Cyclone Hits Radio 93FM

Cyclones are a fact of life in the South Pacific Islands. Every year they visit, moving south through either Polynesia (to the east) or Melanesia (to the west).

The Islands are sparsely populated so there's seldom a great loss of life, but the storms cause a lot of damage and people are often left without drinking water and crops are destroyed for many months afterwards.
Radio 93FM was off the air.

". . . Antenna broken in 3 different places have repaired but we need a crane to put it back up there is a available crane but we don't have the money. The roof for the transmitter need to replace whole new roof and the house of the transmitter need to replace also prefer a cement (concrete block) house."

Prayer went up, a technician was despatched from New Zealand to assist in getting the station back on air, and an appeal was made for finance.

On 23rd February good news was received.

"Glad to let you know that the antenna is up and the radio is back on air now. We make a good trip to the top of the mast yesterday [in the crane bucket] eventhough it was scarely and windy and the bucket we are in the floor there is a hole there and with the wind it swinging around but anyway we made it and we back on air now. Thank you for praying we are now on track now."

The transmitter didn't suffer any water damage and God's people responsed to this urgent need with e-mails and phone calls, prayers and donations, pledging enought money ed to pay for the crane hire and the technician's repairs.

Now thoughts will need to turn to provision of a sturdy block-built transmitter house to withstand future storms.


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