HCJB - La Voz de los Andes

HCJB - La Voz de Los Andes, transmitting from Santiago, Chile, was heard on 25 September 2011. The broadcast was monitored from 23.50 to 00.45 UTC (usual broadcast time 23:00 to 00:45 UTC ) on 11.920 kHz. Religious talk and music was observed in the Portuguese language. Signal (SINPO) was 12111 --   extremely weak reception which only worsened after 00.10 UTC. Signal was barely audible and  only music was heard well. To eliminate much of the QRN and interference, the radio was set in SSB/LSB mode.

Reception report was submitted on-line at HCJB website and by post. After sending several emails, I finally obtained this eQSL through HCJB's German language website. It arrived on 10 November 2011. A follow-up QSL card and 2012 desktop calendar arrived in the mail on 8 December 2011. A second QSL card for the same report arrived on 8 September 2012; (See blog entry on 8 September 2012).

Iris Rauscher replied with this email:

Dear OM Timm,


Thank you very much for your Report via Chile from the Portuguese Program. I will forward your letter as well to the Office in Brazil. They will be very exited to hear that you listened to the Program from Malaysia. Please find attached our QSL Card for September. Please find as well the new Program Schedule. We hope to hear again from you. And question, did you listen online via www.andenstimme.org? Well, we are the German Programm - but since you wrote via our homepage?


Greetings and blessings from Quito,
Iris Rauscher
for the German Department