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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.

Wednesday 12 April 2017

DXpedition Trail

This is what we heard during my DXpedition to Bryan Clark's. It was a good range and some nice SW catches. I will certainly be reporting some of them.


570
0632
USA, KLAC fair and clear, but with fading. Sports talk. Id given as AM 570 LA sports’ station. 11/4
640
0700
USA, KFI fair with IF. Mixed with a Latin. Progresso possibly. 10/4
660
0702
CANADA and USA – CFFR mixed with KTNN. Traffic info for Calgary and Indian chanting. 10/4
690
0715
USA, KHNR good with announcer talk. 10/4
710
0727
USA, KIRO – ESPN Seattle fair with id and lots of mentions of Seattle. 10/4
780
0733
USA, KKOH fair but mixed. Id given at 0733 as Red Eye Radio on Newstalk 780, KKPH. Rush Limbaugh weekdays at 9 am. 10/4
850
0740
USA, KOA with faming ads and id. Fair. 10/4
860
0855
USA, KTRB fair with some splash from locals and some fading. ID given just before the hour and then news and financial stories. 11/4
1090
0749
USA, KFNQ fair with Seattle Sports Talk. 10/4
1310
0754
USA, KMKY fair with Punjabi mx. (KMKY is R. Punjabi). 10/4
1430
0703
USA, KLO. Fair/ poor – a lot of fading 11/4
1540
0632
USA, KPMC fair with music – Bridge Over Troubled Waters. 9/4
1670
0815
USA, WMGE under KHPY but audible. At 0819 mentioned Fox Sports trending.
4055
0557
GUATEMALA, R Verdad. Poor but readable signal. Id given as R Verdad. Woman may have been speaking in German (sounded a little like it). C/down at 0602 with choir singing. Carrier off at 0607. 11/4
4885
0615
BRAZIL, R Clube do Para – Fair at best with vocals and announcements in PP. Also gave frequencies. 9/4
6015
0445
ZANZIBAR, Fair with lady talking in Swahili. Phone calls being taken. Grey line boost to sig and faded and disappeared by 0500. Id given as ZBC. 11/4
6025
0420
BOLIVIA, Red Patria Neuva. Fair/ poor with nx show. Id at 0431 as ‘Bolivia Informar’. 11/4
6090
2057
ETHIOPIA, R Amhara vg with mx and talk. 2059 Amhara Radio id given and c/ down and anthem. CRI carrier came on and sig audible beneath. 9/4
11825
0359
MADAGASCAR, World Voice Madagascar in EE with African Pathways. Very good signal. 11/4
17530
0410
MADAGASCAR, World Voice Madagascar – good in CC, but not as good as the signal on 11825. 11/4
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