DX Recordings from New Zealand

My latest experiments: DRM reception from Wellington, New Zealand.

Here are some recordings of stations I have heard from my DX shack. Some are from listening at home in Wellington, but most are from my holiday cottage at Marahau.

These files are mostly in format.

• Pirate KIPM, 6925U, heard in Wellington, 2003/08/03 (.mp3 version)
• Radio Nacional del Paraguay, 9737v kHz, heard in Wellington, 2002/09/18 (.mp3 version)
• 6956.7v kHz La Voz de Campesino, Peru, heard in Wellington, 2002/09/01 (.mp3 version)
• Galei Zahal, Israel Defence Forces Radio, heard in Wellington on 15785 kHz, 2002/06/08 (.mp3 version)
• China Huayi Broadcasting Company, Fuzhou, heard in Wellington 2001/11/28 (.mp3 version)
• Borderhunter - SW Europirate heard in Wellington (.mp3 version)
• Radio ABC Denmark
• KTRK/K-Truck/ARMY 1670 kHz Test transmissions from the US Army Broadcasting Service transportable AM station prior to its shipment to Bosnia, as heard at Marahau, New Zealand. One of my luckiest DX catches in years - just happened to be in the right place at the right time with good reception.
• WMAQ, Chicago, IL, 670kHz
• KTNN 660kHz, Window Rock AZ
• Guatemala: Radio Cultural,  Radio Chortis
• World Music Radio via Meyerton, South Africa (.wav clips)
• KXBT 16-40 Solid Gold Soul
• KGXL 1650 (inspite of what the id says, this was the expanded band station!)
• Radio San Marino International
• Radio Caroline on shortwave 13720 kHz via Merlin Network One, 28 March 1998. This recording doesn't do justice to the audio quality of the signal here in NZ - feeding the audio from my AOR AR-7030 into my stereo gave audio quality almost as good as local medium wave & FM stations - and with better programming!
• A higher quality recording of part of the above, including the "Caroline" theme song
• Click here to visit today's Radio Caroline web site
• Sunrise Radio on 5840 kHz
• Voz Christiana test transmission from Santiago, Chile on 21550kHz. Click here for id announcement.
• Buenos Aires station Cadena Cien FM being relayed on 15820 kHz LSB mode, December 1998. 
• SWRS Christmas 1998 broadcast on 11470 kHz SSB
• Radio Napa, Cyprus, special Christmas broadcast via Merlin Network One
• Radio Blue Star - a Dutch free radio station on 6910 kHz
• Radio Free London (RFL) heard on 5805 kHz during Easter 1999 from Marahau, New Zealand, using a Drake SPR-4
• RFL again, heard on 15060 kHz during January 2000, in Wellington using an AOR AR-7030 receiver.
• Radio Nor Andina
• ZH-FM, Hamilton, NZ, tropo-skip FM reception as heard at Marahau, Nelson, NZ (~250 miles)
• Radio Transcontinental de America, XERTA, 4800 kHz, Mexico City
• Radio Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 6135 kHz
• Radiostantsiya Mayak, Russia, 15410 kHz via Novosibirsk
• Stichting Radio-Omroep Suriname (SRS), Paramaribo, on 4850 kHz in 1978
• Some US stations from the '80s:
  • KFAB 1110 kHz, Omaha
  • KSTP 1500 kHz, St Paul
  • WHAM 1180 kHz, Rochester NY

Some other audio recordings that may stir a memory or two for some people!

•  "Susy Calling DXers" from Susy Radio's RSL broadcast in the UK, August 27, 2001 (.mp3 version)
•  Laser558 recorded from London in 1985
• Radio Caroline recorded from London in 1985 (.mp3 version)
•  Atlantic 252 recorded from Warrington in 1990
• BBC Radio 1 FM
•  Promo tape for NDXE "Global Radio". I've still got my NDXE pen! Who else has?!
• Old interval signals: tape 1, tape 2
• Assorted stations recorded during an Air New Zealand flight from London Gatwick to Auckland, New Zealand
  This recording starts with stuff I recorded from the terminal at Gatwick Airport, then includes what I could record by holding my Sony up to the plane window. The flight path went from London over Iceland, then over the north polar regions and then headed south over Alberta and Washington, ending as the plane headed into Los Angeles.
•  Radio Jackie - The Sound of SW London
• Hong Kong stations in 1984
• GWR FM, recorded in Bath, UK, 1990 (I think)
• Radio Bristol, UK, clip 1, clip 2
• Echo FM
• Wellington's Pirate FM
• VOA coverage of the Apollo launch from the Apollo/Soyuz space mission
• Radio Australia relaying ABC Radio Darwin in the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy
• Rock 99 & KWTO Country 56
• Stations in Perth, Australia, & London, England, 1988
• Stations recorded in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1981: tape 1, tape 2, tape 3, tape 4
• Radio Ohakea - airshow radio on 1377 kHz

• AM band scan from my motel room in Mt Vernon, Washington , USA, 1998
• Radio New Zealand International, as heard by a Kiwi tourist (me) in Kelowna, BC, Canada, September 1998 Heard on my Sony SW1000T sitting on the balcony outside my motel room.
• Other Kelowna, BC, Canada, stations
• A3Z Tonga, as my Air New Zealand 767 flew right over this small island in the middle of the Pacific
• Laser Hot Hits 6220 kHz recorded in Newtonmore, Scotland
• Reflections Europe, as heard in Peebles, Scotland
• Other stuff taped in Scotland (sorry, you'll have to work out what it is yourself :-) ) recording 1, recording 2

• Recordings made in Argentina

• Id from WXLE 1385 kHz Canton Island contributed by Chris Martin in Australia. Read more about this station in the article WXLE Memories by David Riquish.
• MW DX from Aussie - a great collection of MP3 recordings of medium wave DXing from Geoff Wolfe in Cooma, NSW, Australia. Many thanks to Geoff for allowing me to put his collection online.
• Geoff Wolfe's FM DX Audio Files - Leonid meteor shower FM DXing highlights in Australia.
• Radio Cook Islands - Local recordings of Radio Cook Islands, 630 kHz, by visiting DXer Guy Atkins in April 1993. Thanks to Guy for allowing me to host a copy of his recordings.

Radio New Zealand "Spectrum" Documentaries

These programmes were recorded off my local Radio NZ National Radio station:

• Short Waves & Long Memories - reunion of some of the original Radio New Zealand shortwave staff after 50 years.
• Germany Calling - the story of New Zealand DXers wartime monitoring.