A13 operations - Shortwave cutbacks continue

This is a summary of some of the significant planned variations effective March 31, for the A13 season, most representing reductions in output:

 

AUSTRIA. ORF – only one service to remain – 75 mins daily from Moosbrun to Europe, German. The site continues in use for brokered relays from TWR, BBC, AWR, VOV and FEBA

 

AUSTRALIA. RA relays to continue from Dhabbaya, Kranji, Palau

 

CANADA. RCI to continue from the Kimjae (S. Korea) relay, five hours daily to Asia

 

CROATIA. V. of Croatia service from Kranji relay to Australia to be deleted – Nauen and Deanovec remain operational tor other targets

 

ENGLAND. BBC – major reductions worldwide – Cyprus facility to close down – World Service in Arabic to be closed

 

ENGLAND. CVC Zambia facility  to cease – only Tashkent relay remains, Hindi, 20 hrs daily

 

ENGLAND. FEBA relays to be cut back – to be Tashkent, Dhabbaya, Moosbrunn, Yerevan, Kigali Ascension

 

ENGLAND. IBRA operations to be cut back – only Woofferton, Meyerton, Dhabbaya

 

FRENCH GUYANA. Montsinery relay usage to be reduced to two hours daily, for WYFR programming, Spanish and Portuguese

 

NETHERLANDS. RN to be reduced to 30 mins daily from the WHRI relay, to Americas, Spanish

 

POLAND. Polish Radio from Sofia relay, to be six hours daily

 

VATICAN. VR relays will continue from Tinang, Palauig, Tashkent, Greenville, Madagascar

 

VIETNAM. VOV relays to continue only from WHRI Woofferton, Moosbrunn, Dhabbaya

 

USA. WRMI relays to be Issoudin, Nauen, Wertachtal

 

USA. VOA - major reductions worldwide, various language streams