Hi Warren and Laurence I wonder how they will deal with the contract they
have with NPL to transmit a dirtibution of a standard frequency and time and
utility data! This has 5 years to run I think. The transmitter no longer
belongs to the BBC anyway! It is run by Crown-Castle Comms (last time I had
contact) and probbly owned by them now. Unlike Orfordness it is probably a
desirable development site for domestic housing....if there was any market !
I might email my contact at NPL and see what he says.
Alan
G3NYK
----- Original Message -----
From: "Warren Ziegler" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 8:44 PM
Subject: Re: LF: Radio 4 Long Wave to close.... (soon?)
Laurence,
Its a pity that Droitwich is closing down.
The accompanying article is filled with factual misstatements, I don't
know whether that is due to ignorance or a desire to mislead:
" 500 kilowatts of power, far more - according to the BBC - than other
long wave transmitters, which makes the kit both unique and expensive.
"
Actually this is less than other longwave transmitters such as
Europe 1! And it is not unique!
"Whenever the valves fail a dangerous "arc of power" surges through
the 700ft Droitwich transmission masts."
???? What does that mean?
"Building a new long-wave transmitter for Radio 4 would cost "many
millions of pounds"
Many millions ? I doubt that they sought a quote!
Even the Director of Radio 4 seems to have been appointed with the
intention of shutting it down as opposed to running it as an ongoing
operation.
73 Warren K2ORS
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Laurence KL7UK
<[email protected]> wrote:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/oct/09/bbc-radio4-long-wave-goodbye
>
> Apologies if this is old news - but it takes time for the messenger
pidgeons
> to reach Okie
>
>
> Laurence KL7UK remote 5
>
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73 Warren K2ORS
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