Friday, May 14, 2010

Blog Logs - South America

All times UTC // parallel frequency *sign-on/ sign-off*

Argentina
6060, Radio Argentina, 0956-1005. Interval signal here at 0956 repeating over and over the same eight notes. On the hour, five time ticks followed by music. After some Spanish comments, a female talks in Japanese at 1007. Signal poor and fading in and out (Chuck Bolland, FL)

15345.13, Radio Nacional, 2320-2335. Spanish programming with possible futebol coverage. Very weak. Much stronger on // 6059.99. (Brian Alexander, PA)

Bolivia
3309.98, Radio Mosoj Chaski Cochabamba, 0941. Spanish. Brief announcer between local music selections. Signal poor. (Scott Barbour-NH)

3310.0, Radio Mosoj Chaski, Cochabamba, 0110-0124. Quechua ann and Andean songs. Best heard in USB, poor under powerful utility transmitter. (Petersen and Timofeyev). Also heard at 0950-1007, signal fair with rustic morning program, yippy vocals. Starting to break up by 1007. Noted here many mornings and, sadly, often the only station audible at this hour on 90m along with presumed Brazil on 3375. (Herkimer in Dxplorer/DX Window 401)

4699.96, Radio San Miguel Riberalta, 0928. Spanish. Announcer talk between ballads. Poor signal quality. (Scott Barbour-NH)

4699.96, Radio San Miguel Riberalta, 0002-0018. Spanish. Male announcer over lite music. Ballads and more talk over lite music throughout. Signal poor-fair (Scott Barbour, NH)

4716.75, Radio Yatun Ayllu Yura, Yura, 2354-0010. Spanish. Although the station is still on after the top of the hour, it does not maintain its previous level. Its quality continous to decline from a poor to threshold (Chuck Bolland, FL)

5952.47, Radio Pio XII, Siglo Veinte, 2305-0020. Spanish, mostly talks including one interview, march music, dialogue in uboth sides and RTTY interference. (Bell, Bernardini and Timofeyev/DX Window 401)

6134.80,Radio Santa Cruz, 1003-1015. Male/female duo in possibly a Spanish language lesson. Signal was fair. (Chuck Bolland, FL)

6134.81, Radio Santa Cruz, 0100-0112.* Spanish pops/ballads. Ads. ID announcements at 0108. Abrupt sign off during Bolivian music. Fair signal(Brian Alexander, PA)

6155.328, Radio Fides, 1018-1030. Very threshold signal, noted announcer's Spanish
comments. Hetrodyne observed from a second station on 6155 KHz making the copy difficult (Chuck Bolland, FL).

Brazil
4875, Radio Difusora Roriama Boa Vista, 0308-0330. English/Portuguese. Contemporary English religous music. Fire & brimstone preacher in Portuguese, announcer over music with Santa Maria's. Station ID announcement at 0329 into ballad. Signal fair-good. (Scott Barbour-NH)

4875.52, Radio Difusora Roraima, Boa Vista, 0945-1030 and 2330-0404.* Portuguese program Falando de Deus to station as, "através do programa da Radio Roraima." Religious music, Bible texts and phone-in, Signal S-3. (D’Angelo, Aragão and Wilkner). Back after one year’s absence. (DX Window 401)

4885, Radio Clube do Pará, Belém, PA, 0355-0630. Portuguese, music, announcements and Brazilian songs. Announcement; "Clube da Madrugada, Bom dia para você". SINPO 35343. (Beryozkin and Méndez/DX Window 401)

4915, Radio Difusora, Macapá, AP, 0601-0610. Brazilian songs, ID at 0603as: "Radiodifusora Macapá, 630 AM, a radio da Amazonia, 24 horas no ar." SINPO 34433 (Méndez/DX Window 401)

4985, Radio Brasil Central, Goiania, GO, 0538. Easy pop ballad and acoustic guitar, best Brazilian on the band at that time. (Bell/DX Window 401)

5045, Radio Cultura de Pará, Belem, PA, 0026 and 0540-0625. Nice jazz songs, Brazilian songs and talk. Light interferene noted from Radio Habana Cuba on 5040, SINPO 23222. (Bernardini and Méndez/DX Window 401)

