AFN Diego Garcia back on air

On 21st Sept, 2011 ( Wed) AFN Diego Garcia was noted back on air after being off air for more than a month, 1640 UTC on 4319 kHz USB with heavily distorted audio .
Also back on 12759 kHz USB during check at 0110 UTC on 22nd Sept 2011 (Thurs), still with distorted audio.

(Alokesh Gupta, VU3BSE)

QSL from AFN Diego Garcia

Hot’ transmitters keep AFN radio Naples off-air

By Sandra Jontz, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Tuesday, May 19, 2009

NAPLES, Italy — American Forces Network radio in Naples remains out ofcommission while the U.S. Consulate and AFN officials lobby forItalian approval to use new transmitters. The transmitters are atop Collina dei Camaldoli, Naples’ highest point, where numerous other radio, television and cell phone towers also are located. The site is "hot [with electromagnetic field emissions], and there have been many complaints from residents in the area," according to Giuseppe D’Antonio, with Agenzia Regionale Protezione Ambientale Campania, the regional equivalent of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Read the full story here :
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=62770