All heard from beach side Matarangi, 23km north of Whitianga, Coromandel Peninsula, North Island New Zealand, on an AOR 7030 and 40m wire on ground pointing North East. A few of the usual stations with one or two unusual for me and some unidentified. Some excellent openings even on a short wire and despite the creep of urbanisation to the area.
670 USA 8.43 WSCR, Chicago, ID as "Chicago's sports radio ..flagship station for NBA basketball, Kevin Beattie show.. WSCR" 5/01 DN 690 CANADA 09.06, CBU, Vancouver, "This is CBC Radio One" and then into Radio Netherlands, 50th anniversary death of Albert Einstein" did not think to check// 6160 4/01 DN 710 USA 08.27 KIRO, Seattle, Mike Webb show and "news radio 710..phone in about vote counting in Pearce and King counties.. then into weather in downtown Seattle" 31/12 DN 720 USA 8.28 WGN, Chicago, "merry radio WGN, WGN media guide line", 1/01 DN 720 USA 8.22 KUAI, HI, nostalgia, ID as "keep your dial on 720" Rod Stewart and his lovely version of 'wondeful world' the old Louis Armstrong hit at 08.22, 1/01 DN 740 CANADA 8.34 CHWO, Toronto, ID as "Toronto's AM station.. leaving the good life behind" Bobby Golsboro? song, 5/01 DN 740 USA 09.04, KTRH, Houston,TX, big ID and news of "one month before Iraq elections", 31/12 DN 760 USA 09.25 KGU, HI, ad for religious organisation "ligonair.org..1-800 435 4343 and ID as "the new KGU christian talk", 5/01 DN 770 USA 09.06 KKOB, Albuquerque, NM, "we are the station more New Mexicans turn to ..music radio 770 KKOB" , 31/12 DN 780 USA 09.08, KOH (p) Reno NV, with "Coast to coast AM" and syndicated George Noory, 31/12 DN 870 USA 08.25 KRLA(p), talk on disaster relief and discussion on sports presenter leaving FOX, tentative ID at 08.25 31/12 DN 920 USA 09.33, KARN, Little Rock, Arkansas, real jumble initially with talk show and co channel SS and then two full and clear ID's within 20seconds, 4/01, DN 930 USA 09.34, UNID, religious programming, mixture of songs and scripture, lots of religious details but no ID, possibly KYAK, 5/01 DN 1040 USA 08.52 UNID "somebody loves you ministeries, California" generally good, any ideas??, no trace of a 1040 outlet from their web site 5/01 DN 1060 CANADA 09.05 CKMX, Calgary, nostalgia, The Carpenters- "love may grow" and the "candy man" ID at 09.17 5/01 DN 1090 USA 08.06 KYCW, Seattle, Al Franken show, "Seattle's progressive talk AM1090" and "Air America programming", supposedly changed call sign but still ID'ng as KYCW, regular and strong every night 5/01 DN 1140 USA 08.19 KHTK, Ca, "home of the kings-sporting news radio", 5/01, DN 1150 USA 08.58 KXTA, Ca, "KXTA Fox sports radio... review of the sporting year.. Go Boston red sox" 1/01 DN 1410 CANADA 07.21 CFUN, Vancouver, with discussion of web sites "log onto the Vancouver based web site" 29/12, DN 1420 USA 10.00 KKEA, HI, CNN radio news, mention of University network, 4/01 DN 1460 USA 08.48 KABL, Ca, ID as "KABL, Salinas, Monterey... America's best music" Barbara Streisand "people who need people" at 08.58 4/01 DN 1620 USA 10.10 KSMH, Ca (p) "for more information go to ETWN.org", usually dominated by WTAW and WDHP from my home 5/01 DN regards David Norrie ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
