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Fiji Radio AM Upgrade

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http://www.asiaradiotoday.com/news/japan-helps-fiji-15-million-am-signal-upgrade

Stumbled on to this today, but it took many tries to ever find frequency and power details (hidden within the video). There's no place on the forums for "Pacific Area Radio", so I thought I'd put it here, for us DX'ers. Interesting video, with photos of equipment and construction....
Now it's time to do some serious listening. Anybody got a Beverage pointed to the South Pacific.

(BTW: 558 KHz and 990 KHZ are the frequencies, 10 KW power)
 
Out of reach for me, but there are a couple of guys here who might be able to snag it. Thanks for posting!
 
I'm sure that Kilokat guy may hear it, along with Mr. DeBock, the ultralight MW DX guy that hits the Oregon Coast now and then...

Thanks for posting the info.

Nice to see a place investing in MW facilities -- something the ABC in Australia should perhaps be doing, for nighttime coverage especially of the Outback.
 
boombox4 said:
I'm sure that Kilokat guy may hear it, along with Mr. DeBock, the ultralight MW DX guy that hits the Oregon Coast now and then...

Thanks for posting the info.

Nice to see a place investing in MW facilities -- something the ABC in Australia should perhaps be doing, for nighttime coverage especially of the Outback.
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The politicians and broadcast execs in cities such as Sydney or Canberra, like those in New York or Washington, switch their radio to AM (if they know how) and hear mostly electrical noise - and assume that AM and shortwave must be just as useless everywhere. Encouraging AM seems to have become the broadcast equivalent of politically incorrect.
 
channel99 said:
The politicians and broadcast execs in cities such as Sydney or Canberra, like those in New York or Washington, switch their radio to AM (if they know how) and hear mostly electrical noise - and assume that AM and shortwave must be just as useless everywhere. Encouraging AM seems to have become the broadcast equivalent of politically incorrect.
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True enough. Politicians everywhere seem to be very urban-centric. Anything rural is apparently foreign to them. We have enough of that here in the U.S., and it seems Oz has their dose of it also.
 
I tried to look up the NEC AM/MW transmitters on the NEC website, but found they were just listed as "Special Order". Sad, ain't it?
 
You guys will be pulling your hair out soon, "mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore" when Norway does "it".
Accept the fact that the two types of radio technology today are not AM & FM, they are analog and digital.
Consider the square wave, perfect in its rise time and fall time, and with no questionable tri-state levels.
 
kenglish said:
I tried to look up the NEC AM/MW transmitters on the NEC website, but found they were just listed as "Special Order". Sad, ain't it?
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All AM and FM transmitters are "special order" as they require construction specific to their frequency (with the exception of frequency agile short-wave AM transmitters).
 
NEC didn't even show any photos or model numbers for AM MW transmitters.
 
kenglish said:
NEC didn't even show any photos or model numbers for AM MW transmitters.
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NEC was a big player in analogue TV, with a huge dominance of much of Latin America in the 60's to the 80's at least. Radio was an afterthought. While in South America, I never was called on by a NEC rep. On the other hand, the US manufacturers were pretty much shut out of TV installs.

I don't know if NEC was a player in Asia and Oceania, but it seems they never had a position of critical mass in radio.
 
ai4i said:
You guys will be pulling your hair out soon, "mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore" when Norway does "it".
Accept the fact that the two types of radio technology today are not AM & FM, they are analog and digital.
Consider the square wave, perfect in its rise time and fall time, and with no questionable tri-state levels.
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When Norway does what? They already have started the transition to DAB, but that transition started years ago. But they still maintain the Longwave service for the mariners offshore, after pulling it for a short period. DAB just doesn't reach very far off shore. They still have FM open for commercial broadcasters who can't fit on the limited number of DAB channels available there.

I agree with you that eventually all OTA radio may be digital. That is probably 25 years or more away. When satellite radio came out in the 1990's, the radio industry was afraid OTA would be harmed by it, and even replaced in some areas. Didn't happen.

New tech eventually takes over, but sometimes it doesn't take over as quickly as people believe it will.
 
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