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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 2 August 2017

New South Wales or Oman Heard in Malaysia

I recorded a chunk of the band last night. 1413 had an interesting signal. At 1700 the RRI station in Sungai Liat closed down. Time pips were heard and then the BBC WS programme Outlook started up.

When looking through the Pacific Asia Log, there are two stations it could be: 2EA in Newcastle, NSW, Australia. Nothing else carries the BBC there. I checked with the SBS website and sure enough, it is listed as BBC World Service overnight. The other possibility is the BBC via Oman.

This is what it sounded like. Unfortunately I verified 2EA back in 2003 and Oman in 2005 from New Zealand. Nonetheless, it was exciting to hear it.
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