25th Nov 2023, 12:27 am | #161 |
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Re: Medium Wave Transmitter Closures.
Correction to post #159: 252kHz carries Chaine III
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25th Nov 2023, 1:42 pm | #162 |
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Re: Medium Wave Transmitter Closures.
Along with French and other languages, Radio Algeria International has English language broadcasts on mediumwave. I don't exactly remember if it was on 531 or 549 kHz. In the past both of these Algerian frequencies seemed to have the same content, but now they appear to have diverged. Both frequencies also appear to be weaker as of late.
Speaking of North African stations, Tunisia can also be heard on 630 kHz. However, I am not aware that they broadcast in English or any language except Arabic. |
9th Dec 2023, 11:17 am | #163 |
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Re: Medium Wave Transmitter Closures.
Since yesterday some Bauer MW tx are carrying closure announcements instead of programmes, including on 1152 and 1548 in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Sheffield. Nothing local to me yet, but have a quick tune across the band and see if anything local to you is closing.
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9th Dec 2023, 6:59 pm | #165 |
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Re: Medium Wave Transmitter Closures.
Currently hearing the Edinburgh/Glasgow closedown broadcasts on 1550-ish KHz down here in Wiltshire, using a RACAL RA217 and 100-foot longwire antenna.
Part of me feels I should be recording this and sticking the resultant MP3 files up on YouTube or somewhere else to preserve them for posteriority.
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10th Dec 2023, 5:57 pm | #167 |
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Re: Medium Wave Transmitter Closures.
Heard the Scottish closedown announcements on 1152KHz today while idly tuning around on my AR88; will try and get some recordings via a laptop over the next couple of days.
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11th Dec 2023, 9:27 am | #168 |
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Re: Medium Wave Transmitter Closures.
Around here, 1035kHz is still going this morning but it's demise is imminent so it'll be gone within the next 48hrs.
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12th Dec 2023, 2:29 pm | #169 |
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Well, the transmission on 1035kHz was unceremoniously switched off at 12:00 today. I had been listening to Ken Bruce since 10:00am so only heard two-thirds of his programme !
The carrier just disappeared - no messages to retune or anything, Bauer must be desperate to save on their electricity bill... Andy
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13th Dec 2023, 4:05 pm | #170 |
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Re: Medium Wave Transmitter Closures.
I discovered the attached document. It's an interesting read and is very recent having been updated on November 13th this year.
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13th Dec 2023, 6:15 pm | #171 |
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Re: Medium Wave Transmitter Closures.
That's an interesting paper. The one thing I find intriguing about it though is that it has almost zero mention of ''listening to radio" by way of streaming services [whether using broadband to some appliance like an Amazon Echo or an Alexa or the Apple Siri-thing, or using 4G/5G data services to a phone-app].
Plenty of people I know 'listen to the radio' in the car by way of a phone and Bluetooth. Equally, Alexa and her sisters are probably used by around half my friends-group for domestic background listening. "Radio" doesn't have to mean broadcasting.
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23rd Dec 2023, 7:21 pm | #172 |
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Re: Medium Wave Transmitter Closures.
Reading the report above, what comes over to me is they've talked themselves into believing AM radio is dead.
Of course there will be a decline in listeners as the transmitters are turned off. l've got a surprising amount of customers who still listen to AM, or l did have until it was no longer possible. Don't ask me why this is the case, some of it is due to the poor reception on FM particularly when out in the hills. We were in the Lake District in the Summer and had to resort to AM a few times due to poor FM coverage and non-existent DAB. Also it was not possible to stream due to the lack of mobile coverage. |
23rd Dec 2023, 11:12 pm | #173 |
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Rather a self-fulfilling prophesy that hardly any listeners will be using AM with the amount of transmitters shut down in recent months?? I had always listened to Gold London In the main which has disappeared in recent months leaving me (and sure I wasn’t the only one) unable to hear all their adverts! and no practical alternative medium to hear it.
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24th Dec 2023, 10:44 pm | #174 |
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I thought Poland must surely be ready to close the 225kHz service from Solec Kujawski any time soon, but it seems that it will remain in service for the benefit of several infrastructure operators. It has this month added digital data modulation to complement DCF77 on 77.5kHz which does not have good coverage in the East of Poland, so it looks as though the programme transmission will be funded by the untiliy companies
Ydun's MW Blog
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29th Dec 2023, 11:30 pm | #175 | |
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30th Dec 2023, 8:36 pm | #176 |
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Found this retune loop for 1548kHz Edinburgh, credit to Steve Whitt
https://vocaroo.com/1a1DBSE9PBvD https://mediumwave.info/category/clo...active/page/2/ |
12th Jan 2024, 10:39 pm | #177 |
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North-East England Greastest Hits MW closed down.
Here on Tyneside we now have only three receivable Medium Waveband transmitters. TalkSport, BBC Radio Five Live and Radio Four on 503 meters.
Greatest Hits on 261M recently closed down. Wasn't so long ago we had seven Medium Waveband Stations. DFWB. |
12th Jan 2024, 10:52 pm | #178 |
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I am a great AM lover, and can only see this going one way. That is that it will only available via pay for services in the future. How sad that will be.
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14th Jan 2024, 10:08 pm | #180 |
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Re: Medium Wave Transmitter Closures.
Saw this today - Sunshine Radio granted permission to turn off AM frequency
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