[IRCA] Cook Islands Kiwi Propagation-- "Trackside" Indeed

[Gary DeBock <d1028gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Although the Cook Islands are roughly 2,000 miles (3,220 km) from New Zealand, the straight ocean path made many of the Kiwi signals sound like locals, regardless of their power. I'm still sorting through about 100 NZ recordings made during my 5 day trip to Aitutaki last month, but several of the Kiwi sunset skip signals demonstrate the effect in pretty awesome fashion.

828  TAB Trackside Radio   Palmerston North, NZ, 2 kW   You can almost smell the horses as the low power TAB Trackside leaves the Aussie 3GI way down in the dust at 0835 UTC on 4-10. TAB Trackside also showed up on four other frequencies  https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/t73cumjyelggta9dgk94nyu23lv3wzol

936  Chinese Voice   Auckland, NZ, 1 kW   The low power ethnic station pounds in at S9 for this TOH recording at 0800 UTC on 4-10, featuring multiple Chinese ID's and a mention of their FM affiliate (and website)  https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/jp8cmpqmmxbjm6bruj601g5y0i4j66f5

1440  Te Reo O Tauranga Moana   Tauranga, NZ, 200 watts   In one of the wackiest moments of the entire trip. the 200w Maori language station hijacks the frequency from the 10 kW Radio Kiribati at 0807 UTC on 4-11 (thanks to Theo for language identification)  https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/2jpcqtll1odzjbrxak8u00brzpqr2uba


Gary DeBock (DXing in Aitutaki, Cook Islands with a 7.5" loopstick CC Skywave SSB Ultralight)

 
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