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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.

Thursday 14 December 2017

A new logging and verification

Yesterday afternoon (13/12/17) I logged Gold FM in Suva broadcasting on 990 kHz. The signal is exceptional and dominates 990. I sent an email this morning and within 3 hours I had a verie. The verie signer was Dion Cavu who is a presenter and producer for the station. His email address is dcavu@fbc.com.fj

He sent a very nice message and made one or two interesting points:

We recently launched our AM frequency after a lapse of a number of years to cater to our far flung audiences in the outer islands as well as those in the interior of the main islands and also act as a backup service in times of natural disaster.

The strength of our frequency has surpassed all expectations and since the launch, we have received messages from a number of DX enthusiasts in the region and  around the world including Dx'ers from as near as Rotuma and as far as Finland and above the Arctic circle, which has truly blown away all expectations of how powerful our AM signal is.


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