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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.

Sunday 16 April 2017

Stations logged this morning

Reception this morning came courtesy of the NZRDXL SDR in Paihia. Another is available to the general listening public at: http://kiwisdr.northlandradio.nz

Logged were VOA via Botswana on 6080 kHz at 0637 with a program of African music. This was non-stop until 0659. In SINPO reception was 55555 at the beginning and 35252 by the end. Local sunrise was at about this time and by just after 0700 the signal was by and large unreadable. 

The second station was Radio Oromiya in Ethiopia on 6030 kHz. It was a tremendous signal 5s all round. Reception was at 0706 when an id for Radio Oromiya was given. There followed a program of music with the occasional interruption by a man and a woman. 

Next came Radio Free Asia broadcasting in Chinese on 9745 kHz from Kuwait. The Chinese as usual were trying to drown it out with a program of very pleasant Chinese classical music. They were not very successful however, and the programme was perfectly audible. S3 I4 N4 P5 O3.
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