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Radio Gambia, 9530 khz

 R A D I O   i n   G A M B I A

 

 
QSL Letter from Banjul for AM reception
 
 
 
Radio in Gambia was long time a thing of british ham operators. Then 1962 was „Radio Gambia“ founded. In the beginning all programmes were rebroadcasted from other stations of neighbour countries and the BBC London. Independence was reached in the year 1965, and 1973 comes a partnership with Senegal about producing of programmes. Early Frequencies of Radio Gambia were 9530 khz, 4820 khz & 3316 khz with the ID: ‚You have been listening to the Gambia Broadcasting Service‘. Mostly monitored 06.30 UTC (s/on) and 22.00 UTC (s/off). Gambia left shortwave finally 1976 forever. Two mediumwave transmitters worked on 648 khz (until 2013) and on 747 khz (until 2016). Gambia moved then  to FM and the Radio was renamed into „GRTS (Gambia Radio & TV Service)“.

 

Voice of Barbados – 785 khz

 R A D I O   i n   B A R B A D O S

 

Shortwave broadcasting began in 1940 (until 1965) on 3950 khz.

1944 was a brandnew radio communication station build from a Marconi setup, in replacement of the former station „VPO“ – which was originally an old morse-code station. However five years later (1949), a new callsign was allocated for this Barbados-Station and VPO became ZNX. Then, at the time of independence in 1966, another callsign was allocated for this station and ZNX became 8PO.

The first radio service in Barbados was installed 1935 and it was a cable radio system with main programes of the BBC London and from Canada. This cable radio exists until November 1997, what means longer than 6 decades. 

Mediumwave broadcasting was introduced on December 15, 1963 with the inauguration of the government owned Radio Barbados, with 10 kW on the frequency 785 kHz. The station announcement during this era started: „This is Radio Barbados, the Voice of the Eastern Caribbean, 785 on your radio dial“. Later was the frequency changed to 900 khz and into a new ID „CBC Radio“ (Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation).

A second mediumwave station began service in Barbados on May 1, 1981 under the slogan „Voice of Barbados“. This station -also at 10 kW- took over the government station, and it was operated on 790 kHz.– The FM-era started 1971 and today are over a dozen of FM-stations active.  

 

© F. Bruender, Germany: QSL Letter Voice of Barbados

 

QSL ‚CBC Radio‘ 

 

 
„Voice of Barbados (VoB)“

 

 

Radio auf der Oster-Insel (690 khz)

 R A D I O   i n   R A P A   N U I

(Easter Island)

The first local radio station on Easter Island was a project operated by personnel in the Chilean airforce. The existence of this station was revealed to the world in a DX-publication. This original mediumwave station was on the air daily with a 250 watt transmitter operating at reduced power on 690 kHz.– This station is now dedicated as „Radio Manukena“ and it is to hear on 580 khz AM and on FM. The Navy of Chile is in addition on the Air on 98.5 Mhz.