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Geophysical Alert Message wwv

:Issued: 2024 Apr 27 1505 UTC

# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center

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# Geophysical Alert Message

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Solar-terrestrial indices for 26 April follow.

Solar flux 153 and estimated planetary A-index 19.

The estimated planetary K-index at 1500 UTC on 27 April was 3.33.

Space weather for the past 24 hours has been minor.

Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level occurred.

Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level occurred.

No space weather storms are predicted for the next 24 hours.

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Geophysical Alert Message wwv

:Issued: 2024 Apr 26 1205 UTC

# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center

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# Geophysical Alert Message

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Solar-terrestrial indices for 25 April follow.

Solar flux 167 and estimated planetary A-index 3.

The estimated planetary K-index at 1200 UTC on 26 April was 3.00.

Space weather for the past 24 hours has been minor.

Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level occurred.

Space weather for the next 24 hours is predicted to be minor.

Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level are expected.

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RNZ Pacific 1210 26 Apr 2024

11725Khz 1200 26 APR 2024 - RNZ PACIFIC (NEW ZEALAND) in ENGLISH from RANGITAIKI. SINPO = 55334. English, pips and news @1200z anchored by Vicki McKay. Sports. @1204z trailer for RNZ program. @1205z Weather Forecast: Fine spells, morning frost, isolated showers@1206z "All Night Programme" anchored by Vicki McKay. 250ft unterminated BoG antenna pointed E/W w/MFJ-1020C active antenna (used as a preamplifier/preselector), Etón e1XM. 100kW, beamAz 35°, bearing 240°. Received at Plymouth, MN, United States, 12912KM from transmitter at Rangitaiki. Local time: 0700.

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RNZ Pacific 0439 25 Apr 2024

17675Khz 0438 25 APR 2024 - RNZ PACIFIC (NEW ZEALAND) in ENGLISH from RANGITAIKI. SINPO = 55445. English, music live from a festival (no announcer).Backyard gutter antenna, Etón e1XM. 100kW, beamAz 35°, bearing 240°. Received at Plymouth, MN, United States, 12912KM from transmitter at Rangitaiki. Local time: 2338.

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BBC 0429 25 Apr 2024

12095Khz 0358 25 APR 2024 - BBC (UNITED KINGDOM) in ENGLISH from TALATA VOLONONDRY. SINPO = 55344. English, dead carrier s/on @0358z with ID@0359z pips and Newsday preview. @0401z World News anchored by Chris Berrow. The leader of the US House of Representatives was heckled in a tense visit to Columbia University as protests against the war in Gaza continue to spread across US campuses.Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said Columbia officials had lost control of the situation. In Texas and California, police confronted campus protesters and made dozens of arrests. Pope Francis continues to be in contact, every day, with the Catholic community at Gaza’s Church of the Holy Family, that is currently offering shelter to some 700 Palestinians who have lost their homes in the current war between Hamas and Israel. A formal ceremony to install Haiti's transitional ruling council will be held early Thursday, the prime minister's office said, as the violence-wracked nation moves to form an interim government. The event will be held at the prime minister's office, known as Villa d'Accueil, in the Musseau neighborhood of the capital, instead of the presidential palace which is still under attack from gangs. Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez said on Wednesday he is committed to carrying out a transition that will allow exiled people to return to the country and political prisoners to be freed. Though Maduro's government agreed to a prisoner swap deal with the U.S. in December, freeing dozens of Venezuelans as well as some Americans, opposition members and activists recently have been detained for what supporters say are unfounded reasons. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday called on China to provide a level playing field for American businesses as he began a visit aimed at resolving a raft of contentious issues that could jeopardise the newly repaired relationship. Blinken's trip is the latest high-level contact between the two nations that, along with working groups on issues from global trade to military communication, have tempered the public acrimony that drove relations to historic lows early last year. Ukraine for the first time has begun using long-range ballistic missiles provided secretly by the United States, bombing a Russian military airfield in Crimea last week and Russian forces in another occupied area overnight, American officials said Wednesday. Long sought by Ukrainian leaders, the new missiles give Ukraine nearly double the striking distance, up to 300 kilometers (190 miles), that it had with the mid-range version of the weapon that it received from the U.S. last October. Russia on Wednesday vetoed a U.S.-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution that called on countries to prevent an arms race in outer space, a move that prompted the United States to question if Moscow was hiding something. The vote came after Washington accused Moscow of developing a anti-satellite nuclear weapon to put in space, an allegation that Russia has denied. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Moscow was against putting nuclear weapons in space. Australian police have arrested seven teenagers as part of a wave of counter-terrorism raids across Sydney, claiming it was "likely" the youths may have been plotting an attack. The suspects are believed to share a "religiously motivated violent extremist ideology", say police. The raids are linked to last week's stabbing of an Assyrian bishop, which police declared a "terrorist act". Police say the offenders were "juveniles" aged from 15 to 17. @0405z "Newsday" begins. 250ft unterminated BoG antenna pointed E/W w/MFJ-1020C active antenna (used as a preamplifier/preselector), Etón e1XM. 250kW, beamAz 315°, bearing 63° . Received at Plymouth, MN, United States, 15359KM from transmitter at Talata Volonondry. Local time: 2258.

