[HCDX] Full Gospel Las Palmas Church, 6715 kHz

[Hermod Pedersen <hermod.pedersen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Las Palmas, Gran Canary has a lot of churches, of different denominations 
and languages. These can be found spread over most parts of the island, but 
of course concentrated to the capital. There, on a rock that is protruding 
from the Alta Vista barrio over the city you find a Korean Evangelical 
Church. Las Palmas Full Gospel Church. It has a splendid view of the town 
and the Atlantic. Its modern and tasteful design reveals that rather much 
money has been invested there.

In this week of Canary vacation I fled the heat of south coast for just one 
day and headed north, left my Norwegian travelmate to do his exploration of 
the marinas in Las Palmas, and hailed a taxi for the address of the church. 
This address was unknown to the driver, and to his colleagues over the taxi 
radio too, but I had it spotted on the city map and more or less did the 
navigation. Once there he said he couldn't have dreamt that I was looking 
for a the Korean Church.

I got there on a Thursday at 1.45 p.m. when an hour or so of prayer was 
coming to an end. Two or three dozens of Koreans were leaving, and I had 
the time to explain my mission there . The fellow I talked to was a very 
friendly one, he showed the church and even the roof with its antenna, just 
a coax cable. The operator of the transmitter was not present and had the 
keys to the shack with him. So the tx is indeed up there, and the pictures 
I took just shows a 6 feet aluminum pipe. Really nothing spectcular.

The church is also used for non-Korean gospel meetings, and one such would 
take place later that afternoon. I asked about reception reports my guide 
couldn't show any, but seemed familiar with all the data in an entry in the 
HCDX from Giampero Bernardini, and on a desk just inside the entrance I 
snooped a look on an unopened letter from what seemed to be a Dutch DX-er.

I made just one more radio contact on the island. The WRTH (edition 2002) 
page 149 about the Canary Tourist Radio over Radio Popular de Las Palmas, 
manager Xavier Palin, is unfortunately obsolete. Ingemar - which is his 
Swedish name - has retired from that activity, but still going strong 
writing books and enjoying retirement in his home in Playa del Inglés, 
Bungalows Santa Barbara to be more precise. Of course it was a great thing 
to see him after all those years. Just too many memories popped up.

The FM band is of course crammed  with a number of ondas that I have never 
heard of before, and it would take days and weeks to investigate it all.

73 Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden

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