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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.

Saturday 27 May 2017

New loggings

 As the internet wasn't working at home last night and thus TV viewing was impossible, I turned on the radio and logged a couple of stations. As usual there were Chinese stations all over the bands, but there were some pretty good signals coming out of AIR. Unfortunately I had verified all the frequencies.

But then I stumbled across VoA on 15620 kHz coming out of Pinheira, Sao Tome in Somali at 1035 UTC. The signal wasn't too bad - probably 35343. Africans are not easy to hear during daylight hours in Malaysia, so I am quite pleased with it.

 The second logging was much easier - RFA via Tinian Is in the Northern Marianas on 15195 at 1104. The broadcast was in Laotian and the quality was 55555.
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