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Voice of America 0307 25 Apr 2024

6080Khz 0259 25 APR 2024 - VOICE OF AMERICA (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA) in ENGLISH from MOPENG HILL. SINPO = 55233. English, s/on @0259z w/Yankee Doodle int fb news anchored by Richard Greene @0300z. Ukrainians welcome long-awaited US aid package. News of the U.S. approval of a $61 billion aid package for Ukraine is raising optimism in that country in the face of an expected Russian assault this summer. Israel’s military said Wednesday it is deploying two reserve brigade divisions to the Gaza Strip, a move that comes as Israel prepares for a ground invasion in the southern city of Rafah. The military said the brigades would carry out “defensive and tactical missions,” without offering further details. Israeli officials have said an offensive in Rafah is necessary to achieve their goal of eliminating Hamas terrorists. Russia blocked a U.N. Security Council resolution Wednesday reaffirming the need to prevent a nuclear arms race in outer space. The measure was proposed jointly by the United States, a nuclear power, and Japan, the only nation ever to be attacked with nuclear bombs. “We have only begun to understand the catastrophic ramifications of a nuclear explosion in space,” said U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield. “How it could destroy thousands of satellites operated by countries and companies around the world — and wipe out the vital communications, scientific, meteorological, agricultural, commercial and national security services we all depend on.” Niger's junta asked the U.S. to withdraw military personnel from the country over disagreements with Washington on issues including progress on the country's transition to democratic rule, a U.S. official said on Wednesday. The United States has said discussions have begun on the withdrawal of forces from Niger, which until a coup last year had been a key partner for Washington's fight against Islamist insurgents who have killed thousands of people and displaced millions more. U.S. university campuses are seeing pro-Palestinian protests daily. Students are demonstrating against the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and demanding that humanitarian aid be allowed to flow into the territory. Students are also demanding schools cut financial ties to Israel and divest from companies enabling its monthslong conflict. Dozens have been arrested on charges of trespassing or disorderly conduct. Some Jewish students say the protests have veered into antisemitism and made them afraid to set foot on campus. @0305z “Daybreak Africa” anchored by James Butty (w/African accent). MLA 30 amplified loop (powered w/8 AA rechargeable batteries ~10.8vdc), Etón e1XM. 100kW, beamAz 138°, bearing 82°. Received at Plymouth, MN, United States, 14087KM from transmitter at Mopeng Hill. Local time: 2159.

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Geophysical Alert Message wwv

:Issued: 2024 Apr 24 0910 UTC

# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center

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# Geophysical Alert Message

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Solar-terrestrial indices for 23 April follow.

