[HCDX]: [mwc] Fw: From the RSGB news - 12.9.99

[Nick Hall-Patch <Nick_Hall-Patch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From: "klaus.werner" <klaus.werner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This was posted on the Medium Wave Circle list, but as I seem to be the
only responder so far to this gentleman's request, I thought HCDXers might
help out.


best wishes,

Nick


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>> Subject: From the RSGB news - 12.9.99
>>
>> And now the short wave broadcast section:
>> It is reported on the web pages of the American Radio Relay League that the
>> Americans may be seeking an allocation for radio amateurs in the long wave
>> part of the spectrum, between 160 and 190kHz. Whilst this may be of great
>> interest to amateurs outside of Europe, within ITU Region 1 this part of
the
>> spectrum has more high power broadcasting stations concentrated in it than
>> on any other group of frequencies. In 1953 it contained seven broadcast
>> stations, using a total of 1 Megawatt. Just a few years later the Voice of
>> America in Munich was running more than a Megawatt alone. Today there
are 17
>> transmitters in this 30kHz of the spectrum, totalling 16 Megawatts, which
>> equates to half a Magewatt per single kilohertz.


>> Gordon Adams, G3LEQ, our GR2RS News Manager, would be very interested to
>> receive reports from any listeners outside of Europe or Asiatic Russia who
>> can hear broadcasting stations between 160 and 190kHz. Gordon can be
>> e-mailed at gb2rs.news@xxxxxxxxx


>> European long wave enthusiasts might like to listen for the comparatively
>> low power 10 kilowatt Italian station located in Sicily. Another fairly new
>> 300 kilowatt transmitter, located in Iceland, may be heard after dark on
the
>> same frequency.
>> Whilst the ground wave component of a signal can travel several thousand
>> miles at low frequencies, the peak attenuation of sky wave occurs around
>> 1.5MHz. Indeed the 500 kilowatt BBC Radio 4 transmitter at Droitwich has
>> been heard in India.
>>
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