{"id":22971,"date":"2016-12-22T07:59:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T11:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=22971"},"modified":"2016-12-22T07:59:23","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T11:59:23","slug":"kuwait-radio-updates-shortwave-transmitters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/kuwait-radio-updates-shortwave-transmitters\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait Radio updates shortwave transmitters"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>(Source: Radio World<\/a> via Andrea Borgnino<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

[…]Ampegon will refurbish all of the transmitters, and in addition upgrade three of them to full digital DRM integration and converted to the new transmitter control system UCS[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read more at Radio World online…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(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. […]Ampegon will refurbish all of the transmitters, and in addition upgrade three of […]<\/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":[56,960,3,43],"tags":[2054,980,4083,1249],"class_list":["post-22971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-ampegon","tag-digital-radio-mondiale","tag-drm","tag-radio-kuwait"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5Yv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6944,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/bucking-the-trend-taiwan-invests-in-shortwave-infrastructure\/","url_meta":{"origin":22971,"position":0},"title":"Bucking the trend, Taiwan invests in shortwave infrastructure","author":"Thomas","date":"July 29, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"While countries like Canada\u00a0are preparing to tear down their state-of-the-art transmission site, Taiwan appears to be investing in theirs. 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