Long Wave Not Dead, Yet (4K)

A look at the state of Long Wave broadcasting in Europe and near by regions. Views of the BBC Doritwich antennas. Reception of long wave stations on portable and on line software designed radios.
Sadly it seems Norway are closing down 153khz in October 2019 so better go to an SDR and have a listen before it is gone. (to late, turned off on the 1/12/2019)To listen to interesting things in the radio spectrum check these sites.
websdr.org/ The big daddy of them all is at the University of Twente at
websdr.ewi.utwe...
And many also at rx.linkfanel.net/ one of the best is at sm2byc.ddns.net... you can even switch antennas
Be aware that many of these sites have poor antennas or are in high noise environments
so you will have to select the better ones.
#longwave #doritwich #bbclongwave #doritwichlongwave

[@karhukivi]

In a national emergency, LW is the only broadcast signal that will penetrate into underground stations, tunnels and parking places where people might need to take refuge. The signals even penetrate about 5 metres into seawater - a former RN submarine engineer told me they could listen to cricket while submerged. After 9-11, it was found in the USA that radio was the best and most secure method of communication to the public, not TV, not internet, not telephone!

[@richiehoyt8487]

You Preppers get so worked up over nothing! The way you go on, anyone might think we lived in a world where terrorists fly jetliners into skyscrapers, the levees that protect major American cities from storm surges can fail and those bugs that people get in a flap about, like SARS and MERS, might actually amount to something!

[@MarshalerOfficial]

Of course it is, Radiowaves can go through everything as long as is pretty strong.

[@karhukivi]

@@MarshalerOfficial Depends on the material, the thickness, the electrical conductivity and the frequency, e.g. microwave radiation does not go through the microwave oven walls or door; VHF waves do not penetrate wet rock or clay more than 1-2 metres thick; even longwave radiation does not penetrate more than about 30m of seawater.

[@mmwaashumslowww7167]

The photo of you listening to the Russian broadcast, reminded me of my teenage years back in the early 1970s. My bedroom was full of valve and transistor radios and a dual band tv. I spent years up until i left school, tuning into 100s of stations from all around the world with a variety of aerials. There's not a lot left to hear these days, which is a shame as i have grown increasingly fed up with the internet of everything and multi channel digital tv rubbish. Lots more interference to deal with too which makes listening harder. 198khz from Droitwich has been selected to close down by the second half of 2024. I doubt that anything will save it, just like 252 closed last year.

[@ab0ez]

As an American stationed in Germany from 1992 to 1997, I LOVED listening to 198Khz at night and drifting off to sleep.

[@ajam494]

yes.. not all about the content, but the atmospherics, and the shipping forecast!

[@G6JPG]

@@ajam494 Yes, "Sailing by" one of the best lullabies.

[@schnutchie]

Aprox 20 years ago I drove all over the US in a truck, and I installed a Becker Mexico radio so that I could listen to shortwave radio. I could easily listen to Australia early afternoon in California. This radio also received LW (longwave) but I never picked anything up, nor did I expect to. This video does a good job of showing the multitude of LW stations that still exist. Well done !

[@tonyhowell9203]

Greetings from bromsgrove , 3 miles from droitwich , i was a big HF listener until powerline adapters came along and wrecked everything , still got my Grundig satellit 2100 from 1977 tony

[@kenn743]

243 kHz, longwave Kalundborg, Denmark was shut down on 31-12-2023 forever

[@ZadenZane]

I remember listening to shortwave in the 1980s before the Berlin Wall came down. Somehow it seemed really exciting to tune into Radio Moscow from the other side of the Iron Curtain. I moved into a place with an old Hotbird dish on the wall. Hotbird is like the TV Tower of Babel. The nearest thing I've experienced to the old shortwave radio was flicking through hundreds and hundreds of free TV and radio stations on Hotbird from all over the world. (Although Hotbird's footprint is centred on Europe, North Africa and the Near East.)

[@HughTVDX]

Great video,nice to see the site. The BBC said a few months ago they intend to close longwave within a few years. Droitwich was received in South Australia last year using a beverage antenna around 20.00 gmt.

[@antoniomaglione4101]

Long life to the Droitwitch 198 Khz station. I tune it everyday

[@CarolineFord1]

it's teleswitching that's keeping it going!

