Greetings from across the Atlantic. I now think I have had the pleasure of shortly capturing the signals of KROS 1340 AM here in Finland, Europe, on the 15th of January with my Perseus SDR receiver and about a 1000-yard-long antenna wire pointing towards eastern North America. I don’t have such a monster-long antenna at home, but I was on a radio excursion in Northern Finland where we had enough space for some such antennas, and no man-made noise around. I will enclose you two mp3 files so that you can hear how the actual reception was like, and to confirm whether or not you hear a familiar station identification in them.
At 01.00 a.m. Central Standard Time I noticed the following announcement on 1340 AM: “This is AM 13-40 .. Clinton” by a woman announcer, and then by a man “and 105.9.” CBS news followed.
At 01.06 a.m. another idientification was heard: “AM 13-40 KROS,” but then the signal unfortunately soon disappeared.
I am a 60-year-old teacher of English and Spanish in Joensuu, Finland. My wife Riitta is a teacher of German, and we have a 26-year-old son called Matti who studies information technology and also a cat called Viiru (Stripes). My hobbies include painting, playing tennis and this radio hobby of trying to catch distant radio signals. My home town Joensuu with its 72,000 inhabitants was founded in 1848 at the beautiful mouth of the river Pielisjoki (Joensuu means “mouth of a river”). The whole region is dotted with hundreds and hundreds of lakes.
We are back to decent winter temperatures now – it’s about 28 degrees F at the moment – but during two weeks in January we suffered from a very cold spell, with temperatures all the way down to 25 F below. Contrary to what I have seen on TV news from your part of the world we don’t have much snow here (yet 🙂 this year.
I wish you all the best in all of your daily activities and hope that the operation of your station would always be prosperous. I would really appreciate receiving your short reception acknowledgement to be included in my collection of radio endeavors. I would be very happy with a simple “yes, you did it” verification as a tangible memento of our pleasant contact via the airwaves if the report is correct.
Yours,
Jussi Suokas, Kuusamatie
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