Manuel Méndez Lugo, Spain ANTARCTICA, LRA36 Radio Nacional Arcangel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza. Days ago I published this news about the station:
"Due to the mail I have received from LRA 36 saying that this station will return to the air on 27th July, I am trying, since then, to pick up this station all days between 1950 and 2020 UTC, the best slot time to received it here in the North West of Spain, but I heard nothing, only one day I got a very weak carrier on 15.476.0 during five or six minutes. Yesterday, I sent a new e-mail to the station, asking if they really are now on air, and here is the answer: “Estimado Manuel, la transmisión ya comenzó la semana pasada, y es mas, tuvimos un informe de reception desde Taranto-Italia. Atte. Sergio Lucero”". They confirm that the transmission began past week and they had had a reception report from Taranto-Italy." About this news, I have received e-mail from Antonello Napolitano, Taranto-Italy denying he had heard LRA36 recently. Here is his e-mail: "Dear Manuel, There is a big misunderstanding in the message you received from LRA36, Radio Nacional Arcangel San Gabriel. The "Informe de recepcion" "desde Taranto-Italia" was sent from under-signed on 24th July 2015 but it wasn't a recent reception report but just a follow-up about a very old reception occurred on 30th March 1999 which has remained unanswered all the time. Just to avoid any kind of discussion, I am attaching picture of "Respuesta de Radio Nacional Arcangel San Gabriel recibida el 30 de marzo de 1999" in other words the e-mail I received just from Sergio Lucero from which is quite evident that I didn't sent a reception report about recent transmissions, which also I tried to catch but, unfortunately, without any success! Just for sake of good order it should be mentioned that the e-mail from Sergio Lucero was including a doc file showing a picture of Base Antartica Esperanza and the following text: "Estimado Señor Antonio Napolitano:Tenemos el agrado de saludarlo y agradecerle las molestias que se ha tomado y el tiempo que ha dedicado para la escucha de nuestra Emisora radial “LRA 36 Arcángel San Gabriel”. Desde el Continente Blanco “ANTARTIDA ARGENTINA” le damos un cordial saludo y un enorme agradecimiento por sus molestias. Atte: Tcnl Fernando Gabriel ESTEVEZ – Jefe de base Esperanza/Director de LRA 36. Sarg 1ro Sergio Alejandro LUCERO – Encargado de la Emisora LRA 36/Operador Técnico". Last but not least I didn't divulged any information about that e-mail correspondence between LRA36 and the undersigned because, in my opinion, their E-mail and file.doc attachement are not a true QSL. Antonio Napolitano Taranto Italy DXer as from 1981" And my reply: "Dear Antonello: Thank you very much for your mail. Looks like the station staff are absolutely lost and don't know what happen in their station. I think, despite Lucero says, LRA36 is not on air now, no report from anything and I have good conditions to catch it here, but nothing all days. In the winter months LRA36 was on air a lot of days, but I think not now. Greetings from Spain" And reply from Antonello: "I agree with you 100%. They acknowledged my follow up but forgot to verify it (and that would not be impossible if log station was no more available as I attached a recording). They said to you they got a report from Italy for a recent transmission and instead it was a follow up for a transmission of 1999! I think you are right: They never went back on air on 27th July 2015 as planned! Saludos desde Taranto en el Sur de Italia Antonello (Officially Antonio!) Napolitano" --- El software de antivirus Avast ha analizado este correo electrónico en busca de virus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
