WIBD was heard both now and back in January at Lista. No reply this past winter, but this time Rick Jensen, Group News Director at parent company Magnum Media confirmed my recording of the station.
WIBD is not a very common guest on 1470 kHz here. No wonder as the station broadcasts with a modest power of just 2,5 kilowatts. WIBD is located in West Bend, Wisconsin, and covers the northern parts of Milwaukee. The station broadcasts a classic hits format.
Wisconsin bonanza! The last result of the good conditions towards Wisconsin in January 2019 came when John Bauer, Director of Engineering, confirmed my report of WOZN “The Zone” on 1670 kHz.
WOZN The Zone is one of the more regularly heard Wisconsin stations here. They are fairly common on 1670 kHz broadcasting with a night time power of 1 kilowatt. WOZN carries a sports talk programme and is located in the Wisconsin capital Madison.
More QSL as a result of last January’s superb conditions towards Wisconsin: WOTE in Clintonville, Wisconsin, was heard reasonably well at times on 1380 kHz. I received a short e-mail from General Manager Eric Schmidt confirming my reception of the station.
WOTE is a sports station broadcasting mainly network programming from Fox Sports, ESPN, NBC Sports Radio etc. The station broadcasts with a night time power of 1,8 kilowatts. WOTE’s parent company Results Broadcasting also owns 960 WTCH, by the way. WTCH was another “first” which made it into our log during the nice Wisconsin opening at Lista in January 2019.
Last year’s DX-pedition brought many stations from around the Great Lakes. Stations from Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin were heard particularly well. One of these stations was WHBL which came up nicely one night on 1330 kHz.
WHBL is located in Sheboygan on Lake Michigan and has a news talk format. The station broadcasts with a night time power of 1 kilowatt. Steve Schouten, Market Manager & Director of Sales, confirmed my audio clip earlier this month.
The first QSL from the new year and the new decennium came from WGBW in Wisconsin. Their extremely DX friendly owner Mark Heller confirmed my not so good recording of the station within minutes. He also promised to send a verification card to me by postal mail.
WGBW was heard at Lista in January 2019 when we had good conditions towards the Greak Lakes area and in particular Wisconsin and Michigan. The station broadcast with a modest power of 500 watts when I heard them. WGBW is an oldies station licenced to Denmark in North-Eastern Wisconsin, a village which as the name implies was founded by Danish immigrants around 1850.
WLMV “La Movida” can sometimes be heard on 1480 kHz at Lista, often mixing with some of the other stations on the frequency. The station is easily recognized by its format, playing Latin music with a preference for Mexican music. WLMV broadcasts with a power of 5 kilowatts day and night from Madison, Wisconsin.
Broadcast Engineer John Bauer confirmed my recepion of “La Movida” made at Lista last March. He also tells that the station is Madison’s only Spanish radio station with a blend of music, local news, weather and sports as well as a calendar of community events. The station is programmed by husband and wife team Luis and Lupita Montoto aimed at Madison’s 40,000 plus Latino population.
WHBY is the most common Transatlantic catch on 1150 kHz at Lista, along with CKOC in Ontario. Chief Engineer Steve Brown confirmed my reception of the station with an e-mail and a Word attachment. Steve writes that WHBY operates with 20 kilowatts daytime and 25 kilowatts nighttime from a six tower directional antenna system from Kimberly, Wisconsin. Kimberly is located in Northeast Wisconsin, west of Neenah and north of Oshkosh.
1360 kHz is a frequency which is dominated by WDRC in Connecticut. At Lista in January 2011, however, both WMOB in Alabama and WTAQ in Wisconsin could be heard quite well too. Bob Seering, General Sales Manager, confirmed my reception of WTAQ with an e-mail message some days ago.
WTAQ is a news and talk station in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They broadcast with a power of 5 kilowatts at night.
At Lista in November 2009 we enjoyed fairly good conditions towards North America and we received several stations further in land than we usually do. 1310 kHz is a frequency where either CIWW in Ottawa or WLOB in Maine are clear dominants. On this particular DX-pedition, however, I could also receive WIBA in Madison, Wisconsin, on 1310 kHz on several occasions.
Kurt Petersen, Director of Sales, confirmed my reception of the station with an e-mail some weeks ago. WIBA is a news talk station transmitting with a power of 5 kilowatts.
WNAM in Neenah-Menasha, Wisconsin, was one of the more uncommon stations heard during the November 2007 DX-pedition to Lista. Normally the frequency of 1280 kHz is completely covered by either WFAU in Maine or by WCMN in Puerto Rico with VSB2 in Bermuda and CFMB in Montreal also showing up from time to time. Hearing stations as far west as Wisconsin is rare at Lista, so we were pleasantly surprised to hear WNAM with a pretty good signal at times. WNAM was easily recognizable playing non stop nostalgia music with some announcements in between the music played. Today Market Manager Jeffrey A. Schmidt confirmed my reception of the station with a brief e-mail.
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