AM Mast... headline correct. This is what I get for typing early in the
morning!
On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 5:27 AM Paul B. Walker, Jr. via Groups.Io
<walkerbroadcasting=gmail.com@groups.io> wrote:
> From Bryan Clark/DXing.info group on Facbeook .. this news from RNZI
>
> My notes first then the story below
>
> Paul's notes: "What they don’t mention is the government nor bluesky
> actually own the actual radio station. It’s owned by a commercial company
>
> radio Cook Islands streams online At mms://202.65.34.10
>
> (If you go to their website at http//www.radio.co.ck and click the listen
> live link nothing is there. You have to find the embedded html code source)
>
> There’s no mention of an radio Cook Islands fm frequencies on the website
>
> FYI... that webstream at 16k mono is how the Radio Cook Islands feed is
> distributed to the outer islands fm repeaters.
>
> I guess this means the AM is totally done.. it's not just being torn down
> and replace. it's gone"
>
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> Radio Cook Islands to close AM.
>
> The following has just been posted to the NZ Radio DX League's club
> newsgroup by Adrian Sainsbury of RNZI:
>
> From Radio Cook Islands
>
> “The Cook Islands Investment Corporation will begin dismantling our AM
> Radio mast out at Matavera.
>
> The mast was installed around 1970 and I remember seeing it being worked
> on around 1990 but since then no maintenance has been done on it.
>
> Government own it and Bluesky maintain it.
>
> Anyway, it is a hazard at the moment as sections of it are rusting and so
> it needs to come down.
>
> It will affect our radio service reach.
>
> We have FM around the island and in the Outer Islands via the Government
> but the reach is not that good.
>
> I think radio is kind of like a low priority for anyone these days.
>
> The AM has been useful in that in can reach all the way to Penrhyn.”
>
> This news is in contrast to Samoa where 2AP 540AM has had a reprieve
> thanks to AusAid replacing the AM Mast in Apia.
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