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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 11 January 2018

A new, and very welcome, verie

Indonesia frustrates me - they are so close to Malaysia and we can hear a number of stations pretty well on medium wave, and yet they are so reluctant to verify.

Back in February/ March I heard RRI Pro Satu (= One) in Tanjung Pinang broadcasting on 1341. It is not difficult to hear. It is situated on Pulau Bintan (Bintan Island), which is part of the Riau Islands, about 80 km south east of Singapore.

I sent the station a Facebook message and heard nothing back. I followed it up in June and again heard nothing back. Suddenly last night, after I had switched the light out, my iPad went ping and it was a message from the station acknowledging my report.

I am satisfied with that and it is a new country.
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