DX from Chile

[ty]

What's been heard from Chile? Frequencies or bands that may be of interest?

 

[stormy01]

Ham (Amateur Radio)
http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2010/02/27/chile-earthquake-and-tsunami-warnings-shortwave-radio-providing-emergency-info-communications/

CVC, a shortwave broadcaster, however they are in Spanish:
http://www.cvclavoz.cl/english/schedule.html

So far as I can recall, MW reception from Chile is very rare, especially now, nearly impossible now due to the number of stations on the air in North America.

 

[Timewarp]

The easiest place to receive Chile is the 27 MHz CB band. CB is really popular in Chile.
Many of the Spanish speaking CBer's we hear in the US are really coming from there.

 

[stormy01]

The easiest place to receive Chile is the 27 MHz CB band. CB is really popular in Chile.
Many of the Spanish speaking CBer's we hear in the US are really coming from there.

About what time of day are these coming in? The sunspot cycle is really low now so even with a couple of kilowatts linear and a beam antenna on their end and the receiving setup would have to be really good on our end to hear them.

 

[BRNout]

Yeah, anything on MW from Chile would be nary impossible to get from North America. For one thing, it's a very long distance from here. Secondly, you have a lot of high-powered competition coming from Central and northern South America. Thirdly, I suspect that many broadcasters in Chile are dealing with transmitter issues right about now. Tried numerous news (normally reliable) websites from Chile yesterday and almost all were down. This earthquake did a lot of damage to infrastructure.

Frankly, I think you have to be somewhere south of Lima, Peru or SW of Sao Paulo, Brazil to have a shot at picking up Chilean MW signals with anything less than the best of equipment - and that's during the best of times.