{"id":49632,"date":"2021-07-18T08:29:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T12:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=49632"},"modified":"2021-07-18T08:29:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T12:29:49","slug":"ree-noblejas-site-celebrates-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/ree-noblejas-site-celebrates-50-years\/","title":{"rendered":"REE Noblejas Site Celebrates 50 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Tracy Wood, who shares the following article and translation:<\/p>\n

REE Noblejas Site celebrates 50 years.<\/a><\/h1>\n

Radio Exterior de Espa\u00f1a’s “Amigos de la Onda Corta” latest show marks the history of the 50 years of the Noblejas Broadcast Center.\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Program Summary (loose translation)<\/em><\/p>\n

Noblejas is the voice of Spain in the world, the only shortwave site that Radio Exterior de Espa\u00f1a currently has to broadcast the country\u2019s events.<\/p>\n

The RNE Shortwave Broadcast Center No. 2 was inaugurated on July 21, 1971. It is the largest space in dimensions that the Spanish Radio Television Corporation currently has. For half a century, Noblejas has been the voice of Spain to the world, the only transmission site that Radio Exterior de Espa\u00f1a currently has after the closure of the centers in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in 1982, Arganda del Rey (Madrid) in 1985 and Cariari de Pococ\u00ed (Costa Rica) in 2013. It occupies 144 hectares (355 acres) and has a main building with three floors offering 8,000 square meters of useful area, housing four transmitters with which the REE signal is transmitted to all of the Americas, West Africa, the South Atlantic, the Middle East, and the Indian Ocean. The antenna field consists of 27 directional curtain arrays that encompass some three kilometers in length. The Noblejas transmission center has been operating for 50 years. It was only absent for two months (from October to December 2014) when the government wanted to halt REE shortwave broadcasts (ed. \u2013 RTVE budget cuts.) Fortunately, the broadcasts returned, and listeners still can enjoy eight hours of daily broadcasting on that band.<\/p>\n

(The \u201cAmigos\u201d program notes the station still has available four 100 kilowatt units capable of 6-26 Mhz. REE broadcasts in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Russian, English and Sefard\u00ed.)<\/p>\n

Spanish Audio is here:
\nhttps:\/\/www.rtve.es\/play\/audios\/amigos-de-la-onda-corta\/amigos-onda-corta-50-anos-del-centro-emisor-noblejas-15-07-21\/5987840\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Documentary film clip of Francisco Franco at the station’s inauguration is here starting at the 50-second mark:
\nhttps:\/\/www.rtve.es\/filmoteca\/no-do\/not-1490\/1486589\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Tracy Wood, who shares the following article and translation: REE Noblejas Site celebrates 50 years. Radio Exterior de Espa\u00f1a’s “Amigos de la Onda Corta” latest show marks the history of the 50 years of the Noblejas Broadcast Center. Program Summary (loose translation) Noblejas is the voice of Spain in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3,288,43],"tags":[955,958,9368,4082,7394],"class_list":["post-49632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-radio-exterior-de-espana","tag-ree","tag-ree-noblejas","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-tracy-wood-k7uo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-cUw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58317,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/radio-exterior-de-espana-suspends-shortwave-service-dec-4-5-due-to-power-cuts\/","url_meta":{"origin":49632,"position":0},"title":"Radio Exterior de Espa\u00f1a suspends shortwave service Dec 4-5 due to power cuts","author":"Thomas","date":"November 30, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Iurescia, who shares the following announcement from Radio Exterior de Espa\u00f1a (originally in Spanish): Temporary suspension of shortwave emission We inform you that the next few days December 4-5 Radio Exterior de Espa\u00f1a will be forced to suspend its shortwave broadcasts. 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