To those who look at my blog

I have a world map on my site which shows me where people who have logged onto the site come from. There are people from all over the place.

There is the facility to send me a message, so if you come and have a look, send me a hello via the message so I know who you are as well as where you are from.

A new logging

I had great pleasure in hearing KNDI on 1270 kHz in Hawaii yesterday evening. It was logged via the League's SDR in Russell. It came in pretty well, with a little fading. I have sent a report off and now must be patient!

A couple of interesting loggings

1290 kHz was an interesting frequency. KKDD in San Bernadino dominates it with Coast to Coast AM in our evenings. However, a couple of other stations raised their heads. One was KAZA in Gilroy, CA, near San Jose. It is a Vietnamese language station and we caught definite snippets of Vietnamese, including some numbers. I lived in Ha Noi for 2 years and I know Vietnamese when I hear it. According to various sources, it broadcasts on 88 watts at night. I very much doubt it was that, I suspect the day power had been left on (5kw).

At one stage during the broadcast, a station came up with a pop song. I managed to get an id on the song and artist, thanks to the Shazam app on my iPhone, but that was all. I did some research and given the stations we were hearing, I suspect it is KIVY from Crockett, TX. It is about the only station I saw thatw as in the right area with the right format.

I have written to both KAZA (with sound files) and KIVY in the hope they mgiht answer in the affirmative. I am very sure it was KAZA we heard, but not so certian about KIVY. Time will tell - I may get an answer .... or I may not!

An Interesting QSL

During the recent NZRDXL Convention I, along with Paul Ormandy and David Norrie, logged KUAZ in Phoenix, Arizona on 1550 kHz. It is a National Public Radio station carrying the BBC World service overnight, with local ids at the top of the hour.

Stephen Claasen, Senior Broadcast Engineer, duly verified it, but what was interesting was that we shouldn't have heard it at all as the AM outlet is supposed to broadcast from sunrise to sunset only. So, we were lucky to be able to hear them, lucky they were on and lucky that Stephen took the time to reply.

In his reply he wrote:
Good Morning.

Thank you for the reception report for 1550, KUAZ. Your reception is confirmed.

Due to an equipment  malfunction, KUAZ remained on the air long after local sunset when it  normally signs off, the program material which you heard was meant for  KUAZ-FM which remains on the air 24 hours a day; if our programming is  interesting to you, we also stream KUAZ on the internet at:  streaming.azpm.org/kuaz48.mp3.m3u

Yours in service,

Stephen D. Claasen
Senior Broadcast Engineer
Arizona Public Media

Trail from the Convention

At the convention I was listening with MW guru Paul Ormandy and former League President and current Vice President, David Norrie. This is a summary of what we heard:

