcast on 1494 kHz every year around New Year’s Eve. That was all there was to it for this friendly station. But on the Asfalt Telegrafen website, I read that they received a new frequency, 1440 AM:

November 27, 2025:

After three requests, we have finally received a new frequency from PTS, the Swedish postal and telecommunications company, namely 1440 kHz = 208.3 meters on the medium wave band.

And the Arctic DX Club now reports the following via SDXF:

We have fantastic news: thanks to a generous offer from Torleif Roos, the Arctic Radio Club can broadcast weekend programs via Asfalt Telegrafen. Peter Stillberg has compiled two programs that will be broadcast according to the following schedule:

On December 20th and 21st (repeat), and on December 24th and 25th (repeat) from 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM on SNT on 1440 kHz, the old frequency of Radio Luxembourg!

Listener reports can be emailed to: Asfalttelegrafen: am1440khz@gmail.com or CountryGospelChurch: peter@countrygospelchurch.com
Correct reports will be answered with a QSL card via email.

We hope for a good reception. Many thanks to Peter and Torleif for this excellent arrangement. We would like to congratulate Torleif, because after three attempts, he has finally received permission from PTS to transmit Asfalttelegrafen on 1440 kHz for the entire first half of 2026!

Greetings
Peter Stillberg

So it looks like we can enjoy Asfalt Telegrafen for much longer, and the above offers some great QSL opportunities!

QSL RuquiRadioAM

December 12, 2025 / Peter Reuderink / 0 Comments

Ruqui is the nickname of Jordan Alcolea. I followed him on his DX blog RuquiDX already for quite some time. Here he posts about his radio receptions and QSLs.

But Jordan also has a radio program that runs on Channel 292, Radio Casanova and Wooferton: RuquiRadioAM. I heard him with a program with nice “Celta Folk Rock” and a German/Spanish ID:

Jordan answered my report to ruquiradioam@hotmail.com in 3 weeks with a very nice QSL:

You can find the schedule for the RuquiRadioAm upcoming broadcasts here. Big thanks to Jordan. After the famous Glenn Hauser he is probably the second DX-er which I heard with his own shortwave radio show.

QSL WBT Charlotte 1110 AM

December 10, 2025 / Peter Reuderink / 0 Comments

A very nice QSL from WBT Charlotte, North Carolina, broadcasting on 1110 AM. Not my first QSL from North Carolina, as it is the home of the Greenville VOA transmitters for as long as it lasts.

Back to WBT in Charlotte, North Carolina, one of the oldest and most powerful radio stations in the southeastern United States. It first signed on the air on April 10, 1922, as the fourth licensed commercial radio station in North Carolina, originally owned by the Southern Radio Corporation and operating with just 100 watts. Early programming featured live music, local talent, and play-by-play broadcasts of the Charlotte Hornets minor-league baseball team.

eQSL from WBT Charlotte… a prime example of stations that honor their DX listeners!

In 1925 the station was purchased by Charlotte automobile dealer C.C. Coddington, who increased power and moved the studios into the city. The call letters WBT (which originally stood for “Watch Buick Travel,” a nod to early sponsor Buick) became permanently associated with Charlotte when Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company (later Jefferson-Pilot, and now Lincoln Financial) acquired the station in 1929. Under Jefferson ownership, WBT joined CBS in 1929, became a 50,000-watt clear-channel station in 1933 (one of the first in the South), and built its famous three-tower directional array on Nations Ford Road that still protects WWWE in Cleveland at night.

And a nice email as well… Kudoos to WBT!

From the 1930s through the 1960s, WBT was the dominant full-service station in the Carolinas, airing a mix of network programs, country music shows (including the legendary Briarhoppers), farm reports, and powerful news operations that made it a primary emergency information source during hurricanes and ice storms. It shifted to news/talk in the 1970s, added FM simulcast on 99.3 WBT-FM (later WLNK) in the 1990s, and was sold along with Jefferson-Pilot’s broadcasting assets to Greater Media in 2006 and then to Entercom (now Audacy) in 2017.

Today, after more than a century on the air, WBT remains Charlotte’s heritage news/talk station, still broadcasting with 50,000 watts on 1110 kHz and identifying itself proudly as “The News Talk 1110 & 99.3 WBT.”

I heard them on October 16th LT with a “Go Rhino” commercial:

I’m really grateful for the fact that there are still stations that award DX listeners with nice QSLs. A big thanks to WBT an their team!

WBT could be heard regularly at my QTH in October 2025. The clip below is what I heard on from October 23rd, with clear WBT ID’s.

QSL Radio Transparant 1008 kHz

December 6, 2025 / Peter Reuderink / 0 Comments

1008 kHz is a busy frequency here in Woerden. With the antenna directed 300 degrees for Transatlantic reception Radio Experience, Wageningen is dominant. Hugo Matten made me aware of a new radio station from Monster near The Hague, Radio Intiem. As conditions for TA DX were poor I changed the direction of my antenna to block out Radio Experience, heard Radio Intiem with a test transmission on Saturday, but Radio Transparant in decent quality on Sunday.

