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.

Wednesday 25 October 2017

Interesting recent loggings

I recently have taken to listening to Medium Wave on the New Zealand Radio DX League's Kiwi SDR (software defined radio), based in the north of New Zealand. As solar conditions continue to improve so does reception and it has been interesting to see what can be heard on this little SDR. It is not as sophisticated as some, but with Peter Mott in charge of it, it is performing to the maximum. It is connected to a 12m delta antenna.

This will give you some idea as to what has been heard over the past three or four days.

Every 10 kHz there is an American/ Hawaiian/ Alaskan carrier visible on the waterfall. Earlier in the evening conditions are better before the Aussies come in on the 9kHz splits. Later in the evening, towards 1100 UTC conditions are not so good.

All times are UTC.

560 0740 USA Unknown - talk suffering bad splash 558 24/10

590 0741 HAWAII (tent.) KSSK - probably with adult contemporary songs and ads - went under at the wrong moment. Couldn’t get id 24/10780 0811 USA WBBM, Chicago, Il Up briefly and then down. Call given and a Central time check. Under sports station. 23/10

780 0815 USA KKOH, Reno, Nv the dominant station. Fair/ good 23/10

940 0758 HAWAII KKNE Fair/ good and quite steady with Hawaiian mx and a good announcement at 0802 mentioning Waipahu, Hawaii. 24/10

950 0756 USA, KJR Seattle (tent.) fair/ good with ads for goodwill.org and ….donate …. Then at 0800 signal ruined by QRM (suspect it may be Peter on his local sched). When it all settled down it was into Fox Sports talk. 23/10 

 1000 0834 USA, KOMO, Seattle, Wa. God and clear on USB with talk and many mentions of Seattle - traffic and weather forecasts. KOMO News id given at 0835. Years since I have heard it - used to have a nice QSL card. 25/10

1040  0836  HAWAII, KLHT,  Good with religious talk. 25/10

1120  0842  USA, Unknown. Good - fair with religious talk. I have no idea who it was, it was the same programme as 1190. There is nothing in Ca, Or or Wa. Possibly Canada? You would normally expect either KMOX or KPNW. 25/10 

1190  0845  USA, KDYA (tentative) Fair // to 1120. It is the only station I could find with religious programming 25/10 

1210  0847  USA, Unknown station at fair strength hammered by NZ on 1215. 25/10

1270  0850  USA, Unknown fair with music. 25/10 

To use this SDR you have to be a member of the NZ Radio DX League. Information can be found on www.radiodx.com



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