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.

Wednesday 30 November 2016

New loggings

Yesterday afternoon, with time on my hands, I tuned into the Kiwi SDR in Paihia. It was too early for MW in these summer months, so I settled upon some SW and was delighted to hear Radio Alcaravan in Colombia on 5910 kHz. They were playing a programme of beautiful Latin American music with the odd time check thrown in. Reception was S3 I5 N3 P5 O3. Some atmosopheric noise made reception a little challenging.

This afternoon I once again tuned into Peter's SDR and this time there was Radio Bandeirantes on 11925 kHz. It was armchair reception S4 I5 N5 P5 O5. Oh if they were all like this....

The last time I heard them was in 2004 when I verified them on 3200 and 3320. Mind you it took almost a year for the verie to come back! I hope it is not as long this time.
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