Hi...

The spoken language in Belize is English and pidgin dialects thereof, not
Spanish. I know, an anomaly for that part of the world! But Spanish IS
spoken also.

I too thought that AM was gone now in Belize. Apart from the VOA relay
there, on 1530, which don't know if that counts!

M.


"Doug Smith W9WI" wrote in message
...
Tony Meloche wrote:
The station has no call, oddly, but it's 50,000W unlimited day and
night, as of the 1/1/04 WHAM logs. No other all-Spanish station with
music and programming indigenous to the Lastin world (in other words, it
was not a Spanish broadcasting USA station) anywhwere near that close
with that kind of transmitter. References I could pick up in Spanish
also indicated Belize City. It was as clear as suburban AM for quite a
while on 830 AM, though hampered by WCCO in Minneapolis.

How sure are you it wasn't WFNO in suburban New Orleans? That station
has been *widely* reported lately. A growing number of U.S.
Spanish-language stations are catering to ethnicities other than
Mexican. (David can better address that aspect!) One station is being
widely reported out of Houston with Colombian "cumbia" music, for example.

Is the Wham log based on the US FCC database? That database is VERY
inaccurate for foreign stations. Chances are, Belize is still notifying
the 830 facility to the ITU even though the station no longer exists.
Canada is doing that with a number of their extinct MW stations.
--
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com

"CrewL" wrote in message ...
Hi...

The spoken language in Belize is English and pidgin dialects thereof, not
Spanish. I know, an anomaly for that part of the world! But Spanish IS
spoken also.

I too thought that AM was gone now in Belize. Apart from the VOA relay
there, on 1530, which don't know if that counts!

M.

FYI: The VoA (which used to be on both 1530 and 1580 kHz) shut down
their relay site and put the facility up for auction several years
ago.