Re: [IRCA] R8B help. VOA-1180 Okinawa

[Mike Hardester <DX4EVR@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan, Dennis and Charlie-san,

    I was on Okinawa at reversion - 15 May 1977, but I think that VOA at 
Okuma had already shut down. Visited the FEBC studios on board 
Makiminato during their "going off the air" sale - all kinds of neat 
little things to buy, but did I buy anything? Nooooooo. DUMB! Somewhere 
in my vast collection of junk, I have a tape or cassette of the final 
s/off announcement of FEBC.

    While visiting the VOA Thailand transmitter site, I seem to recall 
being told that the Okinawa transmitter was sent to the Philippines. 
I'll have to dig around for my notes and see what I wrote down. If 
nothing else, I have a picture of the door that goes nowhere.

    Very 73 de Mike....who is now looking for his Geritol and remainder 
of his fleeing brain cells

Dan Ferguson wrote:
> I had in mind that the VOA operations from Okinawa ended in 1976, but the 
> 1977 WRTH notes that the termination of operations was scheduled for May 15, 
> 1977, in accordance with the Reversion Treaty of 1972.
>
> Dan
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Charles A Taylor" <MWDXer@xxxxxxx>
>
> <snip>
>
>
>   
>>> When did the VOA shut-down their transmitter in Okinawa?  Just found my
>>> VOA QSL card for October 17, 1969 on 1178 kcs.  Wonder what they did with
>>> the 1,000 kw transmitter?
>>>       
>> I think it was in 1972 when Okinawa jurisdiction reverted to Japan. Before
>> then, the local stations used KS-- calls. The FEBC station on 1360 was 
>> KSBU,
>> but it had to shut down at reversion. There was a local FEBC station on
>> 1250 kHz, and it became JOTF-1250 and became commercial. It continued to 
>> call
>> itself "Kyokuto Hoso" (Far East Station).
>>
>>     
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