April 16, 2017
Radio Australia's
shortwave service may have gone off air in January but shortwave radio
proponents say it's not dead yet.
In fact SWLing.com say based in the
sleepy little town of Innisfail in North Queensland a NEW SHORTWAVE SERVICE IS
BEING DEVELOPED:
In May 2017 Radio 4KZ Innisfail is said to commence
transmis sion on 5055 kHz between 4pm and about 9am seven days a week running
1.5kw into an inverted V antenna and will be a full simulcast of commercial
outlet 4KZ AM/FM
It expected that the service will provide satisfactory
coverage to remote areas of the Cape where there are no AM or FM services
available.
Al Kirton General manager NQ Radio, known as VK4FFKZ on the
Ham Bands is the 'genius' behind this plan to bring Radio again to the North of
Australia.
swling.com/blog/2017/04/radio-4kz-in-queensland-to-begin-broadcasting-on-short
wave
http://www.wia.org.au/members/broadcast/wianews/display.php?file_id=wianews-2017-04-16
(via
Mike Terry via dxld yg)