Let's militarise the pacific

Knobby22 said:

Another example to show how much the present Morrison government are diKheads.

In 2017, they cut all funding for shortwave and forced the ABC to shut down the Radio Australia short wave radio transmission across the Pacific. The equipment was sold for $2 million, a bargain. Also excellent savings for the taxpayer.

Guess which country bought it and now runs a propaganda service with this same equipment on the same frequency across the islands? Give you a clue, starts with C. Doesn't end with a T though it should. Why isn't this front page news??? Where is the vision?

China takes over Radio Australia's old shortwave frequencies

A Chinese station takes over the shortwave radio frequencies once used by the ABC in the Pacific region, following the broadcaster's decision to end shortwave services.

www.abc.net.au

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It’s a long-gone era as the Cold War is a distant memory and citizens East and West get their info from the Internet, but perhaps there’s an echo of those times following the invasion of the Ukraine. With most external news agencies thrown out of Russia and their websites blocked, international broadcasters are launching new shortwave services to get the news through. Owning a shortwave radio in Russia may once again be a subversive activity. Let’s build one!

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Radio waves in the shortwave band can be reflected or refracted from a layer of electrically charged atoms in the atmosphere called the ionosphere. Therefore, short waves directed at an angle into the sky can be reflected back to Earth at great distances, beyond the horizon. This is called skywave or "skip" propagation. Thus shortwave radio can be used for communication over very long distances, in contrast to radio waves of higher frequency, which travel in straight lines (line-of-sight propagation) and are limited by the visual horizon, about 64 km (40 miles).

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