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All three transmitters carry Radio teleswitch PSK data; Droitwich relays BBC World Service from 01:00 to 05:20 UTC. On 30 May 2023, the BBC announced that BBC Radio 4 will stop broadcasting on long wave but did not set a date. Opt-out programming ended on 31 Mar 2024.
Until the 1970s, some long-wave stations in northern and eastern Europe and the Soviet Union operated on frequencies as high as 433 kHz. [ 13 ] Some radio broadcasters, for instance Droitwich transmitting station in the UK, derive their carrier frequencies from an atomic clock , allowing their use as frequency standards .
WWVB is a longwave time signal radio station near Fort Collins, Colorado and is operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). [1] Most radio-controlled clocks in North America [2] use WWVB's transmissions to set the correct time. The normal signal transmitted from WWVB is 70 kW ERP and uses a 60 kHz carrier wave ...
Instead of the 500 kHz and 1 MHz frequencies common in shipboard radio at the time, Marconi was to use longwave frequencies of 37.5 kHz for transmission from Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia to Letterfrack and 54.5 kHz for transmission from Clifden, Ireland to Louisbourg in order to establish reliable transatlantic communication day and ...
Longwave assignments for broadcasting only exist in ITU Region 1 (Europe, Africa, and northern and central Asia) and are not allocated elsewhere. Individual stations have coverage measured in the hundreds of kilometers; however, there is only a very limited number of available broadcasting slots.
Radio stations on longwave, between 148khz and 300khz. Pages in category "Longwave radio stations" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Droitwich Masts at the Droitwich transmitting station Droitwich Transmitting Station (Worcestershire) Location Droitwich, Worcestershire Mast height 213.36 metres (700 ft) Coordinates 52°17′48″N 2°06′19″W / 52.296666666667°N 2.1052777777778°W / 52.296666666667; -2.1052777777778 Grid reference SO929663 Built 1934 The Droitwich transmitting station is a large broadcasting ...
BBC Radio 4 is the second-most-popular British domestic radio station by total hours, [8] after Radio 2. It recorded its highest audience, of 11 million listeners, in May 2011, [9] and was "UK Radio Station of the Year" at the 2003, 2004, 2008 and 2023 Radio Academy Awards. [10] [11] It also won a Peabody Award in 2002 for File on 4: Export ...