Wayne Wilson of T.E. PNG Ltd. in Boroko emailed me this status report of the new PNG transmitter for 4960 kHz, after I inquired of CRN if the station was operational:
"Dear Guy: Fr. Mlak has passed on your enquiry regarding the delivery of the SW transmitter for Aitape. It was delayed due to technical problems with the transmitter driver PCB which are apparently sourced externally by the factory. Now this has been solved and the transmitter should be shipping from the factory this week. We would certainly be interested is your reception report once the station is up and running. The main radiation from the antenna is designed to be high angle, near vertical incidence to reflect back to PNG and out to about 1000km so it will we interesting to see if the signal reaches the US. The other stations in the 3200 � 3400 kHz band are meant to be running 10,000 watts whereas the Vanimo CRN Tx will be 1000 watts." -------------------------- I thanked Mr. Wilson for his reply and asked for an update when testing is about to begin, as well as clarification about the transmitter location (Vanimo or Aitape). If I hear further details I'll pass them along to Hard-Core-DX. Guy Atkins Puyallup, WA USA ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2004 is out! Only $20.97 through us. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059685/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
