THE TRANS WORLD RADIO
BONAIRE MW AND FM STATION
Video

There is an activity that can successfully eat away the hours without your knowledge, even though you are an active and willing participant! It's called "aimless web surfing"! The good thing about aimless surfing is you can sometimes stumble upon something interesting. Last week, I found a video I had not seen before.

Remember when the Trans World Radio station on the Caribbean island of Bonaire in the Netherland Antilles beamed a powerful shortwave signal across Central and South America? We also remember Radio Nederland's Bonaire relay station that finally closed in 2012. And the Netherlands Antilles was dissolved in 2010, leaving Bonaire to become a special Caribbean municipality within the Netherlands.

Well, as we all know, those shortwave days on Bonaire are long gone. But, many mediumwave DXers will be familiar with the huge 450 kW Bonaire signal on 800 kHz that can still be heard in many parts of Latin America.

I don't know when the video below was recorded (the Vimeo link says it was uploaded in January 2020), but it looks reasonably current. There are some great shots of the antennas, transmitters and studios. Worth a look, even if you are not a mediumwave (AM) DXer.