Steven Greenyer hosted Paul Ormandy and I at his holiday home in Hina Hina, on the Catlins Estuary in South Otago. Using a longwire we heard a few things, but conditions were not great. Having said that, they were better than they were in April when I was last there.
This is a summary of what was heard:
570 0805 USA KLAC Los Angeles fair with talk. HHDX
10/9
580 0849 USA KMJ Fresno Fair/ good with ads. HHDX
10/99
600 0848 USA KOGO San Diego Fair with C to C. HHDX
10/9
640 0554 USA KFI Los Angeles poor with talk. Vg with
religious prgm at 0750. Lots of good KFI 640 AM ids. HHDX 10/9
640 0645 PERU, R Pacifico del Peru Lima fair and on
top of 640 playing gentle mx/ballads. Into talk at 0700 CWIS HHDX 10/9
940 0845 MEXICO XEQ Mexico DF fair/poor but
reasonably clear with vocals. CWIS HHDX 10/9
970 0840 USA (Presumed) – poor but clear signal
suffering from splash from 972 – playing mx. HHDX 10/9
980 0528 CUBA R Coco up and down – mixed –
distinctive musical riff hrd. CWIS HHDX 11/9
1000 0607 USA KNWN Seattle WA poor with talk
(presumed) HHDX 10/9
1010 0531 PERU R Cielo poor/ fair with talk. CWIS HHDX
12/9
1020 0553 USA KTNQ Los Angeles fair with SS talk. HHDX
10/9
1070 0608 USA KNX Los Angeles fair with news and talk.
Bad splash 1071. HHDX 10/9
1110 0613 USA KWVE Pasadena CA fair with religious
talk. Deep fades. HHDX 10/9
1110 0617 USA KFAB Omaha NE, pr-fr w/tlk mxd Pasadena
HHDX 10/9
1140 0735 USA KHTK Sacramento CA fr/”Sactown Sports”
ID and prog “After Hours”Mixed with a Mexican. HHDX 11/9
1170 0725 AUSTRALIA Sydney SEN fair but mixed with an unknown
Latin playing yodelling type songs. HHDX 11/9
1180 0509 USA R Marti Marathon Key FL vgd SS tlk
o/pres Cuba in background HHDX 9/9
1190 0720 USA KEX Portland OR (Presumed) poor with
talk. HHDX 10/9
1270 0856 ARGENTINA R Provincia, Buenos Aires, popped
up nicely wID, MA&FA nx anncrs HHDX 9/9
1360 0514 PERU R Bienestar poor but reasonably clear.
HHDX 11/9
1420 0722 HAWAII KKEA Honolulu fair at best with
sports talk. HHDX 10/9
1450 0603 USA KFSD Escondido (San Fran) CA (very
tentative). Poor in getting bad splash from 1449. Seems to be a SS religious
b/cast. Listened to live feed and it seems to be very similar, but can’t be
sure. HHDX 12/9
1460 0615 CANADA CJOY Guelp ON poor under Us talk stn.
Odd peaks CWIS HHDX 11/9
1470 0455 PERU R Oxigeno Classico Fair with Billy
Joel’s My Life. HHDX 10/99
1540 0713 USA KMPC Bakersfield Fair in KK with lots of
talk. SMF 29/8
1540 0634 BAHAMAS ZNS1 fair and dominant on freq mixed
with KMPC (both CWIS) HHDX 10/9
1580 0620 USA KBLA Sta Monica CA Fair with talk about
US elections HHDX 10/9
1610 0727 CANADA CHHA Toronto Poor but clear with
crooner songs CWIS HHDX 10/9
1640 0623 USA KDIA Vallejo CA fair with usual
religious nonsense. HHDX 10/9
1650 0749 USA KBJD Denver CO (tent.) fair/ poor with
talk – sounded religious HHDX 12/9
1670 0624 USA KHPY Moreno Vlly CA fair/ poor with SS
talk. HHDX 10/9
1690 0737 USA WPTX Lexington Park MD poor but clear
with AfroAmerican mx. CWIS. HHDX 10/9
2310 0840 AUSTRALIA Shortwave Radio Australia, Bendigo, weak
w/EE pops HHDX 9/9
3310 0918 BOLIVIA R Mosoj Chaski, Cotopaxi, pr-fr w/MA tlk
and lively “la musica andina” HHDX 9/9
3945 0813 VANUATU R Vanuatu fair/good in Bislama with
talk and mx. HHDX 11/9
4775 1030 PERU R Tarma – fair/ good with Andean mx and
R Tarma ids. SMF 4/9
4810 1034 PERU R Logos – Andean flute mx and talk –
fair on a noisy night. SMF 4/9
4810 0737 PERU R Logos, Chazuta, fr w/SS gospel mx HHDX
9-11/9
4820 0921 PERU R Senda Cristiana, Cotahuasi, fr-gd w/SS
modern gospel mx HHDX 9-11/9
4820 1036 PERU R
Senda Cristiana – excellent signal with songs. Good id at 1036 SMF 4/9
4835 1821 AUSTRALIA, SW Australia fair signal with oldies
mx prog. SMF 8/9
4930 1818 BOTSWANA VoA fair in EE. //6080 better. SMF
8/9
4835 0740 AUSTRALIA SW Australia, Bendigo fr-gd w/60s
EE pops HHDX 9-11/9
4930 1828 BOTSWANA Voa Moepeng Hill, fr-gd w/EE tlk, ID
1830 HHDX 9-11/9
4940 0744 COLOMBIA Estacion 4940, Arauca, MA tlk pr-fr
HHDX 9-11/9
4955 1038 PERU R Cultura Amauta – fair/ poor with mx.
