Peru: Radio Imagen
Date Station Freq Time Comments Source
1997-06-28 Radio Imagen 4969.13 1000-1030 The first morning show "El Tuta Tuta Madrugador" with cumbia peruana and light talk by Harry del Castillo. At 1028 the station identified itself as "Desde Tarapoto, la ciudad de palmeras, transmite en los 102.3MHz frecuencia modulada estereo, 1160kHz onda media, y 4970kHz onda corta banda internacional de 60 metros, Radio Imagen, la radio que hace amigos."(TIN) DXWin 76
1997-06-28 Radio Imagen 4969.13 1000-1030 The first morning show "El Tuta Tuta Madrugador" with cumbia peruana and light talk by Harry del Castillo. At 1028 the station identified itself as "Desde Tarapoto, la ciudad de palmeras, transmite en los 102.3MHz frecuencia modulada estereo, 1160kHz onda media, y 4970kHz onda corta banda internacional de 60 metros, Radio Imagen, la radio que hace amigos."(TIN) DXWin 70
1997-06-28 Radio Imagen 4969.13 1000-1030 The morning show "El Tuta Tuta Madrugador" with cumbia peruana and light talk by Harry del Castillo. At 1028, the station identified itself as "Desde Tarapoto, la ciudad de palmeras, transmite en los 102.3 MHz frecuencia modulada estereo, 1160 kHz onda media, y 4970 kHz onda corta banda internacional de 60 metros, Radio Imagen, la radio que hace amigos." Fair signals. (TIN June 28) Cumbre 145
1997-04-27 Radio Imagen 4969.06 0908 px "El Tuta Tuta Madrugador" by Harry del Castillo (TIN) DXWin 62
1997-04-27 Radio Imagen 4969.06 0908 Program "El Tuta Tuta Madrugador" by Harry del Castillo. Poor. (TIN Apr 27) Cumbre 136
1997-04-18 Radio Imagen 4969.22 1048-1055 With a fair signal, noted a woman in steady religious comments. Some background music, but mainly talk. (Bolland April 18) Cumbre 135
1997-04-12 Radio Imagen 4969.13 1006-1050 The first morning show "El Tuta Tuta Madrugador" with varied music and light talk, was produced by Harry del Castillo. The Quechua word "Tuta Tuta" means "between light and dark" in English. Announcer said the program was on the air at 0500-0630 local time from Monday to Saturday. At 1029 the station identified itself as "Desde Tarapoto para San Martin, el Peru, y el mundo, por los 102.3MHz frecuencia modulada estereo, 1160 kHz onda media, 4970 kHz onda corta banda internacional de 60 metros, transmite Radio Imagen, la radio que hace amigos." (TIN) DXWin 60
1997-04-09 Radio Imagen 4969.2 0956 SS, M announcer over and between huaynos and fast paced music "...Ritmo! Ritmo! Ritmo!... " 1002 Ad block TC ID. Weak, fair to poor signal (Mohrmann Apr 3) 0900-0910 excellent signal traditional Peruvian music and LA pops, ID's as RI (Wilkner Apr 9) Cumbre 133
1997-04-09 R. Imagen 4969.22 0900-0910 xlent signal traditional OA mx and LA pops, ID's as RI (Wilkner, 9/4) DXWin 60
1997-03-05 R. Imagen 4969.1 2350-0025 Tarapoto, San Martin33333 px El Movidito ID "Cuando ya son las 7 de la noche en su Radio Imagen.." mx tropical LA ID "Estamos llegando nítidamente a todos los pueblos, regional, nacional e internacional por nuestras tres frecuencias de Radio Imagen.." (Arrunátegui Mar.,5) DXWin 55
1996-12-25 Radio Imagen 4910 1117-1125 Man in long speech which could be political in light of the present situation in Peru. Signal was poor. (Bolland Dec 25) Cumbre 118
1996-12-24 R.Imagen 4969.1 1002-1015 OM DJ w/tlk some anmnts w/reverb light guitar folk ballads. Very weak--slightly above the threshold. Annoying het from 1004 UTC on (Yoder Dec 24) Cumbre 119
