On my view of the farm I said you could see the antennas, newly errected, on the radio site. However, antennas are not the posts, but the wires coming out from them and also hanging between them which I hope you can just make out. It's a complicated interlaced pattern depending on where you want the 'footprint', the area to be reached, to cover.
This photo is actually of the older antenna errected in 1994 and broadcasting to central and southern Africa. However, using short wave radio, the signal bounces back down from the ionisphere and can then be picked up almost anywhere in the world. In the early days reports came in about the Radio Christian Voice being picked up as far away as USA/Canada, Scandinavia, India, Russia and the Far East.
This hut is used as a store/kitchen by some of the workmen on the site. I managed to get close up to take this photo, to show the basic construction of these huts. They are also constructed in a circle with handmade bricks for walls as homes out in the bush. Many villages with these simple huts can be seen on the journey to and from Lusaka, and there are also many in the 'compound' areas located around the farm site, where local people, who work on the farm live. In recent years brick and cement housing has been provided, along with washing and toilets blocks, and mains electricity, but the huts continue to be used for cooking and storage, and from my point of view, provide a very 'African' feel to the site.
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