Solar flux 219 and estimated planetary A-index 8.

The estimated planetary K-index at 0900 UTC on 24 April was 0.67.

Space weather for the past 24 hours has been minor.

Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level occurred.

Space weather for the next 24 hours is predicted to be minor.

Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level are expected.

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RNZ Pacific 1109 24 Apr 2024

11725Khz 1100 24 APR 2024 - RNZ PACIFIC (NEW ZEALAND) in ENGLISH from RANGITAIKI. SINPO = 55334. English, pips and news @1100z anchored by Don Wiseman. Sports. @1109z "Pacific Waves" anchored by female announcer. 250ft unterminated BoG antenna pointed E/W w/MFJ-1020C active antenna (used as a preamplifier/preselector), Etón e1XM. 100kW, beamAz 325°, bearing 240°. Received at Plymouth, MN, United States, 12912KM from transmitter at Rangitaiki. Local time: 0600.

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BBC 0407 24 Apr 2024

12095Khz 0358 24 APR 2024 - BBC (UNITED KINGDOM) in ENGLISH from TALATA VOLONONDRY. SINPO = 55445. English, dead carrier s/on @0358z with ID@0359z pips and Newsday preview. @0401z World News anchored by Fiona Macdonald. The US Senate has approved a $95bn (£76bn) foreign aid package that includes military support for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. President Joe Biden is expected to sign the legislation into law on Wednesday. The Senate on Tuesday evening backed the measure passed by the US House of Representatives on Saturday. It includes $61bn in military aid for Ukraine, which the Pentagon says can start being delivered to the war-torn nation "within days". It passed in a bipartisan vote of 79-18. Argentina has asked Interpol to arrest Iran's interior minister over the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people, the foreign ministry said Tuesday. The Iranian minister, Ahmad Vahidi, is part of a delegation from Tehran currently visiting Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and Interpol has issued a red alert seeking his arrest at the request of Argentina, the ministry said in a statement. Argentina has also asked those two governments to arrest Vahidi, it added. Negotiators from 175 countries began talks Tuesday to agree a world treaty to reduce plastic pollution, which is found everywhere from mountain tops to ocean depths. “The world is counting on us to deliver a new treaty that will catalyze and guide the actions and international cooperation needed to deliver a future free of plastic pollution,” said chair of the negotiations, Luis Valdivieso at the UN-led talks here. “Let’s not fail,” he added as he opened the session that will continue until April 29. Haitian police deployed tear gas to move people back from a security perimeter around the National Palace while soldiers gripping rifles patrolled the international airport’s diplomatic entrance on Tuesday, ahead of a planned change of government. The palace has come under repeated fire from gangs that have paralysed the capital Port-au-Prince. A nine-member presidential transition council is to be sworn in at the palace, and although no date has been announced, rumours circulated that it could happen this week. The council is expected to name an interim prime minister and help set up a government that will eventually organise elections in the Caribbean island nation. President Nicolas Maduro announced Tuesday that a United Nations human rights office would begin operating in Venezuela once again, after it was suspended and its staff ordered to leave in February. The change comes as Maduro is under fire at home and abroad over his leftist government's human rights record as he cracks down on dissent while seeking a third term in power. Italy's Senate gave final approval on Tuesday to a contested government plan to allow groups who "support motherhood" into abortion clinics to try to deter women terminating pregnancies. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy party attached the proposal in an amendment to a bill on Rome's post-COVID-19 recovery plan, which includes a chapter dedicated to the health sector. Meloni is staunchly anti-abortion, but pledged during her victorious general election campaign in 2022 that despite her personal convictions she would not change existing legislation on the subject. Tesla tumbled on the stock market today after the company cut electric-vehicle prices and announced layoffs. Alejandra Rodríguez was crowned Miss Universe Buenos Aires 2024 in a competition held on Sunday, April 21 at Corregidor Hotel in La Plata. The 60-year-old lawyer and journalist bested more than 30 other contestants to win the title. She will now prepare to represent Buenos Aires at Miss Universe Argentina 2024. @0406z "Newsday" begins. 250ft unterminated BoG antenna pointed E/W w/MFJ-1020C active antenna (used as a preamplifier/preselector), Etón e1XM. 250kW, beamAz 315°, bearing 63° . Received at Plymouth, MN, United States, 15359KM from transmitter at Talata Volonondry. Local time: 2258.

