BC-DX 841 04 Jan 2008 Private Verwendung der Meldun

EL SALVADOR [and non] This weekend I was in El Salvador and I have just
visited Radio Imperial in Sonsonate. Imperial is a small Christian
station, used to transit on 17835 kHz one or two years ago. Now they are
using only 810 kHz with 500 W. There are no actual plans to return to
shortwave. The shortwave transmitter was sent for repair and the antenna
was taken down.
Now I am in Guatemala where I attend a language school for 4 coming weeks
to improve my Spanish. I live in a small village close to the Pacific
Ocean where it is very hot. April is the warmest month. Of course I have
my AOR7030. Unfortunately there is a lot of noise on AM in all three
places I have been listening (in Antigua and two places in Monterrico,
where I live now). In Antigua it was almost impossible to listen to
mediumwave due to heavy electrical noise from cheap low energy bulbs.
Also the tropic bands are quite silent and deserted. It is quite decent
conditions towards Peru and Bolivia in the evenings and also early
mornings - but I think it varies a lot from day to day. I can also hear
lots of stations from USA in the X-band. Also early in the mornings Japan
is loud on 3925, and also the three Australian stations in the 120 mb can
be heard well. I have had no success with the Indonesian and Papuan
stations, yet.
(Stig Hartvig Nielsen-GTM, SW-Bulletin Apr 13, translated by editor
Thomas Nilsson for dxld)
EQUAT GUINEA 15190 R. Africa is back! Not reported in ages on 15190,
but strong signal S9+20 Friday April 11 from tune-in 2059 with lo-fi
prayer, to gospel singing off-mike; it was the ending of a program, 2101
with contact info as
or
Box 714, White City, Saskatchewan S4L 5Bl, Canada.
Also gave a telephone number I missed; website
of Ambassadors for Christ Ministries, Inc. They
certainly had no Saskatchewan accent and per website the senior pastors
appear to be Africans, James and Rebecca Otitoju. Don't see anything there
about radio broadcasts, let alone via Equatorial Guinea. And while the box
number in White City is the same, the website shows postal code S0G 5B0!
Music continued until 2106 pause, NO ID, and into next program, which by
comparison was undermodulated, just preacher speaking, Hope for Today,
continuing previous lesson from Ephesians. 2107 audio cuts out.
At this time I compared signal to WYFR, via Ascension on adjacent 15195.
EqG 15190 was slightly stronger, as WYFR at 65 degrees is not aimed this
way anyway, but WYFR modulation much better.
In case this was a quarter-hour program, I stayed with it for another
break, and at 2119 it was ending with address Hope for Today, P O Box 3,
Breezewood, Pennsylvania 15533. Given twice, but could not copy the town
so had to look up the ZIP. Website sounded like
but that goes nowhere.
Still no station ID. At 2124 started another program, Temple Time, from
Union Baptist Church in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Poor audio, YL fire-
and-brimstone introduxion, tape snagging, dead air.
2127 cut to local ID I had been waiting for. Announcer spoke very slowly
and clearly: Radio Africa, spelt
to contact ministries by forwarding, or write to
postal addresses given at end of programs or c/o Radio Africa, P O Box CT
3741 (or maybe 3701 if pronounced oh), Cantonment [spelt], Accra [stressed