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BBC stopped shortwave broadcasts to Europe in 2008 alas, glad to see it brought back. Very glad. Was tired only hearing Radio Romania International and China R
by Nux 5y ago
BBC stopped shortwave broadcasts to Europe in 2008 alas, glad to see it brought back.
Very glad. Was tired only hearing Radio Romania International and China Radio International.. :)
- digitalsankhara 5y agoHa! Indeed, I'm listening to CRI as I type this! When you say stopped broadcasts to Europe do you mean programming content rather than frequencies used? I hope there is more will to expand these BBC services permanently. Long time before I got into computers as a career I was a sound recording engineer. I had a brief time at Nottingham University's languages department recording off-air shortwave broadcasts from racks of Eddystone receivers onto 1/4" Levers Rich tape machines. Comparing the diversity of broadcasts then to now is quite startling.
- Nux 5y agoProgramming and freqs afaik, but I could be wrong. When I was scanning the bands in UK/Europe couple of years back never once did I hear BBC..
- digitalsankhara 5y agoInteresting. There are regular transmissions on the 49m band (although they seem to carry programming for Africa) but maybe the skip distance/beam direction is wrong for the EU. I think I misread the article a bit then. I did listen to the 15Mhz transmission today and it was quite strong.