I have finally got around to putting up my new south east EWE. I had one there originally, but it didn't perform terribly well, so I moved it to become a north east EWE, where it has performed admirably. Unfortunately the weather intervened before I could finish it this weekend, so next Saturday's job is to complete it.
While I was down in Auckland this week, I left my laptop running and the SDR and recorded 1430 kHz for 10 minutes each day from 0858 UTC. I have heard snippets of things on the frequency, but not much that you could really identify.
I was pleased to hear some music recorded on the 23rd and an announcement on the 24th (not very clear). I was complaining to Bryan Clark how noisy it had been. When I went out on Saturday to bring the EWE down so that I could use the back end pole to share the back end of the new EWE I realised that the earth wire had snapped off in the wind. No wonder the signal was noisy and I am surprised anything was heard at all.
That evening following the repair, signals on 1430 were much better. I managed to log KVVN the Vietnamese language station in California with an announcement in Vietnamese and a song. Just before the hour a station was playing Tom Jones' 'It's Not Unusual'. There were later snippets of KLO, but nothing concrete to verify it. On Saturday evening there were 4 stations visible with their various offset frequencies.
I am recording again this week in the hope I may hear more.
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