Radio Santa Maria 1490

Radio Santa Maria 1490 has made its presence felt over the past few nights. It is situated in the Ecuadorian town of Azogues. On the 23rd it gave a full id on the hour. The evening I hear dit, it was playing huayño music either sid eof the hour.

Radio Rio de Janeiro 1400

Following a tip off from Paul Ormandy, I have logged Radio Rio de Janeiro on 1400 khz featuring religious programming. It was only up for a short while, but the quality of the signal was good. There was lots of talk in Portuguese.

La Radio 1620 Mar del Plata

A real highlight has been hearing La Radio on 1620 from Mar del Plata in Argentina. League member Barry Hartley first discovered it and I logged it this evening. It was playing tango music just before 0600 and then changed tack in terms of music style thereafter. At 0626 it played the classic song Volare. A report will be sent.

KSUR

Conditions haven't really been great for mediumwave DX.

On the League's south east EWE 1470 Radio Felicidad is like a local every evening from about 0500 UTC. Radio Union in Lima is there most nights as well with lots of religious programming - halellujahs and senors etc.

The odd interesting thing creeps through. Radio Boa Ventade was there the other evening and it was reported that a Brazilian was heard on 1490 (Emisora Rio Sao Francisco, I think).

Listening on the north east EWE, the usual range of US stations has been heard. With a nummber of NZ stations going off air over the lockdown period, it has freed a few frequences up. Getting on to 1260 kHz early evening before the Aussies fade in is a good idea and last evening, although I was a little late, KSUR in Los Angeles was identified, logged and reported.

A verie to hand

KBS Hanminjok (One Nation/ People) HLSR on 1170 kHz came in two nights ago very well indeed. It was a strong and clear signal wth the national anthem at 0858 and an announcement on the hour. My colleague at work gave me the translation of what was said and I sent an email off to KBS. They replied today.

A quiet few nights

The highs of the end of March have not been repeated, but interesting things have been heard just the same.

880 Radio Unión in Lima, Peru was heard with an extended religious programme.

820 Radio Nacional Formosa in Argentina was heard. This may not have bene heaqrd before in New Zealand. Formose is a small state at the top of Argentina and sits just under Paraguay. Give we have receiving good coverage of Radio Nacional Del Paraguay, I wasn't entirley surprised to hear it. Unfortunately, the quality of the signal wasn't very good, but it was confirmed against the website.

There have been amny other teasing glimpses of what is there, but signlas have dropped off a bit leaving the locals to dominate the bands.

More Latins

A great night for Argentinian, Uruguayan and Paraguayan stations.

Heard tonight were:

840 Radio Bahia Blanca (Argentina) poor/ fair with music.
850 Radio Carve (Uruguay) a good signal with music
870 Radio Nacional, Buenos Aires (Argentina) at fair levels at best.
920 Radio Nacional del Paraguay (Paraguay) up and down but not bad when up.
930 Radio Monte Carlo (Uruguay) fair with vocals // to their website.
1030 Radio del Plata (Argentina) fair signal but very bad splash from 1026 and 1035.
1050 Radio San Francisco (Argentina) not a strong signal - audible when 1044 had brief silent moments. Music was // their wesite. At 0857 another came up with announcements, but nothing tangible.

I will send reports off to Radio Nacional BA and Radio del Plata.

Many thanks to Peter Mott who runs the NZRDXL SDRs for turning his aerial to the south east. The results have been excellent.