{"id":10802,"date":"2014-09-14T12:54:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T16:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10802"},"modified":"2014-09-14T12:54:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T16:54:44","slug":"radio-riyadh-to-receive-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/radio-riyadh-to-receive-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Riyadh to receive upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Saudi_Arabia\"<\/a><\/p>\n

(Source:\u00a0Ampegon press release <\/a>via Andrea Borgnino)<\/p>\n

Turgi, Switzerland, September 12, 2014.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Saudi Broadcast Corporation (SBC), Saudi\u2019s National Broadcaster, has contracted Ampegon through undisputed Saudi market leader First Gulf Company (FGC) for the renewal of their radio transmission site in Riyadh. Ampegon will deliver four 500 kW shortwave transmitters, four shortwave antennas HRS 4\/4\/0.5 and the BroadMaster broadcast control system. The new systems will replace existing analog transmitters with four tubes by modern analog\/digital transmitters having single high power tube amplification and hence a much better overall efficiency. Saudi Broadcast Corporation has selected FGC proposal with Ampegon because of the capability of FGC to handle large projects along with Ampegon\u2019s expertise and the reliability of their systems well known since decades. Ampegon had supplied several antenna and transmission systems in the past and feels honored to once again show presence in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

The transmitters will be manufactured in Turgi, Switzerland. Factory tests together with SBC engineers are planned for autumn and shipments before end of 2014. Commissioning by an Ampegon engineer will start afterwards and the new systems are expected to be on air within summer 2015.<\/p>\n

Engineer Saleh A. Almeghaileeth, Vice-President for Engineering Affairs at SBC, is extremely pleased to work together with Ampegon: \u201cAmpegon offers a complete solution approach including transmitters, antennas, broadcast control systems and DRM integration. We trust on Ampegon\u2019s and FGC\u2019s experience as they had delivered shortwave transmitters in the past that still work to our full satisfaction.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source:\u00a0Ampegon press release via Andrea Borgnino) Turgi, Switzerland, September 12, 2014.\u00a0Saudi Broadcast Corporation (SBC), Saudi\u2019s National Broadcaster, has contracted Ampegon through undisputed Saudi market leader First Gulf Company (FGC) for the renewal of their radio transmission site in Riyadh. Ampegon will deliver four 500 kW shortwave transmitters, four shortwave antennas HRS 4\/4\/0.5 and the BroadMaster […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,3,43],"tags":[3235,3236,3237],"class_list":["post-10802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-radio-riyadh","tag-riyadh","tag-saudi-arabia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2Oe","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22971,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/kuwait-radio-updates-shortwave-transmitters\/","url_meta":{"origin":10802,"position":0},"title":"Kuwait Radio updates shortwave transmitters","author":"Thomas","date":"December 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Radio World via Andrea Borgnino) Swiss-based company Ampegon has accepted a contract from Al Rashed to handle the upgrade of five analog shortwave transmitters that are more than 20 years old for the Kuwait Ministry of Information in Al Kabd station. 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