From: mo01@posteo.de   
      
   Am 31.05.2023 um 09:07:56 Uhr schrieb Bill Horne:   
      
   > On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 03:57:03PM -0400, Michael Trew wrote:   
   > > I'm probably the oldest 28 year old on the planet, but I enjoy my   
   > > broadcast radio, and I particularly enjoy pulling in distant   
   > > clear-channel stations at night. You'll regularly find me tuning   
   > > into 650 AM WSM from Nashville on my 10 PM commute home in Western   
   > > PA/Eastern Ohio.  I'd like to see amplitude modulation and broadcast   
   > > radio, in general, to live on.   
   >   
   > In 1978 and 1979, I worked at radio stations in Santa Barbara,   
   > California, while I attended college there. The first station I worked   
   > at had purchased a Volkswagon "Thing" automobile from a soldier who   
   > brought it home from Germany. It had an AM radio that tuned the   
   > European broadcast band, around 200 KHz, and every week, I would drive   
   > it up to the top of the Los Padres forest to check the station's   
   > transmitter.   
      
   > I could here Deutsche Welle all the way up and all the way back down,   
   > all during the ride, on about 200 KHz, which is the low end of the   
   > band where aircraft marker beacons operate in the U.S. IIRC, I could   
   > even hear the marker beacon at the Santa Barbara airport.   
      
   In Europe an Asia, 3 bands are used for AM transmissions: long wave   
   (153 kHz to 179, long time ago until ~350 kHz), medium wave (520-1620   
   kHz) and SW (many bands).   
      
   Long wave hasn't been used in all countries, some are still on air.   
   Deutsche Welle is a German foreign station that operated on SW and a   
   little bit on MW, bot newer on long wave (LW).   
   200 kHz might be the BBC from England. Their TX is still on air on 198   
   kHz.   
   In Germany, 153, 207 (Deutschlandfunk) and 177 (DRadio, former GDR) were   
   on air. In Burg was 261 on air with a German transmission, but only some   
   years after the soviet army moved out that has been closed.   
   Except for Burg, all other LW TX were demolished in the last years.   
      
   Burg is still on air on a lower frequency for controlling power meters.   
      
   Now LW is almost dead, stations are being switched off and antennas are   
   going to be demolished.   
      
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