"dxAce" wrote in message
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Patrick Martin is an accomplished MW DXer, and here is his report to HCDX
of a
milestone he has reached:

After rearly 44 years of QSLing (Feb 65 to now), I have reached a
milestone of 3,000 MW QSLs from 95 countries. The one received in
today's mail is another jewell. It made my day.

970 KFBX AK, Fairbanks, received a very nice QSL card "NewsRadio
970" in blue and "KFBX" is yellow lettering. Under that in black
lettering "Fairbanks Alaska USA" and " 970 kHz AM 10,000 watts."
Also enclosed was a nice letter on KFBX letterheard. in 358d V/S: Scott
Diseth, C.E.. Mentioning, they rarely get reports from the Lower 48.
Address: KFBX, Clear Channel Radio, 546 9th Avenue, Fairbanks AK
99701. Alaska QSL #60, MW QSL 3,000. (PM-OR)

I had given up on this one, as the report was tentative and the CD left
a lot to be desired quality-wise. No ID, but I did have spot for a Car
Dealer with the phone prefix, so I knew it was KFBX. I am sure happy
with this one.

73,

Patrick


Patrick Martin
KGED QSL Manager
(via HCDX)
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Pat's a very old friend of mine. I met him when I was 15. He was working as
the PD and evening jock for KVAS, Astoria. Even then he had about a
gazillion QSL's from MW stations all over N. and S. America, and not a few
from Asia. Much of this heard on an old Scott military receiver with either
a home-made tunable loop in the shape of a triangle with some really good
nulls, or a 2 block long Beverage (an antenna I had never seen before then,
and didn't know what it was called till recently.) And it was a good trick,
too, since he was inside city limits, but was fortunate enough to not have
any homes built on any of the adjacent lots. All those cards on the walls..
who needed paint?