Originally Posted by TonyWilliams

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.