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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 24 July 2017

A new logging

Radio Romania International was received today at 0545 on 17760 and 21500 kHz. Reception was not great. There is a lot of noise around at present and in LSB with a wide filter, I was just able to hear most of what was said. This broadcast is designed for Australia/ New Zealand and India. Therefore the signal comes from Europe over India and Malaysia and on to Australasia. It is daylight much of the way. You would expect a reasonably good signal if it is being beamed in this direction. The earlier broadcast to India at 0300 on 11825 was of a much better quality. The DRM broadcast is inaudible here.

In SINPO terms 17760 was S3 I5 N3 P4 O 2/3; 21500 was S2 I5 N2 P4 O 1/2.

I don't know why, at the present time, international broadcasters persist in broadcasting on the 16 and 13 metre bands. The signal quality is generally poor.
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