Peru: Radio San Francisco Solano
Date Station Freq Time Comments Source
1997-06-01 Radio San Francisco Solano ? 4750.06 0233-0348 A variety of LA music with some long nonstop blocks. Man announcer. Didn't hear any canned announcements what-so-ever. Caught several time checks. Most announcements were short except for the possible s/off announcements at 0345-0347. During the final announcement, heard a time check and what sounded like an announcement of "Radio Reina". Possible an announcement of kHz earlier at 0326, and "Andina" at 0339. Went off at the end of a song at 0348. Voice audio was a little distorted, but the music was fine. Carrier was quite wobbly but not drifting. Weak. (Valko Jun 1) Cumbre 141
1997-06-01 Radio San Francisco Solano ? 4750.05 0245 Long blocks of Huyano music and Peruvian ballads. Brief talk by a man but much too fast for an ID. (Rausch June 1) Cumbre 141
1996-08-01 Radio San Francisco Solano 4750 0235 tc ID at 0237 lively guitar vocals. trumpet fanfare to closing ID national anthem at 0250. (Rausch Aug 1) 4750.02, R. San Francisco Solano??, 0226-0232, What sounded like rel. mx in SP, M anncr w/slight echo. Unstable and pulsing carrier causing distorted audio. Choral singing w/no instur. at 0230, M again at 0232. Doubt could ever get an ID w/signal as such. (Valko 3 August) Cumbre 98
1996-07-19 R San Francisco Solano 4750.0 0252 Sondor. C/d at 0252 (July 19) with announcement: "Amables oyentes, Radio Difusora San Francisco Solano, La Voz de la Parroquia San Miguel...muy buenas noches, paz y bién.". (Havukunnas, July 19) DXWin 23
1996-07-17 Radio San Francisco Solano 4750.1 0115-0145 mx ID "Radio San Francisco Solano.." mx ID "8 de la noche con 30 en Radio San Francisco Solano en los 4750 kHz onda corta, en la banda de 69 metros.. para todo el Peru.." Slogan: "Y seguimos con la mejor musica para cada uno de Uds., escuchando Radio San Francisco Solano.. de Sondor para el Peru, un saludos para todos los amigos oyentes que llegamos a traves de nuestras potentes ondas.." ranchera mx (Arrunategui July 17) Cumbre 95
1996-07-13 R San Francisco Solano 4750.1 0115-0258 very weak at first, but signal improved up to close down. Played mixed music, audio on speach poor, but many mentions of R San Francisco Solano. Orchestral version of NA at s/off. Prgr at 0230 seemingly called "Buenos Noches Musical" (Krone, July 13) DXWin 21
1996-06-29 R San Francisco Solano 4750.0 0158 Sondor. With clear ID at 0158, mx-px. Haven´t heard this one since last autumn. (Havukunnas, June 29) DXWin 20
1996-06-29 Radio San Francisco Solano 4750.1 0110 reactivated, noted at 0110 on 29 June with a good signal but with wobbling audio similar to Radio Altura on 7143 kHz. (H. Klemetz, Dateline Bogota via Lobdell) Cumbre 95
1996-06-27 Radio San Franscisco Solano 4750.05 0027 (Sondor); w/Ecuadorian pasillo, Peruvian huayno at 0030, fast-talking anncr w/TCs, IDs. Signals were quite strong (McVicar, June 27) Cumbre 93
1995-12-31 R San Francisco Solano 4750 QSL Full data QSL certificate in 3 months for SS rprt, $1.00, ham QSL. v/s R.P. Manuel J. Rosas C., Vic.Parr. He also sent a very nice letter apologizing for the delay in answering and mentioned that it was a test broadcast that I had heard. Also enclosed was a 3-page copied letter with details on the area and station. (The station was founded by Franciscan Fathers in July of 1991. Between then and July, 1995, it operated with a very low power transmitter (No frequency is mentioned). At the end of July, two transmitters were installed, FM (89.1 MHz) and shortwave (4750 kHz). Address: Radio San Francisco Solano, Calle San Miguel No. 207, Distrito de Sondor, Provincia de Huancabamba, Depto. de Piura, Peru. Thanks again to Henrik Klemetz for help in IDing this one. (McVicar) Cumbre 67
1995-10-24 R.San Francisco Solano 4750.0 0230 Sondor; w/"Ritmos de la Noche" program, love songs, OM anncr w/ID. Good strength, bad modulation. (McVicar 10/24) Jihad 57
1995-09-26 R. San Francisco Solano 4750.0 0253 Sondor; 0253 with TC/ID mentioning FM and onda corta. A nice, slow-speaking and clear-speaking anncr this evening. Greetings, folk song. fr-good Sept.26 (McVicar) Jihad 52
1995-09-21 R San Francisco Solano 4750.1
Sondor; is the id of this one per Klemetz who says rest of id is: "La Voz de la Parroquia San Miguel de Sondor y Sondorillo." (Sondor and Sondorillo are two towns just south of Huancabamba.) Henrik believes the address is Calle (not Jirón) San Miguel # 215, Sondor, Prov. de Huancabamba, Depto. de Piura, Peru. (McVicar) Jihad 51