Loggings for May

 Here are my loggings for May

# after the date means I logged this station on the DX League's SDR, also located in Mangawhai. 

It is housed in Bryan Clark's back garden, right on the edge of the Mangawhai lagoon. He has better reception than I. I am about 8km (5 miles) back from the sea.

Freq	Time UTC	Details	Date
940	0853	USA, KFIG Fresno fair/ good with sports talk. 4/5 SMF #	*
1020	0915	PARAGUAY, Radio Nanduti (tentative) with lots of talk in SS. Seemed to be // to website. Mixed with a mx stn - possibly KTNQ. SMF 11/5#	*
1190	0653	ARGENTINA, LRA15 San Miguel de Tucuman fair with vocals //web. SMF 12/5#	*
1210	0640	HAWAII, KZOO fair/ poor in background with probably KPRZ on top. SMF 12/5#	*
1220	0715	PERU, R Melodia, on top of XEB briefly. // web. SMF 5/4	*
1330	0854	USA, KLBS Los Banos CA fair at best and mixed. PP songs. SMF 29/4#	*
1430	0917	USA, KYNO fair/ poor but clear on SE EWE with what sounded like a ballad. In clear SMF 4/5	*
1470	0430	PERU, R La Mega poor/ fair but a bit noisy.Usual v excited talk and mentions of La Mega. SMF 23/5	*
1480	0625	USA, KVNR, Sta Ana, CA fair on peaks with VV talk and mx// website. SMF 8/5 #	*
1490	0740	ECUADOR, R Sta Maria - fair/ poor but dominant on freq. SMF 17/5	*
1650	0835	KCNZ Cedar Falls, IA fair with sports talk but mixed. SMF# 29/4	*
1650	0823	USA, KBJD Denver CO dominant on freq but only fair with reiligious songs and SS axmnts. SMF 29/4	*
1660	0751	USA, KBRE, Merced CA Fair with heavy rock. SMF 28/4	*
1700	0911	MEXICO, XEPE fair/ good with mx and SS axmnts. SMF 8/5	*
1700	0620	USA, WJCC, Miami Springs, FL Fair and dominant in Creole. SMF 9/5#	*

A new verie and a new country

 Harbour Light of the Caribbean 1400 kHz come in here quite well on occasion. One such night was the 6th May. I received them at 0905 UTC and listened for about half an hour. I sent an email and this morning received a reply from Randy Cornelius the station Director/ Engineer (harbourlight@spiceisle.com). He is doing a great job on the engineering side as we are 13,800 km from Grenada.

It is a very welcome QSL.

A verie

 For the past few nights, WJCC 1700 kHz in Miami Springs, FL has come in very well on the League's SDR, with its EWE pointing towards Sth America. It has dominated XEPE, the station normally heard on the frequency.

I sent a report off for reception on May 9 along with a short audio recording to a Mr Alex Saint Surin (alex@radiomega.net) the General Manager.

Within an hour a reply came back. 

Bonjour Mr Forsyth

Vous avez parfaitement raison. Vous avez capté Radio Mega 1700 am émettant de Miami Etats-Unis d’Amérique. 

 Nous émettons en créole, francais et anglais pour une communauté haitienne d’environ 750000 habitants

Merci d’avoir partagé cette information  avec nous

Alex Saint Surin

I am delighted to have it. It joins KBGG, KVNA and WEUV (all logged and verified 2002-2004) on the frequency.

Loggings for the first half of April

 

Freq	Time UTC	Details
590	0803	ARGENTINA, Unknown fair but mixed when KSSK in fade. Possibly R Nacional from what was heard elsewhere this evening. 16/4 SMF
820	0808	USA, WBAP Ft Worth TX fair with talk but mixed with a mx stn - can't work out which. 7/4 SMF
840	0903	ARGENTINA, R Bahia Blanca LU2 fair and clear with talk in SS // website. 8/4 SMF
850	0925	URUGUAY, R Carve (tentative) Fair in SS. Ads at 0927 then talk. //website. 8/4 SMF
870	0848	ARGENTINA, LRA1, R Nacional briefly in clear with id and talk in SS. Not strong, but clear. 7/4 SMF
880	0754	USA, KWIP Dallas OR (tentative) fair/ poor suffering very bad splash 882 with talk in SS. It does not sound like R Union. 5/4 SMF
880	0908	ARGENTINA, LU14 R Provincia de Santa Cruz mixed with another - a religious prgm but not R Union according to web feed. Fair at best but with deep fades. Sta Cruz had mx // website. 9/4 SMF
970	0634	USA, KHTY, Bakersfield, CA possibly with sports talk. Poor and bad splash - brief peaks. 8/4 SMF
1050	0853	URUGUAY, R Uruguay fair at best with jazz prog. Deep fades and much noise. // web Thanks to BCM for the tip 12/4 SMF
1110	0852	USA, KFAB fair with C to C 6/4 SMF
1110	0837	USA, Unknown - possibly KRDC with song 'Hooked On A Feeling' fair at best. 1/21
1230	0958	ARGENTINA, LT2 R Dos, Rosario (tentative) with SS talk. Don't think it was a US station, other Argentinian stations heard this evening. Fair on peaks, but they were few and far between. 13/4 SMF
1360	0839	USA, KKMO Tacoma, WA poor with mx and axmnts in SS //web. Mixed with another SS - I don't think it is Bienestar. 6/4
1420	0824	USA, KSTN Stockton CA fair at best with mx. Mixed with KKEA, but on top on occasion. Clear id at 0825 SMF 30/3
1480	1038	PERU, R Espinar likely with SS axmnts and Andean mx 15/4 SMF #
1500	0711	HAWAII, KHKA fair/ poor with sports talk. Interference from 1503. 2/4 SMF
1530	0823	USA, KFBK Sacramento CA - fair with talk but mixed with The Wireless SMF 2/4

A further new verie

 KZOO 1210 in Honolulu has come back for an April 2020 logging. I sent the report via Messenger and reveid a reply almost a year later. Another welcome verie.

A new verie

 KSTN 1420 in Stockton, CA has come back with a verie for a logging on March 30. They were heard with a music program with no sign of the Hawaiian KKEA. I sent the report via their Facebook page and back came the reply just over a week later. I have only just seen it.

Thanks to the people at The Bull 105.9!

A new logging

 Conditions have been a bit up and down of late. I recently installed a new EWE pointing more or less south east. as a result I have been hearing some South Americans, particularly in Argentina and Uruguay.

I will post a list of my loggings for April shortly. 

In the meantime I was very pleased to hear Radio Uuruguay last evning broadcasting on 1050 kHz. They were playing a programme of jazz music and at times were heard at quite good levels. There was no sign of the station I normally hear on that frequency, KTCT in California.

I have sent a report off as well as a short recording, so hopefully something may come of it.