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Hi, from Trollhättan, Sweden a logging I never thought
would be possible.
Three days ago, Short Wave Bulletin posted an extra log to its
members, from Björn Malm, Quito, Ecuador, with quite an interesting
item.
Björn had heard down there on 5900U Radio Cosmopolita,
in Quito with px's in Quichua. That station is the only on in the capital with
programs in that language he says, and a lot of people from other parts of the
country, and with Quichua as their mother tounge have migrated to the
national capital Quito. Many of them come from the the Chimborazo province,
capital Riobamba. So he had heard them with a connection to a station called
Chimborazo 98.1, exchanging greeting and messages. He goes on to tell that in
Quito Radio Cosmopolita is on 959.95 kHz with bad reception. So his listening
tip was about 5900U.
I heard a station there last night, at 0015-0100, and it was
indeed a program where people were given a minute or more to get out their
messages, children, women and men were given the mike, and the moderator
was a man. Between messages, the moderator did a lot of talk in Quichua, and
suddenly the words Radio Cosmopolita sneaked into the text. I have discovered
that fact just a few hours ago, after listening to the tape a number of
times. It's there for a fact, and I have sent the audio to Björn,
also to Henrik Klemetz and a few others. So the log goes
like this
5900U 19Apr 0015-0100 Radio Cosmopolita, Quito, Ecuador
with a greetings program in Quichua. (According to Björn Malm, Quito, Ecuador
it's a simulcast with Chimborazo 98.1, probably in Riobamba.) Rarther poor
signal, but id now confirmed. This can't be no other thing than a feed,
or....?
Henrik answered my question about the spelling of the
language. I have always said and spellt it quechua, but in Ecuador it has been
decided that the language has only three vowels a, i, u , so it has to be
quichua, unlike in Peru and Bolivia...
Good hunting
Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden AOR AR7030, LW &
K9AY.
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