Re: [IRCA] Norway closing down remaining MW

[Tim Kridel <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I also remember someone arguing that by the late 1980s, the MW band would be
used for dispatching taxis. Could this finally be the end?


> From: Mike Sanburn <mikesanburn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 12:23:03 -0700
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> Subject: Re: [IRCA] Norway closing down remaining MW
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> 
> This migration away from the broadcast band is very disconcerting....I
> remember the 1314 Khz station in Norway was widely reported for years.  ms
> 
>> Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 07:57:56 -0700
>> From: wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx
>> To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; amdx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; am@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [IRCA] Norway closing down remaining MW
>> 
>> Reposted from another list:
>> 
>> As per a press release from Norkring (in Norwegian only), the Vigra
>> transmitter on 630 will close on June 30th, 2011, while the Røst transmitter
>> on 675 will be left alive until December 31st, 2012 after only 13 years of
>> service. This will leave Ingøy 153 as the only remaining AM transmitter on
>> Norwegian mainland. Norkring's sole MW station left will be the 1 kW NRK
>> relay at Longyearbyen, Svalbard (1485 kHz). I won't be surprised if its days
>> are numbered too.
>> 
>> 
>> Russ Edmunds
>> Blue Bell, PA ( 360' ASL )
>> [15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
>> 40:08:45N; 75:16:04W, Grid FN20id
>> <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
>> FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'
>> AM: Modified Sony ICF 2010 barefoot
>> 
>> 
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