Kiwi DXer in Asia: February 2017

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.

Tuesday 28 February 2017

Two new veries in one day!

The first one is from Radio RB2 in Curitiba, Brazil on 9725. It was heard on 17th December 2016 via Peter Mott's SDR receiver in Northland, NZ.

The verie arrived (see below) accompanied by a rather nice sticker, which will appear in the DX Times shortly.

The second verie is from the FEBC in the Philippines heard broadcasting in Khmer in 19th January on a frequency of 7410 kHz. The verification came from Norita Estabillo (norie.estabillo@febc.ph). I have been encouraged to have a listen on 702 kHz (DZAS), which I might just do!

Wednesday 22 February 2017

A verie has arrived!

I have received a verie from Radio Nacional da Amazônia in Brazil on 11780. It was for a report sent in December. It arrived by registered delivery!

Thursday 9 February 2017

A new logging

With the demise of the ABC Shortwave Services in the Northern Territory on 31 January, it has left AIR Gangtok in the clear on 4835.

Gangtok is the capital of the state of Sikkim, once an independent monarchy before being annexed by India in 1975. To be more accurate, the Indian government deposed the Sikkimese monarchy and a referendum held later the same year resulted in the population voting to join India.

My wife and I have a good friend who is a member of the Sikkimese Royal Family and her story doesn't quite tally with the official version, but ....

It is a tiny state high up in the Himalayas, bordering with Nepal, China and Bhutan. It is basically north of Darjeeling. The shortwave station is a difficult one to hear and conditions at present are not good. I had to listen for several nights before getting a signal that I could actually use to write a report.

Friday 3 February 2017

A new verification

The Voice of Vietnam has replied to two reports. The first is for 9840 and 12020 heard on the 28th July. The second was for a MW broadcast on 1224 (although the card says 1240) heard on the 5th October.

In addition there was a lovely hand written note from one of the VoV workers and a calendar.