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- goodthenandnowThat station is said to be one of the signals used by the UK’s nuclear subs to assess the state of the country in a war scenario.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_last_resort#:~:text...
- bilegeekIMO, when the last LW transmitter shuts down, the whole band needs to be reallocated to hams. Realistic small-ish antennas are shockingly doable with a capacitance hat, loading coil, and counterpoise.
- UncleOxidantList of longwave radio broadcasters - including those that have shut down. The shutdown list is much longer than those remaining (only 7 remaining).https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longwave_radio_broadca...
- leocRadio Society of Great Britain reaction: https://rsgb.org/main/radio-sport/rsgb-contest-club/bbc-long...Rather defensive press release thing from the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/articles/2026/radio-4-broadc...
- _whiteCaps_Seems like everyone's shutting down radio services. CHU and Weather radio in Canada too :(
- nickcwThe Droitwich transmitter used to transmit on exactly 200 kHz which I always thought was very cool, but it moved to 198 kHz in 1988 to better harmonize with European stations.The program was mostly the same as BBC Radio 4 but it used to diverge at certain times of day. I used to be woken up at 5am every day by my parents clock radio with the farming news which was very dull, but easy to sleep through.
- davidfergusonOnline stream for those without a LW AM receiver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugd8G5w-Sfo
- jmclnxThat is too bad, you would think these could be kept active for historical purposes. But seems these services are all being turned off even though I heard a few were very useful in this day and age.
- binaryturtleAs long we still have DCF77…
- downrightmikeI wonder how many of the Van Allen radiation belts is held up by this