On Aug. 1, RNZ Pacific — the international service of New Zealand’s public media organization RNZ — did something rather unusual by current international broadcasting standards. Rather than take a ...

RNZ has powered down for the last time its 34-year-old shortwave Thompson transmitter, known as “Transmitter 1”, one of two shortwave transmitters that deliver analogue and digital radio broadcasts to ...

Here is GE’s 100 kW “Big Bertha” transmitter installed at KWID at Islais Creek in San Francisco. An adjacent concrete vault held the transmitter’s massive transformers and water cooling system. KWID ...