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RTE on 252 to continue

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  • #2
    Cube98
    Closed Accounts Posts: 59 ✭✭Cube98


    Listeners to Sunday morning mass on dab are being advised to retune to Longwave


  • #3
    tinytobe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,199 ✭✭✭tinytobe


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/116517651#Comment_116517651

    It wouldn't surprise me that it's the catholic church which is behind the financing of the continuation of the 252 LW transmitter.



  • #4
    KaneToad
    Registered Users Posts: 3,156 ✭✭✭KaneToad


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117966286#Comment_117966286

    Good luck to them, if it is. Their club is losing members at a pace. Can't see them being much of a feature in Irish life in 50 yrs time...



  • #5
    Ger Roe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭Ger Roe


    That is an article from 2019, saying that the upgrade on the antenna system will guarantee the service continues 'for a minimum of two years'. The work was only undertaken earlier this year and the minister for Communications quoted in the article as saying that he will work to ensure the service continues... is no longer holding that position.

    In today's context, and thanks to the recent site works undertaken, the service is continuing. The question is for how long?



  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    I've said it before, I'll say it again, the biggest mistake RTE ever made was putting Radio 1 on LW in the first place, the lack of LW on most new domestic and car radios sold the past 2 decades means that very few people can actually listen to it even if they wanted to. They should have kept 567 & 612 MW, RTE Radio 1 should still be on 567 and RTE Gold should be on 612.



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  • #7
    tinytobe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,199 ✭✭✭tinytobe


    The problem is that the 252 doesn't have the same power as it used to have. It doesn't even cover the UK properly. So if the intention is to reach the Irish living in the UK they are failing with that LW transmitter.

    Yes LW radios are rare in cars these days. I think the French cars had them a bit longer, as there were a couple of stations using LW. Europe 1 has turned of the LW, same as RMC. RTL on 234 is the only one from France left.



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