[@rich_edwards79]

I used to be able to see the Droitwich masts from my bedroom window in Kidderminster. Had no idea they were so old.

[@robertfoster6070]

I had a similar experience when I was visiting some friends in Trinidad, Colorado. I used a bicycle to get to Walmart on Toupal Drive and cycled past what looked like an emergency services building with a big tower adjacent to it. Afterwards I found out it was the studios and transmitter for KCRT playing "the music from now and then"

[@SJHughes]

I grew up in worcester, and the news paper used to report the houses you were stood by used to have music coming from there cookers and other appliances .

[@MrBrian8749]

Great video, thanks for taking the time to share this. Yes I too agree LW is not dead....let hope its a round a few more years. 73s Brian

[@johnclarke2997]

Most of the Droitwich Marconi Long Wave transmitter from memory is Solid State. It uses a pair of 250kw units which made purpose made by Marconi using a modulation method called Pulsam with a extensive RF matching network located at the base of the T antenna, best discribed as a combined RF filter/matching and antenna in one large unit. The combiner/filter/matching stage were inside a room of its own with wood framework to stop staff getting too close. RF output valves from what I recall were TH537 ? vapour phased cooled tetrodes. At the back of the main building was a pair of Mirelees Blackstone generators with I think were 2000 HP engines giving around 1200 KVA output. I visited the site when I worked for the BBC in the early 1990s after the BBC replaced the Marconi Pulsam modulators stages and replaced them with solid state. Me and a couple of colleagues were invited to the site to see the new equipment along with the then new Harris DX50 solid state transmitters used for Virgin Radio and Talk Radio, these were 50 kw each and combined together to gain 100kw. The Harris equipment was very efficient compared the older Marconi's used on Radio 4 Long Wave and Radio 5 Medium Wave and there was much discussion if the BBC were going to install new solid state equipment to save on power. I think the shortage was mainly down to HF broadcasters buying up the valves for the large 250 kw transmitters used on HF and leaving a shortage of valves to keep the LW units running as I think Thales or Eimac who make the valves had announced the valves would be no longer made. I suspect the factory had a rethink and made some more. More on Marconi Pulsam. tech.ebu.ch/docs/techreview/trev_263-fenn.pdf

[@vk3ase]

Not surprised in this day and age, a while back one of the arguments to get rid of it was the lack of spare valves, sounded like BS to me 200khz for transistors is no big deal.

[@johnrhodez6829]

It's not the frequency it's the power. Marconi made a series of solid state transmitters when I worked there, the transistors were mounted in blocks of matched pairs. Many block used in esck transmitter. Apparently the big problem was keeping them all in precise phase. I think they were 10kW jobs.

[@neilgodwin6531]

​​@@vk3aseIt's not bs. I understand that moulds, etc, remain to make the valves, but they would have to be made to order, and the manufacturer could literally name the price. Neither the BBC or any other organisation can plan a massive operation like this, when at a moments notice the supplier can increase the price of a vital component tenfold. Especially at a time when the BBC has had its funding slashed, and dodging the licence fee is endemic. Though the transmitter site itself is now owned and run by an Australian concern

[@robertcroft8241]

About 10 years ago I was in Azemmour Morocco 70 miles South of Casablanca. turned on my car radio (About 6PM) BBC Radio 4 198 Long Wave Loud and Clear.

[@kamalzoro]

yes ,,,we receive bbc in day time her in tanger north of morocco,

[@tuggaboy]

@@kamalzoro I think that it would have a stronger signal before... Now it's 500 kW ‘only’. Here in Portugal I picked a stronger signal before.

[@snaj9989]

I can't hear BBC from Turkey. I can hear the Luxemburg Radio at 230 ish mhz tho

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

You can get radio 4 long wave in France!

[@jonathaneastwood2927]

Used to be able to hear it on the beach on Majorca but its too weak now.

