Radio K'ekchi', TGVC, "La Voz Evangélica de Las Casas"
4845 kHz; 60-meter band short-wave; 1KW; 500 watts FM 92.5 FM

Director: Alfredo Chub Ico
Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas, Alta Verapaz
16015 Guatemala

Coverage Area: The K'ekchi' Region of Northcentral Guatemala
 
Potential audience: 600,000
Target audience: The K'ekchi' of Guatemala, Belize and Mexico

Format: Religious programs; social and religious spots every quarter-hour
 
Languages: K'ekchi' (and some Spanish)
Telephone: 011 (502) 7952-0201
Email: santiagoyat@yahoo.es

Climate: Very hot and humid in Las Casas; cool in Guatemala City, Panajachel and Chichicastenango and other mountainous regions

Voz Evangelica de Chisec
93.3 FM 300 watts; Tower height: 25 meters. (They want to increase it to 40 meters.)
Manager/Pastor: Federico Ba'
Deacon:

The station's coaxial cable between the transmitter and the antennas was replaced--and the antennas were correctly tuned to the station's frequency in July, 2007, greatly enlarging its coverage area.

Radio Luz
840AM 2.5KW
11 Av., Zona 1
(In front of the Abarrotería Divina Providencia)
Colonia Cuatro Caminos
San Pedro Carchá, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala

Mailing address:
Apdo. Postal 14
Cobán, Alta Verapaz
GUATEMALA

Director: Adilio Isem Bol
Religious programming in K'ekchi' and Pokomchí. On the air 5:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.

Station uses a STL from the studio in San Pedro Carchá to its transmitter site several miles to the north on the old highway to Las Casas. They have a 2.5kW LPB AM transmitter.

 

Tourist attractions: Pyramids at Tikal, Petén: Round-trip airfare from Guatemala City about $80. Local taxi to ruins about $15. Downtown market in Guatemala City. National palace on main plaza. Good hotels and restaurants. Because of IMB budget restraints, Arkansas House has been temporarily closed to volunteers as a place of lodging, orientation and fellowship effective Nov. 15, 2003 unless accompanied by a sponsoring SBC missionary. Look in the News from the Field section of this website for a complete list of hotels and missionary hostels with reasonable rates.
Antigua Guatemala: quality clothing, jade, wood products, blankets and other indígenous products, good restaurants. Market day: Sunday. Colorful religious procession during Holy Week.
Panajachel and Lake Atitlán: Typical indígenous clothing, blankets and other articles. Boat trips to other small towns on other side of lake. Three people groups: Cakchiquel, Tzutuíl and Quiché. Good hotels and restaurants. Very colorful religious procession during Holy Week.
Chichicastenango: Most prominent expression of Cristo-paganism in Guatemala. Curanderos say prayers for a price. Local artisans are famous for their colorful tapestries. Market days: Wednesdays and Sundays.
The local currency in Guatemala is the Quetzal. The dollar-Quetzal exchange rate is approximately 7.50 Quetzales to the US dollar. Volunteers may exchange their dollars to pesos at a money exchange window before they enter the luggage pickup area of the Guatemala City airport or at a bank on the second level of the airport. It is not to your advantage to change dollars to Quetzales in the United States. Volunteers may use credit cards and check cards to make purchases in the larger cities, but only ATM cards tied to local Guatemalan banks are useable to make cash withdrawals.

Radio Berea
93.7 FM 1KW
Setúl, Petén, Guatemala

Broadcasts in K'ekchi' and Spanish 5:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.

 
Manager: Carlos Paau
Program Director: Abilino Payaxcal

Tel. (502) 5780-7675 cell
They have a 10-watt RVR FM transmitter and circularly-polarized FM antenna at remote site for remote broadcasts. They use ZaraRadio live-assist automation system. All music is in MP3 format.

Radio Alfa y Omega
93.3 FM 100 watts
Lote #50, Zona 1
Playa Grande, Ixcan, Quiché, Guatemala

Went on the air November, 2004. Broadcasts in K'ekchi' and Spanish. Station wants to increase power to 1KW.

