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Avance Voz Evangélica, Espinar, 1520,005 kHz Heard May 31, 2016 at 0200 UTC with ID. I was alerted by Hasse Mattisson in a mail where he have heard a station here but unfortunately left the the frequency one minute too early to get an ID. Fortunately I still had the Perseus recording from that night and thanks to Henrik Klemetz he found the ID. This station has been heard earlier this year by Fredrik Dourén, Torolf Johnsson and Lars Simm. Henrik was in contact with the owner which resulted in a greeting in one of their normal programs at 0055 UTC. Unfortunately the conds were not good enough and the mp3 file came by mail. Here is the greeting in Quechua. It is Noé Fuentes Mollo, the owner, who greets in Quechua and Spanish thanking us for listening. Then two religious songs are played, one in Quechua and one in Spanish. I completely agree with Hasse Mattisson when he says: "Amazing that you had the patience and ability to put forward our cause and to get such a wonderful memory recorded. For my part, I rate this as this year's event. With great admiration o thanks to Henrik Klemetz! |
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Radio Festival "La
Radio de Colores en Chile" 1269,985 kHz Heard May 8, 2016 at 0236 UTC with ID as "La Radio de Colores en Chile". Also heard by others the same night but with ID as Radio Festival AM at 0220. Reception of stations from Chile are very rare down here in South Sweden. Radio Festival web ![]() |
ARC-Morokulien, 1584 kHz | Radio Symban, 2368,5 kHz | |
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ARC-Morokulien at 23.47:41 UTC, Dec 27 2009, dominating the frequency! Best reception in USB during the entire transmission. | Radio Symban Febr 15, 2010 at 1918 - 1930 UTC. Note the instable carrier. Very weak audio but enough to compare to their webstream Radio Symban audio | |
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For those who want to know how Xapuri is
pronounced the Brazilian way, listen to the most famous song
by Nazaré Pereira - "Xapuri do Amazonas" in
this Youtube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wms1INPCjE Carlos L. R de A. Gonçalves in Portugal has sent me a clip regarding the difference between the Portuguese and Brazilian pronunciation of Xapuri. Carlos says: Needless to add, that the accent in my reading is simply not the Brazilian one; they'd would read this indigenous name making the -a- to sound more like ah. The song demonstrates what this -a- sounds like. I don't know how you Swedes pronounce the names "Angola", "Mongólia", but I'd say the final -a- would sound like ah; well, this is not how standard Portuguese is read. The sounds of the vowels if you wish are determined by the number of syllables. Yet another ex.: "água", water, the initial -a- is clearly the stressed syllable, sounding like ah whereas the 2nd one sounds like the -a- in my reading of "Xapuri.". /Carlos |
Henrik has really worked hard to collect information about a station that almost nobody heard earlier on this new frequency. Once again a big thank you to the DX-detective Henrik Klemetz! |
4755,447, Feb 5, 2011, 1340z,
PMA-The Cross Radio in EE, mostly music.
Rather weak and getting weaker at 1400. I connected to Mauno Ritola’s Perseus via his server to compare my reception using a 12x4 m Flag with his 500 m Beverage pointing eastwards. And there The Cross was a little bit stronger on exactly the same Hz! A very exciting reception down here that early in the afternoon. (Why not listen to Ron Howard’s excellent recording of this station.) Mauno, thanks a lot for changing feed on your Beverage so I could compare the signals via your Perseus Server. Listen to my very weak recording at 1410z. MICRONESIA. 4755.44, The Cross Radio, 1356-1432, Feb 5. Non- stop contemporary Christian songs in English; IDs at 1358 and 1430; mostly fair. (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, dxldyg via DXLD) |
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For someone who only reported a handful
of rather unusual stations during recent years, it was a
real surprise to find in the
inbox a nice e-mail with an attached
unsigned QSL card from The Cross. will be clear when
you read their e-mail below. It was not an easy task to hear this station, only audible a few times down here. Very nice! Dear Thomas Nilsson: Thank you for your reception report for The Cross Radio. We are pleased to verify your reception of our transmission. On Feb 5, 2011 at 1410 UTC SW 4755 KHz, V6MP 1KW Antennae: 1 wavelength, Horizontal Loop @ 35ft. FM 88.5, 99.5, 102.5 MHz, V6MA 300W Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia 7N/158E |
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The
Cross Radio is a ministry of Pacific Missionary Aviation,
an evangelical mission serving the islands of Micronesia
and the Philippines. Our target is to broadcast SW radio
to the isolated outer islands of Micronesia, in the
Pacific, where common conveniences such as electricity,
plumbing, airport, hospital and radio do not exist. Due to
technical problems with our antennae we have been off the
air. At the beginning of 2011, Galcom engineers arrived to
take care of that problem. Currently we are on the air
with the SW 4755, 830am – 9:30pm Pohnpei time, until we
establish the best times for the islands we are targeting.