My reception report to info@radiotransparant was confirmed with an email:

Below a clip of their show with a “Dit is Radio Transparant voor de omgeving Flevoland” ID.

Radio Transparant is registered as an LPAM station Creil, in the Noordoostpolder. The Noordoostpolder was the first of three huge reclamation projects to gain more agricultural land in The Netherlands, which added a 12th province to The Netherlands.

Reception here (120 kms) benefits from the fact that the groundwave signal is across the IJsselmeer.

QSL NDB 385-IS Ísafjörður

December 3, 2025 / Peter Reuderink / 2 Comments

NDB 385-IS is located in northwestern Iceland. It serves the small airport of Ísafjörður. Located in the fjord the approach of this airport is quite challenging requiring flying along the mountains and making a sharp turn before landing.

The beacon IS is located at the entrance of the fjord, situated on a cliff which seems to house several antennas:

The beacon IS Ísafjörður is one of the antennas located on top of the cliff

My reception report was confirmed by Hjalti Guðmundsson from Isavia.

QSL Radio Intiem 1008 kHz

December 1, 2025 / Peter Reuderink / 0 Comments

Radio Intiem is a new LPAM station from the village of Monster near The Hague. They started testing two weeks ago, and are broadcasting with 100 W on Saturday only. Cor Hendriks from Radio Intiem ( radiointiem(at)gmail.com ) confirmed my reception report within a day:

Thanks for your email. We restarted two weeks ago after a 30-year hiatus.
We were a pirate FM station from 1984 to 1995, and now we’re legal on AM.
We broadcast only on Saturdays from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM.
There’s also a stream available; download the My Tuner Radio app.
We’re still in the testing phase.
Greetings from Cor Hendriks of Radio Intiem in Westland.

“You can’t get closer to heaven” is a nice article (in Dutch) about the history of Radio Pirates in Westland, the region with all the greenhouses south of The Hague.

Radio Intiem audio clip November 29th

Radio Intiem wasn’t an easy catch. Normally I have the loop antenna 120/300 degrees for transatlantic reception. But it results in Radio Experience from Wageningen being dominant. I’ve often noticed that reception along the river area in the central part of The Netherlands is pretty good. So I turned the antenna 10/190 to get them at the null. But this favored Radio Transparant from Creil, who also have the benefit that their direction is over the water surface of the IJsselmeer mainly.

QSL Svalbard Radio 8414.5 kHz

November 30, 2025 / Peter Reuderink / 0 Comments

A QSL from Kystradio Nord for the reception of Svalbard Radio (Spitsbergen) on 8414.5 kHz. It was the first time I received them on this frequency. Earlier I heard them on 2182.5 kHz, please consult my previous post for more details about this station.

This time I heard them responding to a test call of the Russian Ice Class Crude Carrier “Kapitan Gotsky, which was located near Nova Zembla. On the picture below you can see the very special design of such a ship.

Kapitan Gotsky acts as a shuttle between a production location near Nova Zembla and the port of Murmansk (source: shipinfo.net).

And no suprise, the ship is on Sanction List as a consequence of the war between Russia and the Ukraine.

QSL NDB 355-RK Reykjavik

November 28, 2025 / Peter Reuderink / 0 Comments

Isavia was so kind to send me a QSL for 5 radio beacons from Iceland I received recently. See also previous posts of NDB GO, and NDB 387-NB and 415-OE. NDB RK Reykjavik operates Reykjavik Domestic Airport. The beacon is situated on the golf course of Golfklúbbur Seltjarnarnes.

Reykjavik Airport was constructed by the British Army during World War II on the site that was previously in use for sea planes mainly. After the war the airport was handed over to the Icelandic government. It acted as the main gateway for international flights from Iceland. But it was considered too small for the bigger jet planes introduced in the 60-ies which instead used Keflavik Airport (50 kms away).

Ever since there have been discussions on the future of Reykjavik Airport. In 2019 that resulted in the closure of the shortest runway, allowing housing development projects. Other than that no decision has been made on closure or relocation.

QSL Sunny Jim’s Trance Journey via Channel 292 9670 kHz

November 23, 2025 / Peter Reuderink / 0 Comments

As I wrote to Jim: “If you would have asked me if there would be Trance on Shortwave… I would have said no.” But with good quality reception via Channel 292 it is possible, although it my wife who goes to trance festivals with me preferring to stay behind the radio.

Within a day I got this nice fully detailed QSL from Jim for my reception report of SJTJ on Channel 292, Germany. Sunny Jim (Jim Salmon) has a very nice website about his radio adventures.

QSL Radio Radio via Channel 292 9670 kHz

November 22, 2025 / Peter Reuderink / 0 Comments

A QSL for the reception of Radio Radio via Channel 292, Rohrbach, Germany on 9670 kHz. The QSL address was the same as for The Ghoul: differentradio@yahoo.co.uk .