{"id":29039,"date":"2017-11-07T08:10:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T12:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=29039"},"modified":"2017-11-07T08:10:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T12:10:22","slug":"png-minister-for-communication-wants-to-invest-in-shortwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/png-minister-for-communication-wants-to-invest-in-shortwave\/","title":{"rendered":"PNG Minister for Communication wants to invest in shortwave"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Source: The Post Courier<\/a> via Bill Lee)<\/p>\n

Minister for Communication, Information Technology and Energy Sam Basil wants all 22 provinces to have short wave frequency radio stations.<\/p>\n

He said this during the Central Province assembly induction program last week Friday in Port Moresby.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy role as the minister is to make sure that we go back to all the 22 provinces to make sure that we revive the radio stations,\u201d Mr Basil said.<\/p>\n

He said most of the radio stations currently using frequency modulation (FM) face the problem of signal loose in the rural settings as it is only powered by repeater and could not be able to penetrate when it meets obstacles.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is to ensure that people are kept informed and in tuned with the government of the day,\u201d Mr Basil said.<\/p>\n

[…]\u201cI want to go short wave and we want to bring back to all the provinces capital in Papua New Guinea through National Broadcasting Corporation so that people in the mountains can have excess to communication,\u201d Mr Basil said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the full article at The Post Courier.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: The Post Courier via Bill Lee) Minister for Communication, Information Technology and Energy Sam Basil wants all 22 provinces to have short wave frequency radio stations. He said this during the Central Province assembly induction program last week Friday in Port Moresby. \u201cMy role as the minister is to make sure that we go […]<\/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":[56,3,43],"tags":[3948,726,4082,4655,84,6422],"class_list":["post-29039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-papua-new-guinea","tag-radio-australia-papua-new-guinea","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-why-shortwave","tag-why-shortwave-radio","tag-william-lee"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-7yn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30860,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/png-extends-public-radio-network-restores-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":29039,"position":0},"title":"PNG extends public radio network, restores shortwave","author":"Thomas","date":"February 15, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Radio New Zealand via Mike Hansgen) Papua New Guinea's communications minister, Sam Basil, says he plans to grow radio services in PNG. 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