Re: Sv: [HCDX]: Special broadcasts to celebrate 40 years of offshore radio

[Mauno Ritola <ritola@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 15.04 7.10.1998 +0100, you wrote:

>I understand that they will be using some 300 W on long wave 279 kHz. Now
>longwave broadcasting is usually high power only (at least 100 kW or
>normally 500-2000 kW) - so should be very interesting to see how 300 W on
>279 kHz will propagate - daytime as well as nighttime. 
>
>Does anyone have any clues to - or any experience with - the coverage of
>such a low power long wave transmitter??

Not so low power, but RAI Caltanissetta has "only" 10 kW on 189 kHz. I
heard it a few times daytime in central Finland before Iceland occupied the
fq. What kind of powers do the beacon transmitters have?

73, Mauno
Finland
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