They communicate with us via HF radio and don't always have the battery power to give us their reception reports. We appreciate your enthusiasm for hearing us in your part of the world. We have received reports from USA, Japan, Canada, Finland, Sweden, China, Ukraine, Venezuela and other countries. Please visit our website for more information about PMA. If you feel so inclined, and want to help keep us on the air, you can donate to the Cross Radio through www.pmapacific.org using the Paypal option. Please designate "radio" in the message box. We prefer to send QSL verification requests by email. However, if you need a hard copy mailed to you, please let us know and include $1.00 for postage. International postage coupons are not accepted in Micronesia. That Every Island May Hear, Sylvia Kalau Station Manager, The Cross Radio, Pacific Missionary Aviation, PO Box 517, Pohnpei, FM 96941 Tel: 691-320-2496, Fax: 691-320-2592, Website : www.pmapacific.org |
Radio Nord Revival
was heard March 12, 2010 at 1600z on 1512 kHz with 1 kW from
their transmitter located at Kvarnberget! I heard the station at 1600z with a very nice ID in Swedish. Listen! The station was also heard on March 7 at 2135z when the transmitter was tested, exact frequency that night was 1511,907. At that time the power was only 60 W! The tune "Walk on by" with Leroy van Dyke was easily recognized with good strength despite the low power. The station seen on 1512 is R Iran only letting R Nord through a couple of times. Read the full story of R Nord Revival at http://radionordrevival.blogspot.com/ |
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Ronny Forslund "on air" at Ljusdal Radio which he started in 2000 |
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In the beginning of April 2011, there were
a few notes in the DX press that R ICDI would start
broadcasting on 3390 kHz in the evenings. The frequency was
checked for several days and first on April 13 at 1920z a
rather weak station was heard with music, but a couple utility
transmitters, one on each side, caused heavy interference. At
2010z the interference was significantly weaker and the
station could now be heard clearly in USB mode with a talk
show. Soon after 2100z a clear R ICDI ID was heard and at
2106z the transmitter was closed down for the day. The day
after the station was much stronger and the subsequent days it
could also be heard more or less good. Since I almost never report any stations I did't care about sending a report at that time even though I knew I was probably one of the very first to hear this rare station. |
When I a few months later was
looking in old editions of SWB for some completely different
information, I saw that Jan Edh has got an email reply from a
report taken on April 19. In their reply R ICDI promised to
send a QSL by mail. I had saved a pretty decent mp3 snippet of the logging, I just the idea to write a few lines to the station and tell them that there was someone who noticed their start on 3390 kHz. On Aug 24, I got the following email from the station: Mr. Thomas Nilsson, I check this programming and I can confirm thats it's ICDI radio station with the new frequency 3390 kHz. I'll send you the QSL card by mail. Think. Josue On October 11, a letter arrived with an A4 sheet with a copied QSL card in black and white and handwritten QSL text. After all, it's much nicer with a real letter than a few e-mail lines in your inbox. |
WURA Quantico VA 920 kHz | |
920 kHz is an interesting frequency now that CJCH has left the frequency. Nowadays the frequency is normally occupied by another Canadian, CKNX in Wingham, Ontario or by Radio Nueva Esparta in Porlamar, Venezuela. There are a few other stations which can be heard occasionally. | ![]() |
On Nov 16, 2011 at 0554z,
when the MW-band was almost silent on most frequencies, I
noticed a weak station here playing Mexican music. The station
was quite weak so it was difficult to get the ID coorrectly.
