Canary Islands Received In Skegness

Today I received an e-qsl from Radio Sintonia in Furteventura, the Canary Islands. My reception came at 18:35 yesterday evening, the 14th. This station is 2968 km from Skegness. Click here to listen. 

Reception was weak and brief, typical of a multi-hop Es signal and I wasn't initially sure of what I was hearing. A man and a woman were talking in Spanish on 88.0 MHz and my curiosity was around as it didn't sound like the usual RNE5 which is frequently heard on that frequency here. Thankfully, their PI code of E399 popped up on the RDS Spy display. On checking the audio stream on Radio Sintonia's website it appeared that the man and woman talking there were the same. 

Thanks to the help of Juan Antonio Arranz in Spain, who listened to my recording of the audio, he confirmed that the presenter's accents were correct for the Canary Islands and that they were discussing a local news story. 

Finally, I sent an email to Radio Sintonia and they wrote back in less than two hours to confirm that my recording was indeed of their station. 

I hardly do QSLing these days, but for something much less common like this I try to make the effort. I could reminisce about years ago when i used to receive those printed QSL cards and confirmation written on official letterheads, but emailing makes this so much easier.

On 15/06/2013 14:52, Iván Travieso - Radio Sintonia wrote:

Si amigo confirmado 100% seguro q eso es radiosintonia !!!

Enviado desde mi iPhone.

Iván Travieso G.

El 15/06/2013, a las 12:55, "John Faulkner, Skegness" <xxxx.xxxxxxxx@xxxvp.co.uk> escribió:

Hola.

Lo siento, no hablo español, así que utilizo los servicios de traducción de Google.

Ayer, 06 de junio, creo que recibí Radio Sintonia en 88.0. ¿Podría decirme si esto es correcto?

Este es un enlace a la grabación de la radio a las 7:35 de la tarde.

https://www.box.com/s/bnaren4fvhh2v3hjssa0

He oído esta noticia:

"21 personas que serán contratadas como coordinadores de los talleres.

Los parados seleccionados para la tarea trabajarán diez horas semanales durante los dos meses y percibirán un sueldo neto de 880 euros por todo el ese periodo.

Para el desarrollo de este programa, la Consejería de Empleo contará con 455.134,16 euros."

Yo estaría muy feliz de saber con 100% de certeza de que se trataba de Radio Sintonia.

Mi radio es un Kenwood KT6040 y mi antena es un niño de nueve elementos yagi viga. https://www.box.com/s/h1a5z3bu94vppln3zsfn

Muchas gracias y mis mejores deseos.

John Faulkner
Skegness, costa este de Inglaterra, en el condado de Lincolnshire.