[HCDX]: Unid 1000kHz Latin solved!

["Paul Ormandy" <paulorm@xxxxxxxx>]

It appears that I heard Bolivian station Radio Bahai in Caracollo is
operating on it's nominal frequency of 1000kHz, rather than 1010kHz as
listed in the WRTH... to explain...

In March of 1997, I heard a South American station on 1000kHz in a language
I couldn't identify, either Quechua or Aymara, with an id in Spanish that
again I couldn't fathom. I was very eager to find out who this station was
and sent out a request on the Internet to no avail. I even had the tape
checked by an attache at the Peruvian Embassy without success. There were a
few "red hearings" thrown in and it was getting perplexing as even when the
'98 WRTH came out, there were no clues.

After corresponding with Henrik Klemetz in Bogota over another unid, Henrik
asked me to send him the cassette. Today I received a reply from Henrik
saying that he could positively id this station as Radio Bahai, Caracollo,
Bolivia... and after 22 years of DXing South Americans on MW - this is the
first Bolivian I have heard! Henrik was able to use his excellent Spanish
language skills to pull out the id and more.

Thank you very, very much Henrik - muchisimas gracias!

73s Paul

PS Don't ever send tapes or mail to Colombia via Surface/Sea Mail as there
is a good chance it either won't get there, or will be held by a company
that won't pass it on through the regular channels... in the above
instance, the company that received it, wouldn't pass it on through the
postal system to Henrik's P O Box and he had to bus across the city to
where the package was being held!


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