Welcome


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.

Monday 8 January 2018

Inactivity

Inactivity has been the name of the game, alas. I have now returned to Malaysia after two weeks in Mangawhai, New Zealand. I did a little listening whilst there, once I got my portable EWE erected and my radios sorted out.

I was able to hear a few North American stations. This was with a 3m EWE. This is not really big enough. It was an interesting experience, despite being in the middle of suburbia. Admittedly many of our neighbours have their homes as holiday residences or bachs (pronounced batches) as they are known in New Zealand and thus they weren't there.

Once I get there permanently in early July, I will put up a 4 or 5 metre EWE. This should provide greater gain and thus, hopefully more signals.

Since coming back from New Zealand I have had a listen but have been greeted by nothing more than noise.
Posted by at

No comments :

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments ( Atom )