[HCDX]: R Verdad QSL

["Michael Schnitzer" <mschnitzer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everywhere,

Dr. Édgar Amílcar Madrd Morales, the director of Radio Verdad, Guatemala,
sent a very nice personal letter after 3 weeks. He says that my report was
the first one from Germany. In the meantime he already received several
reports from abroad, naturally most of them from the US and Latin America,
but also reports from Sweden and Italy.

The station is operating with 820 watts only. In the moment they cannot
increase power, because the government does not agree. He also points out
that there are problems with the local power supply. In the evening hours
the voltage is decreasing considerably under 200 volts, which the
transmitter is accepting as minimum. On that reason Radio Verdad is closing
down at around 18.25 local time.

First of all the station has religious and educational character without any
commercial background ("...carácter educativa y evangélica, no lucrativa,
tratando de ayudar al desarrollo de nuestras comunidades").

Due to problems with the government the station hasn't got yet a call sign.
However the director expects the possible call sign TGAV in the future. TG
means Transmisiones Guatemaltecas, A is the identification of the eastern
region of Guatemala and V should be the special ID of Radio Verdad.

The letter contains a nice QSL-card too, which shows the station manager
standing on the antenna tower, inclusive a contribution receipt about one US
dollar, which I enclosed to my report. It's really the first time that I get
such a receipt from a radio station.

I tuned in to Radio Verdad on 4052.5 on April 15 at around 00.15 UTC during
the recent DX-Camp Bavaria using a 300m beverage antenna. Let me finally say
that I was very happy about that nice QSL-letter, which gives a certain
insight into the special problems of a new and young radio station, into its
struggle with local authorities and insufficient power supply.

Address:

Estación Educativa Evangélica "Radio Verdad"
Apartado No. 5
Chiquimula
Guatemala


vy 73

Michael Schnitzer
Germany

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