Manager: Juan Emilio Klarc

Stereo Campur
91.9 FM 20 watts; 40-meter high tower
Campur, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala

Broadcasts in K'ekchi' and Spanish.
Manager: Federico Coc Caal

An electrical storm in October, 2007 burned up their audio mixer.

Voz Evangélica de Pocolá
105.1FM 300 watts

Manager: Miguel Coc Macz
Pocolá, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
Tel. 011 (502) 5318-9037

Affiliated with Iglesia Bautista Jerusalén. This station has moved its transmitter and tower to a nearby high mountain, and consequently its coverage area has been enlarged greatly. They use a “chicken foot” antenna. This station broadcasts exclusively in the K'ekchi' language. Station gets response from 18 villages, including Chajcar, birthplace of Baptist work among the K'ekchi'. Station founded July 22, 2001. The station uses Adobe Audition for live-assist.

Radio Buenas Nuevas
Broadcasts in Quiché
107.1 FM 300 watts
Chicuí II, Chichicastenango, Guatemala

Manager: Pastor Juan Conoz

On the air 5 a.m. - 9 p.m. Programs in Quiché. Launched April 15, 1998.
This station has an RVA 500-watt FM transmitter. One of the printed circuit boards heats up if the transmitter operates at full power. It operates OK at 300 watts. They need a new 1KW transmitter. A new coaxial cable and connectors were installed in July, 2007, and its RVR exciter was repaired.

Brother Juan wants to increase tower height about 60 feet. Chicua II is a very small rural community near one of Guatemala's largest tourist attractions—the city of Chichicastenango. Reasonably-priced hotels as well as luxury hotels are available there.

Radio Amistad
90.3 FM 300 watts; 500 watts SW 4700 kHz 60-meter band; and 20 watts AM 540 kHz
Manager: Isaac Batz
1a. Calle 1-03, Zona 4
San Pedro La Laguna, Sololá, Guatemala

This station has a 500-watt SW operation and a 20-watt AM repeater in San Pablo. Plans are to install numerous other 20-watt AM repeaters in mountainous villages where the FM signal cannot penetrate—using the SW signal as an STL (studio to transmitter link).

Languages: Tzutuil, Cakchiquel, Quiche and Spanish
Coverage Area: 15-mile radius around Lake Atitlán for FM; 100 mile radius for SW reception; Local reception following electrical lines wherever AM repeaters are installed.
Potential audience: 1,100,000
Proposed format: Music and religious and educational programs in the indigenous languages; social and religious spots on the breaks.

Sponsoring entity: Iglesia Bautista Getsemani

Climate and conditions: Warm during the day, cool in the evenings and on the lake. Good, moderately-priced Hotel Sakarí on the shore of beautiful Lake Atitlán.Excellent meals at thee Mahatma Restaurant nearby.Getting There: San Pedro La Laguna is accessible by boat from Panajachel or by car exiting the highway to Quezaltenango at kilometer 84 leading to San Pedro La Laguna. Typical indigenous articles on sale in the streets, local stores and public market.

Needs: This station moved into its new second-story studio/office complex behind the church's auditorium overlooking beautiful Lake Atitlán in 2003. Radio Amistad needs a Mackie 1624 audio mixer, two CD players and two MiniDisc recorders for its production room. If you would like to contribute, please contact David Daniell at (251) 633-4774 or by Email ddaniell@comcast.net or jovendaniell@yahoo.com.

Local currency: 7.50 Quetzales to the US dollar

Radio Voz Evangélica
95.7 FM 20 watts
Primera Iglesia Bautista
San Pedro La Laguna, Sololá, Guatemala

Broadcasts in Tzutujil and Spanish; Started in January, 2001.

