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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.

Wednesday 9 August 2017

New logging and the holidays nearing an end

This evening I managed to log Radio Taiwan International on 1359, 7445 and 11600 kHz, Bangladesh Betar 4750.

Last night I set the scheduler on my Excalibur to record a 300 kHz section of the tropical bands. Signal quality wasn't great, but I did manage to get AIR Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala State on 5010 kHz. It is probably the best I have heard it. Elton John songs were played and there was some English spoken. Modulation wasn't great so it was difficult to follow what was being said. However, with the music played I should have enough to get a verification.

During my summer holidays and before school starts again for me next week, I have managed to log 18 frequencies. Hopefully something will come of it all. I have had 3 veries in and only one of those was for a holiday logging.

The best things about these holidays has been the Excalibur arriving. It is certainly a very good receiver and will set me up for the rest of my DXing days.

 Once I get back to Mangawhai in New Zealand with a decent aerial set-up, I should hear some very interesting things.
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