The New Zealand Radio DX League's 70th Anniversary Convention, is set to start in just over two weeks' time at the Moir Point Christian Camp in Mangawhai, New Zealand. Mangawhai is our new home to be and is also the home of League Treasurer, ex President and Life Member, Bryan Clark and his wife Sandra.
Moir Point Christian Camp (see below), is on a spit of land, right on the ocean (in this case the Mangawhai inlet). It is planned to erect a number of good sized EWEs and these will be coupled to antenna splitters and amplifiers.
From Easter until the end of September, it is Latin season in New Zealand. Already signals from Uruguay, Argentina and Brasil have been heard, while on the X Band a Mexican and a Peruvian station have been identified.
At this time 11 or so years ago (the similar point of the solar cycle) Ray Crawford, Sutton Burtenshaw, Steven Greenyer, Arthur DeMaine and the late Paul Aronsen would frequent Tiwai during the Easter break. We would then hea don to Waianakarua and Paul Ormandy's crib (hut) in the middle of nowhere. We had some fantastic DX in those days and only got a fraction of the veries back from the reports we sent out.
The highlight of this time for me is two fold - one I did hear and one I didn't. The one I didn't hear was Ray Crawford's logging of Radio Educadora in Limeria, Brazil on 2380 kHz (250 w), which he got verified and the one I did hear, but didn't get back, was CX42 1370 (2.5kw) in Montevideo. I got a tremendous id, but they wouldn't reply.
The latter was heard on an incredible night at Waianakarua when we heard Argentinians and Uruguayans. They were everywhere at wonderful levels. It was like shooting fish in a barrel - which one to take next was the problem. Ah, to even have a smidgen of that at Mangawhai - what a bonus that would be.
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