Manager: Edgar Raúl Zepata
Assistant Manager: Irving Navichoc

NICARAGUA

Radio Bautista "La Voz de Esperanza"
Stereo FM 103.1; 2.5KW
Martín Somarriba, manager
Apdo. Postal 6103
Plaza el Sol 2 cuadras y 2 arriba
Colonia Los Robles
Managua, Nicaragua
Coverage Area: Metropolitan Managua, Limón, Masaya, and Granada
Potential audience: 1,250,000
Target audience: adolescents and youth
Format: 5-minute inspirational programs at the top of the hour; contemporary Christian music in Spanish; social, religious and commercial spots every quarter-hour.
Language: Spanish
Telephones: (502) 273-487; (502) 278-4448; (502) 278-4450
FAX: (502) 278-449

Climate: Very hot and humid. Tourist attractions: Beautiful volcanos, colorful indígenous ceramics and woodwork; Good hotels and restaurants. The local currency in Nicaragua is the córdova. The dollar-córdova exchange rate is approximately 15.48 to the US dollar.

Voz Evangélica de Jalapa
102.1 FM 100 watts & 1130 AM; 500 watts
Manager: Alejandro López
Jalapa, Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua
Coverage area: 30-mile radius of Nueva Segovia (pop. 4,000); Ocotal (pop. 30,000)
Potential audience: 40,000
Target audience: Young adults in small towns and farms
Format: Folksy, hometown news mixed with norteña and contemporary Christian music, religious programs; social and religious spots on the breaks

The local currency in Nicaragua is the córdova. The dollar-córdova exchange rate is approximately 15.48 to the US dollar.

Radio Príncipe de Paz
102.9 FM
Somotillo, Chinandega, Nicaragua

Manager: Diómedes Santeliz
Tel. (505) 346-2252
Email: iglbau@ibw.com.ni

Broadcasts in Spanish. Signal is received in western Nicaragua, southern Honduras and eastern El Salvador.

HONDURAS

Radio Bautista Buenas Nuevas/HRET
103.1 FM 500 watts with “chicken foot” antenna
Manager: Antolín Graham

Program Director: Desiderio Williams
Owner: Association of Baptist Churches of La Mosquitia
Puerto Lempira, Gracias a Dios, Honduras
33101 Honduras
Tel. (504) 989-7553 (Office phone of David Daniel Gómez: 8 a.m.- 12 noon & 3-4 p.m.)

Broadcast schedule: 2:00-9:00 p.m.
Format: 5-minute inspirational programs on the hour and half-hour; contemporary Christian music in Spanish; hymns and choruses in Miskito; one-hour of programming in Miskito in the afternoon; social, religious and commercial spots on the breaks every 11 minutes.
Languages: Miskito and Spanish
FAX: (504) 908-014 Station is located in its new quarters on the campus of Primera Iglesia Bautista in Puerto Lempira. The station was formerly located at Campo Bautista, about 5 miles from town, making it rather inaccessible to the public. It is now located in a new multi-purpose building in Puerto Lempira that also includes the offices of the association of Baptist churches in the Miskito region and a dormitory for visiting pastors and missionaries.
Climate and location: Very isolated by geography from the rest of Honduras, Puerto Lempira can be reached only by air. La Ceiba/Puerto Lempira flights via Sosa and Isleña Airlines are early morning flights, so volunteers enroute to Puerto Lempira have to spend the night in La Ceiba.
Very good accomodations at Hotel La Quinta; $60 a night, singles. A Burger King restaurant is next door. The hotel has a very expensive restaurant. Another very nice, but inexpensive hotel, Hotel Canadien, is located a few miles outside of La Ceiba on the beach.
Return flights from Puerto Lempira leave at 8 a.m. and allow the traveler to go as far as Tegucigalpa or San Pedro Sula the same day with no intermediate overnight layover. Other less-expensive hotels also available.
Accomodations in Puerto Lempira: Volunteers may stay at the hospitality house at Campo Bautista about five miles from Puerto Lempira, but will need transportation. Several average hotels downtown near the station.
Volunteers must bring their own sleeping bags and mosquito nets if they stay at Campo Bautista. Meals can be taken at nearby homes. Volunteers should be prepared to advance hostess the equivalent of $4 a meal. Volunteers who prefer to prepare their own meals must bring their own camp stove and utensils. Ice can be purchased in Puerto Lempira. Limited electricity at camp--only when gasoline-powered electric generator is on.
Tourist attractions in Honduras: Snorkeling and scuba-diving at Puerto Lempira and Roatán Island off of coast near La Ceiba. Boat trips to indigenous villages near Puerto Lempira. Good hotels and restaurants on Roatán Island. Copán pyramids at Copán near Guatemala border. Good hotels and restaurants in San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa.
The local currency in Honduras is the Lempira. The dollar-Lempira exchange rate is approximately 18.50 Lempira to the US dollar. Volunteers may exchange their dollars for Lempira with free-lance money changers on the sidewalk outside the San Pedro Sula airport. Ask several what their exchange rate is before making a final deal. It is not to your advantage to change dollars to Lempira in the United States. Volunteers should visit Missionary Jim Palmer's website: www.miskitomissions.com for orientation.

