doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) (02/13/85)
> Why does the VOA transmit on frequencies in the 40 Meter ham band? Does > anybody know if this constitutes a violation of WARC treaty or something? A long-standing bone of contention... VOA maintains that since the broadcasts are *intended for reception* outside of region 2, that it doesn't matter that the *transmitter site* is in region 2. Of course, you and I know what would happen if you tried to operate SSB on 7085 to talk to a VK or ZL using the same rationale :-) -- Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug
soomre@mred.DEC (02/15/85)
As I understand the basic rules of international broadcasting, the world is divided into to three broadcasting regions. Region I covers Europe, Region 2 the Americas, and Region 3 the Pacific and Far East. The transmissions from the VOA on 40 meters are broadcast from VOA relay stations in Regions 1 and 3. Broadcasting on 40 meters in Region 2 is not allowed (although I wonder why WRNO uses 7355 khz for some of their transmissions). Region 1 VOA relay stations (which includes Africa too) are located at Munich West Germany, Kavala Greece, Rhodes Greece, Wooferton UK, Ascension Island, Monrovia Liberia, and Tangier Morocco. Most of these stations (other than Ascension Island) use 40 meters for VOA broadcasts (English and other languages). Region 3 includes VOA relay stations at Poro and Tinang Philippines, and Colombo Sri Lanka. All of these use 40 meters. VOA Spanish programs are relayed through transmitters at Radio Bras in Brazil (located in Region 2). The 40 meter band is not used there (as well as VOA tranmsmitter sites in the USA). There is talk of VOA relay stations being bulit in Turkey and Israel to beam programs to the USSR (avoiding the jammers). It should be interesting. 73's Ed Soomre N1BFF Digital Equipment Corporation 1 Iron Way Marlboro, MA 01752