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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.

Friday 7 July 2017

Broadcast Trail from Bali

We are currently having 4 days away in Bali with a friend from New Zealand. I have bought the Etón E1 with me for a listen. We have a beautiful location looking out over rice fields and little local noise.

I am pasting below a short trail, which I will replace with updated versions as I go along. It is very interesting hearing the Aussies so well from such a great distance away. We do not hear them easily in Malaysia.  Unfortunately I have already verified them all!


Freq Time UTC Details
531 1025 AUSTRALIA - poor/fair with talk. 6DL most likely as fits ABC prog format
540 1030 AUSTRALIA - mixed signal - most probably ABC 4QL
558 1030 AUSTRALIA - regular and good around sunset. ABC Radio, so must be 6WA
585 0942 INDONESIA - RRI Surubayah Pro 4 fair/poor in Indonesian
594 1040 AUSTRALIA - ABC Western Victoria (3WV) fair with regional news mentioning Ballarat
603 1036 AUSTRALIA - vg ABC - ABC id given - unsure which one though - possibly 4JK
630 1055 INDONESIA - RRI Makassar Pro 1 - fair with talk
675 0943 AUSTRALIA - ABC NSW Regional Radio Corowa (2CO) with wx forecast for NSW - fair/good
702 0945 AUSTRALIA - ABC R National Sydney (2BL) //675 fair
729 0950 AUSTRALIA - ABC R National Adelaide (5RN) - good with item on the Pop-Up Globe Theatre
846 0939 AUSTRALIA - ABC R National Canberra - fair/ poor - may have been 6CA //702
855 1035 INDONESIA - RRI Pro-1 Mataram (on island next to Bali) good all day
873 1030 AUSTRALIA - 6DB relaying ABC Grandstand - Aussie Rules football - good // 675,702, 
891 0940 AUSTRALIA - ABC R National Adelaide (5AN) fair/ good //702
999 1057 INDONESIA - RRI Pro 1 Jakarta - fair/poor with music
1080 1058 INDONESIA - RRI Pro 1 Bali - fair/noisy with talk
1098 1059 INDONESIA - unsure which as there was a large het on frequency
1206 1020 INDONESIA - excellent all day RRI Pro 4, Bali
1287 1022 INDONESIA - Possibly RRI Pelambang - vg with pops and some talk. Indonesia mentioned
1323 1140 AUSTRALIA - 5DN Adelaide vg with pops prog. Lot sof local ads and id given as Cruise 1323
1341 1145 CHINA - CRI vg in EE with jazz mx
1359 1140 TAIWAN - RTI Fangliao vg in EE
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