[HCDX]: Grayland Log
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[HCDX]: Grayland Log
Bruce Portzer's Grayland Dxpedition log 6/27-28/98.
Here's what I heard during the Grayland expedition in late June.
Conditions weren't too bad for this time of year with a few medium wave
stations from Asia as well as many from the South Pacific. Check out
the expedition's web site at http://surf.to/grayland99 for more details
and info on what the rest of the group heard.
Stations were heard using a Drake R8A & Icom 706MK2, with NW W & SW
Beverages about 1000' each.
529 ALASKA, Level Island, SQM, 1009 6/28 good w/code ID & voice message
that wx broadcasts would resume at 1400 (bp)
531 JAPAN, Morioka, JOQG JJ talk fair 1157 6/29 (bp)
531 NEW ZEALAND, Auckland, talk in Island language fair 1120 6/28, 1232
6/29 (bp)
550 HAWAII, Wailuku, KMVI atop w/local ads/PSAs & call ID 1216 6/29 (bp)
558 FIJI, Suva, fair-poor w/Fijian pgm //639 1207 6/28, good w/pop mx &
ads in Fijian 1214 6/29 (bp)
567 NEW ZEALAND, Wellington, 2YA, fair w/EE pop tunes //675 1208 6/29
(bp)
570 CANADA, Whitehorse YT, CFWH, apparently the one w/ classical mx
//CBU-690 weak u/KVI 0640 6/28, nothing else listed that would fit, only
hrd on NW wire (bp)
594 JAPAN, Tokyo, JOAK, good w/interview in JJ 1114 6/28 (bp)
612 AUSTRALIA, Brisbane 4QR, very loud w/teletalk 1258 6/28 (bp)
639 FIJI, Lautoka, Island mx good 1008 6/28, easily separable from KFI,
as strong as KFI 1205 6/28 (bp)
648 AUSTRALIA, Tamworth, 2NU, good-fair w/talk //612 1258 6/28 (bp)
657 NEW ZEALAND, Wellington, 2YC, good w/NZ news 1202 6/28 (bp)
675 NEW ZEALAND, Christchurch, 3YA, time pips into NZ nx 1200 6/28 (bp)
684 FIJI, Labasa, good //639 1208 6/28 (bp)
693 JAPAN, Tokyo, JOAB, loud w/EE lessons 1139 6/29 (bp)
720 NEW ZEALAND, Invercargill, 4YZ, fair w/time pips, Radio New Zealand
ID, nx 1200 6/28, KDWN apparently off (bp)
738 FRENCH POLINESIA, Papeete, good w/pop mx & FF DJ 0559 6/28. Massive
signal w/FF talk 0822 6/28. Good in FF 1142 6/29 (bp)
774 FIJI, Suva, Hindi talk //891 0815 6/28 (bp)
774 JAPAN, Akita, JOUB, fair-good w/JJ talk 1102 6/29, loud at 1121
recheck (bp)
783 UNID, probably New Zealand, good w/eclectic mix of folk mx, pop
tunes from the 1930's & 40s, etc, no anmts 1144 6/28 (bp)
810 FIJI, Labasa, u/KGO w/Hindi pgm //891 1228 6/28 (bp)
810 NEW ZEALAND, Dunedin, 4YA, piano mx //819 in wild mix with Fiji &
KGO 1231 6/28 (bp)
819 NEW ZEALAND, Rotorua, 1YZ, NZ talk, separable from 820 1229 6/28
(bp)
870 HAWAII, Honolulu, KAIM, monster signal w/religious pgm, ID, promos &
PSAs 0825 6/28 (bp)
891 FIJI, Lautoka, loud w/Hindi mx 1122 6/28 (bp)
891 AUSTRALIA, Adelaide, 5AN, battling Fiji w/teletalk 1125 6/28 (bp)
927 FIJI, Sigatoka, poor w/mx //639 1218 6/29 (bp)
930 ALASKA, Ketchikan, KTKN, soft rock, "AM 930 KTKN" ID & local ads
atop freq 0614 6/29 (bp)
963 NEW ZEALAND, Christchurch, 3YC, good w/orch mx //657 1249 6/28 (bp)
1008 NEW ZEALAND, Tauranga, 1ZD, teletalk good o/horserace (probably
4TAB) 1214 6/28 (bp)
1017 TONGA, Nuku'alofa A3Z, fair w/woman in presumed Tongan 0606 6/28
(bp)
1134 AUSTRALIA, Armidale, 2AD fair w/"Australia Tonight" talk pgm,
network ID giving list of about 10 affiliates including this one 1225
6/28 (bp)
1143 AUSTRALIA, Newcastle, 2HD, ID between light rock songs fair 1235
6/28 (bp)
1152 FIJI, fair-good //639 1217 6/28 (bp)
1161 NEW ZEALAND, Wellington, 2XM, probably the one w/non-EE talk fair
o/unid 1239 6/28, listed as Maori pgms (bp)
1206 FIJI, Sigatoka, weak in domestic splat w/Hindi pgm //891 1132 6/28
(bp)
1332 NEW ZEALAND, Auckland, 1XI, fair w/talk show & "Sports Radio
Network" ID 1118 6/28 (bp)
1386 NEW ZEALAND, Auckland, R Tarana, Hindi pgm fair 0951 6/28, good
1116 6/28 (bp)
1467 FIJI, Rakiraki, weak-fair //891 1127 6/28 (bp)
1475 SABAH, Kota Kinabalu, mx fair 1125 6/28 (bp)
1593 JAPAN, NHK2 synchros fair-poor in domestic splat w/EE lessons //774
1123 6/29 (bp)
1701 AUSTRALIA, Melbourne good w/S Asian or Middle East language 1018
6/28 (bp)
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