Hinahina DXpedition

It has been a long time between DXpeditions, or indeed between listening bouts at home. My northeast (US) EWE is not working and I have been working 7 days a week for 3 months so have not had the time nor inclination to turn on the radio or fix the problem.

However, I flew down to Dunedin yesterday where I was met by Steven Greenyer. 60 minutes later we were at his holiday home on the shores of the Catlins Lake (read estuary). This is about 40 km south of Balclutha. A look at Google Maps will show you where we are. We are practically at the bottom south east corner of New Zealand.

This is the view from his living room this morning, looking east. 

Steven has 2 EWEs - one points pretty much east and the other south east towards deep South America. Conditons were not great last evening, but we did hear a little.

The interesting thing is that frequencies in NZ which block 10 kHz channels because of their splash are quite different up north (1,000 km away). Of course this is unsurprising, but when you are used to one thing and then encounter another it does come as a surprise. For example, 1420 is relatively clear up north, but not down here. Similarly 1570 and 1580.

Below is a list of what was heard last evening and this morning. There were various other frequencies that had signals on them, but we couldn't tell what they were.

640	0740	USA, KFI with Coast to Coast. Fair and on top of another. 17/4
840	0611	USA, KXNT poor with talk and mx. Offset of 840.013 matches the stn. 17/4
880	0520	PERU, R Union, poor/ fair with YL speaking and mx. 17/4
1010	0635	PERU, R Cielo (Tentative) with talk and religious message. CWIS 17/4
1190	0743	UNKNOWN – possibly USCG in Guyaquil. Playing western style songs. Fair on Sth American EWE. KEX dominant with C to C on Cent American EWE. 17/4
1360	0628	PERU, Bienestar fair with talk. 17/4
1470	0530	PERU, R La Mega v clear and strong with excellent id at 0530. 17/4
1640	0829	USA, KDIA fair/ good with old fashioned religious songs and mentions of Vallejo in talk after the song ended. 17/4
6080	0556	SAO TOME VOA fair with modern US pops. Female axer sounded British?! 17/4
17720	0835	SINGAPORE, BBC WS good in EE – DRM b/cast. 17/4
15320	2231	GUAM, AWR opening with EE axmnt for Javanese b/cast. Fair signal. 17/4
15410	2235	AUSTRALIA, Reach Beyond Australia fair in JJ to Japan. 17/4
9350	2251	USA, WNQM fair in EE. 17/4
9565	2253	USA, R Marti fair in SS via Greenville. Good id at 2254 17/4
9640	2256	CUBA, RHC poor in SS 17/4
9940	2300	USA, Leap of Faith ex Lebanon, TN. Intro in EE – poor/ fair but quite clear. 17/4