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Curacao DX adventure 2025

April 10, 2025 / / 0 Comments
My Tecsun PL 368 receiver on Curacao

This year I had again the privilege of spending some time on Curacao. Like last year I brought a radio with me: the Tecsun PL-368 I won in the SWL 2024 contest. I focused a little bit more on the upper side of the MW band this time. Below a list of the stations I received. Quite a few from Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, more than a year ago. The most distant stations I heard were ZSN1 Nassau and Radio Monumental from Quito (both 1700 km), WFED with a WTOP program from Washington (3100 km) and LS6 Radio Buenos Aires (5300 km). I was pleased to receive ZBVI from the British Virgin Islands as well as the Voice of St. Maarten, two new DX countries for me. I am still waiting for a reply from the latter station.

540Radio ABC, Santo DomingoDOM
550YVKE Mundial, CaracasVEN
570HIMS Radio Cristal, Santo DomingoDOM
580WKAQ 580, San JuanPTR
780ZBVI, TortolaVRG
1070 HJCG Radio Santa Fe, BogotáCLM
1090Union Radio, CaracasVEN
1100BBN Radio, BogotáCLM
1110HJJP RCN Radio, VillavicencioCLM
1130Fuego AM, BogotáCLM
1140Radio Panamericana, GirardotCLM
1160Carribean R. Lighthouse, St. MaryATG
1160Su Presencia Radio, BogotáCLM
1200Radio VEN AM, Santo DomingoDOM
1210HJE65 RCN, CúcutaCLM
1230Radio Calidad, CaliCLM
1250HJCA Toca en La Capital, BogotáCLM
1260BBN, CaracasVEN
1270HJAR RCN, CartagenaCLM
1280HJKN Aviva2, BogotáCLM
1290La Voz de las Estrellas, MedellinCLM
1300Voice of St. Maarten, PhilipsburgSXM
1310Voz de la Patria Celestial, BarranquillaCLM
1320Radio Apolo, TurmeroVEN
1330Radio Vision Cristiana, Santo DomingoDOM
1340YVNE Radio Uno, CaracasVEN
1350LS6 Radio Buenos Aires, MalvinasARG
1370Radio Mundial, BogotáCLM
1380Radio Nacional, SantiagoDOM
1420Radio Sintonia, CaracasVEN
1440HIAK Radio Impactante, Santo DomingoDOM
1450Radio Maria Venezuela, Catia La MarVEN
1460WLRP Radio Raices, San SebastianPTR
1470WKUM Cumbre 1470 AM, OrocovisPTR
1490Radio Dinámica, CaracasVEN
1500WFED WTOP, WashingtonUSA
1500Radio Maria Colombia, ManizalesCLM
1510Radio Monumental, QuitoEQA
1520TIVA Radio 1520, San JuanPTR
1530HJDN La Voz de Nostalgia, MedellínCLM
1540National Voice, NassauBAH
1560Pura Palabra R., BayamonPTR
1560Voces Rovirenses, MálagaCLM
1570Radio Felicidad, PenuelasPTR
1580Uniminuto Radio, BogotáCLM
1590WXRF WAPA Radio, GuayamaPTR
1620Radio RebeldeCUB
1660WGIT Faro de Santidad, CanovanasPTR
1680Radio Senda, S. Pedro de MacorisDOM

QSL Comodoro Rivadavia Radio 12577 kHz

April 7, 2025 / / 0 Comments

I received Comodoro Rivadavia Radio with a DSC test acknowledgement to a vessel with MMSI 311000867 (SYLVIA EARLE, Bahamas). It’s the second time I sent them a report. I heard them earlier in December 2024. They confirmed they were sending a message at the time but my decode of the MMSI of the ship they contacted was incorrect. Despite the ERR check being OK. These things can happen sometimes. This time there was one other DX-er that picked up the same message using YADD decoder, so I was confident I really heard them! 

The distance between my QTH and Comodoro Rivadavia is 12890 kilometers… and this is definitely not a DSC station that I hear as often as the ones from Brazil. My other confirmation from Argentina was Buenos Aires Radio.

QSL LRA36 RN Arcángel San Gabriel

August 8, 2023 / / 0 Comments

I think I am chasing a QSL LRA36 RN Arcángel San Gabriel for about 40 years now. To be precise, the station started transmitting from Esperanza Base in 1979. That is exactly the year in which I started with my hobby as a 17 year old kid. They featured in every WRTH I bought since…

I heard them once, many years ago. But I never received a reply on my report. On Saturday July 8th this year at 19.00 h UTC I heard them again on the usual frequency of 15476 kHz in USB. I was afraid that I tuned in too late, as reception quality soon deteriorated, and after 19.15 h UTC I couldn’t pick up their signal anymore.

QSL LRA36 Antarctica 15476 kHz
LRA36 RN Arcangel San Gabriel sends a nice PDF as QSL

But during these 15 minutes I heard a conversation between a man and woman, and more importantly: a fragment of a passionate Argentinian ballad. As I could neither specify details of the discussion, nor the title of the song I sent a small MP3 clip along with my reception report. And one month later I got his beautiful PDF as QSL in return.

Clearly the Argentinian government has a geopolitical motive maintaining a shortwave radio station in Antarctica. That said I’m still grateful to the LRA36 team for their commitment to the DX-ing community all these years!

It is not always clear to me when LRA36 is in the air. They seem to have regular programs on Saturday between 18 and 22 h UTC. I also heard that they have programs on Monday and Wednesday evening (UTC). My advice is to monitor DX sites like SWL-ing post, HF Underground or Hard-Core-DX for the latest information. Reception reports can be send to lra36nacional@gmail.com .

Woerden – Esperanza Base : 13916 km

QSL SHN Buenos Aires on 12577 kHz

July 3, 2023 / / 0 Comments

During my stay on a campsite in the north of the Netherlands I enjoyed good conditions on 12 MHz in a relatively noise free environment. That resulted in the reception of a lot of new DSC stations. SHN (Servicio de Hidrografia Naval) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was one of those!

QSL Servicio Hidrografia Naval Buenos Aires
QSL… just three letters, but I got my QSL for MRCC Buenos Aires!

The email reply took hours only and was the shortest possible. But it carried the three key letters: “QSL”! (I added their logo to the email myself to improve the appearance of this post).
I sent my report to shn@hidro.gov.ar. Confirmation followed via snautica@hidro.gov.ar, which is probably the Coast Guard branch.

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