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3 unusual facts about medium wave


Medium wave

Medium frequency band, of which the medium wave band forms a part.

Radio Rossii

Radio Rossii is broadcast throughout Russia, as well as in parts of Europe, on the LW, MW and SW bands.

Wireless Monitoring Organisation

These monitoring stations carry out monitoring in MF, HF, VHF, lower part of UHF.


Adelsheim

Transmission tower at 49° 24' 38" N, 9° 23' 29" E (freestanding steel lattice construction, bearing until 1993 an SWR MW transmission antenna in the form of a long-wire antenna)

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).

Trent FM

Launched on 3 July 1975 as Radio Trent and based in the converted Nottingham Women's Hospital at 29-31 Castle Gate, Nottingham, the station broadcast on FM and medium wave.


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1278 and 1530 AM West Yorkshire

The station began life as Pennine Radio which was part of the Yorkshire Radio Network, but when it split its AM and FM frequencies, the medium wave licence became Classic Gold.

BBC Home Service

The last Regional Home Service was an FM opt-out of Radio 4 for Devon and Cornwall as the "South West Region", also carried on several low power medium-wave transmitters, which continued until BBC Radio Cornwall and BBC Radio Devon opened on 17 January 1983.

Bod, Brașov

At Bod there is one of Romania's largest sugar factories and a broadcasting transmitter for long- and medium-wave radio, the Bod Transmitter.

Dobl Transmitter

Dobl Transmitter is a facility for medium wave broadcasting at Dobl, Steiermark, Austria, built in 1942.

Heusweiler radio transmitter

The Heusweiler transmitter is a facility for medium wave broadcasting near Heusweiler, Germany, which originally went into service on 23 December 1935.

Nordkirchen transmitter

The Nordkirchen transmitter is a medium-wave broadcasting facility of Deutsche Telekom near Nordkirchen in Northrhine-Westphalia.

Option Musique

Until 6 December 2010, it was also available on medium wave (765 kHz) through the Sottens transmitter.

Orfordness transmitting station

The site and buildings were taken over in 1975 by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Communications Engineering Department (still better known by its previous name, the Diplomatic Wireless Service), who installed a 50-kW medium-wave broadcast transmitter.

Paull

Paull also has a small Medium Wave transmitter site from which the signals for BBC Radio Humberside, Absolute Radio and TalkSPORT are transmitted.

Radio Bulgaria

In 2004, Radio Bulgaria broadcasts to Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America on short and medium wave in Bulgarian, English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Serbian, Greek, Albanian and Turkish.

Radio in Austria

Therefore, all medium wave stations were shut off, with the exception of the frequency 1476 kHz from Vienna (Sendeanlage Bisamberg) to cover Czechoslovakia.

Radio in Sri Lanka

Trans World Radio India broadcasts on medium wave using SLBC's transmitter in Puttalam.

RTB1

On 1 March 1976, 2-high power medium wave stations in the Brunei-Muara District commenced transmission, expanding the coverage of radio and television services to almost 100% of the country.

Tunnel transmitter

An example of this is in the Dartford Crossing tunnel near London, where the programme "Virgin 1215" in the medium-wave band and the BBC's Radio 4 on 198 kHz long wave are rebroadcast in the tunnel.