VOA Greenville – Fifty Years of Shortwave to the World

[pstox]

Apparently the VOA Greenville, NC site B location is scheduled to be shut down due to US budget cuts. This article is a nice look back on it's engineering and history. VOA Greenville – Fifty Years of Shortwave to the World

 

[a29zuk]

Welcome to Radio Reference! Thanks for sharing the article. It was interesting to read and see the pictures. I remember driving near the Ohio site in the 70's, the antenna system was awesome.

 

[ridgescan]

Does that mean they are stopping the transmissions I get from transmitter sites in Asia? God would I miss that

 

[N1BHH]

Does that mean they are stopping the transmissions I get from transmitter sites in Asia? God would I miss that

I doesn't mean they are stopping anything in particular except to shut down the site in Greenville for budgetary reasons. Site C was closed 10 years ago, Site A is in limited use and Site B still carries some programming but will soon see limited use and this will save money. It's going the way of Bethany and Dixon and Delano. It's more cost effective to rent from others than to run your own.

 

[ridgescan]

OK thank you for the info. I like tuning into VOA for American flavor SWL sometimes.