Radio Mast in Malawi

FM MAST ON NDENGU HILL, NEAR KAMWENDO, MALAWI

Part of my current travels included visiting the future site of an FM radio project that will reach the Yao people of Malawi. The picture shows the completed mast and coax cable going down the hill to the transmitter building. This site is about 20 kms from the southern shores of Lake Malawi. The project is scheduled to reach first transmission by April 2008. It is a joint project between Feba Radio UK, TWR and BUSA. The mast needs to go higher, and there is a lot of building work to be completed, but it was very moving to stand up on that hill and envisage the numbers of people who could soon have a local radio station in their own language.