171	1820	MOROCCO	R Medi fair/ poor in Arabic. 7/4 SMF
570	0725	USA	KLAC Fair but suffered from splash. Sports news 8/4 SMF
680	0732	USA	KNBR Fair with ads for San Francisco. Some splash from 675 8/4 SMF
790	0735	USA	KABC Clear but not strong. With mentions of LA. 8/4 SMF
800.003	0756	PERU	Radio Union fair good with religious message - dominant on channel but mixing with KRVN. Good ids at 0759 7/4 SMF
840	0740	USA	KMPH (presumed) with talk prog. Fair/ poor 8/4 SMF
850	0742	USA	KOA Fair with Coast to Coast. 8/4 SMF
880	0745	USA	KKMC Fair with religious prgm. 8/4 SMF
880	o759	USA	KRVN vgd w/nx o/unid relig, pres KKMC. PO
940	0755	USA	KFIG Fair/ good with ESPN sports 8/4 SMF
1100	0806	USA	KFAX fr-gd w/relig tlk. PO
1110	0600	USA	KRDC Pasadena, gd-vgd w/Country mx, dominant. PO
1110	0808	USA	KFAB, fr-gd w/ Coast to Coast AM, o/KRDC. PO
1140	0800	CANADA	CHRB Fair with country music. 8/4 SMF
1170	0638	USA	KFAQ clear, fr-gd w/George Norry on Coast to Coast AM. PO
1170	0720	USA	KLOK fr w/Hindi mx, mxd KFAQ. PO
1190	0705	USA	KEX - fair/ good with Coast to Coast. 7/4 SMF
1270	0841	HAWAII	KNDI fr-gd w/Hawaiian mx. PO
1280	0837	USA	KXTK fr w/sports tlk. PO
1290	0830	USA	KPAY in local commercial break then back to Coast to Coast 8/4 SMF
1290	0858	USA	KAZA (Tentative) with Vietnamese/ Asian sounding music Fair but mixed and fading. 8/4 SMF VV lang FA hrd 0827. PO
1300	0834	USA	KAZN Pasadena, pres the one here w/Hindi mxd others. PO
1300	0923	USA	KAPL Phoenix, OR fr-gd w/relig sermon, old-style fire & brimstone pulpit-bashing. PO
1310	0818	USA	KMKY Fair with talk - distinctly Indian accent - suffered from splash. 8/4 SMF
1320	0919	USA	KIFM big sig w/ESPN nx, //1420. PO
1360	0522	PERU	R Bienestar (presumed) in SS with talk prog. 7/4 SMF
1370	1000	USA	KWRM Corona, "AM 13-70 and FM 105.9" then back into SS. PO
1370	1004	HAWAII	KUPA Pearl City,, fr in CC/o unid in SS. PO
1380	0906	USA	KTKZ Sacramento up w/id "AM 13-80, The Answer" after ad then country mx interlude and more tlk. PO
1390	0859	USA	KLTX gd w.id, "long Bach, Los Angeles", "Radio Nueva Vida". PO
1409.82	0551	PERU	R Corporacion Wayra, fr w/chicha mx, FA w/id & t/c. PO
1410	0950	CANADA	CFTE - good with Fox Sports Radio id 6/4 DN & SMF
1430	0958	USA	KYNO - fair but mixed and playing oldies music 7/4 SMF
1430	0824	USA	KVVN Fair and clear with VV prog, although some EE. Others under the sig. 8/4 SMF
1430	0827	USA	KMRB came up over KVVN. Fair/ good and then down. 8/4 SMF
1440	0822	KIRIBATI	R Kiribati, dominant o/unid US. NZer may have been off air?? PO
1460	0850	USA	KION Good with talk radio. 8/4 SMF
1470	1006	PERU	R Capital good and clear in SS with talk and id. 6/4 DN & SMF
1470	0600	PERU	R Capital indent top of the hour 06/04. SB
1480	0937	USA	KVNR Santa Ana, fr in Vietnamese. PO
1480	0943	USA	KYOS Merced, fr mxd w/KVNR w/ nx-tlk. PO
1480	1007	PERU	R Espinar Yauri (presumed) with Buenas Dias announcements, vocals and talk. Fair. 6/4 SMF
1510	0925	USA	WLAC fair with id at 0929 7/4 SMF
1510	0920	USA	Unid NPR stn, hrd w/id "KALW, a Public Radio station, 91.7 FM, San Francisco", KALW is an NPR station so who was relaying them????. PO
1530	0537	USA	KFBK string of ads, mxd unid in SS, bth demolishing the NZer. PO
