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AFRTS Thule Greenland

Oh - Here's an historic article about AFN-Lajes-TV. Hints at the OTA signals terminating in 2011. (It looks like 96.7 FM Lajes "The Eagle" is also no longer operating thanks to the air field downsizing.)

www.usafe.af.mil

AFN says goodbye to military's first overseas TV station

It was the year the Soviet Union stopped demanding war reparations from East Germany, Marilyn Monroe married baseball player Joe DiMaggio, the U.S. Congress and President Dwight D. Eisenhower
www.usafe.af.mil
 
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RF101 said:
Johnston Island is now under the NWR and off-limits. It's last big "mission" was a place to burn old chemical munitions.

As far as I can tell, AFRTS-TV is gone from over-the-air transmission in all countries - now replaced by on-base cable TV and encrypted DTH services. FM stations operate in all the theatres. High-power AM still remains in Japan (810) with lower power signals elsewhere in Japan (and perhaps still in South Korea.) Other small footprint AM stations are in Diego Garcia, Turkey, and Gitmo. AFN radio is completely off shortwave. I do not know if AFN still has any presence in our 49th state.

If you travel overseas you can download the "AFN go" app and listen to the AFN outlets. It's geo-blocked in the US.
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AFN/Alaskan Forces Network went silent about 2000' Most of the bases or units they served are now either closed or automated.
 
My bad. FM DX Tuners deployed a new TF6686-based web receiver near Lajes Field. The receiver is at Praia da Vitória, Terceira Island. Indeed , 96.1 "AFN Island Radio" can be heard on it. It looks like a relay of "AFN Eagle Europe."

Even at 1 km from the receiver, the 150 watt ERP signal remains fairly weak. The web receiver on the other side of the island (Angra do Heroísmo) does not receive it.

Check it out at : FM-DX Webserver List

(This might be useful for DXing AFN FM stations in Benelux and Germany.)
 
RF101 said:
My bad. FM DX Tuners deployed a new TF6686-based web receiver near Lajes Field. The receiver is at Praia da Vitória, Terceira Island. Indeed , 96.1 "AFN Island Radio" can be heard on it. It looks like a relay of "AFN Eagle Europe."

Even at 1 km from the receiver, the 150 watt ERP signal remains fairly weak. The web receiver on the other side of the island (Angra do Heroísmo) does not receive it.

Check it out at : FM-DX Webserver List

(This might be useful for DXing AFN FM stations in Benelux and Germany.)
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If you're really into military MWR radio stations, co-located at Lajes Field is "Radio Lajes", the Portuguese Air Force radio station. It has a cool website with lots of studio photos. Audio is there as well. FM 93.5 .

 
secondchoice said:
When I was in the Air Force, Thule and Johnson Island (atoll) is were where they "threatened" to send you if you screwed up.
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rjoc said:
Johnston Island is now totally empty, they closed it down about 2000 and nothing is left. We used to pull in there when I was in the Coast Guard on a buoy tender based out of Honolulu from 1982-84..
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I still have a 1972 ham QSL card from KJ6CW on Johnston Island for the SWL report I sent them when I was a teenager.
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