[HCDX] mainland Central American DX-ing, costa-rican and ecuadorian splits

[Aurel Chiochiu <chiochiu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello !

Does anybody know why here in North America, it is so hard to receive
Central American stations on MW. The Carraibbean Islands are verry easy even
on a Sanyo portable to log, for exemple: Cuba, the splits, Dominican
Republic, the english-speaking islands, but why MAINLAND Central America is
so tough to hear (Honduras, Guatemala, etc... on the main-land). Did there
is a geomagnetic reason wich not allow Central American signals to pass in
North-America. In Europe, hearing main-land Central America is much more
easier. Several european MW-DXers report verry regular reception of HRRF
Radio Cadena Noticias in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, but to my knowledge this
station has never been heard in North America. Personnally, I think that
Central America was verry easy to hear back in the 70`s or so when there
were quite a lot of Costa Rican 5 kHz splits such as Cadena de la Emisora
Columbia TILX on 725. Now, nearly all the costa ricans have moved to
even-channels wich is why they are so difficult to log (I hjave only heard 1
costa rican the last DX session, and that was during a quite amazing
opening).

Another country that was easy to hear was Ecuador, altough not in Central
America, Ecuador was interesting because like Costa Rica, it uses to have a
large number of split channels that used to be reliably heard in the eastern
half of North America or even more, at night. For exemple, there was HCEW2
on 995 in Guayaquil. Since how many years they have got off the air ? There
were much more ecuadorian splits like them and Ecuador was one of the
easiest Deep-South American country to log (three quarters of Ecuador are in
the Southern Hemisphere!).

That`s it for now !
I hope someone know why all those ecuadorian and CR splits have signed off
the air.
73 and good DX !
Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu


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