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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 6pt 12pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Prezados Colegas,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 6pt 12pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Deve ser a primeira vez que um avião projectado fundamentalmente para a missões de "guerra psicológica e contra-informação" é utilizado para uma missão de prioritário auxilio humanitário .</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 12pt 6pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Neste momento, a Voz da América transmite quase </span><span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">ininterruptamente</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> para o Haiti e teve de voltar apressadamente a colocar de novo em funcionamento os seus antigos emissores dos anos 60, do século passado .</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 12pt 6pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Também a BBC - World Service que tinha encerrado as emissões em onda curta para as Caraíbas, voltou a reactivar esse serviço.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 12pt 6pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Vários países, com pessoal destacado em auxilio de emergência, também pretendem reactivar as suas emissões em onda curta.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 12pt 6pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Tudo isto vem provar o fundamental papel da radiodifusão, em especial em onda curta, em caso de um colapso generalizado das infra-estruturas devido a um devastador sismo em qualquer parte deste Mundo.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 12pt 6pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Esperamos que esta enorme trágedia sirva de lição para o futuro.</span></p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: PT; mso-fareast-language: PT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">João Costa, CT1FBF</span></span></div>
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<h1 class="entry-title"><img style="WIDTH: 324px; HEIGHT: 224px" height="360" alt="The Commando Solo crew make a run at dusk." src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/TECH/01/26/haiti.flying.radio/t1larg.jpg" width="640" border="0"><img style="WIDTH: 275px; HEIGHT: 223px" height="836" src="http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/070701-f-6751b-001.JPG" width="1170"><img style="WIDTH: 293px; HEIGHT: 221px" height="785" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Interior_of_an_EC-130J_Commando_Solo_Mar_2003.jpg" width="1196"></h1>
<h1 class="entry-title">Flying radio station broadcasts help to Haiti</h1>
<p><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">The CNN website carries a feature on <strong>Commando Solo*</strong>, the 'radio station in the sky' that is currently operating over Haiti. </font></p>
<p><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">There are some interesting details - the <strong>mediumwave antenna</strong> dangling from the aircraft is kept vertical by a 500-pound lead weight. </font></p>
<p><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><strong>The aircraft relays the VOA Creole Service, but during lulls in the VOA programming it sends pre-recorded public service announcements, including advice on sanitation, what to do when encountering a dead body, and a warning from the Haitian government not to attempt dangerous and illegal ocean crossings to Florida in small boats</strong>.</font></p>
<p><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">The CNN Report says that during the first week of operation, missions lasted about eight hours, but the flights have since been lengthened to 14 hours, allowing 10 hours a day of broadcast time. The flights are so long it requires aerial refueling of the plane. </font></p>
<p><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">The airplane flew an estimated 3,200 miles on Saturday, most of it in a loop above Haitian waters. </font></p>
<p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/01/26/haiti.flying.radio/index.html" target="_blank"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">Read the whole article</font></a><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"> </font><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/01/26/haiti.flying.radio/index.html"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/01/26/haiti.flying.radio/index.html</font></a></p>
<p><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><strong>Commando Solo*</strong>, the 'radio station in the sky' in </font><a href="http://www.af.mil/information/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=182"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">http://www.af.mil/information/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=182</font></a></p>
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