Channel Z 6956.8 AM 0447 UTC 30 Jul 2016

[ChrisSmolinski]

SDR recording catch. The carrier came on at 0447, then off a few seconds later, back at 0448. Off at 0452, no audio heard, but not a bad signal.
0455 Back on with a carrier. An S9 signal around 0458, but again no audio.  The signal then started to fade out a bit, down to an S7 or so. But a lot of static.
0508 Starting to hear some faint audio, music? Too weak to ID.
0530 Still hearing music, and still quite weak, although some peaks to maybe an SIO 322.
0532 Guns N' Roses "Sweet Child O' Mine"
0538 OM with ID? Then some CW, too weak to decode, even by hand.
0602 CW ID? and off. The only CW I could decode were some alternating Z's and C's.

[loul]

First heard 0506; very poor.  Recording taken from 0554 till 0602 with a couple of identifiable songs, and morse "CZ" identification. No individual words were intelligible - signal just above noise level. Received from East Coast New Zealand (Otago) on Lowe HF-150 using 10.8m vertical with 4 X 10.8m elevated ground plane. Location 500m from nearest power lines.