DX Pedition Aitoo

Another quickly arranged DX pedition to the village of Aitoo. This time also North American signals. The following frequencies were open with Canadian or US stations: 1010, 1050, 1120, 1130, 1200, 1210, 1300, 1310, 1320, 1390, 1400 ,1410, 1500, 1510, 1520, 1560, 1660 and 1700 kHz.

AM LOG - Sunday 14 Oct. 2007

1200 0115 CAN: CFGO Ottawa, ON. Good signal. "Sports radio 1200". I remember this station had different station format when I heard it last time in the 90's.

1300 0206 USA: WOOD Grand Rapids, MI. Weak signal but I was able to hear "Newsradio 1300 W-O-O-D" ID. I thought that this was a new station for me when I heard it a couple of days later - but it was found from the recordings of Oct. 14th as well.

1300 0343 USA: KKOL Seattle, WA. A new station for me. One commercial was leading me to think this station and I heard also a station promo which started like "It's KOL it's the KOL season...". When I discovered from my notes that I had the same station promo also four days later at the same time I decided to check what kind of programme content is available on the station's Internet stream at that particular time. The word "KOL" or should I say "call" turned out to be "fall" actually... so it wasn't any ID. However, the station was solved to be KKOL and there was also a real station ID a half of minute later. The ID part was barely recognizable. Sound samples for comparing: my recording and from the Internet stream.

1300 0238 USA: UNID. Which one this is - WOOD or KKOL or even something else? Please listen to the sound clips: 1, 2

1310 0146 CAN: CIWW Ottawa, ON. "Top 40 Classics Oldies 13-10". A new station for me.

1320 0033 CAN: CKEC New Glasgow, NS. A new station for me. Good signal and great IDs several times.

1390 0401 USA: WEGP Presque Isle, ME. "WEGP 13-90 Presque Isle Thank you for listening".

1410 0359 CAN: CFUN Vancouver, BC. "C-FUN 14-10 AM".

1510 0257 USA: KCKK Littleton, CO. This was found from the recordings and it was a new station for me. "This is pioneer hockey on a new Mile High Sports Radio AM 15-10".

1510 0425 USA: WWZN Boston, MA. "Right here on 15-10 the Zone".

1520 0231 USA: WWKB Buffalo, NY. Promo for their "Estate Findings Show". Thank You JOE for your help identifying this station! Sound clip MP3.

1560 0105 USA: WQEW New York, NY. I thought that ESPN here was from some another station but JMS told me that it's only 1560 NY fooling us here. Later in the morning (in Finnish time) usual Radio Disney programme output including "AM 15-60 Radio Disney" ID.

1660 0259 USA: KQWB West Fargo, ND. "And you are listening to ... home for ESPN radio K-Q-W-B AM West Fargo - Fargo Moorhead 16-60 ESPN".

1700 0412 MEX: XEPE Tecate, BC. Thank You JOE for your great help in solving this station! I couldn't even imagine that Mexican stations could speak wide American English.... Public Service Announcement mentioning San Diego and also (858) phone number. I don't know if the second sound clip is also from this station. Sound clips: 1, 2.