Henrik Klemetz: Radio Luz del Mundo, Bolivia, 1560, new 5 kW transmitter and antenna site inaugurated May 17. Pastor Raymundo Ramos Chejo, of the Iglesia Luz del Mundo Shekiná,welcomes reports to luzdelmundo.bolivia@hotmail.com The new transmitter was actually on the air a few days prior to the official inauguration and logged by Torolf Johnsson in Sweden.
Pertti Äyräs logged the station already on May 16 in Finland. It was heard here in Borgå on June 4 with a rather nice signal.and today Pastor Raymundo Ramos Chejo confirmed my reception. Mil gracias Pastor Raymundo Ramos Chejo!
ZYK678 R Hertz, Franca, SP was surprisingly phading up over R Pampa, Porto Alegre, RS on February 22 during LEM354. A short FB message conmfirmed my reception. Rádio Hertz, according to the station, is considered as the third oldest in the interior of Brazil, the tenth to be installed in the country and the second oldest in the state of São Paulo. As far as I know, the station has npot been heard in the Nordic countries prior to my logging last February.
R Dime 1420 “su mejor estación” was heard with a nice signal on February 22, 2015 during LEM354. The station was first logged in Finland during LEM224 in 2006 by PÄ and myself under it’s former name “La Marea”. In contrast to neighboring frequencies 1430 and 1440, 1420 is a troublesome one with regards to signals from the La Plata region. In the past the “dominant” LP station was the Uruguay-station R Lavalleja, a station that has not been heard for many, many years. R Guyrá Campana in Paraguay has been logged once in Lemmenjoki. During the last couple of years, however, R AM 1420 or “Radio Dime” has been on the top. After som f/ups I received a confirmation on my mp3 of February 22, 2015 from Daniel Soria: “Hola Jan Erik. Soy Daniel Soria, uno de los periodistas de la emisora. Muchas gracias por tu envió. Es muy grato saber que a tanta distancia nos pueden sintonizar. Hemos recibido tu audio en MP3. Un abrazo para toda tu familia.“. Mil gracias Daniel!!!
R Difusora, Mossoró RN was heard in Lemmenjoki on 1170 on October 26, 2011 with a surprisingly good signal for some minutes. Even though no definite ID the local PSA doesn’t cast any doubts on the identity. Even though the frequency holds close to 20 Brazilians only a couple have been heard in the Nordics. Even the most common Brazilian here, R Atalaia, Curitiba, PR is a quite rare catch here. I sent a f/up to Mossoró some time ago and today Emerson Linhares. Diretor de Jornalismo e Programação confirmed my hearing. Muito obrigado Emerson!
Radio Luz del Tiempo has been heard during the latter part of April several times by a handful of listeners. In Finland, the station was logged by at least Jyrki Hytönen (JHY), Pekka Hakala (PEH and Jan-Erik Österholm (JEÖ) on April 25 and 26, respectively. The station was also received in Latvia and Sweden. The station QTH is El Alto, which is the second largest city in the department of La Paz, Bolivia. Once merely a suburb to La Paz, El Alto is today one of Bolivia’s fastest-growing urban centers. Located some 4000 meters above sea level, the city has a population approaching one million. The El Alto airport is the highest international airport in the world. Recently, an aerial cable car system was inaugurated connectiing the capital La Paz with cliff-edged El Alto, 500 meters on top of La Paz. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi_Telef%C3%A9rico Daniel Tola, one of the station’s studio operators, verifies reception reports. He can be reached on Facebook or by email fuerte_for@hotmail.com. Anyone contacting the station now may want to congratulate the station on its upcoming 17th anniversary to be celebrated on May 9! Thanks to Henrik Klemetz (HK) for identifying the station and sharing his contacts with the station. HK continues: “Radio Luz del Tiempo celebrates it’s 17th anniverary on May 9. Until 2004, the station was known as R Nueva Esperanza, transmitting on 1520 and on shortwave on 6895 kHz. The station is owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church and cooperated at least earlier with Radio Altiplano Advenir 820 in downtown La Paz. La Voz del Altiplano could be heard in Scandinavia during the 60’s and 70’s on it’s 60 m.b. frequency 5045. “Radio Luz del Tiempo’s transmitter is located in Villa Ingenio at 4235 meters above sea level, and they are using a 49 meter high antenna tower. The transmitter power is approx. 2 kW. Transmissions start early in the morning local time and ends around 02 UTC and programs are in Aymara and Spanish. The station has been heard in the Nordic countries every now and then during the past five years but only during early fall and late spring. The first QSL to the Nordic countries was received in 2010 by Torolf Johnsson (TJ) in Sweden”. “Radio Luz del Tiempo has no internet connection of their own (internet is still rare in Bolivia) and so emails to the station are downloaded in cyber cafés located nearby. The station director is Juan Marca Marca and the station technician and operator Daniel Tola who has been kind to confirm our reception reports”. A big thank you to HK for this info, y mil gracias por su confirmación Daniel, y al mismo tiempo nuestra felicitación por el aniversario de la radio!!!
