[HCDX] RE: Radio Cusco

["Henrik Klemetz" <dhv599n@xxxxxxxxx>]

Radio Cusco, founded in 1936, has been run by the 
Lizárraga Fisher family until quite recently. They
are probably still the owners.
The station has been housed in various premises 
over the years: Montes 43 (until the late 40´s), 
Saphi 114 (in the mid-50´s) and during the past few 
decades or so on the 2nd floor of Saphi 601.
Their Casilla 251, which is now reported as obsolete,
is on the station´s letterhead and has been in use for
at least 30 years.
In the 80´s, the spelling to this town, called Qosqo
in Quechua, and meaning "the navel of the world",
was changed to Cusco from Cuzco. 
Some people think that the absence of a QSL means
that the report has failed to reach the station. This is
not necessarily so. You can send a letter to "Radio 
Cusco - La Voz de la Capital Arqueológica de América, 
Cusco, Peru" and chances are good that your
report will delivered to the right address even though there is 
no conspicuous signboard outside of the building. R Cusco 
has been a difficult verifier during the past decades, but they 
certainly read all incoming mail, and they are always on 
whenever something special is cooking.  According to existing
QSL lists, only one QSL was sent out to a Scandinavian
listener during the period 1953-1971, but even so, once
in the 60´s, the station participated with an elaborate 1-hour 
broadcast as requested by the organizers of the Swedish DXing 
Championship. Apparently, such a scheme was more
feasible, economically and otherwise, to the station than
sending a card to each and everyone of the reporters.
73,
Henrik Klemetz

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