[@hikewomeat]

Hello! You know, it's amazing that in Australia you had to listen to broadcasts from the USSR. I like to listen to the radio in the LW, MW and SW ranges, while hiking in the wild. I use a Sangean ATS 808 receiver. Late in the evening, when reception improves, especially on the longer wavelength range, it's good to sit by the fire and listen to the radio. In Russia now there is neither longwave nor shortwave broadcasting, most often stations are received from China, including in Russian. Interestingly, Romania broadcasts quite actively. It was possible to catch the Romanian radio in Arabic. I asked myself - why is this? Is there at least one inhabitant of the Arab world who is interested in the events in Romania. But it's funny. For me, this activity is like fishing. You never know what will come up. If I can receive a transmission from afar, such as Cuba, Bangladesh, Japan, Africa, I feel great pleasure. In Norway, probably due to its subpolar location, unusual radio wave propagation effects are possible. In general, there is some mysticism in this. Academician Sakharov, creator of the Soviet thermonuclear bomb and human rights activist, while in exile, listened to a tank receiver given to him by the US military after World War II. He argued that the interference that we hear on these waves is the voice of the planet itself, its ionosphere.

[@vk3ase]

Thanks, very interesting comments.

[@Yosemite-George-61]

Howdy! If you get this, could you tell me where I can buy an antenna for long waves? A directionnal ferrite or a loop? I'm in Normandy, as it it I get BBC 4 very strong, 225 Poland sometimes, 252 Algers and not mutch else... Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[@adamgreen356]

The little "sheds" at the base of the masts house the (now disused) lift machinery that operate the lifts that travel up the inside of the masts. They are no longer used due to safety concerns, if you take a look back at your footage you'll see at 2:16 in your video one of the lift cradles "parked" towards the top of the tower, just in line with the third set of guy lines/insulators from the top, for best impedence and electrical matching.

[@mikemallen9378]

Fantastic, it's a BBC engineering icon, thanks for posting.

[@G4KDXlive]

Thanks for the interesting video. In the UK Iceland can be heard early mornings on 189 and 207 kHz. ...and sometimes Ashgabat, Turkmenistan can be heard weakly on 279 kHz via the Enschede webSDR. Hopefully a new briadcssting use will be found for longwave. A home for DRM?

[@kevmichael2064]

LW...198khz..BBC2...heard CalIfornia...doing winter!!!

[@jonathaneastwood2927]

Radio 2 not been on Longwave since 1978

[@andytyler50]

Thank you VK3ASE, great video, I loved it, fond memories of drifting off to sleep as a kid whilst listening to my valve radio on lw and sw, nice warm glow of the radio dial. QSB in full swing. Thanks again. Andy - m0bah.

[@smartazz61]

We need to keep these things going. I got my radio bug by using a self made crystal radio when I was about ten years old.

[@goatsinker347]

It is slightly more exciting if you can transmit; like in amateur radio, and you get to have stimulating radio topic conversations with wonderfully knowledgeable radio technicians types, especially on the lower frequency bands.

[@G4KDXlive]

It's surprising that longwave didn't catch on in Australia. It's got lots of features that would make longwave an attractive option: Lots of land to cover, a dry interior across which longwave signals would propagate well, a dispersed population, lots of space in which to erect longwave antennas. It's a very interesting band. Occasionally the carrier of the Ashgabat transmitter on 279 kHz can be detected on the Enschede SDR in the Netherlands.

[@vk3ase]

As the video says the some of the first broadcast stations in Au were on long wave but not that much power and inefficient antennas for the band were used so static was a problem particularly up north but going by old reception reports 3LO and 2FC could be heard on the other side of the country at night 2000k away. Maybe they did not want the complacation of duel wave sets but a MW and LW system would have been good. They recently destroyed the Omega tower at Longwood about 150k from Melbourne, a real pity as the 1700ft tower would have been great for LW AM or DRM but no one considered the possibility.

[@StealthMode139]

Miss listing to SW. BBC Aus Art Bell. Hearts of space. Taipei Taiwan, still have a friend from there to this day. Ty FL Crew

[@Coratory]

Hi! It is really cool! I can hear several Middle East LW stations from Samara using SDRPlay and 3 m antenna wire.

[@evanjones2539]

I love the "Tuning box"...They actually hold the lift gear...

[@martinryan5069]

Thank you three-years later loved the old photo 👍📻

[@joshjones3227]

This must have been what shortwave was like before all the national outlets closed down, lots of good music! Thanks for the video, warmest greetings from the states!

[@justicelut]

Thanks for that. Very interesting. When I was a kid I used to listen to ABC radio on a crystal set. Great memories!

[@triangleenjoyer]

Fantastic stuff, thanks for the video!

