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The news coming out of Trans World Radio's Swaziland transmitter site wasn’t good: The important backup generator was failing.
But that wasn’t the worst part of the story, as Station Director Mark Blosser soon realized. The cost of fixing it likely would reach $28,000. Where would that come from in a budget that already was overstretched?
Unexpectedly, a longtime supporter of the ministry wrote a check when Mark told him about the problem and another sizable donation came in. Still, the purse was more than $22,000 short.
Another Blosser friend, Eddie Fisher, retired from his job repairing commercial engines and moved to the area. When he examined the generator and gave his expert appraisal, the outlook grew even darker.
To assist in your monitoring TWR Swaziland, the following schedule is current to 28 October 2012. Broadcast are daily unless otherwise indicated. Please report any observations to teakpub@brmemc.net
All programming targeted to Africa
Amharic
1630-1645 mt 9500
1700-1715 Sun 9500
1700-1730 mtwhfa 9500
1730-1800 Sat 9500
Chewa
0400-0445 Sat/Sun 5995
Chokwe
1820-1835 6130
English
0255-0300 Sun 3200
0300-0325 Sun 3200
0430-0500 mtwhf 3200
0500-0600 3200 9500
0600-0700 3200 9500
0602-0700 6120
0700-0800 3200 6120 9500
1400-1455 4760
1525-1555 Sat/Sun 4760
1700-1800 3200
1800-1900 3200 9500
1900-2000 3200
2000-2030 Sat 3200
Fiote
1905-1920 f 6130
French
1440-1500 Sat 9585
1500-1525 Sat 9585
1935-1950 9450
1950-2000 Sat 9450
2000-2020 Sat 9450
German
0400-0430 mtwhf 3200 4775
0400-0500 Sat/Sun 3200 4775
Hadiya
1645-1700 fa 9500
Kambaata
1630-1645 fa 9500
KiKongo
1850-1900 stwhf 6130
1900-1905 smwhf 6130
Kimbubdu
1950-2000 6130
2000-2005 6130
Kirundi
1557-1600 mtwhf 15105
1600-1627 mtwhf 15105
Kuanyama
1905-1920 Sun 6130
Lingala
1905-1935 9940
Lomwe
0342-0357 4775
1510-1555 7315
Luchazi
1905-1920 w 6130
Lunyaneka
1905-1920 Sat 6130
Luvale
1850-1900 m 6130
1900-1905 m 6130
1905-1920 h 6130
Makhuwa
1355-1400 Sat 7315
Makua
1455-1500 7315
1500-1510 7315
Malagasy
1455-1500 mtwhfs 9585
1500-1525 mtwhfs 9585
Ndau
0325-0340 3240
1600-1630 Sat 3200
1615-1645 Sun 3200
1645-1700 3200
Ndebele
0255-0300 mtwhf 3200
0300-0310 Sat 3200
0300-0325 mtwhf 3200
1455-1500 4760
1500-1525 4760
1525-1555 mtwhf 4760
Oromo
1630-1700 wh 9500
1645-1700 smt 9500
1715-1745 Sun 9500
1730-1800 mtwhf 9500
Portuguese
1355-1400 Sun 7315
1400-1425 Sun 7315
1425-1455 7315
1630-1645 mf 3200
1850-1900 Sat 6130
1900-1905 Sat 6130
1905-1920 mt 6130
2005-2020 Sun 6130
Shangaan
1545-1600 Sun 3200
1600-1615 Sun 3200
1630-1645 twfa 3200
1920-1950 6130
Shona
0255-0300 3240
0300-0325 3240
1555-1600 4760
1600-1625 4760
Swahili
1700-1745 9475
1745-1800 Sat/Sun 9475
1800-1815 Sat/Sun 9475
Tshwa
1600-1630 mtwhf 3200
Umbundu
1750-1800 mtwhf 6130
1800-1820 mtwhf 6130
1835-1850 6130
Urdu
1400-1415 15360
(TWR via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India) Reformatted by Gayle Van Horn,
Frequency Manager-Monitoring Times)