It sounded a bit like Radio Union but nothing matched so I
sent a short mp3-recording to Henrik Klemetz who immediately
heard a clear Radio Unida mentioned which is what WURA in
Quantico, Virginia also uses. WURA is judged as an almost impossible station to hear down here. The station has so far verified Hannu Niileksä, Jari Ruohomäki and Jim Solatie from Finland. The station was heard at ENOX by Hannu and at Lem300 by Jari and Jim the same day, Jan 6, 2011 at 2200z. Arild Skalmeraas in Norway also heard the station at Lista in Jan 2011 and received a verifacation. Also Fredrik Dourén heard the station here in Sweden on Oct 16 at 0451z and also on Nov 19 and Nov 20 at 06z. Fredrik got a mail reply in Spanish from Mike Cardona found on their website. Fredrik says they always use the slogan "Una señora emisora". WURA is listed with a night time effect of just 970 watts. A short but friendly e-mail from Al Hammond confirmed my reception of the station with these words, Congratulations on your reception of WURA in Sweden! You have joined the growing list of Far Northern Recipients of our signal! Al Hammond, Pres. Many thanks to Jari Ruohomäki for providing a workable e-mail address for the station and to Henrik Klemetz who wa the one who identified this rare station, at least here at my southern location. |
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110731 recording by Fredrik Dourén | ||
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110913 recording by Thomas Nilsson | ||
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Radio Tarma with EE ID, Henrik Klemetz | ||
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It all
begins with Fredrik Dourén heard a station on 1390,058 kHz
giving an ID as Radio Fe on February
12, 2012. Fredrik was very unsure of what it was he has
received and couldn't find sufficient information to nail the
station. One of the suggestions that came up was that it might be Radio La Luz heard on this frequency a year earlier. Anders Hultqvist observed station for the first time on March 21. AHK emailed me the following day with info about this mysterious station and my Perseus were immediately set up for a recording. The station was there just above the noise level, unfortunately, so weak that an ID can not be perceived. The day after, March 22, the station is stronger and the recording was sent to Henrik Klemetz who starts with some investigation and finally found that the Radio Fe-owner Ministerio Mundial Asociados - dr. Alberto Santana has a license for 1 kW on 1390 kHz in Chiclayo. The license is not new but at least two - three years old. A big thank you goes to Henrik Klemetz. |
I managed to pinpoint exactly
when Agro Radio gave an ID on April 9 2012. At first I thought it was a station from maybe the Middle East, judging by the music. A recording was uploaded on RealDX. Mauricio Molano Sánchez listened and said that there was an identification as "Agro Radio". The recording is then sent to HK, who a few years ago remembered that someone in Finland had been nosing on the frequency. Henrik found on the web the name and picture of the boss, pastor Mamerto Vega Vera. There is a church behind, pentecostal church "El Paraíso de Dios." Henrik spoke with Pastor Mamerto and Agro Radio is a name that is equivalent to Radio El Sembrador, sower radio. It was what the pastor himself said, when Henrik asked him. A big thank you goes to Henrik Klemetz who again picked up loads of information and also talked with the pastor and lobbied for a couple of reports from Sweden. Thanks also Mauno Ritola, Mauricio Molano Sánchez and Fredrik Dourén for mail exchange on this rare station. After a few days came the much anticipated answer. A true religious verification, I must say. Agro Radio's new website is here: Agroradio web |
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R Municipal San
Marcos, "la Radio de los Triunfadores" quite
nicely, a colossal surprise on April 8, 2012. I had to ask Henrik Klemetz for help to solve this one and HK says that the same morning also Fredrik Dourén heard this station. Henrik Klemetz says: No call, but heard advertising: Forestación y reforestación, Conservacion del medio ambiente. Obra de la Muncipalidad de San Marcos. Construcción the local Comunal a Poroporo the Guayanay, Obra de la Muncipalidad Provincial de San Marcos y el Alcalde Carlos Machuca Romero. I overheard a bit of a recording I made at 9 o'clock this morning. The ads will be in a particular order and all the stuff about how good the Mayor Carlos Machuca Romero is - after all he started this station as well. A big thank you goes to Henrik Klemetz for all help finding info about this new station. |
https://www.facebook.com/radiomunicipalsanmarcos |
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R Bendita
Trinidad, El Alto with a very special religious
program lead by Abigail Mújica on June 8, 2012. Hasse
Mattisson sent over a snippet of his recording which
helped me to identify the station. Henrik Klemetz has put o
lot of energy and effort to get in contact with the
station, where all data are lacking both in WRTH and online.
