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- Subject: Re: [dxld] TWR Bonaire - New 800 AM Transmitter Launch
- From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 00:32:46 +0000 (UTC)
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MNN if not TWR are a bit ignorant about the basix. Power goes up from 100 to 450 kilowatts, not 1000 to 4500 watts! Still NO info about which languages on which azimuths at which times, but in English (et al.?) they are calling it ``Shine 800 AM``. Old sked in WRTH 2018 may be prolonged: 2130 Spanish, 2300 English, 0030 Spanish, 0700 Portuguese (except 0845-0900 Sat Baniwa, Sun Macuxi), 0900-1230 Spanish. And why bother to broadcast in the daytime?
They also admit they intend to cover the southern USA. Is this a NARBA treaty violation? What has the FCC to say about this entity which is based in Cary, North Carolina? There are small AM stations day and night on 800 in all the southern states except Mississippi, which may get blown away by this. Maybe they can file for STA power increase just like the Floridians have to combat illegal QubaRM. 73, (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
An earlier report:
http://www.twrbonaire.com/news/view/420/2018/01-17/transmitter-testing-on-high-power-this-week
The newly installed 450-kW-medium wave transmitter for Radio Transmundial [800 kHz] is to be officially taken into use on 30 January as planned:
"TWR transmitter dedication event to be on Facebook Live. We're planning to stream on Facebook Live on Tuesday, Jan. 30 beginning at 2:30pm EST. (3:30 Bonaire time)
https://www.facebook.com/twr.bonaire/
https://bradtwr.blogspot.de/
(24 January 2018 via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, DXLD)
2018 WRTH shows original 800 kHz, 100 kW services were all targeted to SAm, on air only 2130-1230 UT, in English, Spanish, Portuguese and two token native languages. CUBA is to be a major target with the increased power, which means during those hours, a much greater signal should be penetrating North America too: bad news for fellow gospel huxter KQCV in OKC with 1 kW at night, which nevertheless I have managed to hear PJB thru; for CKLW and three other full-power Canadians; XEROK JuÃrez if it cares, since it`s mostly QRP, hardly a cannon --- AND dozens of lower power US stations with 1 kW or less at night, most of them in eastern half of USA, notwithstanding CKLW Windsor whose major lobe goes NE/NNE. IIRC, 800 was originally a daytimer-only frequency for most of them, but now only one, in Arkansas, is D-only, per NRC AM Log listings. However, there has been little if any info from TWR about antenna changes to go with the new extra power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Bonaire
(MNN) â On Tuesday, January 30, the island of Bonaire will
be filled withÂTrans World Radioâs staff celebrating as
the ministry flips the switch to a stronger service at 4:30
pm EST. With the new transmitter, TWR is ushering in a
historic era of Christian broadcasting in Latin America and
the Caribbean.
âWeâre
increasing our power from 1000-watts to 4500-watts. And
itâs an AM station. It will cover all the way from Central
Brazil all the way to the Southern part of the United States
at night,â TWRâs President Lauren Libby
shares.
More
about this here:
TWR
flips switch on new transmitter for a larger reach - Mission
Network News
https://www.mnnonline.org/news/twr-flips-switch-new-transmitter-larger-reach/
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