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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.

Saturday 31 December 2016

A mystery resolved

About 6 weeks ago (mid-November) I was listening on Peter Mott's Kiwi SDR after work, while waiting for my wife to finish her work.

On 1270 kHz there was a US station playing Christmas music - slightly early but nonetheless enjoyable. It didn't seem to fit any format I could find. I had nobody to send a report to. To add to the frustration, every time an announcement was due, the signal faded - such is the lot of DXers.

Whilst preparing the January New Zealand DX Times, I came across a piece of news that raised my spirits it said that KVMI 1270 had changed its format from adult contemporary to Christmas music. It is 5kw daytime and 1kw nighttime. If it was 1kw, it was a very good signal. On the SINPO scale it was heard at 34533.

A report has been emailed to the station and I got an auto reply from the Program Director - Bill
Lynch saying that he was out of the office. I now have a name and a more definitive email address. Fingers are crossed that he will verify the report.

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