My reply from Radio Australia - "Dear Mr Newell,
Thank you for your recent correspondence with regards to the Radio Australia Broadcasts on Shortwave Radio in the SW Pacific. We are currently working with our transmission provider on a number of shut downs over the past week and again over the next week to investigate a range of technical and commercial issues for the service. In the meantime the services are still on air via our satellite services on Intelsat IS18 and IS20 as well as our FM network across the targeted markets in the SW Pacific (for detailed information please see http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/waystolisten and of course Radio Australia is online at http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/listen Kind Regards," Either a.) It is a maintenance interview or b.) They are testing the waters for a complete shutdown of the SW service. When you think about it - if they turn off the SW transmitters and they only get 12 letters of complaint, they will realize that there is no economic model for continuing the service. On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 7:01 AM, Glenn Hauser via Hard-Core-DX < hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com> wrote: > ** AUSTRALIA. 9580 & 12065 & 12085, Aug 15 at 1357 check, no signals from > Radio Australia. 17840 & 15240, Aug 16 at 0329, no signals from RA (tho I > may have a birdie around 15240). 9580 & 12065 & 12085, Aug 16 at 1220 still > no signals from RA, now the ninth day in a row of silence, without any > specific explanation from ABC or promise to return. At least we still have > the VL8s, 2310 & 2485 barely audible, and 4835 fair, but no substitute for > RA inbooming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) > > -- Colin Newell - Editor and creator *of *Coffeecrew.com <http://www.Coffeecrew.com> and DXer.ca <http://www.DXer.ca> - VA7WWV | Twitter @CoffeeCrew | Victoria - Canada _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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
