A couple of pleasant surprises

I used Messenger the other evening for a totally unrelated purpose and while I was on it I thought I would try for a verie from some of the stations that had ignored my messages. As a result of this I have had positive replies back from CHHA 1610 and R Rio de Janeiro 1400. The former was heard on the League's SDR just before I came back from Malaysia in 2018 and the other was heard in April on Mike Smith's Opunake SDR.

I am happy to have both of them.

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

The Month's Loggings

This is the month's loggings to date. Some have been seen before in postings below.

* means I listened on the DX League's north east EWE
# means I listened on the DX League's south east EWE

Freq	Antenna	Time UTC	Details	Date
560	#	0740	ARGENTINA, (tentative) possibly RN Bahia Blanca - talk there in SS - given the way things are tonight it may well be the Argie.	30/3
590	#	0729	ARGENTINA, LS4 Radio Continental good with vocals // website. Up and down - QRM from 594.	30/3
640	*	0835	USA, KFI fair/ good with C to C. Mixed but dominant	12/4
650	*	0909	ALASKA, KENI fair/ poor with C to C.// website. Bad splash 657	12/4
680	#	0915	USA, KNBR, Poor with sports talk in EE, mixed with another. Fair 12/4	6/4
690	#	0834	HAWAII. KHNR dominant station but mixed. Fair at best.	3/4
750	#	0943	USA, KXTG (tentative) poor wiht plenty of splash, but sports news - sounded like recording of commentary - up briefly.	10/4
780	*	0924	ALASKA, KNOM with mx and dominant. Mixed with KKOH and WBBM	12/4
780	#	0858	USA, KKOH up briefly with nx at 0900 // website.	8/4
820	#	0843	ARGENTINA, R Nacional Formosa fair with talk // website but bad splash from 819	3/4
830	*	0900	HAWAII, KHVH vg with ids on hour, covid 19 ads and then nx.	17/4
840	#	0709	ARGENTINA, LU2 R Bahia Blanca // website fair/ poor mixed with LV9 R Salta in peaks // its website	30/3
850	#	0904	URUGUAY, R Carve fair, but suffering from splash. Talk about the virus in SS. // to website with a delay. Great id 0644 30/3	28/3
860	*	0847	MEXICO, XEMO with religious songs and SS message fair when up and mixed with KTRB (presumed)	15/4
870	#	0731	ARGENTINA, R Nacional Buenos Aires fair at best with mx // website.	1/4
880	#	0820	PERU - steady signal with religious chanting - lots of oh señor. It was in SS.	2/4
920	#	0754	PARAGUAY, R Nacional fair at best but deep fades. Mx - group vocals. // website	1/4
930	#	0750	URUGUAY, R Monte Carlo with vocals - fair // with website	1/4
940	#	0755	USA, KFIG fair but fading with talk - with the aerial pointing SE! No sign of any Latins.	31/3
950	*	0850	USA, KJR fair with sports nx. Mixed with mx stn under.	14/4
1030	#	0833	ARGENTINA, R Del Plata fair at best but bad splash from adjacent channels. Quite audible when they are quiet. // website	1/4
1050	*	0858	USA, KTCT vg with sports nx and adverts.	17/4
1050	#	0850	ARGENTINA, R San Francisco poor/ fair but mixed. Mx from website matched. Other stn## Also SS speaking.	1/4
1090	#	0812	USA, KFNQ fair/ poor with bad splash from 1089 - sports nx. // website.	31/3
1100	#	0645	USA, KFAX presumed with talk. Fair/ poor	7/4
1170	*	0950	STH KOREA, HLSR dominant on freq mixed 2CH and a Yank - unsure if it is KFAQ. Mx and at 1000 what sounds like a hymn or Nat Anthem then nx. Fair.	12/4
1170	#	0858	AUSTRALIA, 2CH fair/ good with classics on back end of SE aerial.	9/4
1200	#	0818	USA, WOAI good with C2C	22/4
1206	*	0940	UNKNOWN - mixed with Aussie. I initially thought Japan, but there is no JJ on freq. Possibly China - fair when on top.	19/4
1210	*	0850	HAWAII, KZOO dominant with JJ pops over presumed KPRZ with religious prgm. Fair but deep fades.	12/4
1260	*	0940	JAPAN, JOIR - steady under 3SR - JJ talk quite audible.	12/4
1260	*	0825	USA, KSUR fair/ poor mixed 3SR - as the night wore on 3SR got better. Playing Bohemian Rhapsody at 0818	18/4
1400	#	0745	URUGUAY, CX14 R Zorrilla de San Martin // website fighting it out with LRG202 R Cumbre // website and a third stn. All 3 were poor, but peaked on occasion.	30/3
1400	#	0548	BRAZIL, R Rio de Janeiro fair wiht religious messgae in PP	24/4
1422	*	1610	JAPAN, JORF Yokohama in clear with lots of JJ talk. Faded and an Aussie took over - not sure which one	16/4
1440	*	1615	JAPAN, JOWF Sapporo over the top of Te Reo o Tauranga Moana then faded down.	16/4
1460	*	0856	USA, KION fair at best with C to C.	15/4
1467	*	1620	STH KOREA, HLKN Mokpo dominant on freq over 3ML with plenty of talk in KK.	16/4
1470	#	0530	PERU, R Felicidad with an amazing signal - mx. Id for FM freq.	18/4
1490	#	0546	ECUADOR, R Sta Maria in Azogues - 2 Latin stations mixed - one with talk and R Sta Maria with huayño music.	23/4
1500	*	1626	HAWAII, KHKA Fair with talk. Deep fades.	16/4
1570	*	0845	HAWAII, KUAU excellent with relgious message.	21/4
1575	*	1640	JAPAN, AFN Iwakuni (presumed). Otago access R was carrying BBC WS. However, underneath American voices were heard as well as pop mx. AFN picked up after 5am as the OAR signal deteriorated quite noticeably. .	16/4
1620	#	0626	ARGENTINA, La Radio Mar del Plata, thanks to Barry Hartley, fair at best. Played 'Volare" at 0626, tangos before that. Barry has chased this for a couple of days.	19/4