This is a tough one for me to write folks.....I was browsing thru Google and something told me to look up Manolo. To say I was shocked was an understatement. I do know there was an effort some years back to get Manolo to the Fest but it never worked out. I made the initial inquiry to him and he was very open to coming to see us. I think right after those efforts he was at the Mexican DX meeting in 2003 that Jeff White (?) organised. I always thought and this is something I told Marie Lamb that the week of the DX meeting was the week I was getting married in Blackpool right after Ken and I came back from the IOC meeting in Prague. (I always told Marie this can be filed under "hmmmmm.") I met Manolo in 1991 at the EDXC meeting in Sitges (on the coast right outside of Barcelona.) Same meeting that Tom Meyer also attended! The following year at the EDXC meeting a got a frantic message from Dario Monferini (sp?) saying that when I was in Moscow right after EDXC I had to go see Manolo. I don;'t know how Manolo knew I was in Sitges-but the SWL community is quite small and news travels fast. He got word that he was leaving Moscow (sadly on a direct flight.) I will let you figure the rest out-as I went to Michigan right after I came back from Moscow and made a few phone calls as soon as I got back to Atlanta.
To say I am heartsick is putting it mildly. I don]t understand a lot of Spanish but an English report said he died "of respatory complications." (Heart attack?) The story also said he was cremated. If you remmeber Glenn Houser reporting that Manolo was taken off the air for 6 months (due to an auto accident where someone was saldy killed( we all thought the worst. Thank goodness people kept the pressure on so that nothing really bad happened to him. We have lost a star. Maryanne _______________________________________________ Swlfest mailing list Swlfest@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swlfest-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
