[HCDX]: Re: Radio Nacional, Bolivia

["Don Moore" <MOORE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> BOLIVIA  4201a "R. Nacional"  0159 Folk mx and short ancmts by man in
> Aymara. At 0200: vibraphone and the following ID in SP: "Usted sintoniza a
> CP3, 1390 KHz, Radio Nacional, desde la Paz, Republica de Bolivia", 
again...... (Nigro)

If it is Radio Nacional from La Paz, it should be noted that this is 
*not* a government owned station, but rather a privately owned 
commercial station. Bolivia is unusual in that stations named "Radio 
Nacional" are privately-owned. Others that may be familiar to DXers 
are Radio Nacional de Huanuni, which is owned by a miners' union, and 
Radio Nacional in Cochabamba, which is commercial. Radio Nacional of 
La Paz did use shortwave many, many years ago, 4815 if I recall 
correctly. I logged them once, back around the early 1970s, I 
believe. I visited the station when I was in La Paz in 1985. I 
remember it being a very run-down place and that the facilities were 
filled with boxes and piles of papers everywhere to the extent that 
it was difficult to move around. I waited over an hour to talk to the 
manager, but he never got off the phone, so I never got my QSL. This 
was easily the least-professional station I ever visited in a LAm 
capital city. BTW, Bolivia's government-owned station is Radio 
Illimani, named after the huge mountain that overlooks La Paz.

Don Moore   moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.mcrest.edu/~moore/patepluma.html
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