[IRCA] PNG's Radio Fly on Shortwave

[Geralyn Hollerman <lynnhollerman@xxxxxxxxx>]

For anyone interested:
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Radio Fly on Shortwave
Tabubil, Papua New Guinea
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Listeners in countries such as Japan and New Zealand have been
reporting reception of new shortwave broadcaster Radio Fly in recent
days.

Radio Fly is a community radio station operated by the Ok Tedi Mine
management in the isolated Western Province of Papua New Guinea,
about 800km west of the capital Port Moresby.

According to Jobby Paiva, who hosts the evening show on Radio Fly,
the station operates from two FM transmitters [95.3 at the port town
of Kiunga and 103.8 in the main company town of Tabubil about 90km
inland] and recently started shortwave relays on 3915kHz and 5960kHz.

English news is scheduled 7am-7.30am Tue-Sat and again at
7.30pm-7.45pm Mon-Fri [local times] and the 6am-10pm [2000-1200 UTC]
broadcast day is divided into the Breakfast Shift 6am-10am, Mid
Morning/Mid Afternoon Shift 10am-2pm, Afternoon Drive 2pm-6pm and the
Night Shift 6pm-10pm
closedown.

He tells us that the transmitter power details for the SW outlets
will be available shortly and they're delighted to be getting emails
in from a growing number of listeners around the world.

Station details will be included in the 2011 WRTH: Radio Fly studios
are on Dakon Street, Tabubil. Mailing address: PO Box 1, Tabubil,
Western Province, Papua New Guinea. Team Leader: Michael Miise.
Telephone: +675 649 3924. Fax: +675 6493023. Email:
jobby.paiva@xxxxxxxxxxx 

Jobby has previously been a broadcaster with Nau FM and other
commercial stations in Papua New Guinea and maintains a regular blog
where updates about Radio Fly can be found:
www.jobbyswalk-about.blogspot.com.

Tabubil is the site of one of the world's largest copper mines
[previously gold mining] about 20km from the border with Indonesia
and just over 300km from Jayapura. Annual rainfall is around 315
inches [8 meters] and the township is located in extremely dense
jungle.

A road links Tabubil with a port at Kiunga where the copper slurry is
taken by pipeline, and the port mainly exists to service Tabubil.
Both Kiunga and Tabubil are in the highly mountainous North Fly
District of Western Province.

Radio Fly serves a combined Tabubil/Kiunga urban population of about
25,000 [estimated] and began broadcasting on FM in 2004. For more
information about Radio Fly and the Ok Tedi mining operations see:
www.oktedi.com. 

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Lynn.
Lafayette, LA
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