{"id":59144,"date":"2024-03-01T17:39:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T21:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=59144"},"modified":"2024-03-02T06:57:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T10:57:54","slug":"a-transmitter-park-in-brazil-is-celebrating-its-50th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/a-transmitter-park-in-brazil-is-celebrating-its-50th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"A Transmitter Park In Brazil Is Celebrating its 50th Birthday!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The facility 40km northwest of Brasilia originally cost $15 Million USD to build and will turn 50 years old on March 11, 2024. It’s home to several SW, AM and FM transmitters , including Radio Nacional de Amazonias on 6180 and 11780khz. The stations owner, Empresa Brasil de Comunica\u00e7\u00e3o , <\/strong>a government owned agency plans to recognize the facility’s Gold anniversary.<\/p>\n

Find out more about the facility’s history at this link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The facility 40km northwest of Brasilia originally cost $15 Million USD to build and will turn 50 years old on March 11, 2024. It’s home to several SW, AM and FM transmitters , including Radio Nacional de Amazonias on 6180 and 11780khz. The stations owner, Empresa Brasil de Comunica\u00e7\u00e3o , a government owned agency plans […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"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":[27,288,43],"tags":[10470,10471,10472,10473,10478,1594,10468,10469,10474,10477,5600,10475,5583,10476],"class_list":["post-59144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-program-spotlight","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-10470","tag-11780khz","tag-10472","tag-6180khz","tag-amazonias","tag-brazil","tag-ebc","tag-empresa-brasil-de-comunicacao","tag-radio-nacional","tag-radio-nacional-amazonias","tag-radio-nacional-brasilia","tag-radio-nacional-brazil","tag-radio-nacional-brazilia","tag-radio-nacional-de-amazonmias"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fnW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":64542,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/problems-and-temporary-changes-at-the-shortwave-transmitter-park-near-brasilia\/","url_meta":{"origin":59144,"position":0},"title":"Problems And Temporary Changes At The Shortwave Transmitter Park Near Brasilia","author":"Paul Walker","date":"November 9, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The 11780khz antenna beaming at 312 degrees (compiled, posted and edited by Paul Walker, KSKO-FM McGrath Alaska Program Director and Avid SWL'er) UPDATE: On November 13th, I was told that 11780khz is operating with 50,000 watts transmitter power output instead of it's usual 100,000 Watts. 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