[@timhague882]

I did a survey looking at the induced current into the human body there, had a current clamp on my leg, when it exceeded 1 amp I decided it was better to leave!, I also heard R4 LW when working in the USA...

[@samw2195]

I’ve heard Radio 4 on 198 on the Iranian border back in the 90s was early in the morning grayline time also can be heard around Central Europe 24/7 Driotwich is a massive landmark

[@jornpettersen3304]

Regarding the transmitter on 153khz on Ingøy in northern Norway It's closed down now, norwegian broadcasting can be heard from svalbard island on 1485 khz medium wawe on an upgraded transmitter, 3 kw Regards Jorn, Norway

[@puidgemont3528]

do you live in slvabard?

[@АлексНиколов-н4д]

Just today I catched 198 KHz. BBC Radio 4 LW. Petrich, Bulgaria, from the other side of Europe.

[@realitywinner7582]

Thanks from Ireland . Fascinating links too. God Bless !

[@andrewsmith2757]

What's the furthest AM station you've received from the US and/or Canada? I onced received WINS New York, which is a news station, just using a portable radio. It faded in and out for a while. This was around 02:00 GMT. The same... 1010 WINS (news station) and a 1510 station from Boston which no longer broadcasts. There's a couple more but I can't remember what they were. This was around 02:30. What's the longest station received a MW or LW station from Europe in North America.

[@spqa2004]

I live in Florida and i have heard regular AM broadcast (medium wave band) signals from New York, Connecticut, Ohio, Nashville, and Atlanta. I heard these stations in August 2020 using the Tecsun PL-880 and it's telescopic antenna.

[@TheArtofEngineering]

If I was in those houses I would set up a long wire and power my lights!!!! :)

[@neilgodwin6531]

Not a good idea. Apart from the huge current, they have mechanisms to channel and earth lightning strikes.

[@jonathanwarner1844]

Absolutely nuts that France Inter stops broadcasting on Long Wave, presumably to save money but they still have to keep the transmitter going anyway. Why not just let them keep broadcasting?

[@vk3ase]

I totally agree it seems bizarre and must be a political decision, marginal extra cost to modulate. If France inter do not want it I am sure some one would pay for air time for one of the best coverage transmitters in Europe.

[@timsmith428]

Many of the few remaining can be heard in North America in winter. Check out the amateur radio activity on 600 metres and 2200 metres.. cheers.. VE6PG

[@ChrisPinCornwall]

Brilliant. I had an HRO, too, excellent receiver.

[@berndp3426]

162 kHz still experiences atmospheric cross-modulation from the RTL longwave. good to hear if on USB setting. (the transmitter itself is not receiving any modulation directly except for the time signal which is unheard - not via amplitude modulation - because this is transmitted by phase-shifting). 198 is thought to be on its last set of tubes. And if BBC gets the intended cut on their public funding (Boris J's plans) it is unlikely that the station will continue to operate any longer. (e.g. BBC 3Counties Radio is already scheduled to shut down on the medium wave, and others might follow soon if funding is no longer secure).

[@benmorris955]

? Transmitters don't receive?!

[@berndp3426]

@@benmorris955 they receive - but what is received is at least not "controlled" by an active component or is not "intentionally received" of course. I would not deliberately connect a sensitive receiver to an energized transmitter antenna with 100KW of power input attached.. :-) Otherwise and generally observed, every transmitter antenna and circuitry is electrically able to be influenced by other transmission fields. passively. And that is why such field-based crossmodulation works (I know about the ever-present twin-functionality of antenna masts, and wires. What can transmit, also can passively(!) receive, and so it can vice versa. (reflectors). on its resonance frequency but also on one of its harmonic frequencies.

[@CraigMilesYoutube]

I love videos like this, what KZbin was made for ❤

[@R33Racer]

There used to be one or two AM masts just like these just off the A47 between Postwick and Brundall, Norfolk. Not sure if they're still there and if they are, what their future is. LW, MW and SW stations are all hard to tune into in East Anglia.

[@jonathaneastwood2927]

Still there transmitting Talksport on 1053khz

[@viocaia]

Just tuned in from Holland SDR radio online! It's a very good reception...

[@gordoncraig8238]

I remember seeing LW radios on small boats to pickup the shipping forecast. It must have good range I guess. I don't know if fishing boats would still have them.

