From TWITTER
Chris Greenway
French national radio station RTL leaves longwave today (its
transmitter is in Luxembourg).
On 31/12/2022 16:03, Mark Carver wrote:
Twitter speaks with forked tongue. It's Jan 2nd (Just like 405 line
telly, can't be switching off things during overtime 😄 )
Though I would have thought that now someone could sit in a nice warm building many miles away and switch them off bang on midnight or even re-programme them to switch off at midnight. Or even do it from home.
When we turned off the Band I equipment we pulled out any mains plugs
and pulled the breakers so they were OFF.
But I don't think we went to all relay stations immediately.
Twitter speaks with forked tongue. It's Jan 2nd (Just like 405 line
telly, can't be switching off things during overtime 😄 )
On 31/12/2022 17:00, Mark Carver wrote:
Wouldn't the relays have shut down anyway (at least the carriers) when
the main station feeding them died ?
Unless they were set to switch to a standby audio feed on loss of signal?
Wouldn't the relays have shut down anyway (at least the carriers) when
the main station feeding them died ?
On 31/12/2022 17:16, John Williamson wrote:Sorry, I was still on the long wave.
On 31/12/2022 17:00, Mark Carver wrote:For a small 405 line TV relay ?
Wouldn't the relays have shut down anyway (at least the carriers) when
the main station feeding them died ?
Unless they were set to switch to a standby audio feed on loss of signal?
Wouldn't the relays have shut down anyway (at least the carriers) when
the main station feeding them died ?
The "audio" only implied radio, for 405 lines, I vaguely remember a
caption as well apologising for the lack of the normal programming when
there was a problem, though when we were watching 405, we were served by
a main transmitter site.
From TWITTER
Chris Greenway
French national radio station RTL leaves longwave today (its transmitter
is in Luxembourg).
This leaves Algeria, Denmark, Iceland, Ireland, Mongolia, Morocco, Poland, Romania, Turkmenistan and the UK as still using the LW band.
On 31/12/2022 16:49, MB wrote:
On 31/12/2022 16:03, Mark Carver wrote:Seems they possibly did, coz this morning it's gone.
Twitter speaks with forked tongue. It's Jan 2nd (Just like 405 line
telly, can't be switching off things during overtime 😄 )
Though I would have thought that now someone could sit in a nice warm
building many miles away and switch them off bang on midnight or even
re-programme them to switch off at midnight. Or even do it from home.
On 31/12/2022 16:03, Mark Carver wrote:
Twitter speaks with forked tongue. It's Jan 2nd (Just like 405 line
telly, can't be switching off things during overtime 😄 )
Though I would have thought that now someone could sit in a nice warm building many miles away and switch them off bang on midnight or even re-programme them to switch off at midnight. Or even do it from home.
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