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.

Thursday 8 December 2016

A logging and a QSL

I managed to log KKOH on 780 in Reno, Nevada. This was achieved with the services of Peter Mott's SDR Radio. An email report was dispatched and almost by return email a verification came. Dan Mason's email address is: dan.mason@cumulus.com

Hello Stu,

I can confirm that you were listening to AM 780 KKOH. We're in Reno, Nevada, USA and broadcast our news/talk format at 50,000 watts. We're directional after sunset aiming west-southwest and can be heard clearly up and down the west coast of the U.S. from Canada to Mexico. We've received DX reports from places like Hawaii, Japan, and the Scandinavian countries. I believe yours may be the first I've seen from New Zealand!

Thanks for the note.

Dan Mason
Program Director/Talk Host
News Talk 780 KKOH
595 East Plumb Lane
Reno, NV 89502
Main: 775-789-6700
Direct: 775-325-9139
www.kkoh.com

I find the bit about not having had reports from NZ a little strange. KKOH is regularly heard in New Zealand. In the past I have reported them a cpouple of times and heard nothing. I was delighted to get this verie - finally.
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