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apprised about govt policies and promote the soft image among the comity
of nations. The time of broadcast is 0730-0830 UT and will be beamed on
15100, 17835 kHz, a release said Saturday [18 March].
With induction of the sce, the number of external Services will increase
to 17 langs which already is broadcasting programmes in Arabic, Bangla,
Chinese, Dari, English (Targeting Eastern India), Gujarati, Hindi,
Hazargi, Pushto, Persian, Turkish, Russian, Nepali and Sinhalese.
(AP Pakistan, via BBCM Mar 18, via RNW MN NL; BrDXC-UK)
PORTUGAL In the dxld bulletin, the suggested
page leads us, among others, to
- that's the (old) site at Buraca
(outskirts of Lisboa) where the local MW tx (1286 kHz 2.5 kW) & the SW tx
(6155 kHz 600 watt) were located. Right after the stn was occupied by
political forces, in 1974/75, this very site was deliberately demolished
with charges planted by certain members of the military (cf.
and
R.Renascenca no longer used SW after that, except for the short lived
"adventure" via its Muge site, which still houses the (US made) 100 kW tx
and a very small number of rhombics, all idle... and at the easy reach of
anyone for they're outside the fenced perimeter.
The other local stn shown in
Emissores Associados de Lisboa, was located at Pragal, right on the
opposite bank of River Tagus.
This was one the priv. comm. stns whose fate was to be nationalised and to
become part of the RDP. In the not so distant past (80s, early 90s) the
RDP installed a MW stn at Pragal, probably in the old EAL plant.
The other pictures show what was known as Radio Trans-Europa for quite
some time, i.e. the stn in charge of the DW and the other relays via
Sines, having later changed its name to Pro-Funk GmbH. Neither those 3x250
kW Marconi txs nor the fixed curtain antennae are there (probably the log-
periodic). Curiously, during my APR'81 visit to the stn, at least one of
the photos I took at that time, about 10~11 years later, resembles the one
tagged as "sines4" in that page. They use 3 rotatable curtain arrays,
visible in GoogleEarth by the way, and 3x250 kW Thomcast units, which we
know are all DRM capable.
(Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX Mar 22)
Here is a picture of the Sines tx hall as it looks today, small but
certainly sufficient to recognise the place:
I recall a quite noticeable change of modulation characteristics when the
old Marconi txs were replaced by the new Thales gear. And somehow got it
burned into my memory how back in the nineties Deutsche Welle started a
txion in Italian via Sines, just one of the European lang sces abandoned
since. By now German was supposed to be the only Deutsche Welle
programming to be still carried (in AM) from Sines to Central Europe.
However, also for A06 again Polish 1630-1659 on 15595 is scheduled.
Actually Deutsche Welle planned to take it off SW already two years aho,
but apparently they hesitate from doing so for whatever reason (perhaps
evidence of a still existing audience for the SW sce?).
(Kai Ludwig-D, wwdxc BC-DX Mar 23)
As recently as this month, nx surfaced about the property used by the
former RFE/RL station at Gloria do Ribatejo, amounting to 198 ha (!). As I
reported back in 2003, the compound was being taken care of by Portugal
Telecom, which received it from the Govt after RARET closed for good. The