Radio Bethel
1160 AM 1KW
Manager: Marco Tulio Ferrufino
Went on the air in August of 2002; Off the air in 2006 due to a dispute with the owner of the AM frequency. Awaiting resolution. Station needs $1,000 to resolve problem. Station has new LPB 1KW transmitter.
Taujica, Colón, Honduras near Tocoa in northeast Honduras

Format: Contemporary Christian music in Spanish, música ranchera cristiana, música cristiana norteña and música cristiana mariachi with short inspirational programs at the top of the hour Owned by Bajo Aguan Baptist Association and the Convención de Iglesias Bautistas de Honduras.

Radio Bethel's coverage area has a radius of 18 miles. Studios are located at the Bethel Baptist Church in a Taujica, a small rural community about 7 miles from Tocoa, a town of 50,000 with excellent hotel accommodations and restaurants. The climate here is extremely hot.

Volunteers are needed to provide financing to crate and ship a 500-watt short-wave transmitter from Radio Buenas Nuevas in Puerto Lempira to Puerto Trujillo, about 30 miles from Taujica.

Radio Bethel wants its short-wave broadcasts in Garífuna to reach the many Garífuna who live along the coast of Honduras and Guatemala. They are an indigenous people group—black slaves--who migrated to Central America from one of the French islands of the Caribbean.

If you wish to contribute toward crating and shipping the SW transmitter from Puerto Lempira to Puerto Trujillo—or help as a volunteer broadcast engineer to install this transmitter in Taujica, please contact me, David Daniell at (251) 633-4774 or by Email at ddaniell@comcast.net or jovendaniell@yahoo.com.

MEXICO

Radio Reflexión (Proposed)

Proposed 250-watt FM station
Tecolutilla, Tabasco near Comalcalco (SE Mexico)
Director of Reflexiones Radiofónicas:A.C. Eleazar Leyva
Email: pastor_eleazar@LatinMail.com
Apdo. Postal 167
Comalcalco, Tabasco
86301 MEXICO

Brother Leyva is a Baptist evangelist who has a weekly radio program, "Christ is the Answer" Sundays at 7:30 a.m. on XEVX 570AM 10KW. It has been on the air since December of 1996 and enjoys a big audience. Wherever Eleazar travels in SE Mexico, even strangers recognize his voice. His program uses interviews, music, messages and announcements to evangelize and start new congregations. There is Baptist work in only six of the 35 towns within a 30-mile radius of Comalcalco.

An application for an educational-cultural station has been filed with the Secretariat of Communications and Transport. The government requires a bond of $5,000 and a deposit of $20,000 to assure that the applicant has sufficient resources to purchase the needed equipment. Reflexiones Radiofónicas has not yet been able to raise the needed $25,000. The $20,000 is reimbursable as the required studio and transmission equipment is purchased. If you can respond to this financial need, please contact David Daniell.

Construction is proceeding well on a 1,500-square foot building to house the proposed radio station and a small Christian book store in Tecolutilla. Several pieces of recording equipment have been donated for the control room. Needed still are a Mackie 1642 audio mixer, two MiniDisc recorders, two CD players, microphones—and the transmitter, tower and antenna.

Reflexiones Radiofónicas, A.C. is a non-profit organization registered with the Mexican government. The proposed station would promote events such as marriage enrichment conferences, Christian video showings, preventive medicine seminars, Vacation Bible schools, exhibitions of Christian videos and other activities to get a hearing for the Gospel and plant new congregations.

