Negative reaction to the end of transmissions from RTP in Portuguese

International transmissions in Portuguese are becoming really rare on shortwave. This time is Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP) which turned off its shortwave transmissions in Portuguese. Sarmento Campos, one of Brazil’s most known dxers, is really pissed off, as you can see in his Blog. There you can watch him in his car listening to the transmission from Portugal in movement. It’s really a shame. RTPs signal was very strong and usually received with classification SINPO 55555 in the South of Brazil during the day.

History of radio in Bulgaria – in Spanish

In this transmission in Spanish, which I’ve recorded on May 29, Radio Bulgaria makes a review of its history and the history of the radio in the Country, which began with the first broadcasts in 1929, with a modest studio. The program reports about the evolution of the radio, about the moment in which the station became completely state owned and about the bombing of the studios during the World War II, when the Radio Bulgaria was known as Radio Sofia and had to use a backup studio.

Transmission from May 29, 16:45 UTC, in 15.700khz

SINPO Code35323

Reception Location: -27.700962, -48.503506

No, the Cold war hasn’t finished on shortwave: IRIBs listeners feedback program

With the greeting “in the name of God”, the Spanish service of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) begins his weekly program “Talking with the listeners”. One of my preferred sort of programs in shortwave is this, in which the stations show feedback from different parts of the World. And it is very interesting to observe that even in such situations it is possible to perceive an ideological content. In this recording pay attention on the letter from a Cuban IRIB listener who mentions news “bad intended and malicious from some networks”, in a clear intention to contrast with what he means is a reliable work: IRIBs news.

Caught my attention that two letters came from Brazil – from Sarandi and Santos. The good reception of the transmission from Tehran is probably one of the causes of it.

I’ve made the recording on May, 27 at 2h UTC, in 9.905 khz.

The IMF succession on BBC and Radio Havana Cuba

After the tragicomic sexual scandal that toppled the International Monetary Fund director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the news about de succession debate is if the tradition of an European on the command of the IMF should be maintained or not. Of course, from different parts of the world came different positions.

Listen to what BBC has reported about at May, 25, in this link.

Here in South of Brazil, I’ve recorded, whit my shortwave receptor, Radio Havana Cuba, transmitting in English (11.760 Khz, 2:35 UTC May 27) what the Brazilian Finance Minister, Guido Mantega talked about the question. Guess his position.

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Brazilian Forestry Code is news on Deutsche Welle

News about Brazil in the international press use to repeat old clichés. With issues like football and carnival, the Amazon Forest is one of the few things that usually sparks interest on international editors. On May, 25, looking at the so called “Rain Forest”, Deutsche Welle reports, in its German news report, about the Brazilian new Forestry code, that has been approved in one of the Congress houses.

 

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BBC's last transmission in portuguese to Africa

The ending of shortwave transmissions in Portuguese for Brazil is getting more and,more usual, unfortunately. But it isn‘t a “privilege” of Brazil. After  having the difficult task of cutting down ¼ of its budget, BBC decided this year, among other measures,  to put an end on the transmission in Portuguese for Africa. Because of the time of the transmissions (in Brazil we were in the middle of the night) I’ve just listened to the program once, in an insomnia night.  Here is the link to the nice last program, in which BBC is transparent about the cause of the end of the service and makes a revision about the history of the program.

Argentina international radio and the Mercosur conflicts

The relationship between Brazil and its neighbor Argentina suffers a concussion from time to time, especially when the matter is business in Mercosur, the problematic trade agreement between both countries plus Paraguay and Uruguay. It’s common that Argentina imposes barriers to difficult access of Brazilian products to the Argentinean market. Brazilian industry usually complains that the position of Brazilian government is complacent with its commercial partner. But, surprisingly, this month, President Dilma Roussef’s administration announced that products from Argentinean automobile industry wouldn’t get automatic licenses to be imported by Brazil anymore, in a clear signalization that Brazil is retaliating similar posture from Argentina. In the transmission from the German service of Radiodifusion Argentina al Exterior (RAE) from May, 13, Rayen Braun, who presents the program targeting Europe and North of Africa with Carlos Rocca, informs that the Industry Minister of Argentina, Débora Giorgi, would be informed previously about the Brazilian measure, as Argentina did the same, in February, having informed Brazil before implementing the barrier, said Giorgi. Well, I don’t think that the main problem is in communication. And you?

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