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 25 November 2016

A new logging

Whilst waiting for my wife to finish work last night, I tuned in to Peter Mott's Kiwi SDR. I tuned to 850 kHz and there was KICY in Nome, Alaska coming loud and clear. The signal was at fair/ good strength but tended to fade right out. I got a good id and enough information for a report to be sent.

The address to send reports to is office@kicy.org

I also heard KMJ on 580 with Redeye Radio coming out of Fresno, Ca and KENI on 650 in Anchorage, Alaska. They were carrying Coast to Coast.

Peter's SDR is wonderful. It is not as powerful as the WinRadios, but is nonetheless effective. In order to use it you need to be a member of the New Zealand Radio DX League. Membership costs $15 NZ a year and for that you get access to the SDR and the monthly magazine, the NZ DX Times.

Email secretary@radiodx.com for details.

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