Re: [IRCA] DUs from Grayland, Thursday July 10: KIWI HEAVEN

["John H. Bryant" <bjohnorcas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

THANKS FOR THE HELP, BRUCE.... OBVIOUSLY I WAS OPERATING ON AN OLD 
PAL (shame on me) and thank you! I'm going to review recording 
carefully and will upload what I winkle out.

Thanks!  Those were both very helpful insights!!!!

John B.


At 10:43 PM 7/10/2008 -0700, you wrote:
> John
>
> See my comments
>
> Bruce
>
> John H. Bryant wrote:
> > But it was the`second best Kiwi morning that I've ever heard. I 
> > started 90 minutes before 1220 dawn and immediately noticed that 
> > there were quite a few Kiwis about and at elevated levels. There 
> > were a few Aussies, at far poorer levels than yesterday and the 
> > now-usual few JJs, also down from yesterday.  I really 657//963 was 
> > doing the best of the season at 9 and 7 respectively and then I hit 
> > 738. Tahiti's carrier was unbelievably strong... more so than most 
> > locals except for 810 San Francisco. With almost no modulation, it 
> > looked like a tall skinny spike on the display. I could hear a 
> > little audio that sounded French... maybe.  Things seemed to switch 
> > back and forth on 738. Sometimes when I'd stop by, it 
> > sounded/looked as described. At other times, 2NR was there at a 
> > fair level.  I think that the Tahiti transmitter may be failing, 
> > though I was never listening when if faded or cut out.... It was so 
> > strong that I was pretty sure that the propagation was favoring south.
> >
> > One of my early stations was a DU EE horse race call at a fairly 
> > low level on 549. The only real suspect is 1kw Radio Trackside from 
> > Napier, NZ... Though there is also a 1kW Radio Sport in Nelson. I'm 
> > gonna report to both and hope that Radio Sport can tell me that it wasn't them.
> According to its website, BSport carries the Trackside Radio Network 
> (horse racing) from noon to midnight LT.  Radio Sport, OTOH runs a 
> Sportstalk show 8pm to midnight that is also carried on Newstalk ZB.
> I'd say you had Trackside.
>
> > 1287 at 1256UTC. Low level DU EE talk. This might have been 2TM in 
> > Tamworth, but only a few Aussies were in and I SWEAR that I heard a 
> > "Newstalk Zed B" ID!!!  The only Kiwi is 3ZW on the SW corner of 
> > the South Island and it is listed as Scenicland FM. I do note that 
> > 2TM is "News Talk 1287" and a heck of a catch at any time, much 
> > less 45 minutes after dawn.
> I have the 1287 NZ listed as Radio Sport in the current PAL.  As 
> noted above, Radio Sport is // Newstalk ZB until local midnight.
>
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