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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.

Friday 24 November 2017

More loggings via the NZRDXL SDR

 I had lots of time this afternoon due to my wife working very late and so I logged on to the League's SDR and had a listen. 

 This is some of what I heard. By 9 pm in NZ signals were not as good as darkness had fallen and the locals were swamping the weaker signals on the 10 kHz splits.

650  0715  HAWAII, KPRP good with ids given as Pinoy Power - sounded like gospel songs and local commericals. 
680  0720  USA, KNBR Fair with sports news. 
690  0722  HAWAII, KHNR Good with the best of the Mark Levin Show, local ads and local id - This is AM690, The Answer. 24/11 
720  0745  USA, KDWN Commercials and a good id at 0745 ‘KDWN’. 
770  0750  USA, KKOB (presumed) Fair with talkshow type prog. Some fading. 
850  0754  ALASKA, KICY (presumed) Fair/poor - mixed and fading with religious music - 'All Creatures That On Earth Do Dwell’ - must be the slowest version of the hymn I have ever heard. 
1010  0643  CANADA, CBR fair with magazine type prog. Good ids for CBC Calgary. 
1210  0356 HAWAII, KZOO (presumed) with old time vocals featuring a female vocalist. Fair. 
1690  0801  USA, KDMT (presumed) fair at best with local id and commercials. Quality of signal not great. 
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