[@CarolineFord1]

It's apparently something called NAVTEX now.

[@babisglykiotis2723]

Thanks ... at Corfu Greece ... with a small analog radio named eltra asia, almost every night can hear ...153 antenna satelor ... 171 medi 1, 198 bbc, 225 poland, 234 rtl, 252 algeria, 270 radio zurnal Chech (it close 11 pm UK time)

[@radioliberland7846]

From the start of this year 2022, Czech Public Radiojournal does not use LW transmitter Topolna on 270 kHz. And the same is for Liblice MW 639 kHz. Instead, investments gone to the DAB+ transmitter network. So Czechs can not hear their radios round Europe,...

[@mikaelrgabriel4835]

Antena Satelor is emitting from Bod station, Romania with a power of 200KW. The station was opened in 1936 and for a time in the past emitted with 1.5MW

[@babisglykiotis2723]

@@mikaelrgabriel4835 many thanks for the info, appreciate

[@smcdonald9991]

Fascinating. We never had LW broadcast in Canada.

[@johnrhodez6829]

You proberbly did when it would have been an early Marconi 'beam' station used for Morse code messaging

[@smcdonald9991]

@@johnrhodez6829 Ok well over here "broadcast" usually refers to radio or television programs, not just any RF transmission. But it may be different elsewhere.

[@qwertyamdx]

Very nice video. I didn't know you have NDBs with voice announcements in Australia. Just a small correction: Russian longwave stations were closed quite recently - in 2014 and the station you heard on 207 was not from Ukraine, but from Iceland. They also have a second transmitter on 189, which airs the same content.

[@vk3ase]

I have not heard any Russian stations for a long time like. 20 years so the ones I used to listen to must have changed in some way or gone off. A lot of Major NDB's had a relay of the vhf weather and airport info, quite useful for quick weather update from your local area airfield. A few years ago most of the NDB's were turned off but a lot of the smaller airfields and RAAF stations are still on. Now the band is less cluttered you can get more DX NDB results. A video of the night before big closure kzbin.info/www/bejne/roGVqaith8mYZ6M Long wave night. There weren't any accessible SDR sites then but I would have liked to see the band when it was full with many stations on each frequency. I did do a band scan and must put it up some time. Re 207 Khz it is only KZbin so not everything is correct. Yes know about the Iceland Stations and must go there and among other things check them out.

[@josesebastian5986]

RTL at 234 kHz seem to be closing fron 1 January 2023. 😞

[@footynutguy]

I've just stumbled upon your channel after finding out about sdr radio. I look forward to seeing what your other videos are like.

[@vk3ase]

Good hope you get something out of them

[@tommyb.6064]

hope you are now familar with obs and screen capture where you can as well input line audio from an usb audio interface to your recording.

[@MichaelBeeny]

I'm sure many years ago BBC radio 4 on long wave was on 200m

[@davidsradioroom9678]

It would be sad to see longwave go.

[@RedMetalRadio]

At times at night I hear very weak signals on 198 and 252 khz here in NOrth America

[@vk3ase]

With a good set up European long wave is quite listenable in he eastern US.

[@spqa2004]

@@vk3ase I live in Florida. What kind of antenna would i need to hear European radio clearly?

[@vk3ase]

Most important to have low noise level but just a long wire would do, best would be a loop, various info on long wave loops on the web

[@terrybeavan4264]

Just stumbled onto this video and living in Jacksonville, FL and as "DX'ing" used to be a huge hobby of mine in decades past and having only occasionally tuned the LW band on my Realistic DX440 (near twin of the old Sangean ATS-803A which I also have) a few times and just gotten a couple local navigation beacons (interesting themselves but pretty boring hearing just the same Morse Code call sign over and over and over) I think I need to dig out one of those old but still loved communications receivers and see what I can get!

[@felixdeoliveira232]

Congratulations! Very good!

[@CraigMilesYoutube]

Strangely I've started listening to LW more in the last year. Use a 1950's Bush DAC90A, or a Sailor hf ships radio.

[@eddyaudio]

A wonderful Video it unfortunate Australia didn’t keep there long wave station from The early days we have large and mass idealey suited to Australian conditions But now our Shortwave Stations are gone and their is rumours that Am Medium wave band will eventually go also they want to move the crap digital system,Thanks for posting a very interesting video Top Marks.

