{"id":21300,"date":"2016-09-11T08:31:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T12:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=21300"},"modified":"2016-09-11T08:31:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T12:31:26","slug":"rob-wagner-visits-a-former-radio-australia-transmitter-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/rob-wagner-visits-a-former-radio-australia-transmitter-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Wagner visits a Former Radio Australia Transmitter Site"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two shortwave antennas a backup antenna at the Brandon RA transmitter site. (Image: Mount Evelyn DX Report)<\/p><\/div>\n

My buddy, Rob Wagner (VK3BVW), has just posted an article with detailed photos of the Brandon Antenna farm on his excellent<\/em> blog, the Mount Evelyn DX Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rob introduces his article:<\/p>\n

During our recent two month trip north from Mount Evelyn through Queensland and New South Wales, we had an opportunity to visit the former Radio Australia transmitter site near the little town of Brandon, about 85 km southeast of Townsville in Far North Queensland. Well, actually I visited the site while my wife Jan sat in the car, exhibiting a state of relative boredom!<\/p>\n

Officially, I had not made arrangements to inspect the transmitters. We were just passing through the town one warm Sunday afternoon. The site is only 5km out of Brandon on Jack Road. The topography is quite flat, making it ideal land for the sugar cane plantations that grow vigorously throughout this region. Here you’ll find the powerhouse 50 kW mediumwave outlet of 4QN Townsville on 630 kHz with local programming from the ABC North Queensland studios. This frequency is well heard across a 250 km radius during the daytime, and easily heard throughout most of Queensland (and well beyond) in the evenings. Indeed, 4QN has been broadcasting reliably from the Brandon site to its local communities throughout all sorts of weather including many tropical cyclones since 1958.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the full article on the Mount Evelyn DX Report.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My buddy, Rob Wagner (VK3BVW), has just posted an article with detailed photos of the Brandon Antenna farm on his excellent blog, the Mount Evelyn DX Report. Rob introduces his article: During our recent two month trip north from Mount Evelyn through Queensland and New South Wales, we had an opportunity to visit the former […]<\/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":[3,43],"tags":[5459,368,3609,4082,543],"class_list":["post-21300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-brandon-transmitter-site","tag-radio-australia","tag-rob-wagner","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-transmitter-site"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5xy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13945,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/papua-new-guinea-broadcasting-15th-pacific-games-via-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":21300,"position":0},"title":"Papua New Guinea broadcasting 15th Pacific Games via shortwave","author":"Thomas","date":"July 4, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"SWLing Post contributor, Rob Wagner, has shared the following update on his blog: It's quite difficult to hear Papua New Guinea these days now that nearly all their shortwave transmitters have closed and moved to FM. 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