ARD Announces MW & LW closures

[womer_uk]

Deutschlandradio Kultur will be shutting down their 990Kc/s TX from Berlin-Britz on the 4th of September.

They say most listeners now listen via FM, DAB, satellite and internet while the various LW and MW transmitters cost them millions of Euros a year in power bills alone

By the end of 2014 all remaining German LW and MW broadcasts will be switched off.

http://www.radioszene.de/58656/deuts...britz-auf.html

Some big misters going next year then with these and RTL 1440

[Radio Wrangler]

I wonder what's going to happen to all the frequencies?

Somehow I don't see cellphones with aerials big enough...

David

[PaulE27]

For those of us who like DXing it is an opportunity to hear stations from much further away, so it is not all bad!

Paul

[Alex728]

Originally Posted by Radio Wrangler

I wonder what's going to happen to all the frequencies?

You (and others here) probably know far more (or could find out for sure) but on HF I've noticed that since a lot of European public broadcasters have ceased HF transmissions, their frequencies have since been occupied by China Radio International. its not easy to find for me to work out where CRI's TX's actually are it might not even be secrecy but that unfortunately I don't understand much Chinese (in spite of my ancestry, my late father was Malaysian Chinese)

signal strength seems identical to that of the former European stations, enough to get good reception on an Éton G3 with internal antenna on an urban Ipswich estate with plenty of QRM...

I do wonder that given most transmitters that once used to be part of the PTT administrations are privatised, and the Chinese do have a few million Euros spare to pay for the electric bill, if they are simply renting these TXs for European relays, with the full approval and agreement of the domestic governments and Communications Ministries?

Perhaps they will start using MF and LF as well?

[Hybrid tellies]

There are winners and losers here, listeners to R Devon on 990Khz around Exeter will notice an improvement in nightime reception and after 2014 BBC R4on 756Khz from Redruth will also notice the difference, that of course if AM is still running in this country by then.
With DLF closing on 207Khz from Munich means that we should be able to hear Morocco and Iceland more clearly and on 153Khz will allow clearer reception of Algeria and Romania, all after dark of course.

[Julesomega]

Perhaps they will start using MF and LF as well?

Someone hasn't tuned to Luxembourg 1440kHz in the past 10 years

[Alex728]

when I was younger I lived in Reading - where what radios I had access to meant that Luxembourg was usually cut across by the ILR station's MF frequency (Radio 210 or 1431 KHz) - and to most of my monitoring was either Band II or HF, MF and LF (other than Radio 4 and the French) - (my musical tastes had also changed to more specialist electronic dance music, but I do have an interest in European languages)

I often work in envrironments full of computers (and at home there are a fair few) which seem to wipe out most MF reception, though will try at night in the corner of my house which is clear of this QRM (also the streetlights are switched off here after midnight)

[crusher19860138]

All the years that Beacon Radio/WABC/Classic Gold/Gold/Free Radio 80's suffered interference on 990AM! Soon to be gone and in the clear again, the same as 1017AM!