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Largest Collection Of International Radio Request Letters

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Anil Tamrakar Kanti, Madhya Pradesh

October 28, 2009

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Anil Tamrakar collected 538,378 radio request letters from different countries. Tamrakar is an avid radio fanatic who spent 10 hours a day listening to radio programs as a child. He begin building the collection of letters in 1980 and continues to build on it today.

His collection includes letters from Vatican Radio, the official broadcasting service of the Vatican, Voice of America, a broadcast institution of the U.S. Federal government and Radio Veritas, a Catholic radio station based in the Philippines broadcasting to Asia.

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- all letters in collection must be from a broadcasting radio station

Current 538,378 letters Set by Anil Tamrakar

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