{"id":2277,"date":"2011-02-02T10:22:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T14:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2023-04-30T14:54:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T18:54:09","slug":"abc-turns-to-hf-during-tropical-cyclone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2011\/02\/abc-turns-to-hf-during-tropical-cyclone\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC turns to HF during tropical Cyclone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Super Tropical Cyclone Yasi, a category 5 storm, came ashore this morning between <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=map+of+australia&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Australia&amp;gl=us&amp;ll=-17.832374,145.107422&amp;spn=4.245283,5.597534&amp;t=h&amp;z=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cairns (pronounced Cans) and Townsville<\/a>, Queensland around midnight Thursday (9 am Wednesday, NY time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/0202-OYASI-wire-Australia-Storm_full_600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/0202-OYASI-wire-Australia-Storm_full_600.jpg\" alt=\"Tropical Cyclone Yasi, February 2, 2011\" class=\"wp-image-2280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/0202-OYASI-wire-Australia-Storm_full_600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/0202-OYASI-wire-Australia-Storm_full_600-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/0202-OYASI-wire-Australia-Storm_full_600-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/0202-OYASI-wire-Australia-Storm_full_600-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tropical Cyclone Yasi, February 2, 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Radio Australia carried <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/northqld\/?ref=nav\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC) Queensland<\/a> coverage of the storm, which was extraordinary. \u00a0Spot coverage, emergency information, sheltering information, updates, and calls from listeners in the midst of the storm. \u00a0Some of it is pretty intense. \u00a0One fellow, John, out in the country all by himself in the height of the storm sounded somewhat forlorn, I hope he makes it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to the size of the storm, widespread power outages are expected and may last for weeks or months. \u00a0As a part of this, there are numerous outages and potential outages in their AM and FM broadcasting chain. \u00a0To that end, ABC has two shortwave frequencies available for their Queensland service; daytime (8 am to 8:30 pm local time, 2100 &#8211; 0830 GMT) on 9710 KHz and night time (8:30 pm to 8 am local, 0830 &#8211; 2100 GMT) \u00a0is 6080 KHz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once again, HF (shortwave) radio gets the job done when local stations, cell towers, and internet connections to dead. \u00a0Sometimes it is the low-tech answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Tropical Cyclone Yasi, a category 5 storm, came ashore this morning between Cairns (pronounced Cans) and Townsville, Queensland around midnight Thursday (9 am Wednesday, NY time). Radio Australia carried Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC) Queensland coverage of the storm, which was extraordinary. \u00a0Spot coverage, emergency information, sheltering information, updates, and calls from listeners in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2011\/02\/abc-turns-to-hf-during-tropical-cyclone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ABC turns to HF during tropical Cyclone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[231,157],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-hf","tag-swl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11875,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions\/11875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}