The local currency in Mexico is the peso. The dollar-peso exchange rate is approximately 11 pesos to the US dollar. Volunteers may exchange their dollars to pesos at Money Exchanges or Casas de Cambio at the Mexico City or Villahermosa airport or in major shopping malls. It is not to your advantage to change dollars to pesos in the United States.

Radio Luz
1040AM 5KW
Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico
Manager:Caleb Gómez
Director:Edgar Gómez,

Mailing address:
Librería Buenas Nuevas
Libertad 1920
Chichuahua, Chihuahua
31000 MEXICO Tel. 011 52 14 414-1591 work
011 52 14 415-8620 home

Contemporary Christian music in Spanish, religious and social spots; religious programs; automated. Founded in 1999 by the late Abel Gómez.

Radio Alegría
1KW AM
Delicias, Chihuahua, Mexico
Director: Caleb Gómez
Contemporary Christian music in Spanish, religious and social spots; religious programs; automated; Founded in 2002 by the late Abel Gómez.

PANAMA

La Voz del Almirante
1460 AM; 1KW Call letters: HOD-42
Almirante, Bocas del Toro, Panamá

Manager: Nicolás Dosman

TEXAS

Radio Amistad
96.7 FM
43rd & Proctor Ave.
Waco, Texas 76710
Manager: Jesús Garnica
Owner: Amistad Baptist Church
Automated. Went on air in 2005.

www.amistadwaco.org

Tel. (254) 752-6377

New stations in the K'ekchi' Region of Guatemala:
Voz Evangélica de Campur 10 watt FM, Voz Evangélica de Chisec 10 watt FM, and Voz Evangélica de Canlech 10-watt FM.

Radio Bautista "La Voz de Esperanza"
Stereo FM 103.1; 2.5KW
Martín Somarriba, manager
Apdo. Postal 6103
Plaza el Sol 2 cuadras y 2 arriba
Colonia Los Robles
Managua, Nicaragua

Coverage Area: Metropolitan Managua, Limón, Masaya, and Granada
Potential audience: 1,250,000
Target audience: adolescents and youth
Format: 5-minute inspirational programs at the top of the hour; contemporary Christian music in Spanish; social, religious and commercial spots every quarter-hour.
Language: Spanish
Telephones: (502) 273-487; (502) 278-4448; (502) 278-4450
FAX: (502) 278-449
Climate: Very hot and humid.
Tourist attractions: Beautiful volcanos, colorful indígenous ceramics and woodwork; Good hotels and restaurants.
The local currency in Nicaragua is the córdova. The dollar-córdova exchange rate is approximately 15.48 to the US dollar.

Voz Evangélica de Jalapa
102.1 FM 100 watts & 1130 AM; 500 watts
Manager: Alejandro López
Jalapa, Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua

Coverage area: 30-mile radius of Nueva Segovia (pop. 4,000); Ocotal (pop. 30,000)
Potential audience: 40,000
Target audience: Young adults in small towns and farms
Format: Folksy, hometown news mixed with norteña and contemporary Christian music, religious programs; social and religious spots on the breaks
The local currency in Nicaragua is the córdova. The dollar-córdova exchange rate is approximately 15.48 to the US dollar.

Radio Ecos de Celaque
1270AM; 1 KW
Manager: Oscar Felix Reyes Sorto
Barrio Rosario No. 9
Gracias, Lempira, Honduras

Format: Religious programs, contemporary Christian music; social and religious spots on the breaks.
Coverage area: Gracias and about 20 rural villages in the western department (state) of Lempira
Potential audience: 40,000
The local currency in Honduras is the Lempira. The dollar-Lempira exchange rate is approximately 11.50 to the US dollar. Volunteers may exchange their dollars to Lempira with free-lance money changers on the sidewalk outside the San Pedro Sula or Tegucigalpa airports. Ask several what their exchange rate is before making a final deal. It is not to your advantage to change dollars to Lempira in the United States.

4960 kHz; 60-meter band short-wave; 500 watts; Coming soon in 2003--250-watt FM!

