[A-DX] FW: [mwc] AFN Germany 873 kHz

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Ausnahmsweise mal in Englisch:


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Betreff: [mwc] Blast knocks AFN Germany off the air on 873 kHz

Blast knocks AFN Germany off the air on 873 kHz

Stars and Stripes
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=53798

Armed Forces Network officials cannot definitively say when its AM radio
station [873 kHz]Â will be back on the air in the German state of Hessen
after an explosion at a transmitter site interrupted programming on Tuesday.
Three Germans were injured Tuesday around 12:30 p.m. in an accident during
a routine generator check at the Weiskirchen transmitter site.

Everyones doing OK, AFN-Europe public affairs officer George Smith
said, adding that the two Department of Public Works employees and an
AFN-Hessen
technician were taken to the hospital as a precaution. The three were
treated
for minor shock, smoke inhalation and minor burns. They have all been
released
and are doing fine, Smith said.

As for the AM radio programming, Mark Vagnerini, AFN-Europeâ??s executive
officer, could only say that AFN hopes to have the signal up and running
sometime next week. Somehow there was a minor explosion and small fire
in the power distribution panels, Vagnerini said. â??The fire was
extinguished
and emergency services came but we cannot go in there to repair it until
the investigation is complete.

The AM outage affects some 90,000 American military community members,
mainly in and around Wiesbaden?, Smith said. AFNs AM 873 frequency
carries
Morning Newswatch, National Public Radio programming and the
Connections music program, according to a Wednesday AFN news release.

Until service is restored, listeners can tune in AFNs Eagle Radio
service, a mix of contemporary music and top of the hour news on FM 98.7
the release read.

Smith added that for listeners who also watch AFN television via a decoder
box, the AM programming can be listened to through their TV. Other AFN AM
frequencies throughout Germany are listed online at www.afneurope.net.
Listeners
might be able to pick up the broadcast at 1107 AM from Kaiserslautern or
1143 AM from Mannheim.
<http://www.afneurope.net/> via RN mEdia network weblog


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