(Are we the Chilean listen to shortwave as the "little band" of Magellan ?)
Santiago, August 31, 2006.
The reader who know football know what I mean by "the little band, and who does not know, I explain. The aforementioned band-aid is a group of enthusiasts who encourage the football team playing Magallanes music throughout the game and giving joy and encouragement that often sets (last year) will return only sadness, especially this year, which makes one week sentenced her fall to the Third Division of football, amateur . (Although it is worth clarifying that in Chile, halfway, the amateurism "in football is' semi-amateurism, and professional football l gives for" semi-professional "no more)
the proportions of "sui generis" comparison, short-wave listeners in Chile, who practice the "DX" , resemblance to the little band of romance. Cultivating a love that lives in history and memories of this, this we look with concern and with nostalgia. In an amount that will hopefully reach the very poor calls the white and blue team this season (1). Sin house as the "bundle of carnations" because decades ago that Chile has a national broadcaster service, much less on short-wave transmitters and Calera de Tango were sold to the friendly, but foreign radio "Christian Voice" (now "CVC The Voice") . Only Hope Radio Temuco Chile maintains a native voice in the ether of the short waves, but not even checking the receiving reports (2).
sorry state if we compare, without going any further, our neighbors from across the Andes, which football fans also look up. (And what a paradox that the table Magellan is also called "albiceleste") To start the trasandinos have the fortune to keep alive and kicking to the RAE, Argentina al Exterior Broadcasting, transmitting to the world from Japan to Europe. In his powerful Argentine Listeners Group and its programs "Actualidad DX" and "La Rosa de Tokio" from this side of the mountain range can only oppose the effort Listeners Bulletin of the FEDERACHI (without forgetting the invaluable contribution of compatriot Francisco Rodriguez "Frecuencia RM" , but who issues from Russia, and with the backing of the giant that is "The Voice of Russia .)
We also quite alone with this. And grandparents could only remember champion Magallanes Chile, and achieved thirties struggling to recall his tenure in the Libertadores Cup in 1985, and to hear about "short wave" can we get some remember " Listen Chile " (where he worked our National Prize for Literature in 2006 , José Miguel Varas, who was remembered with a congratulatory two articles of his former colleagues from The Voice of Russia for the occasion), and, hopefully, some grizzled gray or that has not lost a lot of memory can memories have more elderly, as The Season of Joy " (3) or the classic called " This is the BBC ". The rest, as well as those who believe that in Chile there are only two or three pictures of football, we look with amazement.
The situation of global broadcasters not help us. English has been left by many, as Radio Sweden or Deutsche Welle, of which no memory is almost that, not long ago, filled the air for a few minutes in our language, across the Atlantic. For others, like Radio France International ceased to be important to convey on this side of the world. Others, like the BBC have lost interest in contact with shortwave listeners and other media have bet, preferring other forms of dissemination and maintaining a minimal presence on shortwave in our language, like the Voice of America . Economic motives also urges these companions of the air, and not long ago we saw with regret the departure of the air always friendly (and ephemeral) Radio Slovakia International.
missing who have not seen this medium always save on meager resources, and moved her (4) even when they know that their audience is often decrease (5). The religious stations, and isolated examples such as the Voice of Turkey (which only broadcasts in English for Europe yet) and reborn International Channel Radio Nacional de Venezuela , give some hope, along with the handful of OC Latin American issuers, both large organizations (the most obvious example is Radio Havana Cuba ) and those that remain small in these waves because they are the best way to spread their media.
The future gives us some hope, as the Digital Radio Mondiale that promise to re-ignite a long radio broadcasts distances. We hope that the promise does not end up disappointed as to the carabelesros Company, and is the support we need.
However, in this scenario, listeners Creoles do what we can do better. Invent time to give to these distant voices and hear them. We sent emails and letters all over the world with the sole purpose of saying "we have heard, their work has meaning." We listen to each service that threatens to close, and we rejoice in every language that manages to wrest a few dollars more to the budget to stay in the air ...
And if only it can do, then we can say one last thing. In our efforts to listen, we as "band aid" we will play until the match is over. We will continue to waves and radios as they follow their team even plays in a pasture. And although there was no further radio on shortwave, and they would put their shirts and would come to Pichanga as most fans, maybe some of us would throw a pass as Europeans did when the state had a monopoly on emissions.
Listeners are not dead, and I hope not to hear the day when the air runs out kilohertcios.
(1): On average, about four hundred spectators to their home games.
(2): Although it is worth noting that the "colleague" Hector Pino is working to reverse this situation.
(3): Veteran program of the Dutch station Radio Netherlands Worldwide .
(4): Radio Moldova International, and soon, Public Radio of Armenia
(5): See the following article from the former Radio Tashkent International, entitled "We loose Our listeners": http : / / ino.uzpak.uz / eng / letters_eng / letters_eng.htm
Greetings,
SE, LERM. Eduardo Peñailillo B.
