[IRCA] TP from Kauai for 3Dec 2010: Australian Pipeline!

[WALTER SALMANIW <salmaniw@xxxxxxx>]

On our final night on Kauai, we had torrential downpours all night long, so monitoring was restricted to the part of the lanai most protected from the wind and the rain!  I monitored between 16:11 and 17:05 UTC (6:11 to 7:05 AM).  Conditions seemed quite good, and I quickly realized that virtually all the channels were open to Australia.  On top of that, a welcome visitor was Radio Farda on 1575.  Here's the list of what was heard using my handy little Eton e100, modified with a 7.5" ferrite rod.  

540:  2AP at excellent level
549:  Chinese ?CNR5 at fair to good level to W/NW
558:  sounds like an OC
585:  piano to NW at good level.  ? Chinese?
603:  Weak talk with rapid flutter to W/NW.  Another cochannel with piano.
612:  Brisbane at good to very good level.  Many // as noted below
630:  4QN presumably with good level and // to many other frequencies including 612.
639:  Islands music at 16:19 at poor to fair level.  ? Fiji
675:  Poor/fair to W with Vietnamese talk.
702:  2BL Sydney at fair level.  // 612 4QR
738:  2NR Grafton at good to very good level // 630 and 612 (but with deep fades at 16:23).
783:  poor
792:  4RN Brisbane at fair to good level. // 630, etc
810:  poor
846:  poor to SW
855:  4QO Eidsvold at very good level with same talk-in show as other Aussie frequencies (612, etc).  At 16:29
864:  poor to W
873:  ?2GB Sydney.  Fair with same call-in program.  //855
891:  4TAB Innisfail,presumed at good/very good level with same Aussie call-in program (licensing 16 year olds to drive).  
927:  Music (western ballad) at fair to good level to south.  Several possibilities here:  4CC Gladstone might match, as could Fiji.  Remains an unid.
954:  Talk show to SW at fair level.  2UE Sydney most likely.
963:  poor
972:  HLCA presumed with a call-in program in apparent KK.  Good reception.
1017:  poor at 16:38.  1017 has been a major disappointment.  This frequency should boom in, but doesn't at all.  I think that the transmitter and/or antenna system is poorly maintained.  Compare reception on 1017 vs 540 which has boomed in from Samoa, geographically not that much closer than Tonga.
1071:  Poor to fair to SW with rapid flutter.  Instrumental music at 16:40.  unid.
1098:  OC
1116:  4BC Brisbane.  Excellent reception with music at 16:41, then time check for "18 minutes to 3".  A great channel to guage DU reception!
1152:  ?2WG Wagga Wagga ?  Poor to fair with flutter, and maybe // to 1116.
1170:  VOA Poro at excellent level with special EE about Salvador Dali, at 16:46
1206:  poor to SW
1413:  Fair level to S/SE with talk by OM, but fairly low modulation.  A bit too weak to follow content/language, etc.  Unid
1503:  poor to fair to SE/NW at 16:53
1530:  poor to SW (music)
1539:  poor
1548:  4QD Emerald with call-in talk show at good level.
1575:  fair to NNE/SSW, with Iranian type music, and I'm sure a Radio Farda ID at 17:00:25.

That's it for today, which was, in my opinion, the most interesting of my 10 day stay on Kauai.  I'm typing this from a noisy hotel room in Waikiki.  I just might give the band a whirl tomorrow morning, but I wouldn't count on it!  73s for now,......Walt Salmaniw
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