Mangawhai DXer

It's been a while - finally a DXpedition to Hinahina

Where you may ask is Hinahina?? From Dunedin airport, go to Balclutha, turn left and head to the south coast. There is a small village called Owaka and 3 km south of that is Hinahina - population, not many!

The views are stunning, but the reception on our first night was not great.

We erected a 5m EWE to the south east and another, suspended off a couple of trees, to the east.

Conditions were not great - quite noisy in fact, and signals did not really peak. However, we did manage to hear a bit.

Below is a trail of what was heard on night one. More to follow.

Frequency	Time UTC	Country and details
870	0718	ARGENTINA, LRA1, R Nacional, Buenos Aires (Tentative) fair with piano music.
880	0727	PERU, R Unión (tentative) man talking with what sounded like a religious prog.
940	0738	USA, KFIG fair with sports news on SE EWE. The only Yank heard.
1010	0610	PERU, R Cielo (tentative) fair but noisy with talk.
1360	0734	PERU, R Bienestar fair with talk but noisy.
1400	0527	PERU, R Ecco (tentative) heard with pop music.
1470	0535	PERU, R Capital fair at best, much better later, with talk. After 0600 it was in English.
1499.762	0605	PERU, R Santa Rosa (tentative given the offset) - poor.
3910	1848	SOUTH KOREA, V of the People - poor. //3930 no better.
4750	1823	BANGLADESH, B Betar fiar/ poor with talk in Bengali.
5875	1831	ARMENIA, BBC WS fair in Pashto with sound/ music accompanying BBC nx.  Mentions of Israel. // 7465 ex Singapore not as gd.
5890	1828	GERMANY, VOA Deewa R fair in Pashto with talk. //7540 not as good.
5910	1833	ROMANIA, RRI Fair in Aroumanian/ Vlac (whatever they may be).
5960	1835	TURKEY, VoT vg in TT.
5970	1859	ALBANIA, CRI in FF with talk. Fair sig. // 7350 better at 1903.
6020	1840	CHINA, CRI Good in Bulgarian with talk and news. // 7265 as good.
6140	1841	INDIA, AIR fair/ poor in Urdu.
7225	1900	GERMANY, VOA in Kurdish - fair.
7485	1846	SINGAPORE, BBC WS fair but noisy in EE.