The VOA website carries the following announcement for listeners in Ethiopia:
The Voice of America launched satellite transmission of the daily Amharic language programs for our audience in Ethiopia over the weekend.
The international broadcasting agency launched this new means of transmission in order to overcome the jamming being conducted by the Government of Ethiopia. Please let us know if you have heard the show on this satellite service. We are exploring other alternatives so check our web site for further developments.
Our new satelllite feed is live, so tune in The Big Dish at the normal 9 p.m. [1800 UTC] shortwave broadcast hour in Ethiopia.
If you have New Skies 57 in the Indian Ocean Region,
- Downlink frequency is 4055 Mhz
- FEC: 3/4
- Symbol Rate if 26.0 Msym/s
- Network ID is 3
- Virtual Channel 438/2R
(Source: VOA)
on Mar 23rd, 2010 at 23:45
This is a channel on a big IBB feed package, also known as IOR (Indian Ocean Relay).
I wonder if VOA Amharic is new on NSS 12 at all. It goes out via the IBB transmitters in Sri Lanka, and they can be fed neither via Intelsat 907 (the “Atlantic Ocean Relay” position) like IBB Sao Tomé and Sentech Meyerton nor via Hotbird like Media Broadcast Nauen/Wertachtal. Thus I suspect the referenced NSS 12 audio channel carried it before, too, just without being announced and pointed out to editorial staff because it was considered as internal feed until now.
on Mar 24th, 2010 at 18:20
I have left my name out just because of fear of ….
i believe VOA transmission in amharic can be heard better if transmitted by arabsat free to air sattelite because most people have little dish and are tuned to arabsat
on Mar 30th, 2010 at 08:22
Could you transmitted by the BADR 26.E or Arbsat, this for all Ethiopians listener is the best satellite. What can I do to accessed by BADR 26.E your satellite Channel, We are waiting your advice.
thanks
on Mar 31st, 2010 at 08:39
Dear VOA satff,
Please do something. almost 70% of Ethiopian sitelite uesers are fixed in free arabsat direction and 30% other directions. so pleases give us you position in terms of ‘arabsat’ direction. we are waiting your responses badly
on Apr 1st, 2010 at 05:33
Hi VOA,
Still we do have a problem to load your programme in Arabsat free channel. what shall we do? we need help.
Cheers!
on Apr 1st, 2010 at 19:03
dear VOA,
almost all people who have sat.dish in ethiopia alrady had tuned to Areb Sat. If it is possible please transmit your amharic service via Areb Sat.to reach the people.
on Apr 2nd, 2010 at 08:08
pleae make ur sattelite transmission in Arab Sat so as to follow free and clearly.
on Apr 2nd, 2010 at 17:35
DEAR VOA
WE FACED INFO JAMMING BY “OUR” “DEMOCRATIC” GOVERNMENT.we don’t have any resources.PLEASE SHOW YOUR INTELLIGENCE TO THIS MONSTOR.PLEASE DON’T TELL ALL YOUR RADIO CHANNELS.THIS COULD HELP YOU/US TO HAVE PURE TIME FOR INTERACTION.THE REGIME IS SO DETERMIND TO BLOCK YOU COMPLITLY.PLEASE,WORK HARD TO TACKLE THIS PROBLEM.GOD BLESS VOA,GOD BLESS ETHIOPIA!!
TILAHUN,FROM A.A
on Apr 2nd, 2010 at 17:48
I HAVE NEVER SEEN SUCH KIND OF GOVERNMENT IN ETHIOPIA.IT IS SO SHAMELESS,SO STUPID,SO PRIMITIVE & PIG.I HAVE A RIGHT TO LISTEN,READ OR WRITE. BUT THEY ARE TRING TO TELL ME WHAT I MUST TO DO.WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE??
VOA, PLEASE EXPOSE THESE PSUDO-GOVERNMET INSIDE OUT.
GOD BLESS VOA,GOD BLESS ETHIOPIA!!
TILAYE,FROM A.A
on Apr 6th, 2010 at 11:03
Hi voa,
Maltati abo….?
we can\’t able to listen your new voice through arabsat. do some thing Abo!!!!!
