{"id":23171,"date":"2017-01-05T18:25:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T22:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=23171"},"modified":"2017-01-05T18:25:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T22:25:12","slug":"greek-mediumwave-station-on-track-to-resume-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/greek-mediumwave-station-on-track-to-resume-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek mediumwave station on-track to resume operation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to\u00a0our friends at The Greek Radio<\/a> who share this news:<\/p>\n

The medium wave broadcasting center of the Greek Radio in Pachi Megara is likely to go live again after three and a half years, since the procedures for the necessary maintenance and repairs have recently been initiated, with a high possibility that one of the two transmitters will operate again soon. It is worth noting that the broadcasting center, which used to host two powerful mediumwave transmitters (the ones of multilingual “Filia” and of EPA Sport) had been subject to looting by burglars, few days after the ERT closure by the Samaras government, which left the premises unattended. Since then, it has not operated again.<\/p>\n

Repairs and maintenance<\/strong><\/p>\n

As revealed by official announcements, ERT is launching a tender for the maintenance of the building and electricity poles with a budget of EUR 18,703, while in December they proceeded with a maintenance of the broadcast center and a cleaning of the 100 KW mediumwave transmitter. In November, a dummy load was installed by a team of the ERT subdivision of structural and electromechanical projects and they checked the generator Nautel, which ensures the continuation of the broadcast in case of power outage. They also installed a new grounding network in the main building of the transmitters.<\/p>\n

Alongside, there were other smaller operations required for the safe operation of the facilities, such as the placement of fire extinguishers by a private firm, the restoration of the water supply, the maintenance of fence lighting. In October there was also a visit by a private security company, in response to a tender, whereas data were collected for the water insulation and the lighting of the buildings where the transmitters are placed.<\/p>\n

Continue reading at The Greek Radio website…<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to\u00a0our friends at The Greek Radio who share this news: The medium wave broadcasting center of the Greek Radio in Pachi Megara is likely to go live again after three and a half years, since the procedures for the necessary maintenance and repairs have recently been initiated, with a high possibility that one […]<\/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":[373,56,433,3],"tags":[3562,2056,1976,2095,4099,5781],"class_list":["post-23171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-broadcasters","category-mediumwave","category-news","tag-ept","tag-ert","tag-ert-greece","tag-greece","tag-mediumwave","tag-megara"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-61J","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8034,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/voice-of-greece-has-become-a-relay-of-radio-station-of-macedonia-ert-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":23171,"position":0},"title":"Voice of Greece has become a relay of Radio Station of Macedonia, ERT 3","author":"Thomas","date":"November 29, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"In response to my post and recording yesterday,\u00a0TheGreekRadio.com commented on the current state of the Voice of Greece: \"After the forceful eviction of the redundant ERT employees from the Radio House in Athens, the shortwave frequencies no longer transmit the normal program of Voice of Greece as there is no\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Broadcasters"","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"ERT3","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ERT3-300x92.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13554,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/shortwave-listeners-hear-the-voice-of-greece-once-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":23171,"position":1},"title":"Shortwave listeners hear the Voice of Greece once again","author":"Thomas","date":"June 11, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"SWLing Post\u00a0contributor, Moshe, writes with some good news from the Voice of Greece: I'm listening to VOG at 9420kHz, At 11:27 local time 08:27UTC, 11\/06\/2015 the station identified itself as \"Ezo Athina, I Foni Dis Elladas\": \"This Is Athens, The Voice Of Greece\". 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