{"id":3433,"date":"2016-08-22T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/08\/22\/radio-new-zealand-booming-in-on-7245-am\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T15:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T05:27:13","slug":"radio-new-zealand-booming-in-on-7245-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/08\/22\/radio-new-zealand-booming-in-on-7245-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio New Zealand Booming in on 7245 AM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Historicsite_RadioNewZealandTransmissionStation-Transmissionstationbuilding3.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Historicsite_RadioNewZealandTransmissionStation-Transmissionstationbuilding3.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <b>The day is off to a good start here at SolderSmoke HQ, with Radio New Zealand booming in on my homebrew Mate for the Mighty Midget receiver. I was listening from around 0900 to 1030 UTC on 7245 kHz. Once again we see that The Radio Gods favor homebrew receivers. Gray line propagation also played a role. <\/b><\/p>\n<p> <b>Above we see a technician at work at RNZ in 1945. More historic photos here: <\/b><br \/> <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcc.govt.nz\/About-Porirua\/Porirua-s-heritage\/Porirua-s-suburbs\/Titahi-Bay\/Historic-site--Radio-New-Zealand-Transmission-Station\">http:\/\/www.pcc.govt.nz\/About-Porirua\/Porirua-s-heritage\/Porirua-s-suburbs\/Titahi-Bay\/Historic-site&#8211;Radio-New-Zealand-Transmission-Station<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day is off to a good start here at SolderSmoke HQ, with Radio New Zealand booming in on my homebrew Mate for the Mighty Midget receiver. I was listening from around 0900 to 1030 UTC on 7245 kHz. Once again we see that The Radio Gods favor homebrew receivers. Gray line propagation also played &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/08\/22\/radio-new-zealand-booming-in-on-7245-am\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Radio New Zealand Booming in on 7245 AM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,100,27,31,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-zealand","category-old-radio","category-propagation","category-radio-history","category-short-wave-listening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3435,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions\/3435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}