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Radio Australia: transmitter maintenance will lead to disruption of service for some listeners

(Source: Radio Australia via Keith Perron)

Details of an interruption to our shortwave services to Papua New Guinea, eastern Indonesia and the south west Pacific for Thursday April 19th.

This is an important announcement for shortwave listeners.

Due to essential transmitter maintenance, some broadcasts to Indonesia, PNG and the Western Pacific will not be available TODAY Thursday April 19th .

This will affect short wave broadcasts to: East Indonesia; French broadcasts to the south-west Pacific and numerous broadcasts to PNG and the central Pacific region.

The work will commence at 5am Jakarta time, 8am in Port Moresby, 9am in Port Vila, 10am in Suva, and is expected to take up to eight hours.

Some Pacific listeners will still be able to hear us 9660, or 12080 kHz.

Radio Australia’s FM, satellite and web streaming services will continue as normal. So you can still hear us on FM and the web.

The following shortwave frequencies will be suspended between 0800-1600 Melbourne time (2200-0600 UT):

13630, 15515, 17715 & 17795 kHz to the south Pacific;
13690 & 21725 kHz to PNG,
15240 kHz to Solomons & Vanuatu
11695, 15415 & 17750 kHz to east Indonesia (in Indonesian & English).

Radio Australia increases shortwave broadcasts into Papua New Guinea on 17,750 kHz

(Source: Radio Australia News)

Papua New Guinea’s parliament was resuming on Monday, despite no clear resolution to the country’s political crisis.

Peter O’Neill says his government has taken control of the police and state offices.

[…]Earlier he said: “This clear direction now – this building will be in lockdown, only accessible to the Prime Minister (myself) and the Public Services Minister, who’s got an office in this office, and only the workers of this office.

“No other members of the public will be allowed to come into this office.”

[…]ABC Radio Australia has increased its shortwave broadcasts to Papua New Guinea to help inform people about developments in the PNG political crisis.

Between 0930 and 1700 Port Moresby time, an extra frequency, 17750 kHz, will be added to the broadcast services for PNG.

The Sydney Morning Herald: “We need to broadcast to the world, not whisper”

(Source: The Sydney Morning Herald)

As the Cold War was ending in the late 1980s and early ’90s, Western nations, confident of a lasting peace, began to neglect the tools that had sustained them in the ideological war against communism. In the US, institutions of public diplomacy and strategic communications were disbanded, and foreign service hiring frozen, in what the US Defence Secretary, Robert Gates, called a “gutting” of the US’s ability to engage, assist and communicate with the world. Other countries blindly tagged along.

[…] Right after the BBC World Service was forced to announce deep cuts to its budget affecting even its Arabic-language services, Egypt and Tunisia evicted their presidents. The impact is reverberating around the Middle East.[…] The events of the past few weeks in the Middle East have surely reinforced the power of the media (new and old) to inspire, engage and propel change.

Read full article here.