Actually BBC Radio 4 long wave is on 198 kHz, 1514 metres, not the other way round. It's broadcast from Droitwich near the middle of England (grid ref SO929663, at a power of 500 kW) and from two smaller stations in Scotland, Westerglen and Burghead (each 50 kW). It also goes out locally on various MW stations around 720-774 and 1485 kHz as well as FM in the 92-95 MHz band. As far as I know it's not on the 5975 kHz frequency (which is BBC World Service in Central America and possibly other things).
Andrew James -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 November 2003 17:42 To: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de Subject: Re: BBC radio program(me) on sundials on 13 Dec. In a message dated 2003/11/27 02:50:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > BBC Radio 4 will carry a 30-minute show on sundials on Saturday, 13 > December at 1530 GMT. > > It's of course easy to hear in the UK, but anyone with a Web > connection who can stream audio can also listen at > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/ > > or through the ether on long wave at 198 meters. I have a shortwave receiver that picks up BBC on 5975 kHz rather well. Will the program be at that frequency also? (This ancient computer won't handle streaming audio.) What would the frequency of 198 m be? Is that a band, rather than a frequency? Haven't heard of that band, but I'm a rank novice at this sort of thing. Let's see... 299792458/198 = 1514 kHz (Not correcting for the refractive index of air.) Have I messed that up? Thanks! John Bercovitz - -
