Re: LF: Radio 4 Long Wave to close.... (soon?)

[ken.h.wright@btinternet.com]

Hi there has been a lot of discussion on Radio 4 especially the Feedback program regarding the closure of 198 LW the valves are expected to last until 2017 the Maritime Agency are also involved for the weather forecasts. Ken. M0KHW

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From: M0FMT <m0fmt@yahoo.co.uk>

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Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 23:44:30 +0000 (GMT)

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Subject: Re: LF: Radio 4 Long Wave to close.... (soon?)

Hi All

 

The ttrouble is the BBC and Mark Thompson are obsolete.

 

"Analogue" BBC FM barely reaches my QTH 30miles North of London and is un usable owing to Aircraft flutter from Luton Airport.

 

In the UK if you have to travel about by car as part of ones job 198kcs can be RXed over all of our land mass without having to retune your radio. And while working in the Saarland and Cologne areas (2003-2007) on a monthly basis it was nice to stay in touch with the UK. There are a lot of expat Brits there I guess they will be please.... not.

73 es GL Pete M0FMT IO91UX47VN

From: Alan Melia <alan.melia@btinternet.com>
To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org
Sent: Tuesday, 8 November 2011, 22:35
Subject: Re: LF: Radio 4 Long Wave to close.... (soon?)

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" <wd2xgj@gmail.com>
To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Cc: <hellozerohellozero@hotmail.com>
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
<hellozerohellozero@hotmail.com> 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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