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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.

Wednesday 24 January 2018

A new and unexpected verie

Back in late 2016 I logged KHNR 690 kHz in Honolulu via the NZRDX League's SDR. I sent a report and a follow up and heard nothing. Yesterday I decided to follow up again, this time on Facebook Messenger. This is the only reason I have Facebook. Back came a verie from the new PD Chaz Ontai.

Aloha Stu! This is Chaz Ontai, Program Director for AM 690 and FM 94.3 THE ANSWER. I was promoted to PD on January 1st and was not aware of your message sent in 2016. Not sure what you want from me but the information you provided matches what we were airing at that time. I hope this helps. I’m happy you found our station! Good luck with your future DXing!
God Bless!
Chaz

I think he has the idea nicely. I am more than happy with that.

I have also managed to log KHTK 1140 kHz in Sacramento, CA.
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