{"id":64381,"date":"2025-10-27T08:15:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=64381"},"modified":"2025-10-27T08:15:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:15:23","slug":"voice-of-hope-africa-is-off-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/voice-of-hope-africa-is-off-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice of Hope Africa Is Off the Air"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Voice of Hope antenna farm (Source: Voice of Hope Africa)<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Dan Greenall, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hi Thomas<\/p>\n

I just heard on the latest program of Wavescan that the Voice of Hope Africa from Lusaka, Zambia is now off the air. It has been a few months since I heard them on a KiwiSDR from that area so I guess that explains why. Too bad since there are so few African broadcasters remaining.<\/p>\n

Listen to their podcast here: https:\/\/www.podomatic.com\/podcasts\/wavescan<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are a couple recordings of the station I made back on January 6 of this year on 4965 kHz using a Kiwi located on Reunion Island:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Voice-of-Hope-Africa-via-FR4RX_2025-01-06T17_56_41Z_4965.00_am.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\nhttps:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Voice-of-Hope-Lusaka-Zambia-Africa-2025-01-06T16_28_13Z_4965.00_am.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

73<\/p>\n

Dan Greenall, Ontario, Canada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Dan Greenall, who writes: Hi Thomas I just heard on the latest program of Wavescan that the Voice of Hope Africa from Lusaka, Zambia is now off the air. It has been a few months since I heard them on a KiwiSDR from that area so I guess that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[960,3,43],"tags":[10271,4082,6079],"class_list":["post-64381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-dan-greenall","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-voice-of-hope-africa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gKp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5350,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/wavescan-focuses-on-africa-in-2013\/","url_meta":{"origin":64381,"position":0},"title":"Wavescan focuses on Africa in 2013","author":"Thomas","date":"January 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"For those of you looking for an informative show on international broadcasting, shortwave radio and DXing, checkout Wavescan by AWR. 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