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3 unusual facts about longwave


2008 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final

Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh provide commentary for RTÉ radio with the match being broadcast on both FM and LW.

Cwm Dyli

Electricity produced here was also used to power the Long Wave Wireless Telegraph transmitting station built by Marconi in 1912 near Waunfawr.

War Tapes

The band has played shows and toured across the US and in the UK with The Smashing Pumpkins, Tiger Army, Shiny Toy Guns, Moving Units, The Bravery, Longwave, VNV Nation, She Wants Revenge, Mark Burgess of the Chameleons, Elefant, Jonathan Richman, and The Unseen.


Bod Transmitter

The Bod Transmitter (also known as the Braşov Transmitter) is the name of the transmitter facility for the central longwave radio station near Bod, Romania.

Erching transmitter

The Erching transmitter was a longwave broadcasting facility of the Voice of America, established in 1953 near Erching, Bavaria, Germany.

Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975

It covers radio broadcasting in the long and medium wave bands outside the Americas (separate agreements being in place for North and South America).

Longwave transmitter Europe 1

The Longwave transmitter Europe 1 is the oldest privately owned radio station in Germany, situated between Felsberg and Berus/Saar, Germany.

Mainflingen longwave transmitter

Mainflingen longwave transmitter is a large facility for commercial longwave transmissions at Mainflingen, Hesse, Germany, which was built in 1956.

Original Signal Recordings

Original Signal participates in full-service record deals with Athlete, The Bronx, David Ford, Kill Hannah, Longwave, The Modern Society, The Sounds, Lane Turner, and Butch Walker.

Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt

The most popular means is the transmission of standard frequency and time signals by the longwave time signal DCF77.

Radio teleswitch

In October 2011, the BBC admitted that the Droitwich transmitter, including Radio 4's longwave service and Radio Teleswitch, will cease to operate when one of the last two valves breaks, and no effort would be made to manufacture more nor to install a replacement longwave transmitter.

Raszyn radio transmitter

The longwave transmitter Raszyn is a longwave broadcasting transmitter near Raszyn, Poland.

ROA Time

This station is the only broadcast of official time in Spain because there is not any longwave station broadcasting time signals like DCF77 from Germany or MSF60 (also known as NPL) from United Kingdom.

Topolná transmitter

The Topolná transmitter (Czech: RKS Topolná) is the central longwave broadcasting facility of the Czech Republic situated westward of the village Topolná at the Morava River.

Warsaw radio mast

It was located in Konstantynów, Gąbin, Poland, and was used by Warsaw Radio-Television (Centrum Radiowo-Telewizyjne) for longwave radio broadcasting on a frequency of AM-LW (long wave) 227 kHz before 1 February 1988 and AM-LW (long wave) 225 kHz afterwards.

Westerglen transmitting station

A number of items in the BBC Radio 4 schedule are carried on the longwave frequency only: these include Yesterday In Parliament at 0835–0900 on Tuesdays to Fridays, The Daily Service at 0945–1000 on Mondays to Fridays, the Shipping Forecast at 1201–1204 daily and 1754–1757 on Mondays to Fridays, and Test Match Special during international cricket games.

WGU-20

Operating 24 hours a day on a longwave frequency of 179 kHz from Chase, Maryland, WGU-20's programming consisted of pre-recorded announcements and time checks.


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