{"id":32072,"date":"2018-05-15T05:20:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T09:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=32072"},"modified":"2018-05-15T05:20:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T09:20:18","slug":"twrs-boniare-mw-station-now-most-powerful-in-western-hemisphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/twrs-boniare-mw-station-now-most-powerful-in-western-hemisphere\/","title":{"rendered":"TWR’s Boniare MW station now most powerful in Western hemisphere"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Source: Radio World<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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TWR\u2019s Bonaire Facility Gets 440,000 Watt Makeover<\/h2>\n

In an era when most operators are reluctant to spend even very modest sums maintaining AM broadcast facilities, a southern Caribbean Island medium-wave broadcaster has \u201cgone for the gold,\u201d rebuilding its transmission facility and boosting power nearly five-fold from 100 kW to 440 kW.<\/p>\n

The rebuild was more of a \u201csecond coming\u201d for the 800 kHz facility, located in Bonaire, an island that is part of The Netherlands, situated about 100 miles off the Venezuelan coast. The station is owned and operated by Trans World Radio, one of the world\u2019s largest evangelical media organizations.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read at Radio World.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: Radio World) TWR\u2019s Bonaire Facility Gets 440,000 Watt Makeover In an era when most operators are reluctant to spend even very modest sums maintaining AM broadcast facilities, a southern Caribbean Island medium-wave broadcaster has \u201cgone for the gold,\u201d rebuilding its transmission facility and boosting power nearly five-fold from 100 kW to 440 kW. The […]<\/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":[373,433,3],"tags":[4097,4784,7044,5208],"class_list":["post-32072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-mediumwave","category-news","tag-am","tag-am-broadcasting","tag-bonaire","tag-trans-world-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8li","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34024,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/radio-world-whos-got-the-biggest-meanest-am-flamethrower\/","url_meta":{"origin":32072,"position":0},"title":"Radio World: “Who\u2019s Got the Biggest, Meanest AM Flamethrower?”","author":"Thomas","date":"September 16, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Radio World) More broadcasters than you might realize are helping keep the ionosphere warm (and the power companies happy) In the May 9 issue of Radio World, I reported on a recent power upgrade at TWR\u2019s Bonaire AM facility that brought that station close to the half-megawatt level (440\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "AM"","block_context":{"text":"AM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/am\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160903_085705777.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160903_085705777.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160903_085705777.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_20160903_085705777.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4172,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/building-rnw-bonaire\/","url_meta":{"origin":32072,"position":1},"title":"Video: Building RNW Bonaire","author":"Thomas","date":"October 21, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Jonathan Marks) This black and white film was made in 1968 at the moment when Philips shipped two 300 kW transmitters from the factory in the Netherlands to the island of Bonaire, then part of the Netherlands Antilles. 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