Broadcast schedule: 4:30-8:30 a.m. and 5-9 p.m. Monday through Saturday
Format: 5-minute inspirational programs on the hour and half-hour; contemporary Christian music in Spanish; hymns and choruses in Miskito; one-hour of programming in Miskito morning and evening; social, religious and commercial spots on the breaks every 11 minutes.
Languages: Miskito and Spanish
FAX: (504) 908-014 Station is located in its new quarters on the campus of Primera Iglesia Bautista in Puerto Lempira. The station was formerly located at Campo Bautista, about 5 miles from town, making it rather inaccessible to the public. It is now located in a new multi-purpose building in Puerto Lempira that also includes the offices of the association of Baptist churches in the Miskito region and a dormitory for visiting pastors and missionaries.

Climate and location: Very isolated by geography from the rest of Honduras, Puerto Lempira can be reached only by air. La Ceiba/Puerto Lempira flights via Sosa and Isleña Airlines are early morning flights, so volunteers enroute to Puerto Lempira have to spend the night in La Ceiba.

Very good accomodations at Hotel La Quinta; $60 a night, singles. A Burger King restaurant is next door. The hotel has a very expensive restaurant. Another very nice, but inexpensive hotel, Hotel Canadien, is located a few miles outside of La Ceiba on the beach.

Return flights from Puerto Lempira leave at 8 a.m. and allow the traveler to go as far as Tegucigalpa or San Pedro Sula the same day with no intermediate overnight layover. Other less-expensive hotels also available.

Accomodations in Puerto Lempira:
Dormitory in the Baptist association's new multi-purpose building on the campus of First Baptist Church near Central Park. Volunteers may also stay at the hospitality house at Campo Bautista about five miles from Puerto Lempira. Volunteers must bring their own sleeping bags and mosquito nets. Meals can be taken at nearby homes. Volunteers should be prepared to advance hostess the equivalent of $4 a meal. Volunteers who prefer to prepare their own meals must bring their own camp stove and utensils. Ice can be purchased in Puerto Lempira. Limited electricity at camp--only when gasoline-powered electric generator is on.

Tourist attractions in Honduras:
Snorkeling and scuba-diving at Puerto Lempira and Roatán Island off of coast near La Ceiba. Boat trips to indigenous villages near Puerto Lempira. Good hotels and restaurants on Roatán Island. Copán pyramids at Copán near Guatemala border. Good hotels and restaurants in San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa.

The local currency in Honduras is the Lempira. The dollar-Lempira exchange rate is approximately 16 Lempira to the US dollar. Volunteers may exchange their dollars for Lempira with free-lance money changers on the sidewalk outside the San Pedro Sula or at the bank inside the San Pedro Sula airport. Ask several what their exchange rate is before making a final deal. It is not to your advantage to change dollars to Lempira in the United States.

Format: Contemporary Christian music in Spanish, música ranchera cristiana, música cristiana norteña and música cristiana mariachi with short inspirational programs at the top of the hour

Owned by Bajún Baptist Association and the Convención de Iglesias Bautistas de Honduras

Radio Bethel's coverage area has a radius of 18 miles. Studios are located at the Bethel Baptist Church in a Taujica, a small rural community about 7 miles from Tocoa, a town of 50,000 with excellent hotel accommodations and restaurants. The climate here is extremely hot.

Volunteers are needed to provide financing to crate and ship a 500-watt short-wave transmitter from Radio Buenas Nuevas in Puerto Lempira to Puerto Trujillo, about 30 miles from Taujica.

Radio Bethel wants its short-wave broadcasts in Garífuna to reach the many Garífuna who live along the coast of Honduras and Guatemala. They are an indigenous people group—black slaves--who migrated to Central America from one of the French islands of the Caribbean.

If you wish to contribute toward crating and shipping the SW transmitter from Puerto Lempira to Puerto Trujillo—or help as a volunteer broadcast engineer to install this transmitter in Taujica, please contact me, David Daniell at (251) 633-4774 or by Email at david_daniell@hotmail.com or ddaniell@comcast.net

One proposal is to locate the station at the apex of the mountain range between Changuinola and Almirante. Another proposal is to locate in neighboring Costa Rica in one of the Guaymi settlements.

