Just as it did after Cyclone Tracy, Radio Australia's Shepparton base has been providing short-wave radio broadcasts into cyclone ravaged parts of north Queensland. Radio Australia transmission manager Nigel Holmes said the service had been relaying ABC Queensland Local radio on two short-wave services into the region hit by Cyclone Yasi.
``We got the request at 12.45 pm on Tuesday and we had it up and running in 31 minutes,'' Mr Holmes said yesterday. The request was based on the experience with Cyclone Larry in 2006-(sheppnews) ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ 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
