{"id":21668,"date":"2016-10-04T07:07:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T11:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=21668"},"modified":"2016-10-04T07:07:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T11:07:29","slug":"hurricane-matthew-voa-adds-emergency-shortwave-coverage-for-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/hurricane-matthew-voa-adds-emergency-shortwave-coverage-for-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Matthew: VOA adds emergency shortwave coverage for Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/HurricaneMatthew-e1475579005127.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21669\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/HurricaneMatthew-e1475579005127.jpg\" alt=\"hurricanematthew\" width=\"795\" height=\"568\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to\u00a0Mauno Ritola who notes the following news via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/wrthgroup\" target=\"_blank\">WRTH Facebook<\/a> page:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>VOA emergency shortwave coverage for Haiti in Creole &amp; English has started as follows via Greenville [North Carolina]:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2200-0200 7305 kHz<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>0200-1200 7405 kHz<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>1200-1630 9565 kHz<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Last night, I looked at the projected path of Hurricane Matthew. Sadly, Haiti and parts of Cuba\u00a0will\u00a0receive the brunt of Matthew&#8217;s energy in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to\u00a0Mauno Ritola who notes the following news via the WRTH Facebook page: VOA emergency shortwave coverage for Haiti in Creole &amp; English has started as follows via Greenville [North Carolina]: 2200-0200 7305 kHz 0200-1200 7405 kHz 1200-1630 9565 kHz Last night, I looked at the projected path of Hurricane Matthew. Sadly, Haiti and [&hellip;]<\/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":[960,3,43,1167],"tags":[1800,5515,1489,5516,427,10,182],"class_list":["post-21668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-cuba","tag-haiti","tag-hurricane","tag-hurricane-matthew","tag-noaa","tag-voa","tag-voice-of-america"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5Du","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21679,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/hurricane-watch-net-frequencies-monitoring-ground-truth-observations\/","url_meta":{"origin":21668,"position":0},"title":"Hurricane Watch Net frequencies: monitoring &#8220;ground truth&#8221; observations","author":"Thomas","date":"October 5, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"As Hurricane Matthew makes its slow trek through the Caribbean,\u00a0it\u00a0is expected to have impact on the Bahamas, Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina. 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