The future of RTE Radio 1 LW

dxhound2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120910247#Comment_120910247

What is the reasoning for waiting longer? Did they say it might go back on air in future?

PatrickHam

No , it would just make sense to hold on the the site, it would not cost anything to do this , the Mast maintenance was done two years ago. We now have no back-up or emergency broadcast system

PatrickHam

The answer is in how quick they made decision. To me it seems they wanted to destroy it before someone else was interested

PatrickHam

Also the fact it was never mentioned in a tender for demolition only Tullamore

dxhound2005

Post the text of that email if you can.

rathfarnhamlad

RTE said that there were no plans to demolish the mast? If RTE said that, then it must be true </sarcasm>

On the plus side, at least we have Channel 3 from Algeria with no interference. Their late-night music programming includes a lot of music that would have been heard on Atlantic back in the day. Since it came back online after a recent outage lasting more than a week, the power has been absolutely off the richter!

Antenna

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120910606#Comment_120910606

Looks like the 'no plans' announcement was perhaps to hoodwink the likes of Enda O'Kane etc.

If RTE had said it was to be demolished this summer, they may have organized a campaign in opposition, with some sympathetic politicians etc

'When its gone, its gone'.

Its akin to a moth-balled closed railway line, not just having all the track being pulled up, but also the railway bridges being demolished!

RetroEncabulator

I assume there's a not insignificant maintenance cost to keeping a huge lattice mast intact. So, it probably does make sense to get rid of it if there really is no prospect of it ever being used again, which to be realistic, there isn't.

A railway line being kept in place or at least keeping the route available is a different scenario. We had some rather stupidly shortsighted sale of bits of land over former railways and blocking of routes that are now being considered for reopening. They are also really huge pieces of infrastructure - hundreds of km of routes.

If some new technology that requires huge tower masts like that comes along in the future, it's not really that big a deal to construct a single structure. However, the technology's just completely obsolete and the audience clearly disappeared.

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120910190#Comment_120910190

No.

No it wasn't.

At least the nonsense is put to bed once and for all now.

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120911486#Comment_120911486

Oh, I looked him up, his letters in the Examiner were nuts.

Mickey Mike

I'm sure the site will be totally cleared and turned into a green field site again, like if it was never there, surly they'll pull up the three concrete stays, can't leave them sticking out of the ground.

Mickey Mike

The entire site is layed with copper under ground, RTE will make a good few bob with all the scrap metal, insulates, guy wires and whatever else. I wonder if the transmitter is removed.

Mickey Mike

I'm sure by now the 252 mast is removed and everything else, some heap of metal between the two sites.

Mickey Mike

How they knocked the transmitter mast down: Video here,

Https:/www.linkedin.com/posts/2rnclarkstown-transmitter-on-the-27th-july-2023-activity-7092867491017678848-bki

Mickey Mike

Press on the link and go to bing search. I'm not the best when it comes to technology.

bagonua

If you look carefully, you can see the crew ready to load the pieces up on a lorry to store them in a warehouse until LW 252 is needed again.

CoBo55

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121010887#Comment_121010887

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Putin's coming lads 🫣

dulpit

Anyone else seeing that there should be a new message here, but it's not visible?

Gerry Wicklow

Yup and it wont go away

muffler

Looks like it's another glitch in this fabulous Vanilla platform. It's been highlighted earlier in the Feedback forum.

Hotblack Desiato

Probably a spam/troll post which was deleted.

Gerry Wicklow

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121441318#Comment_121441318

Oh you mean like this little beauty that's been there for the last few weeks

muffler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121441537#Comment_121441537

Not sure if that's the issue or not. I seen a couple of people posting earlier about threads showing as having unread posts when in fact there are none.

I think I might know what the problem is but I'll have to check it out first.

TAFKAlawhec

Showing up for me as a "1 new" marker supposedly posted by someone called William Wilson.

Given that RTÉ Radio 1 is now no longer on 252 kHz, and is as good as certain will never return to broadcasting on this frequency or any other in the long wave band, given the demolition of the Summerhill & Tullamore masts, maybe @icdg it's time to lock this thread?

icdg

I tend to agree.