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RNZ Pacific 0357 24 Apr 2024

17675Khz 0352 24 APR 2024- RNZ PACIFIC (NEW ZEALAND) in ENGLISH from RANGITAIKI. SINPO = 55445. English, music. Backyard gutter antenna, Etón e1XM. 100kW, beamAz 35°, bearing 240°. Received at Plymouth, MN, United States, 12912KM from transmitter at Rangitaiki. Local time: 2252.

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Voice of America 0309 24 Apr 2024

6080Khz 0259 24 APR 2024 - VOICE OF AMERICA (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA) in ENGLISH from MOPENG HILL. SINPO = 45233. English, s/on @0259z w/Yankee Doodle int fb news anchored by Tommy McNeil @0300z. A sweeping foreign aid package easily passed the U.S. Congress late on Tuesday after months of delay, clearing the way for billions of dollars in fresh Ukraine funding amid advances from Russia's invasion force and Kyiv's shortages of military supplies. The Senate approved by 79 to 18 four bills passed by the House of Representatives on Saturday, after House Republican leaders abruptly switched course last week and allowed a vote on the $95 billion in mostly military aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and U.S. partners in the Indo-Pacific. The United Nations called Tuesday for “a clear, transparent and credible investigation” of mass graves uncovered at two major hospitals in war-torn Gaza that were raided by Israeli troops. Credible investigators must have access to the sites, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters, and added that more journalists need to be able to work safely in Gaza to report on the facts. Earlier Tuesday, U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk said he was “horrified” by the destruction of the Shifa medical center in Gaza City and Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis as well as the reported discovery of mass graves in and around the facilities after the Israelis left. A Russian court on Tuesday rejected the latest in a series of appeals by Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich against his pre-trial detention on charges of espionage. Gershkovich, 32, became the first U.S. journalist arrested on spying charges in Russia since the Cold War when he was detained by the Federal Security Service (FSB) on March 29 last year. He, his newspaper and the U.S. government all deny he is a spy. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a Russian missile strike that smashed a prominent skyline television tower in Kharkiv was part of the Kremlin’s effort to intimidate Ukraine’s second-largest city, which in recent weeks has come under increasingly frequent attack. The strike sought to “make the terror visible to the whole city and to try to limit Kharkiv’s connection and access to information,” Zelenskyy said in a Monday evening address. European Union voters are set to be bombarded with lies and disinformation from outside and within the bloc in the June election for the new European Parliament, the president of the assembly warned on Tuesday. "It is something that we have warned about for a long time. In fact, it is not just a threat," Roberta Metsola told Reuters in an interview. She spoke just as information emerged that German authorities arrested an aid to an EU lawmaker on suspicion of espionage for China. Thousands of negotiators and observers representing most of the world’s nations are gathering in the Canadian city of Ottawa this week to craft a treaty to stop the rapidly escalating problem of plastic pollution. Each day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world’s oceans, rivers and lakes, according to the United Nations Environment Programme. People are increasingly breathing, eating and drinking tiny plastic particles. @0304z “Daybreak Africa” anchored by James Butty (w/African accent). 250ft unterminated BoG antenna pointed E/W w/MFJ-1020C active antenna (used as a preamplifier/preselector), Etón e1XM. 100kW, BeamAz 350°, bearing 84°. Received at Plymouth, MN, United States, 14087KM from transmitter at Mopeng Hill. Local time: 2159.

