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SDR1 (Mangawhai) is currently off-line for antenna repairs and firmware upgrading.

For those of you inspired to try MW DXing by the disappearance of NZers from a number of frequencies (see bottom of this article for a list), here are some suggestions of what you may find lurking on or near the now free channel. The suggestions are grabbed from the MW Mega Trail, which uses material taken from DX Times contributions. A link to the Trail is below in case you don’t have it.

Please note: some of these logs are many years old. Formats, slogans, call-signs etc may have changed so as always a firm identification is best. Please report your loggings to the DXT.

Thanks to David Kaio, updated listings of New Zealand FM and AM stations have been produced for the DX fraternity. In each case there is a listing in frequency order and a separate listing in regional order.

These lists are derived from the broadcast licences listed on the Register of Radio Frequencies.  All current licences are included, so if a station is not currently on air (e.g. 837 RNZ National Kaitaia) the Programme name is left empty.  Likewise for frequencies to be offered at auction that have not yet been won, or licences purchased but yet to commence operation.

League member Ken Baird has written this interesting review.

The 2020 list can be found here VHF FM Radio In Frequency Order

Work to record all previous League conventions has been completed.

The latest to be added are

• 1964 Leithfield Beach on 1st September’19
• 1958 Long Beach on 1st September’19
• 1956 Riverton Rocks on 31st August’19
• 1957 Christchurch on 31st August’19
• 1955 Long Beach on 31st August’19
• 1963 Whangaparaoa on 31st August’19
• 1963 Riverton Rocks on 30th August’19
• 1972 Omaui on 29th August’19
• 1959 Riverton Rocks on 29th August’19
• 1988 Tiwai on 25th August’19
• 1988 40th AGM Invercargill on 25th August’19
• 2018 Mangawhai on 1st September’19

In days gone by (1932) the MW receivers that had radio dials were very often calibrated in metres rather than kilocycles. Attached is a frequency listing based on metres.

MW Log in Metres from 1932

We have prepared an Introduction to FM DXing.

Articles on FM DX receivers and FM DX antennas have been updated.

Enjoy!

The following verifications are from the estate of Mr Frank W. A. Barnett owner of 4ZO Dunedin and a one time DX champion.

Something of the life of a “one-time” DX Champion from the Dunedin Area and some early NZ Radio station cards.

Thanks to Bryan Clark, below are two NZ FM lists. One by frequency order, the other in regional order. If you’re aware of any corrections, please add them in the comments list below.

NZ FM List In Frequency Order

NZ FM List In Regional Order

Thanks to Bryan Clark, below is an amended list for Pacific FM DX hunters with the summer FM DX season not too far away.

SW Pacific FM List

sw pacific fm 220918

Here are the conventioneers who attended the DX League’s 70th anniversary gathering at Mangawhai on 6-9 April. Standing: Peter Mott, Sutton Burtenshaw (Patron), Kaye Burtenshaw, Yuri Muzyka, Stuart Forsyth (Chief Editor), Dorothy de Maine, Joyce Marsh, Adrian Sainsbury (RNZ Pacific), Jeannette Greenyer, Steven Greenyer, Sandra Clark, Brian Withers, Ray Babbage, Angela Mott, Phil van de Paverd, Ray Crawford, Arthur de Maine (President). Kneeling: Paul Ormandy, Bill Marsh, Bryan Clark. Missing: David Norrie, Barry Hartley.

Convention 2018 in Mangawhai went brilliantly. A full report will appear in due course.

Below is a photo of the life members in attendance.

Thanks to editor Bryan Clark, here are PDF lists of New Zealand’s FM stations, the first in frequency order and by second by region.

NZ FM List In Frequency Order

NZ FM List By Region

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The World’s Most Unusual DX Contest

The time has come, the event you are waiting for has arrived! The new month of October is the official period for our big 2015 Wavescan DX contest. This year, we invite you to participate in “The World’s Most Unusual DX Contest”, and this time you may design your own contest details. Read on for this years requirements.

AWARDS

The awards for the 2015 AWR “The World’s Most Unusual DX Contest” will be similar to all previous contests, with the addition of several extra awards.

The following tributes appear in the September 2014 edition of the DX Times, which is dedicated to the life of Mark Nicholls.

From fellow Life Member, Paul Ormandy, comes this: I first met Mark at the 1976 Tatum Park convention, we hit it off straight away and with Paul Edwards, spent every night at the dials getting very little sleep. We had joined the NZRDXL within months of each other, we were the same age and more importantly, we both preferred MW to SW! Mark was a regular attendee of League events in both islands and in 1983, spent the first or his many annual weekly DX pilgrimages with me at Waianakarua. It became the DX-highlight of the year for each of us and we both got on very well together.Mark’s first serious DX-receiver was a Sony ICF-6800W and later a Drake R8B.