Month: June 2023

United Kingdom

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Another medium wave closure happens this weekend too.
University Radio York, 1350 kHz will be switched off permanently at midnight on Sunday night 25 June; the station is already on FM and online.
University Radio York is the very last student station on medium wave in UK. Do end of an era.

James Robinson (2023-06-23)

United Kingdom

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Full list if medium wave transmitters that are closing permanently on 30 June 2023.

They are only announced on air on each transmitter so you won’t hear them unless you are actually listening on medium wave. Very sad.

774 Little Shurdington (Severn Sound) Smooth Gloucestershire
828 Fern Barrow (2CR) Smooth Dorset
936 Naish Hill (Wiltshire Radio) Smooth Wiltshire
945 Quarndon (Trent) Gold E Mids
999 Trowell (Trent) Gold E Mids
1152 Brundall (Broadland) Smooth Norfolk
1152 Plumber Barracks (Plymouth Sound) Smooth Plymouth
1161 Blundson(Wiltshire Radio) Smooth Wiltshire
1170 Foxhall Heath (Orwell) Smooth East Anglia
1251 Great Barton (Saxon) Smooth East Anglia
1332 Gunthorpe (Hereward) Gold Peterborough
1359 Bakers Wood (Essex Radio) Smooth Essex
1431 Rayleigh MF (Essex Radio) Smooth Essex
1557 Kings Heath (Hereward Gold Northampton

James Robinson (2023-06-23)

Luxembourg

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All Junglinster short wave transmitters are completely dismantled and it has become a data center.  Shortwave antennas are used by BCE radio amateurs.  All that remains is a Thomson backup long-wave transmitter which will be dismantled. 
In Beidweiller there are 2 inactive long wave TRAME transmitters from RTL and 2 TRAME recovered from Europe 1 in spare parts.  (they are for sale!).  The antennas should be dismantled this summer.

Ydun Ritz (2023-06-23)

Luxembourg

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The current pictures of the Junglinster TX show that solar panels were installed between 2016 and 2021.
Does anybody know who did that?

IIRC the TX was already switched off there on LW and SW.
There is a 4 mast SW cross dipole antenna. Later some Yagi? antennas were attached to 2 towers. What is their purpose? Does the cross dipole still exist?
RTL switched off SW years ago.

Marco (2023-06-22)

United Kingdom

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Smooth Radio AM closure.
Reports today on the Digital Spy AM Death watch thread:
30th June closedown announcements now heard on 
Smooth Dorset 828
Smooth Norfolk 1152
Smooth Essex 1359/1431
Smooth Wiltshire 936/1161
Smooth Gloucestershire 774

Vincent Lo says he understands that Plymouth 1152 and Suffolk 1170/1251 will also be closing on June 30th.
The closedown announcements are going out during ad breaks but not every one.

Mijal Hussain has uploaded one he heard on Smooth Essex 
https://www.upload.ee/files/15364709/smooth_announcement_am_closedown.wav.html

Mike Barraclough to MWlist iog (2023-06-22)

Iceland

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Summer solstice bandscan 2023.
I went outside with the radio around 2325Z. After a hot and sunny last week, the weather turned cool, cloudy and foggy.

The LW band appeared rather poor, with only Allouis (162kHz), RUV (189kHz), BBC (198kHz) and a weird tic-tic-tic sound (spread over the band). The last one was soon tracked to a nearby Lexus.

The MW band was little better off. The only signals of good strength were those of Talk Sport on 1053 and 1089 kHz. Others were audible but not of living-room strength.

Reynir Heidberg Stefansson (2023-06-22)

United Kingdom

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Big L Radio London 1206 kHz Felixstowe 29 July – 14 Aug.
Big L Radio London is being promoted at https://www.biglradiolondon.co.uk/ (including on 1206 kHz medium wave and online) 24hrs a day, 29 July – 14 August.

Broadcasting not from a ship but from studios in a red bus in the car park of Felixstowe’s Spa Pavilion on the seafront, the station is being run by Ray Anderson / RadioFab and the Spa Pavilion.
“Part sponsored by RadioFab.Com – Big L Radio London is back on the air this summer for a special 17 day broadcast!
This OFCOM licensed RSL will bring back the great sound of this popular station. Playing all the hits from the ‘Pirate Radio’ years with many of the famous Deejays from the past!
You can tune in on 1206 kHz or find out more at www.biglradiolondon.co.uk ” (RadioFab.com Facebook)

The station coincides with other offshore radio nostalgia events at the Spa Pavilion that weekend:

On the 12th August see ‘Roger “Twiggy” Day’s Pirate Radio Hits Show’ on stage at The Spa Pavilion Felixstowe with Dave Berry, Vanity Fare and Chris Farlowe.
https://thelittleboxoffice.com/spapavilion/event/view/37875 (£26)
Plus on the 13th August The “Radio Days – 2023 Pirate Radio Conference” with Deejays and fans – Talks & Discussions with Susan Moore – daughter of the Radio City bosses Reg & Dorothy Calvert, Norman Barrington’s Pirate Radio Jingles Extravaganza plus talks on Radio Caroline, RNI & Radio Laser. https://thelittleboxoffice.com/spapavilion/event/view/180504 (£25)
This is followed by a ‘Pirates Banquet 3 course Meal’ with after dinner speakers. Your chance to hear some of the amusing stories from the days of ‘watery wireless’! (Spa Restaurant 01394 336 336 – £45)
The following day on the 14th August, which is the 56th anniversary of the passing of the ‘Marine Offences Act’ – we shall be taking ‘The Last Tender’ – a fast vessel with the Deejays to lay memorial reefs at sea, close to where the original MV Caroline, MV Laissez Faire, MV Galaxy and MV Mi Amigo were anchored. You can tune in and hear live commentary on 1206 kHz as Radio London will transmit a special programme called ‘Voices From The Sea’ together with the Deejay voices and songs from the past from the relevant stations.”

(www.biglradiolondon.co.uk via Felixstowe & Offshore Radio Facebook page and Alan Pennington, bdxc-news)

WOR iog (2023-06-21)