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Geophysical Alert Message wwv

:Issued: 2024 Apr 23 0905 UTC

# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center

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Solar-terrestrial indices for 22 April follow.

Solar flux 227 and estimated planetary A-index 8.

The estimated planetary K-index at 0900 UTC on 23 April was 2.33.

Space weather for the past 24 hours has been minor.

Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level occurred.

Space weather for the next 24 hours is predicted to be minor.

Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level are expected.

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RNZ Pacific 1109 23 Apr 2024

11725Khz 1100 23 APR 2024 - RNZ PACIFIC (NEW ZEALAND) in ENGLISH from RANGITAIKI. SINPO = 55333. English, pips and news @1100z anchored by Lydia Lewis. An Australian-born judge in Kiribati could well face deportation later this week after a tribunal ruling that he should be removed from his post. The tribunal's report has just been tabled in the Kiribati Parliament and is due to be debated by MPs this week - the last week of the current parliamentary session ahead of the general election. The Kiribati judiciary has been in turmoil for nearly four years now, with key judges removed and huge backlogs in the system. Lobbying to form Solomon Islands next government is intensifying. With only four more seats in the 50-member parliament yet to be officially declared, there is no outright winner. As of Monday, the two largest blocs in the winner's circle, independents and the incumbent prime minister Manasseh Sogavare's Our Party, were tied with 12 MPs each.

Sports. @1109z "Pacific Waves" anchored by female announcer. 250ft unterminated BoG antenna pointed E/W w/MFJ-1020C active antenna (used as a preamplifier/preselector), Etón e1XM. 100kW, beamAz 325°, bearing 240°. Received at Plymouth, MN, United States, 12912KM from transmitter at Rangitaiki. Local time: 0600.

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RNZ Pacific 0513 23 Apr 2024

17675Khz 0509 23 APR 2024 - RNZ PACIFIC (NEW ZEALAND) in ENGLISH from RANGITAIKI. SINPO = 45333. English, "Checkpoint" in progress, female announcer interviews male about staff shortages in hospitals delaying cancer surgeries. 250ft unterminated BoG antenna pointed E/W w/MFJ-1020C active antenna (used as a preamplifier/preselector), Etón e1XM. 100kW, beamAz 35°, bearing 240°. Received at Plymouth, MN, United States, 12912KM from transmitter at Rangitaiki. Local time: 0009.

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BBC 0435 23 Apr 2024

12095Khz 0358 23 APR 2024 - BBC (UNITED KINGDOM) in ENGLISH from TALATA VOLONONDRY. SINPO = 55445. English, dead carrier s/on @0358z with ID@0359z pips and Newsday preview. @0401z World News anchored by Fiona Macdonald. Rishi Sunak's flagship Rwanda bill is finally set to become law after months of wrangling ended in a parliamentary showdown shortly before midnight. It designates Rwanda a safe country and is a key part of the government's plans to send some asylum seekers there. The bill has been fiercely criticised by opposition parties but the Lords ended their objections late on Monday. The top UN envoy for Haiti on Monday stressed the need for improved security in the country to allow for further political progress. In her briefing to the Security Council, Maria Isabel Salvador, the UN secretary-general's special representative for Haiti, welcomed the recent political progress in Haiti, especially the establishment of the Transitional Presidential Council (TPC). A hush-money payment was "election fraud, pure and simple", the prosecution alleges in Donald Trump's historic New York trial. But the former president's lawyer says his client did not commit any crimes, adding "he is cloaked in innocence". Trump is accused of trying to cover up a $130,000 (£104,500) payment to porn star Stormy Daniels before he won the 2016 election. A father has started legal action against UK oil giant BP over the death of his 21-year-old son. Hussein Julood alleges the burning off of gas at a BP-run oil field in Iraq, a practise known as flaring, caused his son Ali's leukaemia. A BBC investigation in 2022 found Ali's village, which lies within the field, had high levels of cancer-causing pollutants known to come from flaring. First responders were battling several wildfires in western Canada Monday, in an area facing extreme drought which last year saw its worst-ever fire season. After a long legal battle in Peru for the right of an assisted death, Ana Estrada said she now feels free to avoid suffering from an incurable and debilitating illness that has plagued her for three decades. The Peruvian Supreme Court this week confirmed a prior ruling that allows Estrada, a 44-year-old psychologist, to end her life after a five-year legal battle and years of illness. Federal police in Brazil arrest several 1st Capital Bank executives on money laundering charges. Tunisia held a "first advisory meeting" Monday in its capital Tunis with Algerian and Libyan leaders in the hope of establishing a new Maghreb regional coalition. No leaders from Morocco or Mauritania were present at the meeting, set to take place every three months. The coalition is aimed at furthering "security, stability and development throughout the region", Tunisian foreign minister Nabil Ammar read from a statement. @0406z "Newsday" begins. 250ft unterminated BoG antenna pointed E/W w/MFJ-1020C active antenna (used as a preamplifier/preselector), Etón e1XM. 250kW, beamAz 315°, bearing 63° . Received at Plymouth, MN, United States, 15359KM from transmitter at Talata Volonondry. Local time: 2258.

