And yet more loggings

Night three at Hina Hina saw conditions improve a little. Yanks were now audible at much better levels than they were on the previous two nights. However, they still aren't strong enough to combat splash from the locals. Most stations suffered from deep fades.

Things are on the up and hopefully night 4 will be even better. 

680	0750	USA, KNBR (presumed) fair/ poor in splash. 30/9 SMF
880	0740	USA, KRVN fair/ poor with talk. 30/9 SMF
1190	0816	USA, KEX fair with Coast to Coast. 30/9 SMF
1200	0818	USA, WOAI good with Coast to Coast but deep fades. 30/9 SMF
1460	0815	USA, KION fair with talk. 30/9 SMF
1480	0801	USA, KNVR with piano music. Up and down - fair at best. //webstream. 30/9 SG
1640	0708	USA, KDIA fair to good with religious message. Condx a bit noisy. 30/9 SMF
1650	0726	USA, KCNZ fair with sports talk. 30/9 SMF
1660	0715	USA, KBRE fair/ poor and mixed with another. // webstream. 30/9 SMF
1670	0756	USA, KHPY fair with religious talk. 30/9 SMF

Further Loggings

 Conditions were not great last night and a lot of what was heard the previous night was heard again. One or two interesting things popped their heads up. We will check them out again tonight.

1410	0800	USA (Unknown) died on the hour but had financial ads at 0805. Possibly KERI or KBNP. 29/9 SG
1420	0758	HAWAII, KKEA good but deep fades. Ads for ESPN Honolulu. 29/9 SMF
1480	0758	USA (Tent) Unknown - good oldies/ nostalgia/ country mx. Faded when axmnts came. Faded at top of hour - very frustrating. Listened on and off for an hour. 29/9 SMF

A Verie

 Success ..... WBBM 780 in Chicago, Illinois heard two nights ago have verified my report. I heard a very good id and that was all. However, a short audio recording was enough to confirm my report. The verie signer was Ron Gleason, Brand Manager/ News Director (wbbmnewsradioweb@entercom.com)

DXing Again ..... Finally

 With the October school holidays ariving, I have taken the opportunity of heading south to Hina Hina, on the South Otago coast, 25 minutes south of Balclutha and 1600 km by road from Auckland. 

Steven Greenyer and I are here for a couple of days and will then be joined by Arthur DeMaine. We woke up this morning to snow on the ground!

Conditions last night were not great, but we did manage to log a few things.

580	0737	USA, KMJ (presumed) poking through the noise with talk. 28/9 SG
710	0717	CUBA, R Rebelde (Tentative) fair with what sounded like jazz mx with female vocalist SS talk evident. Fading. 28/9 SMF
780	0740	USA, WBBM ad heard for 780 and 105.9 FM News Radio WBBM. 28/9 SMF
830	0755	USA/ HAWAII (presumed) KLAA mixed with KHVH - sports talk vs news. KLAA dominant. Fair. 28/9 SMF
940	0732	USA, KFIG vg with sports nx - talk about basketball. Mixed with XEQ with modern popular music, announcing la Q (possibly la Q grande). 28/9 SG

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.