According to "History of International Broadcasting" (volume 2) VOA / IBB Morocco #3 cost 200 Million USD, and is supposed to have a lifespan of 50 years. Some 16,000 m of rigid coax cable was used to link the transmitters to the curtain arrays. In any case VOA's Arabic and Persian services (and African Language Services) should boom in for a very long time -- this relay station's capabilities are possibly only equaled by DW's Werarchtal in Bavaira.
[Tangier was #1 (decommissioned), Morocco #2 (turned over to Moroccan govt?), Morocco #3 (new since 1996)] == from message == I just received an e-mail from a DX`er called Bob Montgomery that did point to me the Radio Sawa transmitter on 12010 was from Marocco not from the Phillipines (the PWBR do not list any Maroccan station on this channel, and the Phillipines seemed to me the most likely outlet of all the stations listed on 12010 in PWBR). ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2003 is out! Order it now! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059677/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
