KVOH Shortwave Transmission Station, California

KVOH, the Voice of Hope, which broadcasts from Chatsworth Peak, above Simi, California, covers the Caribbean, Cuba, Mexico, Central and South America, with evangelical Christian programs using a 50,000-watt RCA transmitter, broadcasting on 9,975 kHz during Western Hemisphere evenings and 17,775 kHz during Western Hemisphere daytime. It was established in 1986 by the millionaire evangelist Dr. George K. Otis, who founded High Adventure Ministries, based in Simi, which operated missionary stations around the globe, starting with a station in Lebanon in the 1970s, broadcasting the Gospel and country music throughout the Middle East. There are less than a dozen large shortwave radio stations broadcasting internationally from the continental USA. Most of them are transmitting Christian programming to some of the estimated 250 million people in remote parts of the world that still listen to shortwave radios.