Acc. to Rogildo Aragao normally sign off are at 0202z with the
national anthem. A big thank you to Henrik Klemetz for all help finding info about this new station. |
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Website: http://benditatrinidad.com/ |
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On the FAIENAP website
and in the item concerning March 22, 2011, I found a mailaddress
to a Pastor Jairo Sangama Saurin responsible for the project
Radio Cristiana “EL HABLA DE MI PUEBLO”. Normally I never send reports but couldn’t resist this time so a report together with my recording from 24 July at 0103z and two pictures of the surroundings seen from our house with the rape crop in wonderful yellow bloom. A few days later arrives a nice mail from Pastor Jairo Sangama Saurin: Querido hermano Thomas Nilsson Gloria a Dios por su comentario. Le cuento que usted es la primicia de los oyentes de este naciemniento de este medio de comuinicación. Cuánto gozo tengo en el Señor saber eso. Nuestro objetivo es transmitir la Palabra de Dios en las diferentes Lenguas de la Amazonía Peruana y llegar a la selva de Ecuador, Colombia y Brasíl. ¿DE DÓNDE ES USTED? ¿ME PUEDE DETALLAR SUS DATOS Y MINISTERIO? Necesitamos mucha ayuda para dar sostenibilidad a este ministerio del Señor. Seguiremos en contacto. Su siervo: Jairo Sangama Saurín According to his message it looks like I am the first to receive a verification from the station. A few days later I got mail from both Rafael Rodriguez and from Henrik Klemetz telling me that on July 27 also Rafael has got his verification. Thanks to Henrik Klemetz for all help also with this station. |
“Ethnic
Radio – Sharing the Good News to remote jungles and far
flung language groups in the only language they really
understand: Their Own.” From www.ethnicradio.org, picture showing the crew. |
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Rafael
Ahuanari y Jairo Sangama en Radio Maranatha See more at their website: https://faienap.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/proyecto-radio-cristiana-el-habla-de-mi-pueblo/ |
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R Andina, Pongo
K'asa, Cochabamba logged on July 25, 2012 at 0025z. Thanks to a tip from Martti Karimies I found this station in my Perseus recordings .Up to 0031 it was only talk in Quechua but at 0131 I could hear a R Andina ID. Just to be sure I asked Henrik Klemetz to listen and he confirmed the ID. As a favour Henrik Klemetz also asked his friend Angel Oquendo who speak Quechua tp listen to the recording and he describes the music like this: "Usan algunos arpegios the varios temas music ales interpretados a charango, zampoñas, El Ultimo claramente es un Tinku." A short report was dispatched on July 31. Henrik Klemetz had a telephone call with Doña María Dolores Arce in a completely different case, and she told Henrik that she had received my report. The same evening a mail with a verification was received. I managed to find some pictures on the web from the station, among others one of María Dolores Arce who signed my verification mail. Again many thanks to Henrik Klemetz for his persistent lobbying and a "hot line" to Bolivia! Also thanks to Angel Oquendo who listened and translated selected sections from Quechua to Swedish. Many thanks to Henrik Klemetz for all help finding info about this new station. |
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Dolores
Arce is Directora Ejecutiva, MD, for CEPRA. She resides in
Cochabamba. She has worked 12 years in the business. The
person who keeps in touch with Radio Andina is Victor Pacheco. Information and ´pictures can be found on those web sites: https://www.ceprabolivia.org/ Many thanks to Henrik Klemetz for his persistent lobbywork, ”Hot line Bolivia”, translations and to Angel Oquendo who listened to my recording and translated selected parts from Quechua to Spanish. |
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On Aug 6, 2012 at
2255z a religious SS station could be heard here
pretty well this pleasant night. I couldn't hear any ID, so I
sent over a few recordings for Henrik Klemetz (HK) and
he says: "I have no idea on this. It sounds more like an
