From mrodrigu@dino.conicit.ve Sun Sep 19 18:38:30 1993 Received: from dino.conicit.ve by cs.tut.fi with SMTP id AA07976 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Sun, 19 Sep 1993 18:38:11 +0300 Received: by dino.conicit.ve (4.1/SMI-4.1/RP-1.2) id AA03149; Sun, 19 Sep 93 11:32:36-040 From: mrodrigu@conicit.ve (Manuel Rodriguez T. (Hosp. Militar)) Message-Id: <9309191532.AA03149@dino.conicit.ve> Subject: The Radio NEWS #5 To: swl-l@cuvmb.bitnet Date: Sun, 19 Sep 93 11:29:25 AST Cc: rec-radio-info@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL13] Status: RO THE RADIO NEWS ELECTRONIC ISSUE ----------------------- The Tropical Band's Bulletin Compiled by: Manuel Rodriguez Lanza e-mail: mrodrigu@dino.conicit.ve Address: P.O.Box 65657, Caracas 1066-A Venezuela ------------------------------------------------------- Date: September 19th, 1993 Number: 5 ------------------------------------------------------------------- HARMONICS HEARD IN BOGOTA, COLOMBIA by Henrik Klemetz. H4562v SONORADIO 1520 AM, Viterbo (Caldas). 20/8 at 2110 with advs. Almacen El Disco de ORo, Lenceria El Regalo, etc. H4663,8 R.PARROQUIAL, El Santuario, (Antioquia). 21/8, closing 2355 ann. 1600 kHz. N.B.: This stn was possible to read in the SSB mode. The harmonic disappeared after few days, however. H4842-4860v ARMONIAS DE RISARALDA, Risaralda (Caldas).19/8 2200-2330 w/"Frente a frente", El regreso del campo"; 20/8 at 2055 w/"Una hora en Buenos Aires"; 21/8 at 2130 "Tardes de fiesta con JJ". On 23/8, at 2130, also on 6467v, which in their 3rd. harmonic. Ann.freq: 1620 kHz. H4899-4906v SU FRECUENCIA MUSICAL AM, Quimbaya (Quindio). 27/8 at 2130 vallenato music, then "Cantares del campo"and advs for Distribuidora Quimbaya, whose address tallies with the one listed in the local telephone book (which is almost impossible to come by in Bogota). On 29/8 at 2200 w/"Bailabilisimos del domingo". Fundamental freq. is unknown. H2396 ONDAS DEL RANCHERIA. Reported by Viloria in TRN #39, should be located in Barrancas (Guajira). This town is located on the shores of the river Rancheria. In the telephone book for Antioquia (Medellin and Yarumal not included: these two have separate telephone books), there are at least 10 unlisted stations, many of which are operated by the local church. The number of "emisoras parroquiales" (Parrish broadcasters) may be much greater then that, as some stations do not have a telephone, via. 1530 ECOS DE PAZ at Angostura (Antioquia) which operates at 1730-2130 with a 0.1 kW transmitter to a quarter-wave dipole. Another one, which has been active for 6 years, is the military run BRISAS DEL PALMAR, at Caucasia (Antioquia), which operates all day on 1520, with 0.3 kW to a half-wave dipole. This station belongs to the LA VOZ DE LOS HEROES network. The station is operated by soldiers of the 29th Infantry batallion, located in a neighbourhood of Caucasia called Barrio El Palmar. (Curiosly enough, on the same freq there is another "Palmar" station, Ecos del Palmar from Bogota). A 0.25 kW emisora parroquial that made it to Bogota its fundamental freq is LA VOX DE ARANRORU, at Aranroru (Caldas), heard 29/8 until s/off at 0049. The next day I phoned the station and was told by the priest (Whose name is Jairo Salazar) that the stn operates Su-Fri in the morning, at noon, and at dusk, on nominally 1600, which in fact was 1601.4. The signal was clear and steady. BOLIVIA. Letter received from RADIO LA PALABRA, run by Parroquia de Santa Ana, Santa Ana de Yacuma (Beni). This finally cattles this problem, which has kept me busy for months. Freq 4903.9 seems to be temporarily off the air now. Manager is F. Yosu Arkera, who, judging from his name is Basque. No shedule nor power was indicated in the letter, dated 31 August 1993. (Information received via Air Mail from Colombia to be published by this way). LOGGINGS 4635 Yangi-yul, Tadzhikistan 0047-0101 09/13 23332 Folk arabic mx. At 0055 start QRM by utility stn. Broadcasting TR1 px. (MRL) 4650 V.Iranian Kurdistan, Cland. 