Gamachis
Harar
on Apr 7th, 2010 at 08:10
Hi all of in VOA Amharic program ,i was hearing yor program through Internet
every moring but know i totaly unable to reach you what may be another option , EPRDF was fixing Camera all over the main rodas in Addis Ababa do you know why?
on Apr 25th, 2010 at 08:33
Hello VOA,
We Ethiopians are starving genuine information. we have no any access to know what is going on in Ethiopia. So how can we get information??????
i used to dowenload voa news mp3 and listen when i was in abroad but now surprisingly it is impossible to inter the site. therefore it is not only the radio that is blocked by weyane also the VOa amharic website is blocked.
so transmit in arab sat if it is possible.
on Apr 25th, 2010 at 12:05
Make it available on Arabsat!
Fitih
on Apr 29th, 2010 at 06:17
Dear VOA’s Amharic service,
We Ethiopians now a days I don’t know what we doing, because we can not to fight with weyane; we’re civilian to fight with them, even on Tuesday morning they took one of my family to jail with out any thing, that means they stick a poster of there party sign on my family out side wall, without knowing of him he doesn’t know we tear the poster, immediately they took him to the prison, still he is in Akaki jail. Pleas VOA we still in trouble the whole families & friends of him.
Many rgards,
Kalebe
on Apr 30th, 2010 at 11:06
Good news! VOA is now also on Arabsat. See http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/voa_horn_of_africa_arabsat for details and tuning information.
on May 8th, 2010 at 13:10
Hi VOA,
Please do something as quick as possible, so that we can listen your programs on Arab sat in Ethiopia.
Thanks
on May 14th, 2010 at 13:47
please tell us the correct frequency on arab sat
on May 17th, 2010 at 09:24
Dearest VOAs
First of I would like to let you know that I really appreciate everything you guys are doing to help us get a neutral and unbiased news and information about our political and socioeconomical aspects of our country. Please keep it up and do not give any attention to whatsoever is the accusation by the government.
Please do something about the satellite because we here are all fixed to the arabsat. If u really want your amharic program to be heard in Ethiopia, come through the arabsat please.
We love you and hope you will make make an adjustment soon!!!
on May 18th, 2010 at 10:32
Hay VOA, Thanks for your effort to share informations but at this time at rural areas farmers very upsted due to jammed of VOA program. all most all farmers couldn\’t know the problem but i heard that some of the farmers and woyane kadries said it is protected by the government. and governmet has a lot power to overcome foreigh media that is why VOA program jammed said the kadries, so please voa please look for other methods to share informations especially to rural areas community.
thanks
serjaw
on May 20th, 2010 at 07:48
i think we loose only some basic information form you, but most of the information you provide is not as such important. So why you people tries to disseminate information to our society, your word, saying and information forward to our people is fact less. you are very bis and most of you live in VOA radio station have a political complex.
VOA have not good dream to Ethiopia. you always talking war and bad news.
i know there is problem in Ethiopia, but you are highly exaggerated and mis the main point from this point VOA is not neutral.
VOA always have a slogan of “terror”.
Any ways we Ethiopian live with love and continue our development as well as try to solve problems by our selfs!!!
on May 25th, 2010 at 16:36
Allah has given me A democratic write by birth. to speak, to listen, to see, but I could not be able to practice any of them. I was stolen in daylight.
by those who preach about democracy 24/7. by Ethiopian Government.
on Aug 23rd, 2010 at 11:28
What is going on in Ethiopia???? TPLF won the election by 99.6% kkkkkk. What a stupid democracy?? This is far from the truth. We want multi party system - We don\’t want to be ruled by a dictator. A true democracy is the corner stone for Ethiopian development, or else we are going to sink in a civil war that is going to eliminate woyane and bring about several new nations in East Africa.
on Oct 30th, 2010 at 03:57
Hi VOA Amharic,
I used to listen to U’r program since U’ve begun the program.I do understand now how important & strong U’r programs are.I couldn’t believe the Woyane dare to jam U. it ony proves to us that Voa is highly beneficial.
Keep it up.
on Jan 27th, 2012 at 20:16
good news, that will make us easy ways to listen this benefit radio
on Mar 18th, 2012 at 09:48
Hi voa amharic
Thanks for your nice program and I really appreciate all the subject of that focused Ethiopians immigrate around the world.
SO ‘could you pls- As usual can you help ???
My sister she was in Canada cine 2005 after that we don’t know where about she.
No communication up to this moment . Again pls-voa do a fabour to find sister
as soon as possible by your good media.