Polar stations, of which five already existed in 1917, increased in number, providing meteorologic, ice reconnaissance, and radio facilities.
The government said today that it had put down an attempted coup by armed groups who attacked state television and radio facilities and the president's residence overnight in fighting that left at least two people dead.
The only medium that can reach them is radio, and a propaganda war is being fought over the airwaves of eastern Congo.On one side is "The Sun of the Great Lakes", a thrice-weekly programme in Kinyarwanda, Rwanda's lingua franca, independently produced but transmitted, via short wave, by an independent station using Austria's state radio facilities.
The move away from the radio facilities reflects the fact that they have been surpassed by the 66-dish Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, astronomers say.
Provision of the RAAF's radio facilities and technicians was considered a boon for contestants, though Cole later recorded that his role involved "twenty months' hard work, without pay ... with loads of scurrilous and other criticism".
On 10 May 1940, the airfield was attacked by the Luftwaffe, with over 110 bombs being dropped, resulting in a Breguet being destroyed, another Breguet and a Potez being severely damaged and the radio facilities being temporarily put out of action.
A notification on the New Zealand government website said walking the 37-mile, four-day-long track between April 30 and October 26 this year "should only be attempted by fit, experienced and well-equipped people" due to additional safety hazards, including the risk of avalanches, and because there are no rangers or emergency radio facilities during this time of year.
The primary reason behind the site establishment is the future construction of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), a radio astronomy facility, at the same location.
The Medicina Radioastronomical Station is a radio observation facility that is here proposed as receiving part of a ground-based space surveillance system for detecting and tracking space debris at different orbital regions (from Low Earth Orbits up to Geostationary Earth Orbits).
The project, which has drawn a lawsuit from some community members, would include 1,218 homes and up to 300,000 square feet of office, retail and restaurant space on a former radio broadcast facility.
