Welcome


Hello and welcome to my blog. I was inspired to do this by Timm Breyel's excellent SOUTH EAST ASIA DXING site (http://shortwavedxer.blogspot.my) and mine will be a little similar.

Sharing information as a DXer is important and I have found a lot of Timm's QSL information very useful. I am hoping I may be able to help others with some of my QSL info.
What about me then?
Go here to see my story.

My main area of DXing interest is in Longwave/ Mediumwave, but I have been collecting countries on Shortwave as well. I now have 627 verifications from 115 countries on Shortwave and 780 verifications from 73 countries on Long and Mediumwave. I have DXed in New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, Jordan, Dubai, Vietnam and Malaysia.

I own an AOR 7030+, which I bought in the late 90s. I had it upgraded to the Plus. My primary receiver now is a WinRadio WR-G33DDC SDR (software defined radio). My antenna is a 4 metre EWE, shaped like a metal staple - 2 x 4m verticals and a 12m horizontal - all one piece of wire.

I have belonged to the NZ Radio DX League as a member since June 1974. I had a brief spell of about 5 years out in the mid 90s when I lived in the UK and belonged to the British DX Club. However, I rejoined and am now the Chief Editor of the NZ DX Times, the club's monthly publication. For information on the DX League, go here.

I would finally pay tribute to my wife, Maureen. DXing is a very selfish hobby in many ways and my wife Maureen is very encouraging of my participation in it. She puts up with a lot when I witter on about hearing this or that, or get excited by receiving a random postcard in the mail.

Friday 26 August 2016

New QSLs

A couple of new QSLs fell into my letterbox yesterday and I am very pleased with them. One was for
CKZN, St John's New Foundland 6160kHz, 1kw. This I heard while DXing in New Zealand at Lake Ellesmere at the beginning of April. Thanks to a tip from Timm Breyel, I emailed CBC's Terry Brett (terry.brett@cbc.ca), who was able to confirm my reception via e-mail, but then went to the effort of sending a QSL card. It is actually little fold out card and in the middle (not shown below) there is the story of broadcasting in New Foundland and Labrador.



The second QSL was for Madagascar World Voice heard on 29 July 2016 on 9600 at 0000 UTC. Another African QSL is always welcome. I sent an email to the station's website.


Posted by at No comments :

Wednesday 17 August 2016

A new verification

 DW in Swahili on 17710 logged at 1000 UTC here in Cyberjaya on 23 April came back yesterday (16th August). The report was sent to DW via email.

I have had a subsequent email verification from Hoosen Sikander, at Sentech, Meyerton. He says they have had a serious backlog of report and they have now caught up. His details are below.
Posted by at No comments :

Wednesday 10 August 2016

Recent Loggings
Voice of Vietnam in English 9840 (measured 9839.81) and 12020 SINPO 55555 for both @2335 UTC

 Radio Philippines in English 12010, 15640 and 17820 SINPO 54455 (15640) 55455 (12010), 35455 (17820) @0215 UTC

 Bangladesh Betar in Bengali 4750 SINPO 43554 @ 1426 UTC

 China Radio International in English 13660 with a slight heterodyne whistle SINPO 55455 - also heard were 15350 (vg sig), 17490 (poor), 17560 (poor), 17670 (poor), 17710 Excellent @ 0727 UTC

 Vatican Radio in English 9600 SINPO 5555 @ 0753 UTC
KNLS in English, on with IS when Vatican Radio closes SINPO 35353 @ 0800 UTC

 Radio Romania International in English 11825 SINPO 35353 @ 0331 UTC and 17760 in English at 0527 UTC SINPO 45353

 BBC World Service via Oman in English 5970 SINPO 35354 @ 0018 UTC

 AWR via Trincomalee in Burmese SINPO 55555 @ 0029 UTC

 Recent QSLs

 Radyo Farda 13860 and 15690 ex Germany. Logged and verified on 13 July 2016.

 Radio Free Asia 13740 via Nthn Marianas in Khmer. Logged 12 July 2016, verified 13 July 2016 with an email from AJ Janitschek - card to follow. email: qsl@rfa.org
All India Radio via Delhi 9705 and 11645. Email to their web page on 23 May, QSLs arrived on 23 July.
Radio Romania International 21550 replied with a QSL card on 30 July for a report dated 15 May 2016. This was for a report sent to their website.

Posted by at No comments :
Subscribe to: Posts ( Atom )