{"id":2415,"date":"2011-12-22T13:09:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T17:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=2415"},"modified":"2011-12-22T13:09:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T17:09:36","slug":"rnw-posts-photos-of-abb-transmitter-at-madagascar-relay-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/rnw-posts-photos-of-abb-transmitter-at-madagascar-relay-station\/","title":{"rendered":"RNW posts photos of ABB transmitter at Madagascar relay station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/RNW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1043\" title=\"RNW\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/RNW.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>(Source: Media Network Newsletter)<\/p>\n<p><em>Media Net<var><\/var>work Newsletter<\/em><br \/>\n<em> By Andy Sennitt<\/em><br \/>\n<em> 22 December 2011<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Several people asked us if we had any photos of the first ABB transmitter to go into service at our Madagascar relay station. The transmitter, formerly used by Radio Sweden at the H\u00f6rby transmitter site, is in regular service in place of an old Philips transmitter following successful tests a few weeks ago. I have published some photos in the Weblog.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rnw.nl\/medianetwork\/photos-of-ex-horby-sw-transmitter-in-madagascar\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/blogs.rnw.nl\/<wbr>medianetwork\/photos-of-ex-<wbr>horby-sw-transmitter-in-<wbr>madagascar<\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>These photos are all \u00a9 Radio Netherlands Worldwide.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: Media Network Newsletter) Media Network Newsletter By Andy Sennitt 22 December 2011 Several people asked us if we had any photos of the first ABB transmitter to go into service at our Madagascar relay station. The transmitter, formerly used by Radio Sweden at the H\u00f6rby transmitter site, is in regular service in place of [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56],"tags":[239,63,64,736],"class_list":["post-2415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","tag-andy-sennitt","tag-radio-netherlands-worldwide","tag-rnw","tag-rnw-madagascar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-CX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2425,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/recording-the-rnw-madagascar-relay-station\/","url_meta":{"origin":2415,"position":0},"title":"Recording the RNW Madagascar Relay station","author":"Thomas","date":"December 23, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday, after posting the article about the new transmitter at the RNW Madagascar relay station, I decided to hunt for the station on the bands. 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