United Kingdom

History of 648 kHz
“The history of 648 kHz in the UK” under that title the weekly international DX program Wavescan, from Adventist World Radio, AWR, pays attention to the wellknown former BBC World Service frequency 648 kHz from Orfordness in the UK. Nowadays Radio Caroline is using this transmittersite. In part 1, programmed for Sunday January the 21 th,  of the history of 648 kHz Ray Robbertson mainly tells the story of mediumwave and longwave broadcasting in the UK as from the beginning before World-War 2 up till around 1990. Some interesting historical BBC radiofragments were used. Next broadcast will be more precise about the 648 kHz.

Wavescan is broadcast weekly over many shortwave radiostations in the USA, Africa and Europe. In Europe IRRS in Italy has Wavescan in the schedule. Much more easy is to listen to the program via Applepodcasts, or directly via the link: AWR English – Wavescan – DX Program (WRMI) [WAV] | Adventist World Radio

Best 73’s, Willem Prins – Haren / The Netherlands (2024-01-21)