Kiwi DXer in Asia: September 2017

Welcome

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.

Saturday 23 September 2017

New loggings

I have logged Radio Free Asia firstly on 9700 and 12140 broadcasting in Khmer and then on 7530 and 11805 broadcasting in Burmese - the signal was excellent all round.

Sunday 17 September 2017

A new verie

A new verie has arrived from Voice of Report of the Week. Logged on 9400 kHz VORW comes out of Bulgaria.

VORW Radio International is the official External Service of TheReportOfTheWeek, whose mission is to provide an enjoyable light entertainment program over the airwaves. Programs consist of a short lecture at the beginning, followed by a selection of music, exclusively comprised of listener requested tunes.

Programs have been continuously on the air since December 22nd, 2016 though they have been on shortwave sporadically since January of 2015.

Here is the current transmission schedule:

Thursday 2000 UTC - 11580 kHz - To North America

Thursday 2200 UTC - 9955 kHz - To South America

Friday 0000 UTC - 7490 kHz, 7730 kHz, 9395 kHz - To North America

Sunday 1600 UTC - 9400 kHz - To Europe / Middle East

Sunday 2000 UTC - 9395 kHz - To Eastern North America

Thursday 7 September 2017

A flood of veries

After many weeks of patiently waiting, or not, a number of veries arrived today.

The came from All India Radio Jallandhar 873 (very pleased with this as it was very hard to hear), AIR 11560 (Aligarh) and 15120 (Bengaluru); NHK World Radio 11805 and 15280, Radio Taiwan International on 7445, 11600 and 1359.

QSL for AIR Jalandhar 873

Monday 4 September 2017

A new logging

Sunday night is the time when Voice of the Report of the Week Radio International broadcasts on 9400 kHz from 1600-1700 UTC. I logged it yesterday evening. The signal was fair, but it was difficult to tell what was being said as there was local background noise and the announcer's voice was quiet. There was enough information available through the songs they played to send a report, so I will wait to see what happens.