ARLA/CLUSTER: Radio Vaticano HV50VR chama nas bandas de amador

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

 A estação HV50VR está activa este fim de semana desde Santa Maria di
Galeria (zona extraterritorial em Itália, com soberania do Estado do
Vaticano), em comemoração dos 50 anos de actividades do Centro Emissor
de Ondas Curtas (também em DRM), Ondas Medias, FM, Satélite e Internet
da Radio Vaticano.

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Vatican Radio (Italian: ”Radio Vaticana”) is the official broadcasting
service of the Vatican.

Set up in 1931 by Guglielmo Marconi, today its programs are offered in
47 languages, and are sent out on short wave (also DRM), medium wave,
FM, satellite and the Internet. The Jesuit Order has been charged with
the management of Vatican Radio since its inception. During World War
II and the rise of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, Vatican Radio
served as a source for news for the Allies as well as broadcasting
pro-Allied (or simply neutral) propaganda.[citation needed] A week
after Pope Pius XII ordered the programming, Vatican Radio broadcast
to an unbelieving world that Poles and Jews were being rounded up and
forced into ghettos.

Today, programming is produced by over two hundred journalists located
in 61 different countries. Vatican Radio produces more than 42,000
hours of simultaneous broadcasting covering international news,
religious celebrations, in-depth programs, and music. The current
general director is Father Federico Lombardi, S.J.

The amateur radio station HV50VR is a special callsign to celebrate
the 50th anniversary of Vatican Radio Trasmitting Site “Santa Maria di
Galeria” (this weekend is On the Air). The Santa Maria di Galeria
Transmitter was established in 1957 and it is an extraterritorial area
in Italy belonging to the Vatican City. The most interesting aerial is
the one for the medium wave frequency 1530 kHz, which consists of four
94 metre high grounded free standing towers arranged in a square,
which carry wires for a medium wave aerial on horizontal crossbars.
The direction of this aerial can be changed.


Fontes: QRZ.com / Wikipedia / Sparky\'s World of Amateur Radio