A new verie

Radio New Zealand International verified a report of my reception of their programme on 5945 kHz at 0816 on 16 April, during my stay in Hina Hina. an email QSL came today.

Thanks to AdrianSainsbury for your work on my behalf. RNZI's latest scehdule is to be found at: https://www.radionz.co.nz/international/listen

Last night's reception

Reception last night (Monday local time) was not as good as the previous evening and that wasn't great either.

Radio Capital 1470 in Lima, Peru was identified with its English programming. Bienestar on 1360 was also there an identifiable. There was a Spanish speaking station on 810 beneath the local National Radio station. Radio Ecco was once more there with pops on 1400.

KFI on 640 was present with Coast to Coast AM at quite good levels.

There were a couple of interesting carriers noted.

1409.840 possibly Radio Corporación Wayra in Peru - the offset would indicate this.
1409.998 possibly a Colombian because of the offset.

Conditions are poor with a lot of atmospheric noise - disappointing.

A verification

OAR 105.4 verified within an hour for its broadcast on 1575 kHz, so I am pleased.

A new logging

In desperation.... I couldn't get enough to log anything last night, so today I resorted to logging OAR 105.4 FM, which broadcasts on 1575 kHz

I previously logged and verified Hills AM on 1575 in Dunedin about 15 years ago. Hopefully they will get back to me.

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.