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.

Wednesday 12 April 2017

A DXpedition

I have just spent three days with my good friend Bryan Clark in Mangawhai, DX Paradise, just over an hour north of Auckland in New Zealand. I have known Bryan for 40 years and he is New Zealand's top MW DXer. His home in Mangawhai is set against the backdrop of the estuary. This is only a couple of hundred metres away. He has three EWE antennae - each is approx 5m high and 15m long, pointing east, north east and south east. These are, unsurprisingly, very effective and when conditions are right, they are the equal of anything in New Zealand.

Unfortunately, conditions have not been great and reception hasn't been as good as hoped. Nonetheless, I still managed to hear things I cannot hear in Malaysia. To listen we used Bryan's WinRadio Excalibur SDR (software defined radio). This is a much improved version of my WinRadio SDR, which was quite an early model. I must say I am now sold on them and am working out how I am going to get one without breaking the bank! It is a vast improvement on my one.

Special thanks to Bryan and Sandra for their continuing friendship and hospitality. Maureen and I look forward to repaying it when we move to Mangawhai - hopefully in July of next year.

A DX trail will follow this posting.
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