Revival of shortwave.....Ampegon thinks so

From the Ampegon presentation at HFCC B13 :

Revival of Shortwave ? / Overview on recent projects

• 3 x 250 kW SW near Abuja, Nigeria, including one rotatable antenna 4/4/1.0,commissioned 2012

• One 100 kW SW Tx near Tashkent, Uzbekistan, commissioned 2012.

• One 250 kW SW near Dhaka, Bangladesh, including one rotatable antenna 2/2/0.5, commissioned 2012

• 4 x 250 kW SW Tx for Hike / KDDI Japan, the first one commissioned mid 2013.

• 10 x 300 kW SW Tx and 12 rigid dipole Antennas are in production for Taiwan, two units commissioned in May 2013.

• 2 x 100 kW SW Tx are contracted for AIR in India, production started

• Large tender requests ongoing: AIR India, Saudi Arabia (Ryiadh), TDA Algeria

 

HFCC B13 Presentations

Thales

http://www.hfcc.org/doc/HFCC_REP_2013-004-B13_Bratislava-Thales%20Presentation.pdf

Transradio

http://www.hfcc.org/doc/HFCC_REP_2013-006-B13_Bratislava-TSB_Presentation.pdf

Ampegon

http://www.hfcc.org/doc/HFCC_REP_2013-005-B13_Bratislava-Ampegon_Presentation.pdf

Towercom

http://www.hfcc.org/doc/HFCC_REP_2013-007-B13_Bratislava-Towercom_Presentation_on_Short_wave_broadcasting_in_Slovakia.pdf