©
2004-2021
Man From Mars Productions
 |
 |
 |
 |
During the earliest days of radio, listeners enjoyed trying to tune in distant stations. These "DX" listeners would send reception reports to the station hoping to receive the station's EKKO stamp, which would be glued into a special album. The samples to the left are early EKKO stamps for WPAJ and WDRC. The sample on the right was issued by the Bryant Company in the early 1930s. Sometimes stations would send form letters confirming reception, like the one below mailed to G.E. Jacques in Hornell, NY on December 1, 1931. |
 |
Here is a very rare listener verification card from 1926. WPAJ changed call letters to WDRC on February 21, 1925.
 |
||
 |
||
 |
Still
later, stations printed QSL cards to quickly respond to DX fans, like
the ones below from 1943.
Here is the same card, signed by two different chief engineers (1966 on the left, 1970 on the right).
|
