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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.

Monday, 19 June 2017

Broadcast Trail

As a result of some listening that Paul Ormandy and I undertook, this is a short trail of what was heard.


Freq Country Time UTC Details
531 CHINA 1326 Mixed - fair but noisy
558 PHILIPPINES 1730 DZXL - vg with sunrise peak. Music and clear announcement
558 BANGLADESH 1658 Some music and talk in Bangla. IDs given and time pips on the hour.
630 VIETNAM 1630 VOV1 - fair/ poor signal at best.
657 NTH KOREA 1631 Pyongyang fair/ poor with talk
693 CHINA 1333 Presumed Xiangyang fair with talk
711 VIETNAM 2250 VOV1 via Thoi Long - vg with VV talk.
720 UNKNOWN 1334 China or Korea fair with talk but fading.
783 VIETNAM 1335 VOV2 via Thoi Long fair with talk
801 INDONESIA 1337 RRI Medan - very good signal
891 UNKNOWN 1338 Unknown - huge carrier with some talking beneath.
918 CAMBODIA 1340 Likely to be Cambodia with singing and ethnic instruments. Vg sig
1080 THAILAND 1342 Fair with talk
1287 INDONESIA 1344 RRI Pelambang - excellent with prayers 
1350 PHILIPPINES 1342 DWUN probable with talk. Fair at best.
1413 PHILIPPINES 1313 DWRA up with talk. Regular fades. Fair at best
1467 UNKNOWN 1315 2 stations mixed - couldn't identify
1476 INDONESIA 1320 R RHK Bandung, Central Java fair with religious singing - lots of noise
1503 TAIWAN 1321 Very good signal from RTI with music. Some fading
1521 INDONESIA 1323 RRI Bukittingi - vg with talk.
1530 PHILIPPINES 1323 DZME poor with talk
1557 TAIWAN 1324 1557 Music Interactive Network , RTI vg with music
1575 THAILAND 1325 Not there at 1325!
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