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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 17 July 2017

A new logging

Last night the conditions were terribly noisy here in Cyberjaya. It is possibly local noise, but it is problematic nonetheless. Conditions were certainly down on the previous evening as even with noise locally, the MW signals were strong enough to rise above it and offer good reception.

Having had a quick scan through the bands I was about to give up when I heard someone in English saying a prayer on 1350 kHz. There are three stations carrying English on that frequency - V6A in Chuuk (Truk) - FSM; KUSG in Guam (250 w) and DWUN in the Philippines. I began to get excited as V6A is Baptist Radio - it would fit.

Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on your point of view, it turned out to be DWUN in greater Manilla. I got a very good id at 1603 (12.30 am local).

This is a link to the recording. You will hear a man praying and then comes the id (- fades and all).
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