Short wave reaches far

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Above: short wave broadcasting staff

Short wave reaches far, wide, "Low," high

LATCOM’s Radio Logos and Radio Centenario, both short wave transmitters, are dedicated to reach the rural population of Bolivia. Many Christian AM and FM stations are aimed at rural towns and villages, but only short wave broadcasts can reach the most outlying farms and communities.

Reaching far and wide

We have received signal reports from the Ayoré settlements in Paraguay; remote areas of Argentina; the cities of Sucre and Potosi in the Andes; the Beni region in northern Bolivia; the Mennonite colonies in eastern Bolivia; and in indigenous settlements including San Jose de Chiquitos, Yacquiba, and the Guarayos area.

Radio Centenario broadcasts mostly in Spanish while Radio Logos broadcasts mostly in the minority languages of Bolivia. Programs on Logos are broadcast in Ayore, Chiquitano, Quechua, Aymara, Guarani, and Simba Guarani. It also includes an one-hour program in Plautdietsch, the “Low German” spoken by tens of thousands of Mennonites living in several colonies in eastern Bolivia.

Reaching “Low”

One of the producers of this Low German programming is Carl Zacharias of Winkler, Manitoba, Canada. Carl writes, “There are two other radios that broadcast in Low German...but they are both FM and their signals do not reach very far and cannot reach the Mennonite colonies (further east, north , and south)...Listeners have called me (in Canada) from Bolivia to encourage me in the ministry. I believe Radio Logos is a vital link in reaching the Mennonite colonies....”

To learn more about the Mennonites of Bolivia, read and watch Stan Jeter’s report on the web.

More about Carl Zacharias on the Web can be found here.

Reaching high

In the Andes Mountains, the silver mines of Potosi are a long way from the jungles of eastern Bolivia. But Radio Logos is broadcasting the Good News to poor silver miners. According to Pastor Eloy Mollo, not even the local evangelical churches are reaching the remote mining communities above the city. Pastor Mollo was able to distribute 300 GALCOM fixed-frequency radios in these communities. According to Mollo, these people of Quechua descent are listening to the broadcasts.