FROM DXING WORLD:
What began as idle village talk over tea and tobacco quickly became reality when the son of my late uncle smuggled in a cheap Chinese radio transmitter from South Korea. For a week what was probably the first independent village radio in Zimbabwe rocked our little, insignificant village.
In our village in Chimanimani, in eastern Zimbabwe, we have never enjoyed the luxury of listening to state radio and television broadcast services from Harare, which is hundreds of kilometres away. This painful predicament has persisted since 1980, when the country became independent. Numerous queries to the radio authorities offered many reasons, but no solutions.
“Your village is mountainous, this hinders radio transmission signals,” a cheeky-mouthed government administrator found joy in saying.
“There is too much mist and rain, this clouds short-wave signals,” said one self-appointed “communication expert”, glorifying the government’s decision to cut off our village from the rest of the country for 30 years.
Complete article at http://dxingworld.info/?p=993
