Radio 1RPH
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Radio 1RPH 1125 kHz is a volunteer manned AM band radio
broadcast
station in the Australian Capital Territory
.
Radio 1RPH is a member of the Radio Print Handicapped Network
. Its catch-phrases are, Your information station and Turning print into sound, and it is intended to serve all those who are, for any reason, handicapped from reading printed material.
Newspapers, magazines, books, and other printed material are read to air. 1RPH used to have a frequency just outside of the AM band, and so suffered little interference, and was heard as far away as the United States.
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
broadcast
Broadcasting
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio visual medium. Receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof...
station in the Australian Capital Territory
Australian Capital Territory
The Australian Capital Territory, often abbreviated ACT, is the capital territory of the Commonwealth of Australia and is the smallest self-governing internal territory...
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Radio 1RPH is a member of the Radio Print Handicapped Network
Radio Print Handicapped Network
RPH Australia is the national peak representative organisaion for a unique Australian network of radio reading service designed to meet the daily information needs of people who, for any reason, are unable to access normal printed material...
. Its catch-phrases are, Your information station and Turning print into sound, and it is intended to serve all those who are, for any reason, handicapped from reading printed material.
Newspapers, magazines, books, and other printed material are read to air. 1RPH used to have a frequency just outside of the AM band, and so suffered little interference, and was heard as far away as the United States.
On-air and production
- Two studios, each with 16 channel mixers:
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- Audio channel sources:
- computer
- CD players
- satellite channels
- Tape-recorders
- turntables
- outside broadcast line
- telephone-radio interface
- Audio channel sources:
Production
- digital post-production studio
- voice-only studio
- CD-R and tape library
- recorded music library
Transmitters and antennas
- 2,000 wattWattThe watt is a derived unit of power in the International System of Units , named after the Scottish engineer James Watt . The unit, defined as one joule per second, measures the rate of energy conversion.-Definition:...
solid-state AM transmitter with standby - two 65 metre antenna masts providing directional coverage
- emergency power-plant
External links
See also
- List of Australian radio stations
- Radio Print Handicapped NetworkRadio Print Handicapped NetworkRPH Australia is the national peak representative organisaion for a unique Australian network of radio reading service designed to meet the daily information needs of people who, for any reason, are unable to access normal printed material...