FEBA Radio SW test via Srilanka

FEBA Radio is testing via Trincomalee, Sri Lanka ( 125 kW) as per following schedule :

March 5th,2014 - 1330-1400 UTC on 9720 kHz Azimuth 345 deg

March 6th, 2014 - 1330-1400 UTC on 9720 kHz Azimuth 345 deg

Reception reports to : Kenneth Edward, Head Program, FEBA, Bangalore on his email kenneth@febaindia.org

(Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India)

FEBA radio unveils new logo

UK based FEBA Radio has unveiled a new logo.

An inside look at Feba's new logo :
http://www.feba.org.uk/newsbriefs/inside-look-feba%E2%80%99s-new-logo

FEBA Radio turns 50 !

FEBA Radio is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.

More at :

http://www.feba.org.uk/newsbriefs/febas-50th-anniversary

Feba celebrates 25 years in Zimbabwe

Feba Zimbabwe celebrates 25 years of radio ministry. Through difficult times of political and cultural change one constant has always been the hard work Feba staff put into spreading the Gospel and bringing hope.

More at :
http://www.feba.org.uk/newsbriefs/feba-celebrates-25-years-zimbabwe

Voice of Joy in Iraq

Voices of joy are heard around the Feba office as we received verbal permission from Iraq's Ministry of Information to begin test broadcasts from our own community radio station in the country. With an equipped studio and temporary mast in place, Feba's trained full-time staff are in position to launch the Voice of Joy station immediately.
The Voice of Joy ministry project was just a vision in 2007. Now the perseverance and patience of our international ministry team has paid off and our prayers are that the station will become a stable, constant Christian friend to listeners in the area. As a community station, Voice of Joy will broadcast local news and information. While obviously aware of ongoing serious or sometimes tragic events occurring in the region, Voice of Joy also promises music and humour. Along with testimonies to God's love and faithfulness, appropriate social programmes on issues such as health or human interest stories will be broadcast. Please join us in prayer for written permission from Iraq's Ministry of Information for a licence to enable us to consolidate and further our work in this region. Please pray for safe travel and a good outcome for our Middle East Co-ordinator who is making plans to meet up with the Voice of Joy team in Iraq.

(FEBA Bulletin)

FEBA Bengali changes evening frequency

Due to strong chinese co-channel interference FEBA Radio via Tashkent is now using 7395 kHz replacing 7370 kHz at 1500-1530 hrs UTC in Bengali.

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Alok Dasgupta
Kolkata, India
http://dxasia.info/news/20090422

Short wave radio - vital ministry goes on

Friday 27th March, 2009
As the new short wave summer schedule begins over the weekend, Feba short wave programming is still going strong. This includes a new language service, a programme series called Light for Life, airing 30-minutes daily for a specific people group in north east Africa. Even with increasing use of FM radio and internet in urban areas, surveys show that short wave is still one of the most important means of broadcasting into remote areas of the Feba listeners' world. Low-cost (under £5) short wave radios are widely available worldwide, inportable sizes, powered by battery or hand-crank, making this a very cost-effective means of reaching people with the Gospel. Short wave does have some advantages over newer technologies. Short wave radio travels much farther than FM. Short wave can be broadcast from a very distant transmitter, many times not in the same country as the radios receiving the programmes. That means our programmes can be heard by short wave listeners in places where Christian programmes are not allowed on local FM radio or access to Christian audio on the internet is blocked. We broadcast in many tribal languages, not just the national languages in the area, reaching across country boundaries to speak to the people in their heart languages. Although short wave reception is affected by changes in the seasons, our short wave listeners are very accustomed to the routine of changing their radio dial for the new season: one setting on the dial for the summer period (starting on time change Sunday at the end of March) and another setting for the winter period (starting on time change Sunday at the end of October). As with most things these days, the cost of short wave programming is climbing, with the recession and rising fuel costs, impacting our transmitting costs. Val Rollins, Feba's Broadcast Manager, works diligently with different broadcasters to buy transmitter time that is both well-placed to air our programmes to the designated countries but also at the most economical rate. Find out more about the costs of short wave on the Short Wave Airtime project web page.
http://www.feba.org.uk/projects/unsponsored-short-wave-airtime

(FEBA Radio)

Feba India launches internet radio

Febaonline is streaming audio 24/7 via the internet in a number of languages for India to reach the cyber audiences of different faiths with the Gospel and strengthen the faith of Christians.Computer users can hear Feba India's radio programmes in their language of choice at any time by logging on to http://www.febaonline.org/ Febaonline was launched on Saturday 10 January. The home page features a radio dial that listeners can use to tune in to a programme by language, with a wide genre of programmes catering to audiences between 7 to 70 and beyond. The web site also includes a station listing, programme schedule and a live chat group. Kenneth Edward, Programme Coordinator says: "Though the project is still in the teething stage, we already have partners joining us with paid airtime." In addition to people leaving online messages, Kenneth says: "We also have many people coming online to chat with us through the site."

(Source : Feba Radio)

Update on FEBA radio programmes to Bihar

Shannon June Kittlitz
Friday 14th November, 2008
Feba India's FIRST Response team completed their special radio programme for the flood-affected people of Bihar, India on 21 October. They are now continuing to address listeners' rehabilitation needs in their regular programming. During the span of the special daily short wave broadcasts in September and October, the programme producers received over 1800 messages by phone and SMS. Suma, Head of Training and Development at Feba India, says: "I just want to thank God for this opportunity. I think I most appreciate the part played by Feba UK, if not for them we would not have had this FIRST Response training in India. They passed on that interest to us and because of that, we are able to see today we reached so many people in Bihar. I want to praise God for this opportunity and I am sure that many more opportunities will come in the days to come. It is a great privilege to reach people in times of disaster."The Head of Programming at Feba Delhi Firoz says: "Our special programme for the Bihar flood victims was closed on 21 October, so now we are producing and airing on our existing schedule: one programme in Hindi and one programme in Urdu. We are talking about their rehabilitation. We have to work on two aspects of life for their rehabilitation: one is very psychological because people are very depressed; they lost their hope. The other part is physical because people lost everything in this flood: they lost their houses, they lost their cattle. they lost everything. So we have to continue to share information from the government and from the NGOs with the people of flood-affected areas." While Suma was in Bihar in September, she met an NGO which works directly with the government of India and the national development disaster management authority. Suma says: "They were interested when they heard about this FIRST Response training and also the response towards the Bihar floods. They were quite curious as to what kind of training this was, saying 'We want to have this training.' So there seems to be a lot of interest in regards to FIRST Response. Soon after Bihar there was a disaster in Orissa, in fact simultaneously Bihar and Orissa were under floods. I think in the coming days there will be more
disasters, so we need to train more people region wide to equip them to respond to these disasters, probably starting with training in Delhi next June."

(Source : FEBA Radio)