{"id":21227,"date":"2016-09-12T13:30:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T17:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=21227"},"modified":"2018-08-28T06:32:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T10:32:24","slug":"south-american-shortwave-catches-rarely-heard-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/south-american-shortwave-catches-rarely-heard-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"South American shortwave catches, rarely heard in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/RCRI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21229 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/RCRI-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"RCRI\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/RCRI-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/RCRI-624x330.jpg 624w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/RCRI.jpg 674w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/r9dj.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21232 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/r9dj-300x73.jpg\" alt=\"r9dj\" width=\"300\" height=\"73\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/r9dj-300x73.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/r9dj-768x186.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/r9dj-624x151.jpg 624w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/r9dj.jpg 964w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Hi there, I thought I would share some DX catches,\u00a0all of which are rarely reported in Europe and yet I was fortunate enough to catch\u00a0in Oxford UK, using a couple of\u00a0different set-ups. The first is Radio Chaski Red Integridad from Urubamba Cusco, Peru, heard using an Elad FDM DUO and Wellbrook ALA1530 active loop antenna (indoors). The two subsequent receptions originate from Brazil; Radio 9 de Julho, Sao Paulo and Radio Transmundial,Santa-maria <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/rtm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21283 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/rtm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"rtm\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/rtm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/rtm.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Camobi, both of which were caught using the venerable Sony ICF-2001D portable receiver and my 200 metre longwire antenna. In all three cases, persistence was necessary whilst optimum conditions of propagation aligned with my listening\u00a0schedule at home and my less frequent, but regular\u00a0DX&#8217;peditions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I am soon to deploy a 200 metre Beverage with adjustable termination resistance for nulling &#8216;rearward&#8217; signals and matching transformers suitable for 75 and 50 Ohm receiver antenna inputs. I hope this will further improve my reception capability on both the\u00a0MW and SW bands.\u00a0 Another post specific to that project is in the pipeline, but in the meantime, thanks for reading\/ watching and I wish you all very good DX.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L3gwGDqAGsU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L3gwGDqAGsU\">Direct link to Oxford Shortwave Log for Radio Chaski Red Integridad reception video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ML1-Msdgrj8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ML1-Msdgrj8\">Direct link to Oxford Shortwave Log for Radio 9 de Julho reception video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JUs1KO_16Bw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JUs1KO_16Bw\">Direct link to Oxford Shortwave Log for Radio Transmundial\u00a0reception video<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i>Clint Gouveia\u00a0is the author of this post and a regular contributor to the SWLing Post. Clint actively publishes videos of his shortwave radio excursions on his YouTube channel:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UChtXnzopFIr6wTIA6QwIeLw\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford Shortwave Log<\/a>. Clint is based in Oxfordshire, England.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there, I thought I would share some DX catches,\u00a0all of which are rarely reported in Europe and yet I was fortunate enough to catch\u00a0in Oxford UK, using a couple of\u00a0different set-ups. The first is Radio Chaski Red Integridad from Urubamba Cusco, Peru, heard using an Elad FDM DUO and Wellbrook ALA1530 active loop antenna [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3607,399,960,3196,196,26,746,43,158,5,304],"tags":[968,2774,5363,4106,157,34,5364,4082,737,25,4087,495,4453],"class_list":["post-21227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antennas","category-dxpeditions","category-international-broadcasting","category-portable-radio","category-qrm","category-radios","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-software-defined-radio","category-swlers","category-videos","tag-elad","tag-fdm-duo","tag-longwire","tag-recordings","tag-sdr","tag-shortwave","tag-shortwave-antenna","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-shortwave-radio-recordings","tag-shortwave-radios","tag-software-defined-radio","tag-sony","tag-sony-icf-2001d"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5wn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20822,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/radio-fana-6110-khz-ethiopia-excellent-snr-with-elad-fdm-duo\/","url_meta":{"origin":21227,"position":0},"title":"Radio Fana 6110 kHz Ethiopia; excellent SNR with Elad FDM DUO","author":"Clint Gouveia","date":"August 26, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The Elad FDM DUO makes for\u00a0a fantastic receiver, in both standalone mode and via the FDM-SW2 software. Thus far it has been demonstrating this by outperforming the Sony ICF-2001D in many of my reception tests\u00a0using an\u00a0experimental longwire antenna. Bear in mind that whilst this might not be such a surprise,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;AM&quot;","block_context":{"text":"AM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/am\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Fanaza","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Fanaza.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Fanaza.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Fanaza.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Fanaza.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Fanaza.jpg?resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":20733,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/200-metre-longwire-radio-verdad-4054-9-khz-guatemala-unprecedented-reception-in-oxford-uk\/","url_meta":{"origin":21227,"position":1},"title":"200 metre longwire: Radio Verdad 4054.9 kHz, Guatemala, unprecedented reception in Oxford, UK","author":"Clint Gouveia","date":"August 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Radio Verdad, Chiquimula,\u00a0Guatemala is quite a regular catch at home, however,\u00a0their modulation is nearly always weak as the carrier\u00a0struggles to lift above the ubiquitous blanket of local QRM. 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