Used Tower for Radio Nuru

One of the requirements at Radio Nuru is a tower upon which the station antenna will be mounted. Over the past several months, Paul Zimmerman has been looking for a tower around the area of Macomia. While there were several, none were found to be stable enough to purchase.

Steel costs on South Africa have been constantly on the rise. New tower hardware was running about ZAR50-70k for a suitable tower. Then we still had to add costs of transport, importation and erection. The ultimate bill was going to be more than Paul’s budget could manage.

Anton Bouwer, a former manager of tower projects, has been volunteering with us to help sort out this issue. He contacted Telebuild who happened to have a used tower available. It is self supporting, which will make the installation much easier (a volunteer team could manage it). The tower is in good shape and can be readily disassembled. The best part is that the cost to purchase this used tower will be ZAR12k, about 20% of the cost of a new tower.

The owners of Telebuild have a heart to want to help others. It was a blessing meeting them and having the chance to interact about some of the issues we were facing with the project. They are now in the process of gathering all the parts of the tower together so that we can purchase it.

Please pray that we will be able to sort out the requirements to ship the tower to Macomia and also get the hardware through customs into Mozambique.

Posted by bobbartz July 2008

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