BZT Bluefields Nicaragua 6950 USB 2242 UTC 27 SEP 2024

[DangerKitty]

2346: OM "This is test xxx for xxx tropical radio xxx station [ID] xxx ?Nicaragua?"
repeated about every 70 seconds
15221, just barely above noise here

[BigAl]

  "this is a test and tuning signal from tropical radio and telegraph station BZT located in Bluefields Nicaragua" is what I heard. About S6-7 here.

[aurora]

I keep hearing this weak station repeating this message at least once every minute. 333

2356 - ID (om), "This is a test & tuning signal of tropical radio and telegraph station BZT located in Bluefields, Nicaragua"
0007 - ID's still occurring at least once a minute

Thanks DangerKitty !!

[DangerKitty]

Please see:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,134305.0.html
in the utility category

[Andrew Yoder]

VG/excellent signal here at 0010

[Skipmuck]

0010 UTC OM with ID, repeated at 0011 UTC, etc every minute
I can find nothing on this online to confirm this as a legitimate utility station...signal is solid above the noise.

 Per Wikipedia, Bluefields "was named after Abraham Blauvelt, a Dutch-Jewish pirate, privateer, and explorer of Central America and the western Caribbean" and "was a rendezvous for European buccaneers in the 16th and 17th century" 

[Shortwave_Listener]

Please see:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,134305.0.html
in the utility category

This isn’t a utility.

[BigAl]

Quote from source below:
"Notes: With roots over 100 years old, the Tropical Radio Telegraph Company (a subsidiary of the United Fruit Company) used to operate a few radiotelephone stations in Central America during the years prior to the Internet. They often could be heard on various shortwave frequencies transmitting a repeating test message so the receiving station could tune them in. I managed to pick up 4 of their stations in the early 1970's. These recordings are from La Lima, Honduras; Managua Nicaragua; and Panama City, Panama. I have not been able to find the one from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, but maybe it will surface later."

https://shortwavearchive.com/archive/tropical-radio-telegraph-company-point-to-point-panama-city-managua-and-la-lima

Methinks someone is having some fun

[N2MLP]

0016 UTC

This is a test & tuning signal of tropical radio and telegraph station BZT

[myteaquinn]

0015: Weak but readable with the above message.
00107: Again

[Andrew Yoder]

Like everyone else here, I've been searching for info on this station, but the only logs I've found have been on HFU. I also found the pages about Tropical Radio Telegraph Company, but see that the last station they operated was in New Orleans and that that company is now called Tropical Radio Telecommunications Corporation. Fun stuff

[DangerKitty]

I keep hearing this weak station repeating this message at least once every minute. 333

2356 - ID (om), "This is a test & tuning signal of tropical radio and telegraph station BZT located in Bluefields, Nicaragua"
0007 - ID's still occurring at least once a minute

Thanks DangerKitty !!

Surely. (I know, don't call you "Shirley" ; Pirate or utility, its-a-coming-in tonight!

[BigAl]

After 45 minutes of id's, someone please inform the tropical radio and telegraph station BZT located in Bluefields Nicaragua that we are tuned in!  :

[ChrisSmolinski]

Noted as early as 2242 UTC on the SDR recording.