Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa (KNR) is indeed again using short wave and they have been doing so since the summer of 2002.
At first the transmissions were unofficial but now they are official. There have been some breaks in transmissions though, but they've been on regularly since sometime late 2004. This is what I wrote on HCDX on Dec. 20 2004: GREENLAND Although it apparently never has been reported outside Greenland, KNR continues to use short wave from Tasiilaq on the Greenlandic east coast. The frequency is 3815 kHz (USB) and the current schedule is: 1500-1615 and 2100-2215 UTC. The power is 200 W and the aerial used in an omni-directional cage aerial. (Stig Hartvig Nielsen for WRTH 2005) Reception of KNR on 3815 has recently been reported by DX'ers in many countries. I was told that the transmitter/aerial on 3815 was to be "upgraded" soon - but I think this has already happened, and this service overhaul is the reason for the improved overseas reception of 3815. Moreover - there are still plans to give up broadcasting on Medium Wave and use Short Wave instead. Currently five 5-10 kW MW transmitters are on the air and it is rather expensive to keep these transmitters on the air. One single short wave transmitter could probably do the same job (serve the fishermen at sea). A plan for conducting test transmissions on 2 or 3 frequencies (in the 3-4 MHz and 7-10 MHz range) with 200-1000 W on each frequency from Nuuk in order to determine coverage has been prepared and is now awaiting confirmation from the management of KNR. The go ahead might come anytime between next month and in a couple of years (sic). There is also a chance that the management of KNR might jump to establishing permanent Short Wave transmissions without any previous test transmissions. The political situation in Greenland is very different to most Western countries and has been compared to the situation in some African or Latin American station, and so it is difficult to predict what will happen. Time will tell :-) Best 73s Stig Hartvig Nielsen, Denmark PS! There has never been (in recent history) any service in Greenlandic and Faroese on short wave from Denmark. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 31. marts 2005 02:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Re: [HCDX] GREENLAND ON 3815 KHZ USB "KNR" Greenland on SW ???????? when I was in "Nuuk" there was only FM and MW (AM) and TV stations in country SW was BC from Denmark in,.. Greenlandic and Faroese !! ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/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