American station. I hear the name of a female pastor called
Cárdenas, her first name is unclear. I find nothing. Has
WRRD returned to the Salem format in Spanish? HK ". I then contacted Odd-Jorgen Sagdahl (OJS) who is great NA DX-er and asked if he knew anything about a recent format change at WRRD. He hadn't heard of any format change and he didn't recognize the station. OJS asked me to post the recording in RealDX to see if someone could come with a solution of the riddle. Mauricio Molano Sanchéz in Spain listened to the files and comes with real exciting info: "No, it is not Boston! I have WWZN on ,018 and a weak carrier on ,013 too on a recording from August 5th. And now the good news!: It is CC-151 Radio Poder Pentecostal, Rancagua, Chile! ( http://www.poderpentecostal.org ). Pay attention to the "Ministerio Evangelístico Cruzada de Poder" mention at sec. 55 in your 0301 recording. Listen to the attached clip from the station streaming. It is not the same promo but it is the same female voice promoting more or less the same stuff. Congrats! MMS ' On re-listening to the files HK finds the station call, the name and frequency and also a mention of internet! He also sent over enough material for helping me with the report. HK also says that Radio Rancagua, its predecessor, was heard in Sweden earlier many years ago. And there are probably also a QSL. According to Nils Jakobsson's QSL list, Olle Alm got a verification back in 1980! Thanks to HK, OJS and to Mauricio for help to solve this exciting catch. I probably must send a report to them ..... A few days later a verification was received from Pastor Claudio Espinoza. Later it turned out that two other Swedish DX-ers, Hasse Mattisson and Anders Hultqvist, also heard the station the same night and at the same time. They have also got their verifications from the same Pastor. Henrik Klemetz has been in contact with this Pastor and he told that the station started sometimes in the beginning of June and Pastor Claudio Espinoza invited Henrik to listen to a sermon on Aug 15 at 2100z. Listen to the station ID and the greetings to the Swedish DX-ers who have heard and reported the station. Station ID: http://www.thomasn.sverige.net/1510_Radio_Poder_Pentecostal_ID_15_Ago_2012.mp3 Greetings to the Swedish DX-ers: http://www.thomasn.sverige.net/1510_R_Poder_Pentecostal_15_Ago_2012_2330.mp3 Henrik, thank you very much for sharing the recordings! LKB/LLE Bergen Kringkaster, over LLE2 on 1313,995 On Nov 26, 2012 I tried to receive this station and only noticed them as a carrier until sign off at 0832z. The next transmission was on Nov 28. This time R Romania was down at 0826 and the very special interval signal tune was observed for 3-4 minutes. A report was sent to the station resulting in a reply below from Svenn Martinsen. The transmission on Dec 1 was not possible to receive at my location.
As seen on the bottom screenshot there are a few interfering stations. I suppose these are in order of strength: R Romania on 1314,003, Voice of Russia on 1314.000 and RNE5 Spain on 1313,998 kHz.
Du hørte 28.november kl. 0826- UTC på 1314 kHz, 228 meter AM/Mellombølge en sending fra LKB/LLE Bergen Kringkaster, over LLE2, som tidligere hadde callsign LLU, og var Odda Kringkaster på 1466 kHz til 1.november 1978. Vi relesendte NRK Hordaland, og så NRKP1 med "Nitimen" med Ingrid Gjessing Linhave og Karin Vetlesen fra 0800. De gamle NRK pause-og kjenningssignalene ble koblet inn @0825 mens CE Øsytein hadde besøk av en journalist på senderen. Takk for opptak med innkobling av NRKP1 igjen! Under regionalprogramsvinduet i går ettermiddag relesendte vi NRK Troms og Finnmark. Takk for fint opptak! Gratulerer med fin logging! Senderen er en Western Electric(WE 451A-1)fra sent 40-tall, som nylig er vekket tillive etter 34 år! Jeg legger ved et bilde. Effekten er 250 watt, men vi antar vi brukte ca. 150 watt denne morgenen med en vertikal Comrod/Tjøstheim antenne på 15 meter. Signalet går tydeligvis minst like godt ut fra denne som fra vår andre antenne, en 220 m loop. Det var denne vi brukte ved sendingen den 19.november. Jeg legger også ved et bilde av Comroden.
