söndag 29 april 2012

ERA 981 Greece back on the air

GREECE       

ERA Spor in Athens is back on the air on 981 kHz after lot of complaints due to poor FM-reception in some areas. (Tudor Vedeanu, Romania via Bengt Ericson, ARC)

måndag 23 april 2012

Deltagare ARC/SWB Konvent 5-6 maj 2012 Bergdala Värdshus



Namn
Klubb



Tore Larsson
ARC



Sigvard Andersson
ARC



Christer Brunström
ARC



John Ekwall
SWB



Bengt Ericson
ARC



Hasse Mattisson
ARC



Tor-Henrik Ekblom
ARC



Håkan Sundman
ARC



Henrik Klemetz
ARC



Olle Bjurström
SWB



Bernt-Ivan Holmberg
ARC



Fredrik Dourén
ARC



Rolf Åhman
ARC



Bengt Dalhammar
ARC



Lasse Skoglund
ARC



Ullmar Qvick
ARC



Dan Olsson
ARC



Ronny Forslund
ARC



Jan Edh
ARC



Rolf Larsson
ARC



Thomas Nilsson
ARC/SWB



Stig Adolfsson
ARC



Lars Vidlund
ARC



Willy Andersson
ARC



måndag 16 april 2012

Energy Power AM 1395

Energy Power AM on 1395 kHz from Dublin heard this morning April the 16th around 03 UTC quite good.(Fredrik Dourén, ARC, Borlänge)

torsdag 22 mars 2012

Radio Seagull to use 1395 kHz in daytime from 1 April

Dutch broadcaster Radio Seagull announces on its website: “Starting Sunday April 1st 2012 Radio Seagull will be back on 1395AM. In spite of the date, this is not a joke. Every day, from 7 am ’till 7 pm (0500-1700 UTC), Radio Seagull programmes will be going out via 1395AM. From 7 pm until 7 am, Radio Seagull will be on 1602AM as normal. The stereo webcast will also remain unchanged running 24 hours a day. The transmitter site is the last remaining radioship in the world -the LV Jenni Baynton.” (Andy Sennitt, RNW Media Network 21.3.2012 via Tore Larsson, Arctic Radio Club)

tisdag 20 mars 2012

Miscellaneous info from Latin America by Henrik Klemetz

ARGENTINA
Suggested QSL address for AM 1630, La Plata is as follows:
AM1630 Radio Diagonal de La Plata,  Jefe Técnico, Salguero 2745, 6to. Piso Of. 63,
C1425DEL Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
(D. Camporini via H. A. Nigro, March 19, 2012)
Reports sent to Red 92 or Radio Buen Ayre are not likely to receive a reply. (M. Cornachioni, March 5, 2012)

BRAZIL
1310 CBN, Porto Velho, RO (ex-Rádio Tropical) per http://www.tudoradio.com/noticias.php?noticia=6600

CHILE
The station run by the Communications Department of the Universidad Católica on 660 is listed as “Radio UC” in the WRTH.  Their slogan is however  “Radio UC.cl” which is difficult to solve under DX conditions.   Listen to the recorded excerpt where the station slogan is heard as “radioce punto ce-ele”.  (A. Bue and reporters to RealDX site)

ECUADOR
Joint DRM tests to be conducted by HCJB and Unión Radio on 820 kHz later this year. (radioworld.com via Y. Gaviria).

MEXICO
Slogans:  40 Principales: “la radio de los éxitos”
Bésame: “la Q940”, “la radio apasionada”
Ke Buena:  “la estación que soñé”
Estadio W: “donde vive tu pasión”
(Info from Prisa)

PARAGUAY
920 Radio Nacional del Paraguay inaugurated a new Harris 100 kW transmitter on March 18. (lanacion.py via Y. Gaviria)

