Sometimes things happen that you hesitate to believe, hence I'm asking
for other opinions here. At 00:30UTC, I got a listenable (though hashy)
reception on 7370kHz that I can only find reference to as R.Dif. America
from Ascuncion, Paraguay. The *highest* transmitter power I can find
for this is 1,000 watts.
Using an ICOM R-75 with a 60 foot longwire. I just started using the
ICOM, and don't want to be fooling myself. Two male voices, doing what
seemed to be a news/jocular commentary thing in Spanish (I speak it).
Anyone? I've never made a catch that good before, and I don't want to
do any victory jigs if I can't back it up.

Tony


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1,000 watts is a lot of power with the right conditions ! I've never heard
of that station, but I have heard Paraguay (not recently) on 9735 before in
spanish. I think you made a good catch ! I check in frequently on a
frequency like that to see if it pans out consistently. I have been trying
to catch Mauretania on 4845 and finally succeeded this afternoon around
00:00 utc.


"Tony Meloche" wrote in message
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Sometimes things happen that you hesitate to believe, hence I'm asking
for other opinions here. At 00:30UTC, I got a listenable (though hashy)
reception on 7370kHz that I can only find reference to as R.Dif. America
from Ascuncion, Paraguay. The *highest* transmitter power I can find
for this is 1,000 watts.
Using an ICOM R-75 with a 60 foot longwire. I just started using the
ICOM, and don't want to be fooling myself. Two male voices, doing what
seemed to be a news/jocular commentary thing in Spanish (I speak it).
Anyone? I've never made a catch that good before, and I don't want to
do any victory jigs if I can't back it up.

Tony


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Tony Meloche wrote:

Sometimes things happen that you hesitate to believe, hence I'm asking
for other opinions here. At 00:30UTC, I got a listenable (though hashy)
reception on 7370kHz that I can only find reference to as R.Dif. America
from Ascuncion, Paraguay. The *highest* transmitter power I can find
for this is 1,000 watts.
Using an ICOM R-75 with a 60 foot longwire. I just started using the
ICOM, and don't want to be fooling myself. Two male voices, doing what
seemed to be a news/jocular commentary thing in Spanish (I speak it).
Anyone? I've never made a catch that good before, and I don't want to
do any victory jigs if I can't back it up.

Probably the best, most accurate way to tell if you heard them is to listen for the
ID.



Tony

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Is there a SW station in Venezuela?

Thanks,
Bill, K5BY

WShoots1 wrote:

Is there a SW station in Venezuela?

Thanks,
Bill, K5BY


Several. Two I know of off the top of my head are "Radio Tachira"
at 4830, but it's in a very hashy frequency range (aren't all the
tropicals, though.)
An old favorite is "Ecos del Torbes" at 4980, but they are currently
inoperative. The same man owns both stations.

Tony


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Many thanks, Tony. I'll pass along your message to an Arizona friend of mine
who has roots in Venezuela. She's distressed at what is happening to the
country. She's 70 now, but when she was in college there, she tossed a Molotav
cocktail at the then bad guys. :-)

Anyhow, I'd just recently introduced her to shortwave listening.

73,
Bill, K5BY

Yes, the situation is tense in Venezuela... and is getting more
dangerous as U.S. officials believe that Chavez is supporting Middle
East terrorists. There was an excellent report in U.S. News and World
Report last week about the situation. Unfortunately, there is no real
balanced information coming from that country on shortwave. Ecos del
Torbes and Radio Tachira are owned by a Chavez supporter. The governor
of the state of Tachira is also a "chavista" and can be heard with his
rhetoric daily on Radio Tachira. There have been several reports here
in Puerto Rico that an anti-Chavez group is setting up a shortwave or
50 kw AM station in the Dominican Republic. It's called Radio Bolivar,
La Verdadera Voz del Libertador, according to the reports. The DR
government is strongly opposed to Chavez, who cut off oil supplies a
few weeks ago following President Hipolito Mejia's pro-U.S. stance.
(By the way, he caused a great concern when he announced after his
election in 2002 that he had U.S. citizenship.) Anyhow, anti-Chavez
forces have been working to overthrow this administration from the DR.
The situation on radio should be getting interesting in the next few
months.