The shortwave schedule of RNZ Pacific, Radio New Zealand’s service for the Pacific islands, on the timelines of your cities: every broadcast with its language, frequencies, target area and transmitter site, shown in your own time zone instead of UTC.
RNZ Pacific broadcasts in English around the clock, covering the islands of the South and West Pacific with news, sport and Pacific affairs. Short bulletins in local languages are slotted in on certain days: Pijin for the Solomon Islands, French, Tongan, Samoan, Cook Islands Maori and Niuean. On remote islands shortwave is still a key source of news, and of warnings when cyclones approach.
Everything goes out from the transmitter site at Rangitaiki in New Zealand’s North Island. The frequency changes several times a day to follow propagation, which is why a timeline helps: it shows which frequency is in use at any hour. RNZ Pacific publishes its schedule in UTC, while New Zealand changes its clocks in April and September, opposite to the northern hemisphere. This calendar follows the current season of the EiBi shortwave schedule and places each broadcast at its local time in each of your cities.
Select a broadcast to see its frequency in kHz, the target area, the transmitter and the days it airs, with a link to listen on an online SDR receiver.
Yes. RNZ Pacific broadcasts around the clock on shortwave from Rangitaiki, New Zealand, for the Pacific islands, changing frequency through the day as propagation changes.
It depends on the time of day: the station moves between frequencies from about 6.1 to 17.7 MHz. The timeline shows which broadcast is on now in your time zone; select it to see the current frequency.
Mostly English, with short news bulletins in Solomon Islands Pijin, French, Tongan, Samoan, Cook Islands Maori and Niuean on certain days.
Each broadcast has a Listen live link that opens the University of Twente WebSDR in the Netherlands, tuned to the frequency, though reception of the Pacific signals there is weak.
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