The first DXing sessions here near the ocean beach at Poipu, Kauai (Hawaii) really made all of the planning, gear development and A/B testing pay off in a major way. Poipu was chosen because of its location at the extreme southern tip of the island, which provides a straight salt water shot to Asia and Oceania, as well as to North and South America. In this aspect it is pretty much unique on Kauai, where a sizable ridge of hills tends to limit transoceanic DX reception from certain areas to other parts of the island.
Several earlier posts were made concerning the phenomenal Costco Travel package for this trip, the awesome Asian signals and another South American station strong enough to splatter over from 1 kHz away to imitate a Pacific area broadcaster.
Exotic, long-range stations were the target during sunrise enhancement this morning, using April's Cook Island results (with the same gear) as a guide. Signals from one of the targets (918-Cambodia) were stronger than in the Cooks, with RNK easily dominating Shandong at 1618 https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/cc46e5qwsaxatv7xfwkdgva0q9gjvtli
As a parting shot before its 1701 signoff, 918-RNK stomped over Shandong with this awesome S9 music at 1655 https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/v7olzd8dtcu9nzv390opsrfzpjiscp6v
Another target was 1431-Mongolia's BBC service at 1630, but with no signal received at all in the good propagation it seemed pretty odd. Only a few presumed peaks of 693-Bangladesh music eeked through horrible 690-KHNR splatter around 1645, and any hope of receiving 657-AIR (like in the Cook Islands) was smothered by a wicked combination of Pyongyang BS, a presumed Henan, and 650-KPRP splatter.
The most interesting signal received this morning was a pretty strong UnID female voice on 702 kHz under KCBS in Chongjin (NK), speaking in a foreign language that nobody seems to be able to identify https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/6y1yiuoxvzd0tty50cnehmma670jb708
My own assessment of this mystery (based on a 2017 WRTH listing) shows the 200 kW 702-AIR in Jalandhar A, India (a foreign service station) broadcasting in the Urdu language to South Asia from 1430-1930 daily. It certainly doesn't seem like this is a language commonly recognized by DXers, though, so this may remain a mystery for some time!
73 and Good DX,
Gary DeBock (DXing at Poipu, Kauai, Hawaii)
7.5" loopstick CC Skywave Ultralight +
5 inch "Frequent Flyer" FSL antenna
Kauai DXpedition setup photos are posted at the following links https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/fewexvijgj1gnxpng6qrvi56vihnqbof
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/w9xwjl1a2zasg7n4ivz7x0mx621knnr1
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/66osm6kgxfw53ymil9wsdylw905wxl0r
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/bucol3mw5x18nus1m1v6jn2ssqxrcebv
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