HF Radio: Guide for facilitators and community installers (2022)

by Rhizomatica

"The purpose of this guide is to share the basics of installing a solar-powered HF radio station."

"[It] is an outcome of a number of workshops conducted in 2020 in Puyo and Lago Agrio, Ecuador, by Rhizomatica, together with Kara Solar Foundation and the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (CONFENIAE) in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. These training workshops were attended by members of the Indigenous nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon: Sápara, Shiwiar, Waorani, Kofán, Achuar, Andwa, Shuar, Quijos, Kichwa and Siekopai.

From this effort, which is ongoing as of the publication of this manual, 40 solar-powered shortwave or high frequency (HF) radios have been deployed in different parts of the Ecuadorian Amazon. These radios were installed by Indigenous technicians and local people from beneficiary communities and nationalities, who were trained during three-day in-person workshops in the second half of 2020."

https://www.rhizomatica.org/app/uploads/2022/06/HF-Radio-Guide-EN.pdf

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