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Old 12-16-2009 | 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Herb Flemmming
I can hear it now,


Bamako...... XXXXXX checking position ENINO level 410
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Bamako...... XXXXXX checking position ENINO level 410
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Calling Bamako? say again
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Yes this is XXXXXX checking position ENINO next call BKO
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YOUR requesting decent?
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No! we are checking ENINO THIS TIME
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.......I CALL YOU BACK


I can definitely tell that you've been in this neighborhood !!! I thought that Dakar, Bamako, Naimey, and Accra Control all beat out Lagos / Kano Control.

We had Delta up our tailpipe, one from Abuja with a tech stop in Dakar (then JFK), in a B757-200), and the Lagos B777 non-stop to ATL. Everybody uses 126.9 as a unicom in the flight levels.

Couldn't get Dakar CTL on VHF 129.50, so I had to use HF 6.535. I think they could hear me, but I just got a hollow mumbling noise.