Connections with New Zealand are quite rare for us, but not impossible. I wandered the bands yesterday, shortwave propagation conditions were forecast to be poor. Well, on 3.512 MHz I heard Brian, ZL3XDJ . I called him and the connection was made. The 18,000 km from square RE54IJ made me happy. Brian uses an IC-775 transceiver DSP with a power of 200 W, in the antenna inverted L. You can see his antennas for 80 m, 40 m, 30 m and 20 m in the picture.
Brian is 60 years old, lives on the South Island of New Zealand, about a kilometer from the coast. He takes care of his sick wife Barbara there. It is quite active, just follow the information on the DX cluster.
YOU 73! Villa, OM3CAQ