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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: glimmer twin on August 10, 2014, 1514 UTC

Title: Axe to fall on REE shortwave?
Post by: glimmer twin on August 10, 2014, 1514 UTC

via DXLD #1432

** SPAIN. REE. Listening right now 2 August at 2100 UT to the English
transmission on 9660 kHz and their programme "Listeners Club". Alison
Hughes has just said that it is not certain right now that REE will be
on air after 1 October. I assume she is referring to the English
broadcast rather than REE as a whole, but she didn't clarify further.
(Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This forum post in Russian when translated through Google translate
seems to suggest that its been announced on air that REE Russian will
be ending on SW soon.
http://dxing.ru/forum.html?func=view&catid=21&id=26910
(Stephen Cooper, UK, ibid.)

I have now just listened to the "Listeners Club" programme of 15 July
with Justin Coe and Alison Hughes where some more detail was given. It
seems that there are new bosses at REE, and here are a few quotes from
the programme:

JC: "[there are] a f--k load of rumours" (I re-listened, and that is
what Justin said) ...
AH: "the Spanish language news team for Radio Exterior will be leaving
to be incorporated into [...] Radio Uno"
JC: "it seems [that the bosses] might want to close the shortwave
transmitter site with the curtain antennas which require a lot of
electricity to transmit [...] the Unions have published a pamphlet
against it [....] Everything is in a state of flux and there's a lot
of rumours"
AH: "I heard from a colleague of ours in the Spanish language news
team who had met with the [...] new boss [...] who said 'On September
1st you'll be moving downstairs' "

So the future doesn't look good for REE (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK,
dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Title: Re: Axe to fall on REE shortwave?
Post by: BoomboxDX on August 12, 2014, 1803 UTC

I didn't like it when they stopped using the Costa Rica transmitters. Their Spanish language signals were always strong and very readable...

I used to hear them at night, even on the SW band on my boombox, on its whip and ferrite antennas. Always have liked the music they play.

I can still get them at times, but much, much weaker.

Title: Re: Axe to fall on REE shortwave?
Post by: glimmer twin on August 12, 2014, 2010 UTC

On weekends when they were broadcasting futbol games from the Costa Rica relay I could hear the guy screaming  "GOOOOOOAAAAALLLLLL" from about 20 Khz either side of the REE frequency