[@Cultwatch123]

eddyaudio their

[@benmorris955]

Could MW be allocated as an amateur band?

[@leyland9999]

Over here in Holland medium wave is alive and kicking! That is, high power stations have closed down but a large number of low powered, 100Watts maximum privately owned stations (and 1584kHz allocated for LPAM max.1Watt) took over after our government allowed private initiatives. After all, we have a long tradition with clandestine radio that still exists today as a matter of fact. So by legalising the use of MW for privately owned stations the government tries to combat interferences and prevent rivalry on the airwaves (battle of the powers). It remains to be seen if this new use for MW is gonna last in the long run. But for the time being, MW got a worthy final (?) use. Unfortunately, all the large antenna towers are gone so the large broadcasters will not return. Not even DRM which proved to be a big, big faillure.

[@thepastcomesalive2082]

Is there a way to get software defined radio four the iPhone and other IOS devices with out the need of a computer?

[@tuggaboy]

This was uploaded on my birthday last year :o A few of those are gone now. :( RIP Europe1

[@RalphCZ]

8:55 last year of ČRo Radiožurnál transmitting

[@bearfreeman7604]

Just heard RTL 234KHz close down @ midnite GMT, 1/1/2023. Another one gon.

[@greggaieck4808]

I am thinking of getting sdr

[@SnabbKassa]

Managed to pick it up from near Gothenburg on my car radio

[@karhukivi]

I drove from Liverpool to Madrid in three days and listened to Radio 4 all the way - never touched the dial. There were financial programmes,, radio plays, medical documentaries and political discussions etc. never a dull moment. One radio play was so realistic that I missed an exit and after about an hour noticed some signs for towns I wasn't expecting to see!

[@senharion]

6:16 what is the program that you use there?

[@ZadenZane]

Can't they broadcast DRM on longwave? They've been banging on about this DRM digital radio for years but no one seems to have invested enough in the technology. And I've never seen a DRM receiver for sale anywhere despite looking on websites all over the world.

[@clintjeffrey3340]

Good onya Dave....just been cooked on watching a bunch of your video's from Flinders Island to this taining LW report....quite excellent...

[@anthonyperkins7556]

It's a shame DRM has never taken off because it would have given LW MW and SW much better quality and reception.

[@ingussilins6330]

Samtimes can hear 5-6 stations on longwave AM... normal can hear 1-3 stations...

[@elektrickyproud1017]

Sadly LW 270 (Topolná, 50 KW, Czech republic) shutdown at the end of 2021

[@bobskie321]

When you received a long wave Russian station in Australia back then is that a daytime reception? In your photograph at 4:35, the window shows it's daytime.

[@vk3ase]

Yes the Russian reception was late at night.

[@xuxnak]

270kHz Topolna radio towers was destroyed few weeks ago :(

[@globalaquatech513]

I love Radio

[@ruslannabioullin3664]

As long as practical neutrino-based communication continues to be nonexistent, longwave will continue to exist (for submarine and underground fallback communication).

[@dylandopsovic7045]

Imagine the groundwave coverage of a station way down at the low end of the LW band!

[@CarolineFord1]

So many of these have gone in 5 years. In London I can get BBC 198, Algeria and Poland. And a beacon!

[@CarolineFord1]

And Hungary. I forgot Hungary!

[@Dan40049]

Thanks for this great video.

[@benmorris955]

It's about time you corrected the sub-titles on these videos.

[@SoddingaboutSi]

Great video. Do you know the other frequencies transmitted from this site and do they use the same frequency reference?

[@theradiodragon2awo]

270khz thats a czech radio radiozurnal TX site: Topolná near Zlín ONLY 50kW!!!! But bad bad audio processing!

[@kamalzoro]

also a russian chanel in this frequancy i think

[@theradiodragon2awo]

@@kamalzoro if i am not mistaken, 270kHz is clear channel for RKS Topolna now

[@kamalzoro]

@PC FAN thinks for info

[@kamalzoro]

@@theradiodragon2awo mybe

[@theradiodragon2awo]

@@charlesdoroszlay5370 yes unfortunatelly which Is really bad move, DAB+ in my Area Is awful without atleast 6el Yagi And they dont plan to add more TXs around here....