1550	0834	USA	KUAZ fair with BBC WS overnight (NPR stn). 7/4 SMF Id mentions 89.1 FM. PO
1570	0821	HAWAII	KUAU dominant o/2 others w/EE relig. PO
1580	0513	USA	KBLA fr w/MA in SS relig & inspirational mx. PO
1610	0714	CANADA	CHHA Toronto pres the one here w/Hindi mx & FA. PO
1650	1031	USA	KBJD gd in SS, ids "Radio Luz". PO
3255	1849	Sth AFRICA	BBC Meyerton, vy weak w/tlk. PO
3320	1851	NTH KOREA	R Pyongyang, fr-gd w/classical mx. PO
3480	1854	STH KOREA	Voice of the People - vg with talk and mx in KK. //3910 vg but jammed by Nth Korea, //3930 ditto but clearer
3985	1855	STH KOREA	Echo of Hope fair but jammed.//4450 the same 7/4 SMF
4765	1857	TAJIKISTAN	Tajik Radio 1 fair with Koran readings 7/4 SMF
4810	1845	ARMENIA	AR Yerevan, off abruptly after FA & a few bars of mx. PO
4835	1842	AUSTRALIA	Ozy Radio - vg with pops and announcements. Gone by 1900 7/4 SMF
4885	1840	STH KOREA	Echo of Hope, fr sig in KK. PO
4930	1805	BOTSWANA	VoA African Sce in EE - poor and noisy noisy //6080. 8/4 SMF
5009.92	1843	MADAGASKAR	R Nasionaly, pr-fr w/FA vocs. Only heard 10/04. PO
5860	1858	KUWAIT	R Farda good in Farsi 7/4 SMF
5900	1818	BULGARIA	Bible Voice in AA - good signl. 7/4 SMF
5910	1900	ROUMANIA	RRI opening with int sig, then ids, frequency and contact details in Romanian. 7/4 SMF
5950	1855	ETHIOPIA	V of Tigray Revolution, fr-gd w/tribal rhythms, right past top of the hour. PO
5960	1831	TURKEY	V of Turkey fair and clear with v pleasant mx prog. //9460 8/4 SMF
5980	1820	TURKISH	VoT good in Turkish with music. 7/4 SMF
5980	1825	NEW ZEALAND	RNZI excellent with stories for children. 7/4 SMF
6030	1842	ETHIOPIA	R Oromiya fair in Oromo but noisy as sun rose. 8/4 SMF
6070	1914	GERMANY	Channel 292 - fair with music prog. 7/4 SMF
6080	1803	BOTSWANA	VoA African Sce in EE - fair but noisy. 8/4 SMF
6110	1856	ETHIOPIA	R Fana, gd sig w/lively HOA (Horn Of Africa) mx. PO
7120	1910	SOMALIA	Radio Hargeysa fair with music. Signal deteriorated with local sunrise. 7/4 SMF
7205	1904	SUDAN	R Omdurman, vgd w/tribal choral mx. PO
7550	1846	INDIA	AIR GOS fair but noisy in EE with pop mx show for Europe. 7/4 SMF
9460	1831	TURKEY	V of Turkey fair/ poor and noisy with mx prog //5960 8/4 SMF
9515	2022	BRAZIL	R Marumby, pres the ine here w/weak pops. PO
9630.585	0430	BRAZIL	R Aparecida v good in PP on off-set freq 7/4 SMF
9664.98	2035	BRAZIL	R Voz Misionaria, in the clear, mx & MA ids, tlk, mxd unid. Also heard pr-fr 0355. PO
9725.357	0434	BRAZIL	R Evangelizar fair but noisy with music and PP talk 7/4 SMF. Also hrd 2038. PO
9745	0416	BAHRAIN	R Bahrian, USB mode, pr-fr in AA but heard much stronger at 1900z. PO
9790	0450	FRANCE	RFI in FF to East Africa - fair good 7/4 DN & SMF
9818.817	0450	BRAZIL	R 9 do Julho - fair with PP talk. 7/4 SMF. Also hrd 2040.PO
11735	2014	BRAZIL	R Transmundial, FA relig, MA id, clock chimes at 2015, best of 25mb Brazilians. PO
11815	2029	BRAZIL	R Brasil Central, weak w/relig mx. PO
11855.87	2018	BRAZIL	R Aparecida, MA w/relig tlk. PO
12095	0404	UAE	BBC via Dhabayya - fair but clear in EE with nx 8/4 SMF

For listening at the convention, I was using my WinRadio G33-DDC, Paul Ormandy was using my Drake SPR4 and David Norrie was using his AOR7030+. All were connected to 5 metre EWE antennae.