{"id":3333,"date":"2012-04-19T06:10:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T10:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=3333"},"modified":"2012-04-19T06:10:55","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T10:10:55","slug":"radio-australia-transmitter-maintenance-will-lead-to-disruption-of-service-for-some-listeners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/radio-australia-transmitter-maintenance-will-lead-to-disruption-of-service-for-some-listeners\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Australia: transmitter maintenance will lead to disruption of service for some listeners"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>(Source: Radio Australia<\/a> via Keith Perron<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Details of an interruption to our shortwave services to Papua New Guinea, eastern Indonesia and the south west Pacific for Thursday April 19th.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is an important announcement for shortwave listeners.<\/p>\n

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Due to essential transmitter maintenance, some broadcasts to Indonesia, PNG and the Western Pacific will not be available TODAY Thursday April 19th .<\/p>\n

This will affect short wave broadcasts to: East Indonesia; French broadcasts to the south-west Pacific and numerous broadcasts to PNG and the central Pacific region.<\/p>\n

The work will commence at 5am Jakarta time, 8am in Port Moresby, 9am in Port Vila, 10am in Suva, and is expected to take up to eight hours.<\/p>\n

Some Pacific listeners will still be able to hear us 9660, or 12080 kHz.<\/p>\n

Radio Australia\u2019s\u00a0FM, satellite and web streaming services will continue as normal<\/strong>. So you can still hear us on FM and the web.<\/p>\n

The following shortwave frequencies will be suspended between 0800-1600 Melbourne time (2200-0600 UT):<\/p>\n

    \n
  • 13630, 15515, 17715 & 17795 kHz to the south Pacific;<\/li>\n
  • 13690 & 21725 kHz to PNG,<\/li>\n
  • 15240 kHz to Solomons & Vanuatu<\/li>\n
  • 11695, 15415 & 17750 kHz to east Indonesia (in Indonesian & English).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    (Source: Radio Australia via Keith Perron) Details of an interruption to our shortwave services to Papua New Guinea, eastern Indonesia and the south west Pacific for Thursday April 19th. This is an important announcement for shortwave listeners. Due to essential transmitter maintenance, some broadcasts to Indonesia, PNG and the Western Pacific will not be available […]<\/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":[56,3,651,43],"tags":[86,368,4082],"class_list":["post-3333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-schedules-and-frequencies","category-shortwave-radio","tag-abc","tag-radio-australia","tag-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-RL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6467,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/the-age-national-times-radio-australia-may-cut-broadcasts-to-chinaindonesia\/","url_meta":{"origin":3333,"position":0},"title":"The Age National Times: Radio Australia may cut broadcasts to China\/Indonesia","author":"Thomas","date":"May 8, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks to Richard Cuff for bringing this item to my attention: (Source: The Age - National Times) The ABC could soon abandon international shortwave radio broadcasts to China and Indonesia, ending more than 70 years of beaming news and current affairs on high frequency into Asia. 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