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.

Monday 19 June 2017

A visitor and a logging

We had the pleasure of Paul and Linda Ormandy's company over the past weekend. For those who do not know Paul is a MW guru, the best ever NZ DXer of Latins and an aerial expert.

The first thing that was done was to convert my 3m EWE into a 4m EWE. The result was more gain immediately.

We had a good DX session at night and the result was a logging of DZXL on 558 in Manilla. It was heard from 1700 UTC with the morning sunrise peak to excellent levels. We got a full idea as well as a lot of very identifiable music tracks.

DZXL was mixed with an Aussie or two - probably 6WA in Wagin Western Australia and 4AM in Atherton, Queensland. 4GY shares the frequency, but is more of a music station. I would go for 6WA of the two. It was very good at times. Another analysis of the recording will reveal more.

In addition I also managed to log Bangladesh Betar also on 558. It was earlier in the evening.

I am definitely happy with the signal gain form the improved antenna.

I will post a trail of what was heard.
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