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.

Monday 3 October 2016

A couple of new loggings and a verification

 By setting my AOR 7030+ to come on at a certain time and by leaving my portable recorder on when I go to bed, I can DX when I am asleep! I have about 24 hours of recording time available and a very good battery.

 I logged RFA in Tibetan via Dushanbe on 9355 at 1500 UTC. This may have been the mystery station heard in English mixed with another language (Tibetan??) the day before.

 I furthermore logged the Voice of Mongolia on 12035 in English at 0900 UTC. It was a superb signal 45555. Hopefully a verie will come from it.

 Finally I logged All India Radio in Urdu at 1015 UTC on 9940 and 11620. Reception was very good on the former. The signal quality was good on the latter, but it was mixed with CRI. 9940 was actually 9941.10. The signal tended to wander a bit!

 The verie that dropped into my inbox was from Radio Sedaye Bahar via Moldova. The verie signer was Sergey Omelchenko, Technical Director of Pridnestrovskiy Radiotelecentr (PRTC) and the email address is: prtc@idknet.com

Posted by at

No comments :

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments ( Atom )