5939.97, Radio Guaruja Paulista, Guaruja, SP, 2129-2133. Portuguese talks, fair with fading and local noise. (Timofeyev in Dxplorer/DX Window 401)

5939.95, Radio Voz Missionária, Florianópolis, 2335-2350. Preacher in Portuguese. Religious music. Poor in noisy conditions. Weaker on // 9665.09, 11749.88. (Brian Alexander, PA)

6009.95, Radio Inconfidencia, Belo Horizonte, 2350-0010. Brazilian ballads. ID at 2358. Portuguese announcements. Poor in noisy conditions. (Brian Alexander, PA)

9505, Radio Record, São Paulo, SP, 1945-1953 and 2204-2209. Advertising-like short talks in Portuguese with musical pauses, talks with listeners by phone on "amor" subject, signal poor-fair. (Timofeyev/DX Window 401

9565.23, Super Radio Deus é Amor, Curitiba, PR, 2045. Portuguese talk, fair with heterodyne // 11765 almost good with some fading. (Timofeyev/DX Window 401)

9818.74, Radio 9 de Julho, São Paulo, SP, 0555-0710. Religious program in Portuguese, SINPO 24322. (Méndez). Also heard at 2215-2220 and 0402, Portuguese talk with short musical pause, poor with CNR on 9820.0, but fair at 0402. (Timofeyev in Dxplorer/DX Window 401)

11735.92, Radio Transmundial, Santa Maria, 2000-2010.* Presumed with Portuguese talk by man and woman. Abrupt sign off. Poor in noisy conditions(Brian Alexander, PA)

11855.05, Radio Aparecida, Aparecida, SP, 0903-0910. Transmission from Sunday Mass in Portuguese, SINPO 24432. (Méndez). Also heard at 2113-2118, Portuguese talks, Brazilian song, fair with fading and local noise // 9629.94 poor-fair. (Timofeyev/DX Window 401)

Guyana
3290, Presumed GBC Georgetown, 0926-0940. English. Continuos ballads and presumed religous music. Conditions noisy and quickly unusable due to locl New Haphshire sunrise (Scott Barbour-NH)

3289.98, Voice of Guyana, 0620-073.2+ Tentative logging with English talk. BBC news programming. “BBC World Service” ID at 0700 and at 0732. Poor in noisy conditions.
Guyana has been heard in the past broadcasting BBC and VOA programming (Brian Alexander, PA).

Peru
3329.55, Ondas Del Huallaga, 0955-1005. Spanish comments noted during the entire period, over background music. On the hour it seems like a female joined in. Signal was poor and best heard in LSB due to the presence of CHU. (Chuck Bolland, FL)

3329.56, Radio Ondas del Huallaga, Huánuco, 0236-0241. Spanish talk, Andean-like music, poor with CHU on 3330. (Timofeyev). Also heard at 1030 with usual Spanish talk, off seemingly for the two previous days. (Wilkner/DX Window 401)

4746.93, Radio Huanta Dos Mil, 1028-1035. Uual Peruvian Huaynos type music at tune in. At 1034 music stops for a moment and canned promos and ID's heard. Signal was fair to poor during the period. (Chuck Bolland, FL)

4789.90, Radio Visión, Chiclayo, 0404-0415. Spanish public sermon with prayer with numerous repetitions “Gloria, Gloria, Gloria”, “Señor”, etc., SINPO 35343. (Beryozkin/DX Window 401)

4835.45, Radio Maranon, 1015-1030. Spanish comments from announcers between music. Signal was fair to poor. (Chuck Bolland, FL)

6019.28, Radio Victoria, Lima, 2318 and 0404. v Spanish talks, fragment of some song, poor, but quite good at 0404. (Timofeyev in Dxplorer). Also heard at 0955-1030 Spanish comments by the "weeping preacher". (Bolland/DSX Window 401)

Suriname
4990.0, Radio Apintie, Paramaribo, 0321-0351. Pop songs, talks with periodic interference from Russian utility stations and splashes from Radio Brasil Central on 4985, 25332. (Beryozkin and Timofeyev). Also heard at 0903-1000, Dutch comments, 0954 canned promos, poor signal (Bolland/DX WIndow 401)