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DX Listener Reports for WMIN, Sauk Rapids, MN, USA |
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Yesterday morning, November
4, 2012, at
around 8 AM, being
midnight November 3-4 your time
(Still Central Daylight Savings Time), I
was monitoring 1010 AM. On
this frequency a couple of Canadian stations
were fading in and out. However,
at 5 AM another
signal faded in for a short while. The CBC station
from Calgary,
Alberta, Canada, was
on top. When
it "held its breath" at the
top of the hour, WMIN
AM 1010 Sauk Rapids gave its
identification.
"10-10 W-M-I-N Sauk
Rapids, Minnesota." After
this Fox news, but the signal was mixed with
other stations and the interference from
nearby European stations
quite shortly. Very best regards
Email from Norway: Hi
Mark, I
was able to hear a long time wanted one WMIN
1010 AM on 3
November 2012 @
11:01 PM your local time..
I know that it has been heard in Finland
this winter and have been spending many
hours on 1010 so far without luck. But
then last night I heard old style music on
the frequency and between two songs I was
able to catch a station ID! After
the end of a song I hear a male voice
with �Uptown 1010 - WMIN� before a new song.
I am
using a Perseus SDR receiver (a software
defined radio) connected to my PC. See www.microtelecom.it/perseus for
more information. With this receiver I can
receive up to 1600 kHz bandwidth at the same
time and store it to disk. Then I listen
through the saved data afterwards. The
antenna is new. It is two 1,000 foot
wires in parallel (200 ft. spacing) directed
towards western US. This antenna has worked
very well for us, giving additional gain as
well as directivity.
During a DX-expedition last October in the
northern parts of Finland, north of the
Arctic Circle, I managed to hear your
station WMIN with a "decent" signal on a
frequency normally dominated by , e.g. WINS
NY and CFRB ON during openings towards the
US . We were equipped with 12 directional
beverage antennas of 2000-3000 feet each as
well as with several receivers. Sitting up
here in the dark in Lapland, Finland and the
cold listening to radio stations on the
other side of the globe is fascinating!
On October
26, 2012 at and around
midnight Central Time there was an
extremely good and unusual opening towards
the central and southern parts of USA.
This opening must have been very rare.
I could hear your top of the hour ID at 12
PM given by a male announcer and going like
"Uptown 10-10." Included
is a photo from my home "radio
corner". Also see: http://americadx.com
Best
regards from Finland
I had the pleasure of
listening to your station WMIN Sauk Rapids MN
broadcasting on 1010 kHz AM on
the 4th of
November, 2012 from 11:04 p.m. to
11:08 p.m. Central Standard Time. It was a huge
surprise to me, because WMIN is quite a rare catch
here in Finland. My receiver was Perseus
software defined receiver and I used a long wire
antenna of 1100 yards. directed to the Great
Lakes/Mid-West US. I picked up your signal in
Aihkiniemi, which is situated some 250 miles north
of the Arctic Circle. I usually spend one week per
year in Lapland �hunting� distant AM signals. To
find out more on our DX-cabin, please visit: http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/aihkiniemi_dx_cabin_for_rent.dx Here
are some details of the program heard: At the moment we have sunny
weather. The temperature is currently 17 degrees
Celsius (62 degrees Fahrenheit). My very best
wishes to you from Vaasa, Finland. Sincerely,
Jari |
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 Dear Sirs, Happy New Year 2012 and thank you very much for your programme. It was most interesting to hear WMIN AM 1010 here in Finland! I am 44 years old, married, a father of two lovely & lively kids and working with a marketing research company as a managing director. I also produce a tv-animation show for children, called Dibidogs (www.dibidogs.com), and it is aired already in 11 countries and has over 20 million viewers. My favourite hobbies are sports and listening to foreign radio stations (DX-listening). I work with leading media companies in Northern Europe, including online media, print, TV and radio. Thus I find it extremely interesting to tune into foreign radio stations. Actually radio is both professionally and personally my most favourite media, the one I spend most of my time with. Radio simply reaches you everywhere, is very useful and is so much fun to listen to. I spent my fall holiday in Lemmenjoki, Lapland, Northern Finland with my good friend Mika Makelainen by hiking and listening to foreign radio stations. We rented a cottage where we had 8 antennas (each 1000 meter long)! Because of the long antennas and good atmospheric conditions we were able to receive your station. The receiver I used was a communications receiver NRD 535. I received your station as on October 31, 2011, at 16.56 and 17.00 hours CST. Reception quality was moderate, even though I guess Finland lies a bit out of your normal coverage area ;) Your programme at 16.56 CST with a "Uptown WMIN Sauk Rapids, St. Cloud," followed by Fox News. It was fantastic to hear your signal so far away. Here in Espoo we have a local radio listeners club, Espoon DX-Kuuntelijat. We are some 20 active members, meeting once a month and having listening trips around Finland. With other DX-clubs in Finland we publish 'Radio World' -magazine. If you will visit Finland and Espoo one day, please visit our club, too. You are most welcome! Jim Solatie, Espoo, Finland |
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 July 2011: Hi guys, So glad to have a station (WMIN 1010 AM Radio) in our area that plays REAL music, as does WVAL. We go riding in our '36 Ford V8, then turn on the TUBE radio and tune in to 1010 for some real big band stuff, along with Sinatra and the others. At a car show one day, a guy accused me of having a 'tape player in the trunk', hearing this music roll out of the overhead speaker above the windshield.... I told him I'd bet him ten bucks that there is NO tape player.... none. I finally explained it all and he left all excited, ready to try it on his AM dial. Six volts .... real tubes... real radio.... can't be beat. I rebuilt the radio myself. With this '36 Ford, a genuine such radio is really hard to find and even harder to rebuild, as parts like the transformer are not made new by anybody. Most of the rest is, but not all. So, to avoid the cost of a real old Ford radio, I took a '54 Ford radio that I had rebuilt and on the shelf, working, and then rigged up the cable controls from the dash head & dial, to that radio, mounted under the dash and on the firewall. Works like a charm and fools everybody. The antenna is the chicken wire that helps support the roof, which is an oil cloth type stuff, and was all put in new, over the wire. The wire is on the wood bows and does not touch the body. Antenna wire is soldered to the wire and presto...we have a great antenna and just the way Ford made it in those days. As soon as the sun sinks low, I can pull in WHO Radio in Des Moines, Iowa, easily, as well as many others from far away. We also have a '54 Ford Fordor and when coming out of Des Moines (and overhead wires etc.), we can begin to hear WCCO quite well. Yep... they just don't make 'em like they used to. Thanks for a great job, Warren Sjoberg, Milaca, Minnesota. |
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