FEBC-USA had difficulty reaching audiences in North India and identified Seychelles as a promising location to build an international shortwave transmitting station for this purpose.
In 1970, Feba Radio (UK) began regular shortwave broadcasts from their station in Seychelles using temporary equipment.
Thereafter milestones in developing the Feba Radio network were often linked to international conferences held roughly every two years.
Feba Seychelles' schedule was expanding to cover Southwest Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
This was to be done by staff in the listening areas, not by moving them to Seychelles, and provision was made for up to 50% of each programme service to be "in-house" production.
Feba was challenged to expand into a second large shortwave station in Sierra Leone but instead decided to focus on improving programming.
In October 1994 in another international conference in Hove, UK, there was an attempt to move away from the idea of Feba UK being "headquarters" and to try to make each national operation as autonomous as possible despite the practicalities of centralising the schedule of broadcasting through the limited facilities (essentially the antenna coverage) of the one station in Seychelles and optimising its use cost-effectively.
As it happened the recent end of propaganda broadcasting associated with the Cold War and apartheid meant that surplus shortwave transmission capability was beginning to be marketed attractively in Feba's area.
Feba-UK began working with a third, compromise, international structure based on agreements with each partner which are tailored to the requirements of each partnership rather than one-size-fits-all.