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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.

Tuesday 5 December 2017

New loggings

Yesterday was an excellent day for reception via the DX League's SDR in Russell, Northland. I managed to log the following:

  • KFNQ 1090 in Seattle, Washington
  • CJRJ 1200 in Vancouver, British Columbia
  • KNDI 1270 in Honolulu, Hawaii
KFNQ was a very strong signal S4, I4, N4, P4, O4 with CBS Sports Radio

CJRJ was not an easy one to hear. S3, I4, N3, P2 O 2/3. It featured ethnic music (sounded Hindi). No announcements but plenty of songs, so we will see what comes of that. A friend of mine in Canada reliably informs me that this is the first time he has heard mention of CJRJ outside of North America. His house is about 6km from the transmission masts.

KNDI had music that sounded Samoan or Pacific, but not Hawaiian. It came in at S3, I4, N4, P3, O3
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