The organization that manages the radio spectrum is light years away from any structured or organized methods for obtaining a ham radio license to operate in this country. Without inside contacts, this by far is not a ham friendly country. The posts that you might find on google searach that says otherwise is a bunch of lies.
The best you have in the W.Central Africa area, would be traveling to Cameroon or SaoTome. I will be traveling to Sao Tome in late may or june in hope of doing some QRP radio from Sao Tome.
Sao Tome is like the smallest African Nation on the Atlantic side of Africa. It's approx 220km due south of Bioko Island and enroute to the Equatorial Guinea island of Annonbon. You can easily fly to this country via Punto Azul airlines which is a South African Badge airlines that's pretty much a safe and friendly airline that operates to various limited destinations in Africa. Their planes are the safe & low accident Brazilian made Embraer Jet-145. Don't expect to carry a lot of gear , or suitcases. Space is limited for both underneath and over heard storage is limited. They pretty much limit you to one carry on at 23k/g
http://fly-puntoazul.com/en/middle-campaigns/sao-tome-more-info
The cost is approx $350.00 usd ( 140K CFA ), hotels will be around 80-120usd per night.
HAM operator license are easy to obtain at approx 53.00usd. Be prepared to speak Portuguese or use some translations. Per a local ham contact who referred me to a few Italians operators, I was able to start dialog with native on the main island.
73s from kf3lix
Ken Felix
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