[HCDX] WWRB-Finally verified
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[HCDX] WWRB-Finally verified
Received yesterday a verification for WWRB Morrison, TN ? 12172 via rev.
Turner, the host for ?the AV 1611-hour?, who replied my reception report
after 6 weeks with a nice personal letter, saying my report was the first
overseas report he had received (he had received some from Mexico and Canada
before). The letter ended with some passages from the Bible in Swedish!!
Enclosed with the letter was a big US stamp block. It seems like the only
way to get WWRB verified is to write to the different program makers. A
direct report to the station will not result as Dave Franz doesn?t seems to
like us DX-ers according to the WWRB web site, where he writes under Q&A:
?A hobby listener can be likened to a trophy hunter; they listen to a
station for a short period of time, send in to the station a reception
report, request a QSL card (proof of reception card,) and are rarely heard
from again, unless the station makes a radical change to its QSL card design
or hosts a reception report contest, offering station related paraphernalia
such as pennants.
The hobbyist is only interested in getting something nifty from his efforts
and pays little, if any, attention to the programming, other than the
writing of a brief transcript, required to prove reception. Also like a
trophy hunter?s guns, hobby listeners usually posses powerful receiving
equipment to pick up even the weakest signals, so shortwave stations often
attempt to pass hobbyist reception reports off as proof of world coverage
(Beware!)?
73 de Lennart Weirell, Västerås, Sweden
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