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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 28 August 2017

A new logging and a new verie

A couple of nights ago MW conditions were good, with relatively little noise. I have been searching for All India Radio domestic stations. So, I set the recorder on to 936 kHz at 1700 UTC.

When I listened to the recording all I heard was a couple of stations mixed at very poor volume levels, the odd bit of music and muffled talk. However, at 1730 (2300 IST) there was a time pip and then a man said, 'All India Radio, the news read by .....'

This was good enough. I managed to cobble together a few other details and the report has been sent.

On the same day I also managed to log AIR on 9950 kHz broadcasting to Pakistan in Urdu. There were many mentions of Pakistan and India. The signal was fair at best, but quite clear. It is obviously coming off the back end of the aerial.

The verie comes from Trans World Radio via Moldova, heard on the 19th August at 1800 UTC on 9940 kHz. The verie signer was Lorraine Stavropoulos (lstavrop@twr.org)

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