Reception of XESP Radio Noticias on 1070 I had the great opportunity to receive Radio Noticias on Jan 9, 2013 at 0631z on 1070 kHz. As this a rather unknown station seldom heard here in Sweden I sent a report which was confirmed within 7 minutes by e-mail. Read more at https://1070noticias.com.mx/
Reception of XECHZ Radio Lagarto on 1560 kHz Another very rare Mexican station that was heard on Jan 31 2013 at 0700z was Radio Lagarto from Chiapa de Corzo. As I couldn't hear a the ID at once the mp3 file was sent to Henrik Klemetz for examination. He immediately found out it was R Lagarto. The station was heard at the same time by another Swedish DX-er, Lars Simm. Also reported heard in Italy by Saverio de Cian this winter and in England by Andrew Brade two years ago. Many thanks to Henrik Klemetz for all help with this station which was verified by e-mail on Feb 9 by their Director Yenny Muñoz Trinidad. Henrik Klemetz wrote a letter to the station director telling her about the reception in Europe and an interesting piece was produced by Gabriel Sosa Plata of Mediación IMER for the Cadena IMER listeners on Jan 30. Listen to this piece here. There is also a short piece from Febr. 6. Listen to this piece here. Also two interesting recordings of the TOTH identification came from Henrik Klemetz. One of the ID's are accompanied with "música grupera". 1560_XECHZ_Radio_Lagarto_ToH.mp3 1560_XECHZ_Radio_Lagarto_grupera_ToH.mp3 Read more about the station at https://radiolagarto.imer.gob.mx/ |
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View from the director's office | La Pila Fountain in the main square of Chiapa de Corzo |
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Studio location | Urubamba by day |
Reception of R Symban on 2368,46 kHz Dec 26 2011 | |
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This nice eQSL card came from R Symban for
a report in Dec. 2011. A big thank you goes to Ian Baxter who handles the QSLs. Acc. to Ian Baxter less than 20 requests for this e-QSL has been received (Aug 2013). |
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Reception of OBZ4Y R Selecciones, Tarma on 1230,061 kHz on July 11, 2013 at 0139 UTC | |
R Selecciones, Tarma turned out to be a real detective story before the solution eventually turned up. First I contacted some of the very active Swedish DX-ers in the hope that someone caught this station the same night. It turned out that nobody else heard this station at this opening. The recordings was sent to to Henrik Klemetz who says: "On 1230.061 kHz, you have undoubtedly a new station. The name is on one of the last recording, "Radio Firmin" (working name). I will listen several times more. Some of the sections are quite decently readable, but as usual you "stumble" over the important parts. / HK " I also contacted two Spanish speaking active, wellknown DX-ers. Neither of them could figure out the stations name. They suggested, among other things R Peruana, Radio Turmal or Turmai, which you could easily get. I also put out a teaser on NORDX and only Tore B. Vik in Norway replied. He had noted a carrier on that frequency without audio at the same time. |
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In a later email from Henrik Klemetz he says: "I
have for a long time long struggled with the 0131 recording
but it's the 0139 recording that apply. "Radio Turbanes ..."
I have called for reinforcement! JEÖ, Jan-Erik Österholm! /
Henrik " A little later, in another e-mail from Henrik Klemetz: "I sent your original recording (0139) to JEÖ, pointing to sec. 12-13 about and JEÖ writes, "I can only get it to R Selecciones, Tarma." I have listened with the mental attitude and have no major problems to interprete it as "Radio Selecciones". Skillfully by JEÖ, I think. / Henrik Klemetz" The station was heard just this one day, despite three days of excellent conditions towards Juliaca area. Additional mail exchange to various persons took place before the final solution appeared. A very big thank you to especially Jan-Erik Österholm and Henrik Klemetz in the center and also to the rest of you who listened. Unfortunately, the station has not responded yet. |