0241-0255 9/15 33333 OM in Persian. "Tehran" mentioned frequently. War military mx. (MRL) 4713 R.Abaroa, Bolivia 0257-0345 09/15 33222 Romantic mx with ID between 2 songs. (MRL) 4740 Yangi-yul (?), Tadzhikistan 0102-0156 09/13 44444 Pop mx in Russian. At 0105 ID by YL. Not in // with 4635. Continues pop mx in Russian. Relay of R.St.Yunost. (MRL) 4755 R.Educacao Rural, Brazil 0044-0125 09/17 32332 Advs. OM presenting pop mx. ID. (MRL) 4779.64 Radio Oriental, Ecuador. 0958 9/15 Anthem and id. Announcing FM and SW. This was probably the first day of operation. (Joint effort by Dave Valko and Hans Johnson) 4800 R.Buenas Nuevas, Guatemala 0305-0330 09/13 33333 Rlgs talks. ID:"Asi terminamos transmisiones Radio Buenas Nuevas desde San Sebastian Huehuetenango, Guatemala y les invitamos para que manana a las 5 am cuando volveremos a transmitir para ustedes, buenas noches y los mejores deseos" by OM. Fanfare. Sign off. (MRL) 4838.53 BRAZILIAN heard at 0940 on 9/16 but no id. Needs more work. (Hans Johnson) ------------------- (MRL) Manuel Rodriguez Lanza. Equipment: Panasonic DR-31 and Sony ICF-2001 with 65 meters LW antenna oriented NE-SW. Located on the roof of 11 floors building in the Metro- politan Area of Caracas, Venezuela, South America. --------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- From: Don Moore Organization: Teikyo Marycrest University Subject: Ghana & tropical bands That shortwave transmission are not easy to hear close to the transmitter site is only true of the higher frequencies used by international broadcasters. IBers use specialized antennas designed for low-angle send-off, which means the signal travels quite a way before it begins to bounce back down - and then again at a low angle. The tropical bands are a different animal. First, tropical bands propagate better at shorter distance. Second, these stations use antennas that put a lot of the power into high angle sendoff, which gives a more "coverage". As an example, when I lived in Honduras, I had no problem receiving tropical band stations 50-400 miles away throughout Central America - they were very strong. On the other hand, when I lived in Pennsylvania in the 1970s, WINB with its 15185 frequency was very rare DX - I only managed it once or twice. A lot of generalities are made about SW which are only true for the international broadcasters & the higher frequencies. Another reason as to the use of SW instead of MW in Ghana is that MW suffers from a lot of static in the tropics - much more so than in the temperate latitudes. For some reason the static is not nearly so band on SW as on MW. Also, you can cover more territory with a lower powered (say 10 kW) SW tropical band frequency than you can with a higher power (say 50 kW) MW one. Of course, this gets back to the fact that you can hear tropical band frequencies close (50-400 miles) to the transmitter. --------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- From: Don Moore Organization: Teikyo Marycrest University Subject: Reactivated Latin Am. stations The following two Latin American stations have reactivated after a long period of time off shortwave. BRAZIL: Radio Bare 4895 0946-1012 9/11 w/ Braz tropical mx, OM ID at 0959, ads, into nx. Fair signal. ECUADOR: Radio Bahai 4950 0937-0946 9/11 w/ Man talking in Quechua & some real back-country Ecuadorian folk music. ID and time check. The time anmt used Spanish numbers (as is common in Indian language broadcasts in LAm stations), but otherwise no Spanish. Good signal. ------------------------------------ ABBREVIATIONS nx news OA Peruvian QRM interference mx music YV Venezuelan QRN natural static & noise ID identification HJ Colombian vpr very poor w/ with HC Ecuadorian pr poor TC time check CP Bolivian fr fair LV La Voz de ZY Brazilian gd good OM man TG Guatemalan vgd very good YL woman CW morse code // parallel v variable frequency Mkr Marker px program Times & Days mentioned are in GMT/UTC. All data may be copied and reproduced without permission by non-profit organizations and individuals on condition that credit is given to: The Radio News - "Electronic Issue" and original reporter. The old numbers of this publication could be obtained through nic.funet.fi /pub/dx. Sending to mailserv@nic.funet.fi the follow message: send /pub/dx/text/NEWS/Radio_News/Radio_News#(and the number desired). Thanks to Risto Kotalampi, Tampere University of Technology & Finnish DX Association.