[@f.kharrasi4333]

Hi & thanks; What should be done so that medium waves do not interfere with long waves?

[@drsysop]

I picked 198 kHz up one night from the US very faint. Long Wave here is nothing but some airport beacons.

[@aheriady]

Sonora, s station radio am broadcast in Jakarta 1990

[@michaelriecke3265]

Thanks for the Video. Vy 73 DC4BR Michael

[@bobblofinshlof9741]

I've never been able to pick up a long wave station

[@benmorris955]

You have to have LW on your receiver!

[@uTube486]

That's too cool... I'm wasting time from work, but it's great!

[@Albrecht8000]

Sir Is the longwave in UK still alive??? Here in germany at Dec.31st 2015 all SW/MW transmitters were switched off. :-( I´am 36 years old, since my childhood fasconated from this. Greetins from germany

[@vk3ase]

UK long wave and medium wave AM is still going and also in many European countries, look at the later part of the video. The move to close down analogue broadcasting has slowed down as the "experiment" by Norway to go completely DAB has not worked out very well. If you have a long wave radio you will still be able to hear foreign countries and lots of medium wave at night.

[@yaaa3531]

@@vk3ase long wave band can pic mw band signals!??

[@spky999]

@@GurpreetSinghBilling66 Nobody answered this so: a) Europe uses AM on long wave, medium wave and short wave, FM and DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) on VHF. b) United States uses AM on medium wave and short wave, FM on VHF and also IBOC or "GD Radio" on all except short wave. c) India uses AM on medium wave and short wave, FM and DAB on VHF. Some countries including India have short wave transmissions using DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale). That's just a basic summary. Lots more detail on the web about the above and also places I didn't mention.

[@CarolineFord1]

@@spky999 long wave and medium wave are dying in Europe. Slowly all the MW stations are going. Very little shortwave broadcasting to Europe - China and Romania really.

[@kidkidrox]

what is the web adress that you listen to stations worldwide, on the video?

[@vk3ase]

Links are in the description.

[@brandonlaragirl]

Long live long wave!

[@nickparkison977]

No fair, over in Washington state we have zero long wave anything

[@jimawhitaker]

Very interesting, thanks.

[@marty-fh1rw]

Interesting thanks.

[@Paul_VK3HN]

Most taining, thanks Dave. Hunting out UK radio history, that's my kind of tourism!

[@neilgodwin6531]

I've lived a few miles from Wychbold all my life, in Bromsgrove and briefly in Droitwich. I grew up with tales of cookers relaying radio broadcasts, apparently true, drainpipes too. Good news is that there are attempts to get the towers listed. Bad news is that there are only a few, less than 10, replacement valves and the cost for those is too high for the BBC, especially when its funding has been slashed, and dodging the licence fee has become a national pastime. I've grown up seeing the transmitters from 10 miles away, the aircraft warning lights are obviously designed to be seen from great distances and heights. The thought that they might soon go was saddening, but this week I did some research. Certainly the masts will celebrate their 90th birthday, later this year, and because they carry other signals, like the one governing Economy 7 domestic electrical systems, they will continue operating. Incidentally, the box referred to at the base of the tower isn't connected to the transmission operation, it's the housing for the lift (elevator) that used to operate inside the mast for maintenance

[@vk3ase]

Would not worry about the lack of valves, at 198Khz almost anything would work. I am sure a bright teck could design a transmitter using common audio transistors.

[@JUSTaCringeChannel]

They should just open it up for the public to use.

[@rohnkd4hct260]

only lw I hear in the USA is NAVCOM

[@ianharling9569]

Great video and I particularly love the visit to the BBC 198 KHz tx site.Ive never been there but I'm planning a visit to see an old friend who lives up that way so I will stop off and take some pictures.I bet my car radio will overload if I tune into 198 KHz when I arrive at the site.😂73 G7HFS/PA3IKH

[@Cultwatch123]

I once heard Rolf Harris on the BBC Light Programme

[@Nicktgrief]

The short wave bands and lower band are a shadow of their former selves. Gone is your bloody kookaburra from R Australia, its all gone digital☹️

[@borntoclimb7116]

2:08 i like this kind of towers

[@Henry-d9d]

Those towers should stay forever, eternity.