VENEZUELA
The missing signals from this country may not entirely be caused by propagation conditions.
As reported by José Elías Gómez, several stations in his area in E. Venezuela are having problems to make ends meet.  Failing to comply with power bills may cause forcible close down. Says José Elías,
“1210 Radio Anzoátegui, 760 Radio Puerto La Cruz and 870 Unión Radio Deportes are virtually eliminated”.  (Sintonía DX)  (HK Henrik Klemetz, Arctic Radio Club)

onsdag 14 mars 2012

Latin American updates from Henrik Klemetz

COLOMBIA
Network slogans:
Radio Recuerdos:  me gusta más (only 690)
Caracol Radio:  se escucha más (“Caracol  Colombia” and “Caracol Villavicencio” in WRTH is incorrect)
W Radio:  Deportes, entretenimiento, éxitos musicales (“la W” for 1150 and 1250 in WRTH is incorrect; the letter W in W Radio is pronounced “doble ú”; sometimes the station is referred to as  “Sistema W Radio”). 
Oxígeno:  la radio que te quiere  (“Oxígeno R.”  in WRTH is incorrect)
Bésame:  la radio apasionada  (“Bésame AM” in WRTH is incorrect)
Candela estéreo:  solo éxitos
Radio Reloj:  La emisora de todas las horas (only stations mentioned are 830 Medellín and 1010 Bogotá)
Amendments to WRTH 2012:
860 Valledupar, W Radio, ex-La Voz de Cañaguate
980 Cúcuta, is Bésame, ex- Oxígeno, ex- La 980 SensacionaL
1080 Medellín, is Oxígeno, ex-La Mil80
1090 Cartagena, is Candela  estéreo, ex-Radio Bucanero
1120 Bucaramanga, is Oxígeno, ex-“La W”.
1170 Tunja, is Caracol Radio, ex-Radio Recuerdos
1210 Neiva, is Oxígeno, ex-Radio Recuerdos
1220 Barranquilla. Radio Reloj is inactive.
1250 Cúcuta, is shared between W Radio and Oxígeno, ex-“La W”
1260 Duitama, is Oxígeno,  ex-“ Bésame AM”
1270 Bucaramanga, is Bésame, ex-Oxígeno
1390 Espinal, is Oxígeno, ex-Radio Avenida
1350 Ibagué, is Oxígeno, ex-Radio Reloj
1440 Tuluá, is Caracol Radio, ex-Radio Reloj
(Information from Prisa Radio)
Double station listings
The following stations are listed on two different frequencies:
Ondas del Porvenir: 1480 and 910
Radio Internacional: 1470 and 1270
Alcaldía de Caicedonia: 1510 and  1350
La Voz de(l) Chocó: 1580 and 1150

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
730 HIZ is no longer Broadcasting Nacional but instead Zulu Radio, http://www.zulurd.com/   Physical location unknown.  Affiliated to TeleRadio América, ch. 45.
PERU
700 Red Radio Integridad, Lima, ”la voz que  glorifica a Dios”, address Av. Javier Prado Este 255, Of. 402, tel. 4099096, will raise power from 1 to 25 kW shortly. A new NX25 transmitter is being installed at this moment per info on their web site. (Web site) (Henrik Klemetz HK, Arctic Radio Club)

tisdag 13 mars 2012

LT9 Parkalompolo Fan Club

“Volvo” was the magical word which was heard on a distant Latin American station during a DXpedition to Parkalombolo, northern Sweden.  Alf Persson, wanted to know why, and once he learnt the reason he wanted to send them a reception report.  As a longstanding member of the Volvo DX Club he felt that was his “special reason” for contacting the station.  LT9, Radio Brigadier López, in Santa Fe,  Argentina, 1150 AM, is heard in most of northern Argentina during their nightly programme devoted to truck drivers.  Atilio “Moncho” Aranda has a captive audience as shown on the programme web page and several You tube videos.  His programme “Noche luz y Moncho” occasionally also reaches listeners in the country where the first Volvos and Scanias were produced. At http://nocheluzymoncho.com.ar/images/galeria56/Galeria56.html  you may listen to the original recording as picked up in Parkalombolo, read the letter sent to the station and watch a number of pictures, not only of Volvo trucks but also of about a dozen fervent Parkalompolo expeditionaries.

The greeting “Moncho” devoted on the air to his distant listeners can be heard here
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N.B.  The Argentine web page cannot be seen correctly on Google Chrome.  It seems to work OK on Internet Explorer and also on Mozilla Firefox. (HK Henrik Klemetz, Arctic Radio Club)