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Loggings => Shortwave Broadcast => Topic started by: Ct Yankee on August 19, 2017, 0743 UTC

Title: RNZI 7425 am 730 UTC 19 August 2017
Post by: Ct Yankee on August 19, 2017, 0743 UTC
Good reception

0730z "Count on Me" Jefferson Starship
0734z Unid Jazz song, 50's YL singer
0739z OM singer, unid song (Maybe NZ origin) Lullaby-like - speaking of which, break from sleep is over
0752z "Blame it on the Bossa Nova" Eydie Gorme
0755z YL singer unid Opera song
0758z "Moon River" Andy Williams....song cut short at 0800z, time pips, news, weather (To quote the late Mr. Zevon - "I'll sleep when I'm Dead"  ;))
0828z Guitar/Piano/Violin instrumental
0833z Unid song by The Crickets, then OM "Twenty five minutes to nine."
0915z Very faint music now (Outside on front porch, pre-dawn, coffee, screech owls in distance, crescent moon with Venus just above)
0950z Reception improving (though Venus & moon are gone) as we are 15 minutes from sunrise, unid disco song
0958z Very good reception now  "I Want A Girl, Just Like a Girl that Married Dear Old Dad"
1000z Time pips to news including Barcelona attack, sports, weather - rain/showers (hummingbird just perched, eating on other side of porch)
1029z OM talking/music - Dance song
1036z Caribbean (?) music - bongo backing (Heron just circled yard)
1040z "Teenage Kicks" The Undertones  ****GREAT SONG*****
1043z Excellent reception, sounds like local AM T/O 7000 with just its whip - "Walls" Kings of Leon
1107z Church Choir music
Title: Re: RNZI 7425 am 730 UTC 19 August 2017
Post by: flexoman61 on August 19, 2017, 1205 UTC
S9 with deep fade, decent copy

1202 News, ID, weather.
1213 Music, S6 peaks.
Title: Re: RNZI 7425 am 730 UTC 19 August 2017
Post by: MDK2 on August 19, 2017, 1540 UTC
Last night I saw that RNZI's frequency switch at 0459 went to 9700, the frequency they were using earlier in the summer through late July, and not 9630, which it has been using for this time frame since July 28. While mid-season schedule changes aren't unusual for RNZI, this one was NOT on their website, and that is unusual (just like the fact that 7425 is still beaming NE instead of NW for the 1059-1258z time frame).

http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/listen