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Radio Hami
broadcasting briefly on shortwave from Finland
 Radio
Hami from Finland is broadcasting on 6170 kHz shortwave
for a few days in July. Radio Hami is a temporary
station run by the Finnish Amateur Radio League
during its annual summer camp, held this year on
July 15-18 in Räyskälä in Southern
Finland. The station can be heard on 1584 kHz mediumwave,
6170 kHz shortwave, and locally on FM 100.5 MHz
in Hämeenkyrö, 102.3 MHz in Riihimäki
as well as 104.9 MHz in Räyskälä.
SW and AM frequencies will be used through the night.
The transmissions will be low power, but exact transmitter
powers have not been announced. Reception reports
are welcome at Radio Hami / SRAL, PL 44, FI-00441
Helsinki, Finland, by email
or via a form on the station website.
(DXing.info,
July 12, 2010)
Radio
Genesis from Peru new on 4850 kHz shortwave
A new Christian station from Huanta, Peru, has been
reported on 4850 kHz shortwave. Radio Genesis was
first reported heard by DXer Rogildo Fontenelle
Aragão in Bolivia on June 30 on Radioescutas
mailing list. He heard programming in both Quechua
and Spanish languages. However, the name of the
station remained unidentified, and it was first
identified by DXer Arnaldo Slaen in Argentina on
July 24.
(DXing.info,
July 12, 2010, updated on July 29)
Developments
on the Buenos Aires AM dial
Radio del Buen Ayre, Ituzaingó, Partido de
Ituzaingó, is a new station on 1400 kHz,
reported in June by Arnaldo Slaen, who picked up
the station announcing 4661-4784 as its telephone
number. Radio del Buen Ayre has been broadcasting
different types of non-stop music as part of its
test broadcasts.
Radio 750 is a new licensed station in the
Greater Buenos Aires, heard by Arnaldo Slaen on
June 17, driving neighboring Radio Cooperativa to
move from 740 to 770 kHz. Radio Cooperativa in turn
is an unlicensed station that seems to have replaced
another unlicensed station on 770, namely Amplitud
770, located in Lomas del Mirador, Partido de La
Matanza. On its website Amplitud 770 says that its
transmission tower was destroyed on July 2, forcing
the station off the air, after which another station
took over the frequency in less than two days time.
The battle for 770 AM was reported by Marcelo A.
Cornachioni.
(DXing.info,
July 12, 2010)
Radio
Familia from Guinea launched on 4900 kHz shortwave
 A
new shortwave station has begun broadcasting from
Guinea in Western Africa. Radio Familia, a station
previously only heard on the FM band, has begun
shortwave transmissions on the frequency of 4900
kHz in the 60 meter shortwave band. The station
began broadcasting intermittently in the end of
March from the town of Timbi Madina. Radio Familia
is using a 1-kilowatt transmitter built by HCJB
Radio. Radio Familia broadcasts at 1800-2400 UTC
in the French, English, Susu, Kpèlè,
Pular and Maninka languages. The station was observed
by Carlos Goncalves in Portugal and by other DXers
in early May. Electricity for the remote transmitter
is provided by solar and wind generators. Future
plans include extending evening transmissions to
0300 UTC. Radio Familia (105.3 FM) was launched
in December 2006 by AFEG, Actualité Féminine
En Guinée, a local NGO.
(DXing.info,
June 14, 2010)
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Mining company
sets up a SW station in Papua New Guinea
 Radio
Fly is a new shortwave station in Papua New Guinea
financed and operated by Ok Tedi Mining Limited.
Radio Fly broadcasts on 3915 and 5960 kHz, which
was first reported by Japanese DXers on May 18.
Shortwave transmitters are located in Tabubil and
Kiunga, and transmissions began in early May. Radio
Fly can also be heard locally on FM 95.3 in Kiunga
and 103.8 in Tabubil. The mining company operates
a large copper mine in Tabubil in a mountaineous
area close to the border with Indonesia. Kiunga
is a nearby port town used for exporting the copper.
The Ok Tedi mine is a vast operation, accounting
for a third of Papua New Guinea's export earnings
and almost a quarter of its GDP. However, because
of diminishing deposits, the mine is scheduled to
close around the end of 2013. According to the company,
Radio Fly "provides a vital community information
service to isolated areas of the North Fly region,
parts of West Sepik, the rest of Western Province
and some areas along the border of West Papua."
Radio Fly broadcasts in English and Tok Pisin. The
mailing address is PO Box 1, Tabubil, Western Province,
Papua New Guinea. The telephone number for the station
is +675 649 3924.
(DXing.info,
June 14, 2010)
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