BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

horizontal wires suspended by nine vertical wires, acts like a mirror and
reflects the transmitted signal forward."
"Forward," as Jones put it, means that Christian programming will be
beamed to the Indian subcontinent and farther east, all the way to Japan.
HCJB Global-Australia has been building an audience by adding language
services since the station first began airing programs in 2003.
Five years later, in 2008, Sutherland and a volunteer staff began
constructing the infrastructure (footings, guy wire anchors, etc.) for
erecting high-gain antennas which carry a more concentrated signal.
After assembling the antenna's front and rear elements on the ground, the
volunteers watched as a two-tractor-powered pulley arrangement hoisted the
antenna up into place a section at a time.
HCJB Global-Australia Director Dale Stagg said afterwards that "words can
barely describe the overwhelming sensation you get when standing
underneath this structure which, when completed, will enable us to
transmit a far stronger and more consistent signal than we do now."
The site has two HC100 shortwave transmitters built by staff at the
mission's HCJB Global Technology Center in Indiana with two more similar
units on the way. Also on the way is one of the crew's big challenges:
seasonal rains that soften the ground of the antenna fields. The rains
usually come each December and January.
Programs go out in 21 languages, airing a total of 105 hours per week.
Languages include English, Mandarin, Japanese, Hindi, Urdu, Nepali,
Chhattisgarhi, Indonesian (Bahasa), Kuruk, Bhojpuri, Tamil, Marathi,
Marwari, Telegu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Malay (Bahasa), Rawang, Min Nan
Chinese (Fujian), Eastern Panjabi and Hmar. The antenna arrays on the new
site will increase the reach of these broadcasts.
*A dipole is an antenna approximately one-half wavelength long, split at
its electrical center for connection to a transmission line, its radiation
pattern having a maximum at right angles to the antenna.
(HCJB Global News Update for Week of Sept 20-24, 2010, via dxld)
Another version:
A REAL CURTAIN RAISER by Howard Jones.
July heralded the installation of the long anticipated TCI Curtain Antenna
between the two 96m tall towers erected in 2008.
{formerly at Croatian Radio in Zagreb Deanovec Croatia site, but never
assembeled before, wb.}
A great team of volunteers had arrived on site by plane, car and caravans
from all over Australia to be part of the exciting task ahead. One young
man even joined us from California! Under the direction of Stephen
Sutherland, two groups were formed to assemble the front and rear elements
of the antenna on the ground. When completed the antenna was raised a
section at a time. It was exciting for the whole team to watch the antenna
being pulled up in ideal weather conditions by two tractors.
The towers, between which the antenna is suspended, are 117m apart and the
antenna's front and back elements hang from two cables 8m apart. These
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