And thus brings 636 million potential listeners into its broadcasting area
The radio tower at the top left of the picture shows our transmitter on a mountain outside the city of Puno. Diospi Suyana operates 12 such facilities in southern Peru and reaches hundreds of thousands of active listeners. The Intelsat company has offered us the opportunity to move to the IS-34 satellite. Chris Welch, a satellite technician from Perth, Australia, calculated the accessibility data. Almost the entire Spanish-speaking world could receive Radio Diospi Suyana in the future. In a week’s time our teams will visit all locations and switch over the equipment.
An excerpt from the book “Walking on water”. It was February 10, 2015, and we were installing a transmitter on a light pole on the hospital grounds. That night, we wanted to clarify the question of whether a transmitter would interfere with the functioning of the technical equipment in the hospital.
“…In the twilight and drizzle, a thin figure hung on the post and installed the transmitter. “It’s all connected,” he called from above, “you can switch on!” 7:40 p.m. – The night’s contingent was enormous. Dr. Susen Dreßler wrote an ECG in the operating room and started up the ventilator. Dr. Marlen Luckow tested her instruments in the dental clinic and Dr. Ursula Buch checked the function of a laser and ultrasound device in the eye clinic. In the X-ray department, MTA Dorle Breitenbücher took a computer tomogram – from a water bottle. All the devices worked perfectly, while the radio station near our amphitheater broadcast music into the night sky of our district with about 300 watts.
7:44 pm – We took a group photo in front of the light post that had served as an antenna mast just a few minutes ago. Everyone involved was sure that Radio Diospi Suyana had been founded in those moments.”
A good 10 years have passed since this trial broadcast. The growth of our radio channel in Peru has gone far beyond our wildest dreams. The synergistic effects that exist between our media center and our other lines of work are enormous. The five-day festivals, which are now attended by 4,000 and 5,000 young people every year and receive millions of clicks on social media, would be unthinkable without the media power of our broadcasting facilities.
But it all began on February 10, 2015 with a lone figure on a lamp post. The New Testament claims again and again that God can make something very big out of something very small. Diospi Suyana’s fields of work are living proof that this statement is true. /KDJ
