We had staff meeting at the TWR Manzini office this morning.  Steve Stavropoulos shared about his August trip to the U.S.  I shared about my involvement at the technology center and progress on the HC100-9 installation.

After staff meeting, Virginia and I were given a tour of the Voice of the Church (VOC) facilities on the ground floor of the TWR building.  It was amazing to watch the ‘DJ’ doing a professional job of live programing.  At the same time we saw the FM200T (one of the first from HCJB in Elkhart) with lights flashing and sitting on a prominent location behind the receptionist.  We wondered at the fact that this transmitter is the first relay in a long string of transmitters relaying programs in Siswati and English throughout Swaziland.

As a result of the various thing happening this morning, we only arrived at the transmitting site after noon.

One of the log periodic antennas with a frequency range extending down to the 90 meterband was now available to continue testing of HC100-9 down to 3200 kHz.  We started at the lowest frequency that we tested on yesterday and continued right down the bands to 3200 kHz.  In every case the transmitter came right up to full power without any adjustments required. Some adjustments, major or minor, have alwasy been required on the three previous HC100s that I have installed.  While testing at 3200 kHz (the very lowest frequency), the highest frequency channel was selected and the tune button pressed.  The transmitter came right up to power. All this has been amazing to me and especially to the TWR Swaziland staff, who have operated the other two HC100s at this location.

We hope to put the transmitter into the broadcast schedule tomorrow, as soon as the audio and remote control lines are installed from the control room.

We have experienced answers to the prayers of many, and are rejoicing in the Lord!