SMF 4/9
4965 1922 ZAMBIA Voice of Hope poor but clear with mx
HHDX 10/9
4965 1830 ZAMBIA V of Hope, Makeni Ranch, MA tlk then
bible reading HHDX 9-11/9
4970 0746 AUSTRALIA R 567, Wee Waa, Bill Joel track,
nothing on //2325 HHDX 9-11/9
4970 1040 AUSTRALIA R 567 Good with pops. SMF 4/9
4985 0926 BRAZIL R Brasil Central, Goianaia, weak w/MA
tlk, hvy sporadic ute QRM HHDX 9-11/9
5880 1918 EUROPE Radio Rock Revolution – music just
audible on 5880.3 – best on SDR3 HHDX 10/9
5940 0411 BRAZIL Voz Missionaria, Camboriu, MA w/PP
relig, regular every night //9665 HHDX 9-11/9
6010 0850 BRAZIL R Inconfidencia, Belo Horizonte w/canned
ID between tracks HHDX 9-11/9
6070 0453 GERMANY Channel 292, Rohrdorf w/rebroadcasts
of Radio Caroline on their 60th anniv, not //9670 HHDX 9-11/9
6080 1848 BOTSWANA VoA fair in EE with African mx. SMF
7/9
6130 0533 NETHERLANDS R Europe fair with electronic
rock mx. SMF 4/9
6130 0506 NETHERLANDS Radio Europe, Alphen, pr-fr in
Dutch w/electronic mx HHDX 9/9
6155 0526 AUSTRIA R Austria Int vg in GG with a prog
talking about the composer Bruchner (one of my favourites!) SMF 4/9
6160 0512 BRAZIL Super R Boa Vontade, Porto Alegre, pr
w/PP relig HHDX 9-11/9
6180 0848 BRAZIL R Nac Amazonia, Brasilia, vgd sig 2x
MA chatting HHDX 9-11/9
6180 0819 BRAZIL RN da Amazonia Vg in PP. HHDX 11/9
6185 0820 MEXICO R Educacion – only fair with jazz.
HHDX 11/9
6275 1905 NETHERLANDS Mike Radio poor/ fair with
music. Quite a lot of atmospheric noise making it difficult to discern what was
being said or played. SMF 3/9
6850 1917 BELARUS Minsk Radiocenter (presumed). Good
sig with lots of talk in RR and RR ‘pops’. HF Underground RR speaker identified
it. Playing lots of retro Soviet era stuff. SMF 1/9
9665 0423 BRAZIL Voz Missionaria, Camboriu, vgd w/PP
relig, one of best sigs on 31mb HHDX 9-11/9
9670 0427 GERMANY Channel 292, Rohrbach, fr w/EE 70s pops
HHDX 9-11/9
9710 0545 FRANCE. DRM b/cast in FF – talking about the
environment and mentioning Madagascar. Good DRM signal on north EWE. Off at
0557 without warning. Doesn’t appear in any schedules, but investigation via
Glenn Hauser and Chris Mackrell identified it. SMF 8/9
9770 0429 TURKEY V of Turkey, Emirler, vgd w/Turkish mx.
HHDX 9-11/9
11750 1858 FINLAND Scandanavian Weekend Radio -poor but
audible with axmnts and mx. Obliterated when RNZI signed on at 1900! SMF 7/9
11750 0605 BRAZIL R Voz Missionaria very good in PP
with great songs. // 5940 fair sig, 9665 the same. SMF 8/9
11815 0228 BRAZIL Radio Brazil Central, Goiania, pr-fr
w/serteneja mx HHDX 9-11/9
12050 2050 ASCENSION Ndarason, English Bay, fr-gd in Yoruba
jingle ID between tracks HHDX 9-11/9
15580 0629 BOTSWANA VoA – good signal – lots of ids –
pop mx. SMF 7/9
15595 0630 VATICAN CITY Vatican R – vg signal in EE.
Reporting on Pope’s visit to PNG. SMF 7/9
15700 0640 DENMARK WMR – quite audible with mx, but bad
atmospheric noise made it impossible to identify any of the mx played. SMF 7/9
17640 0137 CHINA CRI Kashi-Saibagh, chatty tlk about Harry
Potter cup cakes! HHDX 9-11/9
17675 0140 NEW ZEALAND RNZI Rangitikei, thumping sig w/pop
tunes then dropped to barely audible HHDX 9-11/9
17715 0145 SPAIN REE Noblejas, vgd w/SS tlk, //17855 also
vgd but closed 02z HHDX 9-11/9
17760 0200 ROMANIA R Romania Int, Tiganesti, gd w/ID and tlk
in SS //9740 pr HHDX 9-11/9
21550 2330 ROMANIA R Romania Int, vgd w/tlk in SS HHDX
9-11/9
HHDX = Steven Greenyer Palstar R60A, Stu Forsyth WinRadio G33DDC, Paul Ormandy AOR 7030+ connected to various longwires.