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RNZ Pacific 1306 21 Apr 2024

7440Khz 1259 21 APR 2024 - RNZ PACIFIC (NEW ZEALAND) in ENGLISH from RANGITAIKI. SINPO = 35233. English, s/on w/bellbird int. until pips and news @1300z anchored by Peter McIlwaine. The government has announced it will reform financial services in a bid to make it easier to get home loans and other lending, and strengthen customer protections. Labour’s Commerce and Consumer Affairs spokesperson Arena Williams said Kiwis would be at greater risk from loan sharks as a result of today’s announcement. “It’s important that New Zealanders can access safe, responsible and affordable credit,” she said. One Japanese naval crewman has died and seven others are missing after two helicopters crashed during a night-time anti-submarine drill in the Pacific Ocean. The twin-engine Mitsubishi SH-60Ks were on anti-submarine training near the Izu Islands, 600km (372 miles) south of Tokyo, officials said. The government has promised to raise concerns about the forcible deportation of Afghans with Pakistan. World Vision wrote to ministers in February, asking they engage with the Pakistan government to stop its foreigners repatriation plan. The policy will see 1.7 million undocumented foreigners leave by 1 November, or face arrest and deportation. Many Afghan refugees fled Afghanistan after the Taliban retook control in 2021, while others have been in Pakistan for decades. Māori artists Mataaho Collective have scooped one of the world’s most coveted art awards at the Venice Biennale for their work Takapau. Takapau is described as a “luminous woven structure of straps that poetically crisscross the gallery space” and is installed at the entrance to one section of Biennale, referred to as the Olympics of the art world. Sports. @1303z trailer for RNZ "Our Changing World". @1304z Weather Forecast. @1305z "All Night Programme" anchored by Peter McIlwaine. Backyard fence antenna w/MFJ-1020C active antenna (used as a preamplifier/preselector), Etón e1XM. 100kW, beamAz 35°, bearing 240°. Received at Plymouth, MN, United States, 12912KM from transmitter at Rangitaiki. Local time: 0759

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RNZ Pacific 1258 21 Apr 2024

11725Khz 1242 21 APR 2024 - RNZ PACIFIC (NEW ZEALAND) in ENGLISH from RANGITAIKI. SINPO = 55445. English, "All Night Programme" in progress, music DJ'd by Peter McIlwaine. s/off @1258z. 250ft unterminated BoG antenna pointed E/W w/MFJ-1020C active antenna (used as a preamplifier/preselector), Etón e1XM. 100kW, beamAz 35°, bearing 240°. Received at Plymouth, MN, United States, 12912KM from transmitter at Rangitaiki. Local time: 0742.