[A-DX] AWR

["Uwe Volk" <mail@xxxxxxxx>]

Werte Liste,

Andrea Steele andreasteele@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx von Adventist World Radio  
teilt
mit, dass die letzen Hürden zum Bau einer neuen Kurzwellensendeanlage in
Norditalien gefallen sind. Spatenstich soll im August dieses Jahres  
sein.
Hier ist die Mitteilung in ganzer Länge:


Title: AWR RECEIVES PERMIT TO BUILD A BIGGER VOICE

        On 4 July 2000, the city council of Argenta in northern Italy,
granted to Adventist World Radio (AWR) a "long-awaited, long-prayed-for"
permit to build a new shortwave facility to reach the Middle East,  
North,
East and West Africa and large areas of the Asian continent,  
according to
AWR president, Dr Don Jacobsen.

        Dr Jacobsen said that, after a final technical review by AWR
engineers next month, bids for construction would be let, and  
construction
could begin soon after.

        "In cooperation with the Adventist work in the six major  
areas of
the world that will be affected," says Jacobsen, "this new station will
enable us to add some 15 new languages to the nearly 60 that AWR is  
already
using.  It will give us complete coverage of the '10-40 Window' in  
Africa,
Middle East and Asia,  in the languages of the people who live there."

        The Italian government passed a law in 1995 specifically  
allowing
for the establishment of shortwave stations by nonprofit  
organizations and
under this law, they granted AWR a shortwave license in 1996.  In  
September
1997, a zoning variance allowed for the construction of the station in a
formerly agricultural area.  Groundbreaking is slated for August  
2000, said
Jacobsen.


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