Gone for now, it's possible that they will be back. It seems that a similar scenario that played out in New Zealand with the closure of Radio New Zealand's shortwave service in 1976 is playing out in Australia. The reason was the same as with Radio Australia - budget cuts.
There was a storm of protest from within New Zealand and overseas and a month later the government relented and reinstated the service. This was in the days when the station was located in Wellington and were using war surplus 7.5 KW communications transmitters. Programming on the reinstated service was a relay of the then National Programme network (now RNZ National). You can find a full write up here: http://www.radiodx.com/articles/station-profiles/pacific/rnzi-our-internatio nal-voice/the-history-of-radio-new-zealand/ Hopefully New Zealand's international voice will continue but when one considers that Radio New Zealand's funding has been frozen since 2008 when the present National Government came into office there is no telling how long they can continue. We've already seen the mothballing of the analogue transmitter. Age was given as the reason but when one considers the cutbacks in programming domestically and the sale and lease back of their Auckland building, budget considerations are liable to have been the true cause. Paul -----Original Message----- From: Hard-Core-DX [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wolfgang Bueschel Sent: Tuesday, 31 January 2017 2:14 p.m. To: DXLD; Glenn Hauser; DXplorer; [email protected] Subject: Re: [HCDX] Radio Australia Gone I was late, when checked at 0107 UT all Shepparton outlets have gone for ever. And when checked at Brisbane Queensland also the three NT services on shortwave are history now. 73 wolfie df5sx ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mickey Delmage" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; "Glenn Hauser" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 2:05 AM Subject: [HCDX] Radio Australia Gone > Was able to listen to the last few hours of RA on 15240 kHz. 0100 > played the RA interval signal 3 times and gone.....Good bye my > friend...might have had a tear in my eye. > > 73 Mick Delmage > Sherwood Park, Alberta > _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.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://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.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://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
