An almost instant verie

US Hobby Pirate XFM has been active on 6285 kHz. I managed to hear them, quite well actually, at 0450 UTC. They gave an email address of XFMshortwave@gmail.com so I emaled them with a sound recording of the broadcast and almost instantly I got a shout out on air and an email back. They are 500 w apparently and as darkness fell here in New Zealand the signal improved markedly. On the SINPO scale I would say it is 35453. I am happy to count their email as a verie.

KYNO comes back

KYNO 1430 in Fresno has come back. All I could identify in the broadcast was a song - Ferry Cross the Mersey by Jerry and the Pacemakers. That was enough for them. The verie came via Microsoft Messenger.

A long time between drinks! A verie ....

Radio Nacional in Buenos Aires (LRA1), 870 kHz, has verified my report sent by Messenger. Finally I have a verie. It restores my faith in radio!

Radio Provincia de Sta Cruz 830

This evening I had the pleasure of listening to Radio Provincia de Sta Cruz on 830 kHz. It is situated in Rio Gallegos in the very south of Argentina.

There was a programme of tango music - some tracks with vocals. At 0600 local time the programme came to life with live announcers and there were lots of R Provincia ids and mentions of ocho - treinte (8 - 30).

Hopefully they may reply to a report. Nobody else seems to want to!

May loggings

A return to work post lockdown means there is not much time for DXing at nights. The best thing to happen is that the League had a new SDR, or rather one that has moved. Whereas we had two in Northland, we now have one there and the one that was pointing south east has now migrated 600km south to Opunake. League member Mike Smith is hosting. While initially noisy, Mike has worked on the EWE and now with a much quieter EWE some interesting thins have been heard.

I managed to log Radio la 1010 in Montevideo, Uruguay the other night. It was not a wonderful signal, but its presence was confirmed by a check with the web feed.

This is a list of what I have heard this month, in the few moments I have had to listen.

The * under Antenna means the NE SDR in Northland. The # means the SE EWE in Opunake.

Freq	Antenna	Time UTC	Details	Date
558	*	1833	FIJI. R Fiji 1 good with Fijian mx - mixed with an Aussie	12/5
940	*	0552	USA, KFIG, fair to good with ESPN sports nx	5/5
940	#	0840	BRAZIL, Super Radio La Boa Ventade dominant with religious message but mixed with XEQ // website.	17/5
1010	#	0613	URUGUAY, Radio la 1010 - fair at best with mx // website, mostly under splash from 1008. 1ZD as was.	23/5
1190	#	0850	COLOMBIA, R Cordillera dominant with SS oldies - lots of singing	17/5
1200	*	1011	CANADA, CJRJ fair/ poor with mx //website. In the mix with WOAI, presumed.	13/5
1200	*	1014	USA, WOAI up with a clear ID after traffic nx.	13/5
1210	*	0950	USA KPRZ fair-poor with religious prgm and mx. // website	13/5
1210	*	0935	HAWAII, KZOO fair/ good with Asian songs.	14/5
1220	*	1005	CANADA, CJRB fair at best with classical mx // website. Bad splash from 1215.	13/5
1220	#	0912	MEXICO, XEB up with Mexican folk mx. Fair // website	15/5
1400	*	0940	USA, KKJL (Tentative) with oldies tunes - fair/poor - a bit of noise but no co-channel QRM.	6/5
1410	*	0935	CANADA, CFTE fair with nx and talk. Bad splash from 1413	6/5
1420	*	0556	HAWAII, KKEA, fair with ESPN sports radio.	5/5
1430	*	0931	USA, KYNO fair with oldies mx. Mixed	6/5
1610	*	0559	CANADA, CHHA fair with latin mx, sig dropped on hour with SS axmnt.	5/5
1620	#	0556	ARGENTINA, R 1620 Mar del Plata, fair with mx	16/5
3220	*	1836	NTH KOREA, Pyongyang BS - gd with non-stop mx	12/5
3480	*	1838	STH KOREA, V of the People, excellent in KK with wonderful singing.// 3910 and 3930 partially jammed	12/5
3945	*	1842	VANUATU. tremendous signal. Mx - soprano sax.	12/5
4875.04	*	1023	BRAZIL, R Difusora Roraima good with PP axmnts and mx - well past local sunrise.	13/5
4890	*	1846	STH KOREA, Echo of Hope -fair not jammed as with 75m freqs	12/5
5945	*	1850	TURKEY, VoT in EE. Fair but a but noisy	12/5