And how did this happen, you ask....
It began when Nigel reported a slightly off frequency station on 1584.020 kHz, and mentioned that he heard a little pop mx. The hrequency set off alarms, as the only known off frequency station on the channel is Coast Radio, New Zealand which was measured on 1584.019 in July 2014. So I was 99% sure of the identification, but how to prove it? I had heard Coast's 1359 outlet in July and was able to recognize 2 songs. The Donnelly had found a complete list of email addresses for the Coast network, so I picked out the address for New Plymouth 1359 and asked if they had played the songs at the given time. Quickly came an email response saying they had checked their music logs and the titled I provided matched the log. So if we could get the titles of a song or two, I thought we could nail down Nigel's reception. Theo and I tried and tried but could not place the tune. We did get convinced it was by Anne Murray, so off I went on a tangent to listen to Anne Murray songs on Amazon.
After listening to 3 or 4 decades of Anne Murray tunes, I found no match and was becoming somewhat ill. Theo and I then tried to pick out as many words as we could. This lead to dozens of Bing searches, each with zillions of hits. Don't tell Nigel, but I didn't look at all of them. After 100 hits per search, I gave up. So Nigel, Theo and myself had not produced an answer. Nigel then went to Plan B, which was to have his wife listen. Quickly she said "that's Steven Bishop". Lo and behold, she was right. Out came the list of Coast email contacts from Theo and Nigel asked the 1584 Napier - Hastings contact if they had played Steven Bishop's "It Might Be You". You know the rest of the story. Things we know as a result: - Listening to hours of Anne Murray will numb the mind enough to make you be considered an impaired driver. - Canadians (at least Theo) think everything is Anne Murray. - Nigel's wife has a better track record than Nigel, Theo and I. Maybe another 10 - 20
years will sharpen us up. - The Coast people are very friendly and helpful. If I ever see a broken down Coast vehicle on the side of the road, I will stop and help them. - Persistence pays off.
And now Nigel in Alberta has verification of reception of a 1 kW station from far away New Zealand. Chuck
> Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 19:10:39 -0600
From: nige2730@xxxxxxxxx
To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [IRCA] Coast on 1584
Was delighted today to get an e-mail back from Raylene Ramsay at
"Coast" in New Zealand confirming that it was indeed their station
serving Hawkes Bay on 1584 that I heard last week. A most welcome
addition to the log. Thanks to Chuck and Theo (along with my wife)
for helping make this happen.
73,
NIgel Pimblett
Dunmore, Alberta
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