1996-12-13 R. Imagen 5144 0208-0234 px Patrullero 1160 nx ID "Por radio Imagen.." hablan sobre los riegos que han sufrido los periodista al cubrir la noticia del desalojo de los comerciantes informales.. ID "Son las 9 y 19 de la noche en patrullero 1160 de Imagen.." (PFA Dec 13) Station uses this fq intermittently and for unknown reasons instead of 4969.1. Heard several afternoons in Dec until s/off around midnight, during last half hour featuring "El Vespertino Imagen", a newscast. This standby fq has not been noted in the mornings, so far only between 2300 and 2400. The signal is poor, tx power probably no more than 100W. (Klemetz DLB) Cumbre 117
1996-11-09 R. Imagen 4969.1 1110-1119 Long ad block, 1 mentioning "La Numero Uno", ID/promo also. Finally live M w/nx at 1115. Slowly fading. (GPSP Nov 9) Cumbre 112
1996-08-03 Radio Imagen 4969.09 1028-1100 morning folklore show. (TIN, Aug 3) DXWin 24
1996-07-25 R. Imagen 4969.1 1145-1210 Tarapoto, San Martin; 22222 nx hablan sobre el Proyecto 2000 financiado por la AID sobre la salud. px El diario de Imagen Slogan: "1821-1996 175 anos de libertad, radio Imagen, la emisora que hace amigos, les desea felices Fiestas Patrias.. (Arrunategui, July 25) so seems to be my unid in last DX-W (ed) DXWin 23
1996-04-11 R. Imagen 4969.1 1031 Since last weekend, have hrd them on both freqs several times; not sure if regular pattern. When hrd, they've been on 4969.1 in A.M.s (1031 Apr.8, 1100 Apr.11) and 5143.97 in P.M.s (0111 Apr.11). Hard to say if freq changes are intentional or xmtr fault, but it does look a little suspicious (i.e., intentional). (McVicar) Cumbre 82
1996-03-30 Radio Imagen 4969.3 info slogan "la radio que hace amigos". (TIN Mar 30) DXWin 6
1996-03-16 R Imagen 5144,0 0236-0258 Spanish news px "El patrullero 1160", 0257 ID: "en Radio Imagen hemos presentado. Patroullero 1160", 0258 National Anthem. This is a new fq, ex 4969,3 ! SINPO 25332 (Barrera, March 16) DXWin 7
1996-03-16 Radio Imagen 5143.97 0031 (probably transmitter fault) with a program of pop music, and giving the names of students registered at a local college. At 0102, full echo ID. gd-vgd. (McVicar, Apr 5) R. Imagen, Tarapoto, news prog in SP "El patrullero 1160", 0257 ID as " en radio Imagen hemos presentado: Patrullero 1160"news pgm, at 0258 NAT ANT, heard in this new frequency, ex- 4969.3 kHz. (Barrera, Mar 16) Cumbre 81
1996-03-16 R Imagen 5144 0300 NF ex-4969.3 (GIB Mar 16 NU) Cumbre 79
1996-02-10 R. Imagen 4969.08 1020-1046 (Tarapoto); A program of greetings called "Casillero 1160" (which is also their MW fqy); *English* version of "Happy Birthday" was played, which is very common in Latin American, both on the radio and at birthday parties. good (McVicar Feb 8); 1020-1046, OA campo mx, tlk by M w/TC, many ments of Tarapoto, San Martin. Huayno song. Canned anmnts, ments of Rioja. TC and clear ID over mx at 1046. Good w/Ecos del Torbes slop QRM. (Valko Feb. 10) Cumbre 73
1995-12-01 Radio Imagen 4970 QSL partial data personal letter in 114 days, plus photo of local hotel, clipping from magazine and tourist brochure. V/s Adith Chumbe Vasquez, Secretaria. (MacHarg) Cumbre 62
1995-05-06 R. Imagen 4969.3 0308 Signed off w/instru. NA at 0308. (Valko 5/6) Jihad 32
1995-04-28 R. Imagen 4969.5 0022 music, time check, very good. MacHarg Jihad 32