Correct. The bulk of CIAO's programming is Hindi and other south Asian, but there are also European ethnic programs and blocs as well (Italian, Polish, Hungarian, and German among them). Most, if not all, of it appears to be brokered. The station is located in suburban Toronto and is supposedly 1kw days/250w nights. I suspect that some nights they may "forget" to power down.
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Correct. The bulk of CIAO's programming is Hindi and other south Asian, but there are also European ethnic programs and blocs as well (Italian, Polish, Hungarian, and German among them). Most, if not all, of it appears to be brokered. The station is located in suburban Toronto and is supposedly 1kw days/250w nights. I suspect that some nights they may "forget" to power down.
Interesting!
Another weird one, rather an "Out-of-area "little-blowtorch" here is a translator for KFSK 100.9 Petersburg, AK. It's COL is Point Baker, AK but It must be on Mt. MacArthur on the Coast Guard tower or something...for 140 watts it gets out! Not bad for little more than light bulb power LOL. Even Radio-Locator shows it as being weak in Baker, oddly enough. Don't you have to have a pretty "local" signal covering your entire COL, even for a non-commercial translator? But it's signal is weird...in places you'd think you could thus hear it, you can't! But then again, the mountains cast pretty big "shadows" as far as FM signals are concerned...in much of Southeast Alaska the FM dial is literally completely blank!
Another weird one, rather an "Out-of-area "little-blowtorch" here is a translator for KFSK 100.9 Petersburg, AK. It's COL is Point Baker, AK but It must be on Mt. MacArthur on the Coast Guard tower or something...for 140 watts it gets out! Not bad for little more than light bulb power LOL. Even Radio-Locator shows it as being weak in Baker, oddly enough. Don't you have to have a pretty "local" signal covering your entire COL, even for a non-commercial translator? But it's signal is weird...in places you'd think you could thus hear it, you can't! But then again, the mountains cast pretty big "shadows" as far as FM signals are concerned...in much of Southeast Alaska the FM dial is literally completely blank!
What are the call letters for the station on AM530? I listen to them sometimes on my way into work. This morning, it was exceptionally clear. It was all instrumental music with a lady's voice in Spanish, of course near the top of the hour.
What you're hearing is R. Enciclopedia from Cuba. Cuban stations normally don't use call letters even if they originally had them. R. Enciclopedia is broadcast on several frequencies, but is most widely heard on 530. "Beautiful Music" (or "Elevator Music") occasionaly interspersed with female announcers whose original role was to provide Encyclopedic "facts". I've noticed that the music is a little more uptempo and contemporary in the morning than at other times.
I've flown by seaplane to/from Thorne Bay, on Prince of Wales Island, and there's definitely a spot where it comes in loud and clear! It's weird though, it wasn't as strong as I'd have thought, in the places I'd have guessed, but in others it was!
Somewhere on that flight though, after finally losing the KRBD (Ketchikan) translator from Throne Bay, ALL the Ketchikan FMs came in loud and clear, PLUS K216AA, which stayed until Port Alexander of course. KRBD's main signal was also quite listenable...
Somewhere on that flight though, after finally losing the KRBD (Ketchikan) translator from Throne Bay, ALL the Ketchikan FMs came in loud and clear, PLUS K216AA, which stayed until Port Alexander of course. KRBD's main signal was also quite listenable...
Here is an information page for Radio Enciclopedia.
Most, if not all, of their on air staff is distaff, that is female.
I'm heading to Muddy River, AK, near Petersburg, and am curious to see how well K216AA is heard there. Will post results.
K216AA is nonexistent in Wrangell, at least at the airport. But in Petersburg, it's a strong local, as it is 7 miles away in Muddy River, even slightly better than KFSK's main signal on 100.9.
Not sure how effective their other translator on 103.1 is. Seems odd to have three signals for the same radio station in the same area! I'm sure they just overlap, though!
Not sure how effective their other translator on 103.1 is. Seems odd to have three signals for the same radio station in the same area! I'm sure they just overlap, though!
I was going to say... CIAO comes in here in eastern MA regularly at night without any issue whatsoever. 250w??
Everything else was covered with regards to this frequency. In the late 90s it was RVC Turks & Caicos that dominated here outside boston. Now its Enciclopedia, CIAO, Rebelde in that order.
When I was in St. Pete Beach for the last two weeks preceding this one, I was hearing Rebelde under Enciclopedia 24/7. For whatever reason, Rebelde seemed to be more of an issue in the daytime. At night it was still audible, but Enciclopedia was generally stronger and covered it up better. After we left St. Pete, we made a stop in Destin....on the Florida panhandle....where 530 was pretty much all Enciclopedia at night. Following night in Texas (heading west), Enciclopedia was alone, but weaker. I didn't hear it the next two nights in New Mexico and Arizona. But I was in hotels, which fortunately turned out to be relatively noise free, but still undoubtedly had some signal-blocking effect.
I'm currently spending a couple of days at my wife's brother's house in the high desert about 70 miles east of downtown LA. This is a great DX spot in an open area, and it's where I caught R. Enciclopedia about a year and a half ago on 530. On an SRF-37 Walkman, no less. Very faint and only in for a brief period, but unmistakable with the female announcer and elevator music. Without much to stop it, I believe it's also been reported as far west as Hawaii.
BTW, something I noticed while in St. Pete, was that the music on R. Encilclopedia has gotten significantly more uptempo. Especially during the daytime.
I'm currently spending a couple of days at my wife's brother's house in the high desert about 70 miles east of downtown LA. This is a great DX spot in an open area, and it's where I caught R. Enciclopedia about a year and a half ago on 530. On an SRF-37 Walkman, no less. Very faint and only in for a brief period, but unmistakable with the female announcer and elevator music. Without much to stop it, I believe it's also been reported as far west as Hawaii.
BTW, something I noticed while in St. Pete, was that the music on R. Encilclopedia has gotten significantly more uptempo. Especially during the daytime.
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