With the help of their Mark 2 Chrysolite suitcase studio, Feba Mozambique staff members have managed to get the Radio Muthyana FM radio station back on air.

Feba Mozambique Programming Director Narciso says: “We succeeded in putting Muthyana FM back on air with our studio suitcase. The police are still at Muthyana! For security we are picking up the suitcase studio and taking it back to Feba at the closing of the station each day.”

The representative of the station, Mrs. Ivone Sabao, thanked Feba for helping so much (on behalf of Muthyana CEO, Palmira Velasco, who is abroad.)

With all of their audio and computer equipment stolen in the armed robbery on Thursday night, Radio Muthyana could not go on air on Friday morning. Together with Feba Mozambique staff they began on Friday morning to think of a way to return the station on air as soon as possible. They spoke by phone to Bob Bartz, Feba’s Broadcast Technology Director, who was already en route to Mozambique for the Mozambique Summit meetings. Also on Friday the police conducted their investigation to look for clues. After assessing their losses, Bob Bartz says: “Fortunately the robbers did not take the transmitter and antenna system so we could get the station back on the air as long as we could somehow provide some programming to it. Then we started talking about how we could get some audio programming there and then the idea came up about using one of the Chrysolite suitcase studios that is in Maputo and looking at loaning that to Radio Muthyana.”

As soon as the suitcase studio was cabled to the transmitter and antenna system, Radio Muthyana was ready to go back on air by late Friday.