BC-DX 841 04 Jan 2008 Private Verwendung der Meldun

the elderly and those living in remote areas.
Fine Gael communications spokesman Simon Coveney said shutting down medium
wave transmissions has implications for people in rural parts of the
country and at sea.
"This is a public service broadcaster and this shouldn't be abandoned," he
said.
Labour communications and marine spokesman Michael McCarthy said the
decision would have the biggest implications for fishermen working 50 or
100 miles off the coast and relying on the broadcasts for weather reports
and for farmers.
Irish Independent Dublin. By Laura Noonan. Jan 19, 2008
(via Mike Terry-UK, BrDXC-UK / mwdx Jan 19)
Irish public broadcaster RTE plans to axe Radio 1's mediumwave service on
24 March. RTE believes the transmission cost can no longer be justified,
since the content is now available elsewhere. The mediumwave service, on
567 kHz, shares almost all its content with the FM version of Radio 1,
except for Sunday religious services and a midweek soccer game. But the
decision has been criticised by rural listener and politicians.
There is to be a public information campaign ahead of the switch-off date.
This will highlight the fact that the full Radio 1 mediumwave service will
remain available on longwave (252 kHz). It is also available on the Sky
Digital platform. RTE is also talking to charities about providing
subsidised radios for those who don't have sets with FM or longwave.
(Independent.ie via RNW MN Jan 20)
Re: "500 kW on 567, but a 10 kW Cork relay on 729, going off too?"
Apparently yes. And it also appears that the Cork mediumwave site will be
eventually demolished, like the Athlone site which went dark in April
2004:
Spirit Radio, which had been awarded the ex-Athlone frequency 612, has to
build an entirely new site:
Nice pictures of Athlone equipment:
And a photo of the Tullamore antenna:
(Kai Ludwig-D, dxld Jan 21)
It is indeed sad to hear that RTE have decided to close down their medium
wave broadcasts from the 24th March. Indeed another end to an era.
Interesting discussions on the station's own news broadcasts today and
quite a lot of negative reactions. Fisherman, sailors, elderly and people
living in isolate rural areas which find FM broadcasts poor where
vocalising their opposition. However there has also been a lot of negative
responses from the UK pointing out although the long wave transmissions on
252 is nearly universal in coverage, many find that a lot of their radios
i.e. clock radios, car radios, etc., do not have LW.
I understand that the 567 kHz transmissions (500 kW) have a very good
reception in Scandinavia; I presume LW is similar. I was in the Oxford