BC-DX 789 05 Jan 2007 Private Verwendung der Meldun

(Kai Ludwig-D to Noel Green-UK, wwdxc BC-DX Jan 1)
Heard both still on air Jan 1st and following days here in southern
Germany. (wb)
Stig Hartvig Nielsen Says: December 31st, 2006 at 15:45 No - with regard
to Denmark - thats not true. Both 243 and 1062 from Kalundborg will
continue on January 1st 2007. The FINAL decision as to what exactly will
happen with these two transmitters still hasn't been taken.
See
(RNW MN NL blog via dxld Dec 31)
Kalundborg pictures.
This New Year's Eve, December 31, Denmark leaves the longwaves. Of course
we have seen many European longwave stations close down in the last
fifteen years, as FM became the delivery method of choice, and the end of
the Cold War, also brought an end to the power and coverage race between
East and West on longwave and medium wave in Europe. Denmark is the latest
to close down, both on longwave and medium wave as this year ends.
As far as I can tell, the station was on the air in the mid 20's on 260
kHz eventually working its way up to 7,500 watts. In 1934, as per a 1933
wavelength conference, it moved to 238 kHz with a major power increase to
60,000 watts.
(Radio Luxembourg was never recognized by, nor did it adhere to the 1933
longwave frequency adjustment treaty. After jumping around the dial, they
settled down to 230 kHz, just prior to World War II. By the time of, and
during its German occupation and control, Radio Luxembourg blasted out
200,000 watts on 232 kHz. Just 6 kHz away from Denmark.)
Following World War II, A longwave reassignment plan moved Denmark to 245
kHz. On this frequency, its power was eventually increased to 150,000
watts.
When another longwave band plan that went into effect in 1987, Denmark had
moved down 2 kHz to 243 kHz, and by this time, their power was up to
300,000 watts. On trips, I was able to receive them with a fair signal at
12 noon in London on a "barefoot" Sony 2010. And so can you.
(Brock Whaley-GA-USA, dxld Dec 30)
Of course we have seen many European longwave stations close down in the
last fifteen years. It might be interesting that almost all of them are in
the CIS and Scandinavia. Elsewhere in Europe I'm aware of only one closed
longwave station, Burg on 261, and this is a state-of-the-art transmitter
(Telefunken TRAM50), only awaiting its reactivation for a new customer
after the former occupant of this frequency folded up altogether (i.e. did
not leave longwave in favour of other distribution platforms) six years
ago. Currently "Europe 1" has a licence for 261 kHz[channel], but
meanwhile hardly anybody still believes that their proposed German service
will ever see the light of the day.
(Kai Ludwig-D, dxld Dec 31)
DIEGO GARCIA 4319 Armed Forces Network verified an e-mail report to
with a full data card in 8 days from v/s Robert
Winkler.
(Rich D'Angelo-PA-USA, DXplorer Dec 31)
DRM I can't see the attraction of "single channel simulcasting".
The only single channel simulcast mode DRM has tested so far is running on