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Originally Posted by Alex KL-1
Welcome, Gustavo!
Very good collection!
Great to know more fellows sharing our old electronic's hobby! 
The AM radio question... too bad, in some countries, the AM stations are converting to FM, DAB, streaming or simply vanishing, like one in the city where I was born (I just read about; due to subject coincidence, I'm mentioning this) https://diariodamanhapelotas.com.br/...soes-no-620ma/ (only in Portuguese...)
Too bad, is a historically important station, and very old (for Brazilian radio timeline).
Ah, the Uruguay! Some time ago, I visited Punta del Diablo (Via Chuy/Chuí). Also I visited the Merín lake (the Uruguayan side) near Rio Branco/Jaguarão. Until my ~20 years age, I lived in the city in the aforementioned news (not soooo distant from Uruguay), and my spouse lived until her ~14 years of age in San Isidro, close to Buenos Aires, Argentina, before she moved to Paraguay.
When I lived in Pelotas, I received some AM stations from Uruguay (and Argentina), and FM stations before storms.. one day, I even received TV stations! For some reason, VHF propagates very good when cold fronts are approaching, at least in this region... (but only when storms are coming very strong). |
In Brazil, only high-power regional AMs could remain, in order to cover the entire state. Low-power AMs should move to FM, and they are doing so, trying to position themselves in the best place on the dial. Brasilian cars are already being sold with the new extended FM band, from 76 to 108 MHz, as those TV frequencies become free and are assigned to FM.
Although I work in Montevideo, I live in a small town called Costa Azul. At night the number of AMs from all over South America that can be heard is impressive. In the past included Radio Transmundial (Bonaire) and 530 FIBS Falklnd Islands Broadcasting Service. I haven't heard them again.
Here in Montevideo, it was not strange in the summer to catch TV broadcasts on channels 2,3 and 4 in Brazil. Be amazed, Chilean channels were also captured, that is, through the Andes mountain range. Many days the Argentine channels were received as local channels, especially channel 2 in La Plata, channel 6, channel 8 in Mar del Plata. Nice moments of fun spinning antennas.