Kiwi DXer in Asia: March 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 14 March 2017

A new logging

With little time on my hands at present, until at least April, when I depart for Aotearoa New Zealand, I did manage to grab 30 minutes listneing the other evening at around 1350 UTC. I was delighted to pick up RRI Pro Satu Tanjung Pinang on 1341 kHz. The station came in well - probably the best of the Indonesians. There were also lots of id's.

In the Pacific Asia Log, Bruce Portzer has it as being supposedly off air, however, it is very much on air and Bruce has been sent the sound file to prove it. I am sure he will amend the PAL accordingly.

Now to decipher what was being said and to write a report - in Indonesian!