Re: [IRCA] IRCA Digest, Vol 28, Issue 5

["Martin and Wendy Foltz" <martinfoltz@xxxxxxx>]

Congrats Jim, quite an accomplishment.

I verified 24 countries from Michigan in the 1970-80's and I can't imagine
doubling that.

Martin Foltz
Mission Viejo CA

> Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 14:02:41 -0400
> From: "Jim Renfrew"
> Subject: [IRCA] MW Country #49 Verified
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> Jim Renfrew, Byron NY
>
> Many thanks to v/s Erik Koie, Vagtchefen,  of Danmarks Radio for the QSL
> received in today's mail, for DR 1062 Kalundborg.  He posted an invitation
> for DXers, that I saw on Glenn Hauser's DXLD, to get their reports to him
> before he leaves the station in the fall.  So I resent my unanswered
report
> from earlier in the year.  I got a prompt e-mail reply from him, and then
> the QSL arrived in today's mail.  One was my prepared card, and the other
> was the "National Anthem" QSL card.  This card is one of a set of four
that
> when combined show a colorful landscape.  I received the same cards many
> years ago for shortwave reception reports.  Erik also enclosed various DR
> stickers.  I used the address shown in the WRTH, with attention to Erik
> Koie, enclosed with an IRC.
>
> I have now verified Denmark on MW, LW, and SW.  FM and TV seem a bit
> unlikely from here!
>
> This is MW country #49 (out of 61 heard) verified from Byron NY.  Who are
> the hold-outs?
> Guinea - never sent a report in 1977 - I was poor then!.
> Suriname - never sent a report in 1977 (though verified from new Canaan CT
> in 1972 or so)
> Senegal 774 - never sent a report in 1977.
> Panama 770 - no response to 1983 report.
> Honduras 660 - no response to 1983 report.
> El Salvador 655 - no response to 1984 report.
> Tunisia 1566 - no response to 1985 report.
> St. Vincent 705 - no response to 1993 report (station has now moved to an
> "even" channel")
> Montserrat 885 - no response to 1993 report, and the island has since been
> destroyed by a volcano.
> Bermuda 1160 - no response to 1995 report.
> Brazil 1100 - no response to 2003 report, despite multiple follow-ups.
> Azores 693 - still waiting for an answer to my 2006 report.


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