MW Loggings Early March

 I have had some problems with my EWE antenna and the cable running to it. Thanks to the good services of Paul Ormandy in Oamaru, I have a new cable. I got home fromwork last ngiht, installed the cable only to discover that the aerial didn't work on MW - but it did on SW. Closer investigation revealed that the earth wire had come adrift at one end. Once that was connected, away I went.

What I heard follows. I should point out that the X-Band stations heard on 3/3 were caught on the NZRDXL's Mangawhai SDR, located at the home of my good friend, Bryan Clark.

I am using an AirSpy HF+ Discovery, which seems to work very well. I would like ot be using my WinRadio G33 DDC Excalibur, but alas it is not well and WinRadio want to charge $400+ AUD just to open it up. That's without the courier postage. It was cheaper to buy a new radio - literally. 

The AirSpy HF+ Discovery is a good radio and on the SDR Sharp software performs well. I am not running the latest version (1810), rather the one before - 1790 from memory.

Anyway here are my loggings:

Freq	Time UTC	Details
1410	0831	CANADA, CFTE fair but suffered splash from 1413. SMF 9/3	9/3
1490	0740	ECUADOR, R Sta Maria - fair/ poor mixed with others. // website but not dominant. 9/3 SMF	9/3
1490	0743	COLOMBIA, HJZB La Voz de los Robles, Tulua - fair and mixed with others. Mx prgm - confirmed by web // 9/3 SMF	9/3
1550	0727	USA, KRPI, Ferndale, WA fair with Hindi vocals. Fading in and out. Fair/ Good when "in"! SMF 9/3	9/3
1570	0713	HAWAII, KUAU fair/ good with religious talk. SMF 9/3	9/3
1600	0720	USA, KVRI, Blaine, WA good with Indian singing and axmnts. SMF 9/3	9/3
1620	0750	CUBA, R Rebelde fair/ good with Latin mx. Dominant on freq.// website 3/3 SMF	3/3
1650	0755	MEXICO, XEARZ Mexico City // website, but fair/poor mixed with two others - one a vocals stn (sounded SS), another US stn had ads in EE and had religious talk prior to them. Unknown. 3/3 SMF	3/3

I was very pleased to hear the Ecuadorian and the Colombian. They were not dominant, but each had music that was quite distinctive and with the web feed quite identifiable.