{"id":59959,"date":"2024-06-08T07:28:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T11:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=59959"},"modified":"2024-06-08T07:28:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T11:28:25","slug":"listening-in-brazil-zp-30-radio-station-the-voice-of-paraguayan-chaco-am-610-khz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/listening-in-brazil-zp-30-radio-station-the-voice-of-paraguayan-chaco-am-610-khz\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening In Brazil ZP-30 Radio Station, &#8220;The Voice Of Paraguayan Chaco&#8221;, AM 610 kHz."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following guest post:<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1>Listening In Brazil ZP-30 Radio Station, &#8220;The Voice Of Paraguayan Chaco&#8221;, AM 610 kHz.<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>by Carlos Latuff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first time I tuned on to ZP30 &#8220;The Voice of Paraguayan Chaco&#8221;, a Christian radio station from Paraguay, was during tests with Innova KV-12002. It was 7 p.m. Brasilia time, and when I turned on the receiver, I came across a medium-wave broadcast with an announcer speaking in German. This surprised me because the medium-wave stations I usually receive at night in Porto Alegre, Brazil, are from Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, and none typically broadcast in a language other than Spanish.<\/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\/Pk7BbYP9UFQ?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>I listened to the news bulletin, entirely in German, and throughout the transmission, I noticed the word &#8220;Paraguay&#8221; mentioned a few times. I concluded that it must be a Paraguayan radio station broadcasting in German. A quick Google search for radio stations in Paraguay broadcasting in German led me to ZP-30. I found their website, tuned in to the streaming audio, and confirmed I was listening to the same station on my radio.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the ZP-30 website here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zp30.com.py\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zp30.com.py<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At that moment I recorded a video of the radio station playing German songs. I wanted the news bulletin, but I found it quite difficult, either due to problems with propagation, other kinds of interference, or due to a station that operates on the same frequency and that sometimes overpowers the Paraguayan broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p>It took me almost a week to record the news bulletin with decent audio quality, using a ferrite rod AM antenna and my good ol&#8217; XHDATA D-808 receiver.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/XHData-808-Carlos-Latuff-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59960\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/XHData-808-Carlos-Latuff-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/XHData-808-Carlos-Latuff-1.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/XHData-808-Carlos-Latuff-1-226x300.jpeg 226w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/XHData-808-Carlos-Latuff-1-771x1024.jpeg 771w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/XHData-808-Carlos-Latuff-1-768x1020.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/XHData-808-Carlos-Latuff-1-1156x1536.jpeg 1156w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/XHData-808-Carlos-Latuff-1-624x829.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/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\/836P4sjSzO8?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>This station, in addition to German and Spanish, broadcasts news and Christian preaching in languages ??spoken by indigenous communities from the Chaco region in Paraguay.<\/p>\n<p>In Brazil, there was a migration of AM stations to FM, which left the medium-wave spectrum vacant. I believe that, from now on, it will be possible to listen to stations that I had never heard before. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p>Some Christian preaching in German:<\/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\/FT8JlC0n4cU?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>(Attached a video I made of ZP-30 radio station broadcasting news in German. Porto Alegre, June 4, 2024)<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 125% 0 0 0; position: relative;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" title=\"Paraguay ZP30 Radio Station: Received in Brazil on June 4, 2024 by Carlos Latuff\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/955183979?h=5ebedbc36f&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following guest post: Listening In Brazil ZP-30 Radio Station, &#8220;The Voice Of Paraguayan Chaco&#8221;, AM 610 kHz. by Carlos Latuff The first time I tuned on to ZP30 &#8220;The Voice of Paraguayan Chaco&#8221;, a Christian radio station from Paraguay, was during tests with Innova [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[373,3194,433,3,746],"tags":[8043,4099,4106,10540],"class_list":["post-59959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-guest-posts","category-mediumwave","category-news","category-recordings","tag-carlos-latuff","tag-mediumwave","tag-recordings","tag-zp-30"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fB5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":63073,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/carlos-illustrated-radio-listening-report-and-recording-of-zp-30-june-5-2025\/","url_meta":{"origin":59959,"position":0},"title":"Carlos\u2019 Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of ZP-30 (June 5, 2025)","author":"Thomas","date":"June 6, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor and noted political cartoonist,\u00a0Carlos Latuff, who shares the following\u00a0illustrated radio listening report of a recent ZP-30 broadcast. 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