I use to have radio shaak dx400 radio and would tune leftof the am
broadcast band from 150-540 or so and the only thing that I have ever
heard on this band was those 3 letter cw becons and weather and this was
on a long wire antanna and this was back in the 80's. In 1986 I went
toEurop and they did broadcast on this band but it was in their own
langueges. I think that those 3 letter cw stations might be airport
navagation stations and this is my experiences with the long wave band.
Brian Sackrider
On 6/7/2014 6:19 AM, Colin Howard wrote:
Dane,
No, they are not taking it off air in 2016, 2020 at the very very earliest.
Do you want a long wave scan or just samples of stations?
I am quite happy to do a scann for you, waiting on each station for a few
minutes, but please be aware, I am located only three miles from the local
transmitter which carries A.M services and we get some imaging at the hf end
of long wave.
As for sets being sold with long wave, I am not aware of any lack, certainly
down here in Hampshire.
Radio 4 is on 198kHz and RTE1 (or is it 2)? is on 252kHz. R4 is reasonable
but again, suffers problems due to the local A.M transmitter, primarily
because we have Talk Sport on 1107kHz which generates a hetrodyne on 198kHz,
I have not yet found a radio which totally nulls this, if you care to work
it out, 1107 minus 198 = more or less double the i.f of many sets, i.e 909,
most sets have an i.f of 465, 455 is half 909, rather close to the i.f of
465, which most sets tend to use, least those which have a.m on the lf and
mf bands.
RTE on 252 here, is not very strong, but then being on the south coast, the
signal not really being very strong from the transmitter, it not really a
surprise.
