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 29 December 2016

A new logging

Using Peter Mott's SDR (now open to the public on http://kiwisdr.northlandradio.nz) I have logged Super Radio Deus e Amor on 9565 kHz at 0250. On the SINPO scale it was 35353

For those interested in SW Brazilians, via NZ, I can recommend this SDR very highly. It has just come out of its trial period and according to the person who runs the Kiwi SDR project, it is in the top two or three of the Kiwi SDRs in use around the world.

The only criticism I have of it is that it suffers from 'audio underrun', which means the signal gets periodically lost.

About Audio Underrun Peter says: 'Under run typically means there is insufficient bandwidth between the server (at my house) and your computer.  The restriction could be at any point in the Internet path.  Another possible cause is CPU exhaustion on the server here.

The connection here is back hauled over a 4G link.  The radio link is fine, however the carrier (Vodafone) does not have sufficient capacity at all times.  We are approaching holiday season and resident count is increasing, so this may get worse.'

It is an annoying problem, but given the nature of where Peter is in New Zealand, there is not a lot that can be done about it.
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