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ENGINEERING

General

53. The technical services of Radio Hong Kong are undertaken by Cable and Wireless Ltd., who are responsible for the maintenance, installation and operation of all studios, transmitting and receiving facilities.

Transmitters

54. The medium wave transmitting station is situated at Golden Hill in the New Territories.

Output Power Service

Frequency 640 kHz

20 KW

545 kHz

20 KW

Chinese

English

Broadcast

18 hours daily from 6 a.m. 19 hours daily from 6 a.m.

55. The VHF/FM transmitting station is sited at Mount Gough on Hong Kong Island.

Frequency:

94.0 MHz Chinese Service

91.0 MHz English Service

Output Power: 50 KW e.r.p. Chinese Service 50 KW e.r.p. English Service Horizontal

Polarization:

Deviation:

75 kHz

Pre-emphasis: 50 microseconds

Broadcast:

Relay Reception

18 hours daily from 6 a.m., Chinese Service. 19 hours daily from 6 a.m., English Service..

56. The receiving station is situated at Mount Butler on Hong Kong Island. During the year a total of 3,996 English (including Voice of America) and 1,252 Chinese programmes were received for direct relay or recording by Radio Hong Kong. This represented an increase of 18.1% in English programmes and 13.5% in Chinese programmes compared with 1966-67. The standard of reception of BBC direct for programmes from 0900-1200 has been fairly good except for the months December to February when Singapore relay was preferred. For programmes from 2200-0030G, however, BBC direct seldom produced reliable results and Singapore relay station also had great difficulty in maintaining good reception during December - February. During this period relays were very often carried by satellite.

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