Bill Egbert
Costa Rica

Target audience: 40,000 Guaymí (indigenous people group) Language: Guaymí and Spanish
Needed: Demograpahic and strategic studies to determine best place to locate the proposed station. Financing to purchase land, building, and equipment. Consultations with missionary Bill Egbert regarding the role of the proposed station in his team's strategy to communicate the Gospel to the Guaymí and plant new congregations. Engineering studies to determine what power and what location would be most indicated.
Climate: Extremely hot and humid
Tourist attractions: Panama Canal, Antigua Panamá, French Quarter. Good prices on clothes and embroidered tablecloths imported from the Orient. Folkloric ballet. Good hotels and restaurants in Panama City; adequate hotels and resturants in Davíd.

Radio Reflexión
Proposed 250-watt FM station
Tecolutilla, Tabasco near Comalcalco (SE Mexico)
Director of Reflexiones Radiofónicas:A.C. Eleazar Leyva
Email: pastor_eleazar@LatinMail.com
Apdo. Postal 167
Comalcalco, Tabasco
86301 MEXICO

Brother Leyva is a Baptist evangelist who has a weekly radio program, "Christ is the Answer" Sundays at 7:30 a.m. on XEVX 570AM 5KW. It has been on the air since December of 1996 and enjoys a big audience. Wherever Eleazar travels in SE Mexico, even strangers recognize his voice. His program uses interviews, music, messages and announcements to evangelize and start new congregations. There is Baptist work in only six of the 35 towns within a 30-mile radius of Comalcalco.

An application for an educational-cultural station has been filed with the Secretariat of Communications and Transport. The government requires a bond of $5,000 and a deposit of $20,000 to assure that the applicant has sufficient resources to purchase the needed equipment. Reflexiones Radiofónicas has not yet been able to raise the needed $25,000. The $20,000 is reimbursable as the required studio and transmission equipment is purchased.

Construction is proceeding well on a 1,500-square foot building to house the proposed radio station and a small Christian book store in Tecolutilla. Several pieces of recording equipment have been donated for the control room. Needed still are a Mackie 1642 audio mixer, two MiniDisc recorders, two CD players, microphones—and the transmitter, tower and antenna.

Reflexiones Radiofónicas is a non-profit organization registered with the Mexican government. The proposed station would promote events such as marriage enrichment conferences, Christian video showings, preventive medicine seminars, Vacation Bible schools and other activities to get a hearing for the Gospel and plant new congregations.

The local currency in Mexico is the peso. The dollar-peso exchange rate is approximately 10 pesos to the US dollar. Volunteers may exchange their dollars to pesos at Money Exchanges or Casas de Cambio at the Mexico City or Villahermosa airport or in major shopping malls. It is not to your advantage to change dollars to pesos in the United States.

Radio Luz 1040AM 5KW
Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico
Abel Gómez, director

Contemporary Christian music in Spanish, religious and social spots; religious programs

Radio Alegría 1KW AM
Delicias, Chihuahua, Mexico
Abel Gómez, director

Contemporary Christian music in Spanish, religious and social spots; religious programs

Proposed: Radio Resplandor
Manager: Omar Guevara
Apdo. E
Balboa, Panamá

1 KW; AM Daytimer in Colón, Panamá
Format: 5-minute inspirational programs on the hour and half-hour;
social, religious and commercial spots on the breaks.
Languages: Spanish and English
Telephone: (507) 445-4721
FAX: (507) 228-4601Climate: Very hot and humid

Tourist attractions: Panama Canal, Antigua Panamá, French Quarter. Good prices on clothes and embroidered tablecloths imported from the Orient. Folkloric ballet. Good hotels and restaurants in Panama City; adequate hotels and resturants in Colón.

The local paper currency in Panama is the US dollar, although prices are listed as Balboas. Panama's coins are Balboas rather than US coins. The Balboa is pegged equally to the US dollar.

500w short-wave station
Target audience: 40,000 Guaymí (indigenous people group)
Language: Guaymí and Spanish

Climate: Very hot and humid

Tourist attractions: Panama Canal, Antigua Panamá, French Quarter. Good prices on clothes and embroidered tablecloths imported from the Orient. Folkloric ballet. Good hotels and restaurants in Panama City; adequate hotels and resturants in Davíd.