Ecuador: La Voz del Napo
Date Station Frequency Time Comments Source
1997-07-23 La Voz del Napo ? 3280 0857 male with what sounded like an exercise program, 0858 March like male vocal in Spanish, presumed National anthem with several mentions of Ecuador. 0859 female and children with Spanish song. 0900 male announcer with talk, but did not hear any ID. Followed by multiple rooster crows. Back to male announcer. Then another male speaks for 30 seconds or so, then back to primary announcer. Reception fair strength, no interfence, fair overall. (Ziolkowski July 23) Cumbre 148
1997-05-10 La Voz del Napo 3279.9 2319 with ID as "En Tena, 6 de la tarde, 19 minutos ... emisora La Voz del Napo". Later other IDs as "Está sintonizando radio La Voz del Napo, en la zona amazónica ecuatoriana".Lots of comunicados. Good signals for many hours, past 0145 (Pedersen) DXWin 65
1997-03-31 LV del Napo 3279.96 1005 in Quichua w/comunicados. ID "La Voz del Napo, emisora provincial." Good w/presumed Shanghai underneath. (McVicar, Mar. 31) Cumbre 133
1997-03-14 La Voz del Napo 4870.0 0210-0240 (R. Difusora Católica Cultural), Macas; SINPO 33333 Talk about avacados, mx, ID as "clases radiofonicas por Radio Difusora Católica Cultural de la región amazónica del Ecuador" s/off (0235*) with: "Llegamos al término de nuestra transmisión regular de HO2 Radio Difusora Católica Cultural, La Voz del Napo, perteneciente al vicariato apostólico de .. perteneciente a la región amazónica, hemos llegado a sus receptores a través de nuestra frecuencia de 4870 KHz de onda corta banda de 60 metros, Voz del Upano tiene sus estudios centrales en la ciudad de Macas, capital de la provincia de Morona Santiago, en la región amazónica, república del Ecuador, América del Sur, nuestros teléfonos son ... la dirección postal para su correspondencia es Radio La Voz del Upano, Correo de Macas, Morona Santiago, Ecuador... " later they played the national anthem. (Arrunátegui Mar.,14) Cumbre 130
1997-02-21 LV del Napo 3280 0225 Romantic SP ballads, TC w/ ID by man: "Veintiuna, veintiseis minutos (repeated twice), Voz del Napo en su receptor". Poor (Nigro, Feb. 21) DXWin 54
1997-01-18 La Voz del Napo ? 3280 0900 Latin American music, mostly male vocals. 0909 male says a few words in local language, then more music. 0913 male speaks again briefly, then into what sounded like a remote broadcast by male with crowd noise. Included some sort of chanting, similar to Native American chants. 0927 back to more music, no ID at bottom of hour. Reception poor at tune in, peaking fair at 0930 (local sunrise) then fade out by 0950. (Ziolkowski June 18 Cumbre 143
1996-11-27 LaVoz del Napo 3280 0023 w/ rustic flute music to anncrs "attencion amigos" into evening communicados. Flute music between segments. Station ID at 0030 into continued regional items. (Van Horn, Nov. 27) Cumbre 115
1996-09-22 La Voz del Napo 3280 0934 in pres Quechua and SS, M tlk, Andean songs, TC's and saludos. Peaking to +10db. (Mohrmann Sep22) Cumbre 105
1996-07-26 La Voz del Napo ? 3279.8 0050-0205 with football, I waited in vain for an ID (Ekblom, July 26) DXWin 23
1996-07-18 La Voz del Napo 3280 0110-0200 (Krone, Monferini July 18) DXWin 22
1996-07-13 LV del Napo 3279.78 0946-1008 Tena, SP & Quechua, mx huaynos, ID as "La Voz del Napo". 35443 (Gabriel Ivan Barrera, July 13 via Lerner) Cumbre 96
1996-07-10 La Voz del Napo 3279.9 0902 SS, M anncr lang, "Voz del Napo ID, into Andean music. (Mohrmann July 10) Cumbre 94
1996-02-22 LV del Napo 3280 0955 ID in SP w/ freqs. Pgming followed in SP and Indian dialect; T/C at 1000. (Finkle, Feb. 22) Cumbre 75
1996-02-19 LV del Napo 3280 0157-0230 Rel programing with mx. Signoff as "Radio Difusora Cultural, La Voz del Napo". then into Natl Anthem. Heard prior day's sign off at 0300 (must be a cart) with R. Disfusora ? and thought it was a new stn. (Fleming Feb 19) Cumbre 74
1995-04-20 La Voz del Napo 3280 0146 talk about Fanesca (special Ecuadorian soup for Holy Week--good stuff!). Good. (MacHarg Jihad) Jihad 29