Rádio Correio do Vale, Itaporanga, PB has emerged as one of this frequencies most common Brazilian during the last couples of years. Lying a little bit below the nominal frequency. A nice confirmation was received on my February 25, 2015 report and a lengthy conversation with the station followed. According to them, they also own the PB-stations R Educadora on 710 and R Difusora Cajazeiras on 1070, the latter of which has been heard a handful times here in Finland. R Restauracão, Caruarú, PE is this frequencies other “common” Brazilian nowadays.
R Cultura, Alfenas MG was heard during LEM354 on 1180 in a crowd of Brazilian stations on February 25, 2015. Surprisingly, the usual dominant R Mundial, Rio was almost absent and gave place for many interesting signals. In addition to Cultura also, e.g., R Guri, Lages, SC was noted a couple of minutes after. R Cultura was heard a couple of times already in the mid 90’s on it’s former frequency 1570. The first logging in Finland was made by Jarmo Havukunnas (JHU) in spring 1995. A nice FB message confirmed my recent report.
On February 25 a good opening towards Paraguay was noted in Lemmenjoki. Several stations were heard such as Uno 650, tentatively Caritas 680, La Unión R800, Monumental 1080, La Deportiva 1020 and R Libre 1200 in addition to Radio Mil on 1000! This frequency has a definite dominant in the form of R Record, São Paulo which makes hearing of stations from the southern parts of South America difficult. In addition to Radio Mil at least the following stations have been heard once or a couple of times in Finland: Argentinians Del Iberá, Sintonía and Rio Negro as well as BBN R in Santiago, Chile. Yesterday I received a confirmation on my mp3 to R Mil.
R Difusora, Ituiutaba, MG has lately surprisingly often surfaced on “the golden frequency” 1470. Today I received a confirmation on two reports to the station, one from LEM345 in October 2014 and one from LEM354 in February 2015. This became my QSL # 35 from Central and South American stations transmitting on 1470! R Difusora was probably heard for the first time in Finland by Pertti Äyräs on October 15, 2014. It is rather surprising that this station has surfaced during the last half year here in the north after having been transmitting on 1470 since 1959! Something has happened with their transmitter site and/or pattern? When I heard it in February it wast the strongest of the Brazilians simultaneously on the frequency. The other identified were R Papacaca, Bom Conselho, PE and R Rural de Parelhas, RN. Other more or less common Brazilians in the Nordic countries are, e.g., R Guanacés de Itapajé CE and R Record, São José, SC.
ZYK358 Rádio Metrópole, Cachoeirinha, RS is nowadays together with Emissora ABC, SP the most common Brazilian on 1570, a frequency which has been and still is, a very good Brazil frequency here in the Nordic countries. Mertrópole has been logged in Lemmenjoki many times since Pertti Äyräs and myself heard it during LEM317 in February 2012. After several attempts I finally received a confirmation (via FB) on my report taken during LEM354 in February 2015. All in all 26 Brazilians are listed on 1570 of which some 15 have been logged in Finland!
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