{"id":53866,"date":"2022-09-01T08:26:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T12:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=53866"},"modified":"2022-09-01T08:26:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T12:26:36","slug":"rnz-pacific-resumes-shortwave-analogue-service-to-pacific-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/rnz-pacific-resumes-shortwave-analogue-service-to-pacific-region\/","title":{"rendered":"RNZ Pacific resumes shortwave analogue service to Pacific region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/CCrane-CC-Skywave-SSB-Left-Side-e1517329037265.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30647\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/CCrane-CC-Skywave-SSB-Left-Side-e1517329037265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Source: RNZ via Alokesh Gupta)<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/international\/pacific-news\/473892\/rnz-pacific-resumes-shortwave-analogue-service-to-pacific-region\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RNZ Pacific resumes shortwave analogue service to Pacific region (RNZ)<\/a><\/h1>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">From September 1, RNZ Pacific will resume its shortwave analogue service to the Pacific region between the hours of 5 and 9am New Zealand time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Shortwave radio is radio transmission using shortwave (SW) radio frequencies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">RNZ Pacific broadcasts in digital and analogue shortwave to radio stations and individual listeners in the Pacific &#8211; the digital service is available via satellite and the analogue shortwave can be accessed by anyone with shortwave radio.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The AM service during the breakfast period was stopped in 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The resumption of the analogue service will allow listeners in remote locations with a domestic shortwave radio to hear RNZ Pacific 24 hours a day, made possible with extra funding\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/international\/pacific-news\/467567\/nz-govt-commits-to-pacific-broadcasting-in-the-region\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from the New Zealand<\/a>\u00a0government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">RNZ Pacific will run three different frequencies at various times, at 5am NZT tune in on 7425 kilohertz, at 6am NZT listen on 9700 kilohertz, and at 8am NZT change the dial to 11725.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">For our full schedule of shortwave frequencies check out the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/international\/listen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RNZ Pacific website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The DRM digital service during breakfast hours will continue on transmitter two for our partner stations around the Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">RNZ Pacific&#8217;s flagship daily current affairs programme\u00a0<i>Pacific Waves\u00a0<\/i>is widely listened to across the region and is also broadcast by the BBC Pacific Service.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/international\/pacific-news\/473892\/rnz-pacific-resumes-shortwave-analogue-service-to-pacific-region\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at RNZ.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: RNZ via Alokesh Gupta) RNZ Pacific resumes shortwave analogue service to Pacific region (RNZ) From September 1, RNZ Pacific will resume its shortwave analogue service to the Pacific region between the hours of 5 and 9am New Zealand time. Shortwave radio is radio transmission using shortwave (SW) radio frequencies. RNZ Pacific broadcasts in digital [&hellip;]<\/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":[3,43],"tags":[259,1264],"class_list":["post-53866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-e0O","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58436,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/rnz-shortwave-futureproofing-pacific-broadcasting-transmitter-replacement-underway\/","url_meta":{"origin":53866,"position":0},"title":"RNZ Shortwave: &#8220;Futureproofing Pacific broadcasting \u2013 transmitter replacement underway&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"December 13, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Iurescia, who shares the following press release from Radio New Zealand: Futureproofing Pacific broadcasting \u2013 transmitter replacement underway Released at 2:34 pm on 12 December 2023 RNZ has powered down for the last time its 34-year-old shortwave Thompson transmitter, known as \u201cTransmitter 1\u201d,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Kenwood-R-2000-Dial.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Kenwood-R-2000-Dial.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Kenwood-R-2000-Dial.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Kenwood-R-2000-Dial.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":60313,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/rnz-inaugurates-new-analog-and-drm-ampegon-transmitter\/","url_meta":{"origin":53866,"position":1},"title":"RNZ Inaugurates New Analog and DRM Ampegon Transmitter","author":"Thomas","date":"August 2, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Iurescia, who shares the following news release via the DRM Consortium:\u00a0 DRM RNZ Shortwave Transmitter For Pacific Inaugurated On August 1st the New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister came to RNZ House in Wellington to mark the start of the use\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;AM&quot;","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\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-02-at-08.55.35.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":64466,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/rnz-pacific-launches-2025-26-cyclone-watch-service-on-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":53866,"position":2},"title":"RNZ Pacific Launches 2025\u201326 Cyclone Watch Service on Shortwave","author":"Thomas","date":"November 2, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Ian Millett (N3CVA), who writes: Thomas, This was posted to the RNZ website at 2 pm NZ time November 1. 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