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The Future of Longwave 252kHz (RTE Radio 1)

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  • #32
    MOONBABY240
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭MOONBABY240


    Fuzzy u sound like a man with some inside imfomation about this close down


  • #33
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Fuzzy Clam wrote: »
    You obviously missed my post in another thread. Maintainence has to be carried out on the mast regardless whether the transmitter is or isn't going to be shut down.

    Yeah, that's what happened with the old 647kHz BBC Radio 3 MW mast at Dodford. It was mothballed for about 7 years after the frequency changes in 1978 but when it became necessary to perform maintenance on the mast, they instead decided to demolish it.


  • #34
    desbrook
    Registered Users Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭desbrook


    My poor 1936 Philips valve radio ! It really enjoys the 252 signal ... for now :(


  • #35
    Fuzzy Clam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,293 ✭✭✭Fuzzy Clam


    Karsini wrote: »
    Yeah, that's what happened with the old 647kHz BBC Radio 3 MW mast at Dodford. It was mothballed for about 7 years after the frequency changes in 1978 but when it became necessary to perform maintenance on the mast, they instead decided to demolish it.

    Are you saying that in those 7 years they didn't replace a single aviation light?
    Or in those 7 years, no inspection of the structial integrity of the mast was carried out? Something that, in the case of the mast being the "live" element, would require the transmitter to be switched off.

    Athlone still needed to be maintained even though transmissions had creased. The same goes for Tullamore.


  • #36
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Fuzzy Clam wrote: »
    Are you saying that in those 7 years they didn't replace a single aviation light?
    Or in those 7 years, no inspection of the structial integrity of the mast was carried out? Something that, in the case of the mast being the "live" element, would require the transmitter to be switched off.

    Athlone still needed to be maintained even though transmissions had creased. The same goes for Tullamore.

    I've no idea, don't know the exact ins and outs.


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  • #37
    Antenna
    Registered Users Posts: 2,303 ✭✭✭Antenna


    To what extent is Long Wave coverage being left out on the radios in new cars ??

    The other day I tried out the radio in someone's (new) Opel Insignia. This car has a sound system called Navi600 with FM and AM radio bands. The AM mode does NOT incorporate LW, it is MW (531kHz-1602kHz) only.

    See attached pictures, though its interesting you can put this 'Navi 600' Opel radio into a manual tuning mode with an analogue like tuning dial appearing in the display and you can manually tune along the band without annoying muting (as on other radios), great for finding stations too weak to be found on Search tuning.


  • #38
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    I'd say its been years since a new car had LW.


  • #39
    Declan A Walsh
    Registered Users Posts: 5,989 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    mike65 wrote: »
    I'd say its been years since a new car had LW.

    That depends on your definition of "years"! The 2007 Nissan Note has LW on its radio bands.
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  • #40
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Well that's 6 years ago! In car terms a generation and a half.


  • #41
    Nonoperational
    Registered Users Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭Nonoperational


    2005 VWs have no LW.


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  • #42
    Mr. Rabbit
    Registered Users Posts: 778 ✭✭✭Mr. Rabbit


    I have a 2011 Toyota Verso. No longwave.

    Previous model did have it.


  • #43
    July Rain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 196 ✭✭July Rain


    This turned out to be a big fat Lie


  • #44
    shaunandelly
    Registered Users Posts: 100 ✭✭shaunandelly


    This turned out not to be a big fat lie.


  • #45
    Mr. Rabbit
    Registered Users Posts: 778 ✭✭✭Mr. Rabbit


    Mr. Rabbit wrote: »
    I have a 2011 Toyota Verso. No longwave.

    Previous model did have it.

    Same here.


  • #46
    stephenireland
    Registered Users Posts: 36 ✭stephenireland


    Look the solution is RTE digital nationwide - how much would it cost and how long would it take?


  • #47
    desbrook
    Registered Users Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭desbrook


    stephenireland wrote: »
    Look the solution is RTE digital nationwide - how much would it cost and how long would it take?

    FM is more reliable than DAB when you are on the move imho!!


  • #48
    savertelw252
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭savertelw252


    RTE are SILL planning to cut off the elderly, the lonely, the sick and the isolated, a disgusting attack on our diaspora and on rural Ireland. WE MOST STOP THIS. We are planning a protest outside RTE Donnybrook on Monday October 31st at 2.52pm
    Please follow us on twitter or Facebook to help #savertelw252
    Mod warning post 235 by Nody wrote:
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    Ok people; this thread is generating numerous claims/reported posts at an almost hourly rate (from both sides of the argument) currently. We've taken a light approach on modding in this thread to let people argue it as there's quite a bit of passion on the topic rather than lock it but the number of personal attacks and passive aggressive tone really need to be tuned down a few notches or this thread will end up locked. Hence going forward please focus on the topic rather than the poster(s) of said topic or we'll have to reconsider the overall stance on this thread.


  • #49
    irishgrover
    Registered Users Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭irishgrover


    if you went to the bother of registering to post this, it would be nice to if you went the extra inch and explained what the hell you are talking about :-)


  • #50
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Longwave?


  • #51
    lertsnim
    Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    How many people in Ireland listen to Radio 1 on long wave?


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  • #52
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    lertsnim wrote: »
    How many people in Ireland listen to Radio 1 on long wave?

    Prob more than listen to podcasts or the listen back features which number in the low hundreds according to RTÉ themselves.


  • #53
    ED E
    Registered Users Posts: 36,164 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    Prob more than listen to podcasts or the listen back features which number in the low hundreds according to RTÉ themselves.

    The podcast costs are practically zero, transmission infrastructure isnt free.


  • #54
    First Up
    Registered Users Posts: 14,822 ✭✭✭✭First Up


    lertsnim wrote:
    How many people in Ireland listen to Radio 1 on long wave?


    Its handy when on the continent without internet access - e.g when driving.


  • #55
    Stasi 2.0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 295 ✭✭Stasi 2.0


    lertsnim wrote: »
    How many people in Ireland listen to Radio 1 on long wave?

    Quite a few in Northern Ireland. The FM signal doesnt cover everywhere and the DTT multiplex only carries RnaG not that DTT is any good in cars


  • #56
    PeterTheNinth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭PeterTheNinth


    savertelw252 wrote: »
    RTE are SILL planning to cut off the elderly, the lonely, the sick and the isolated, a disgusting attack on our diaspora and on rural Ireland. WE MOST STOP THIS.

    Ah ffs, dont tell me Sky have exclusive coverage of the All Ireland Final replay!!!


  • #57
    Banjoxed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭Banjoxed


    savertelw252 wrote: »
    RTE are SILL planning to cut off the elderly, the lonely, the sick and the isolated, a disgusting attack on our diaspora and on rural Ireland. WE MOST STOP THIS. We are planning a protest outside RTE Donnybrook on Monday October 31st at 2.52pm
    Please follow us on twitter or Facebook to help #savertelw252

    Problem is on Boards you'll inevitably get a lot of comfortably off folks with a Marie Antoinette attitude to the Diaspora. "Let them use the Internet" will be the basic argument. In reality, many older people are like my elderly mother who can barely work the television remote let alone a smart phone, which is being touted as a 'realistic' alternative to LW 252.

    In any case there always has been a dismissive attitude to the Irish away, especially those in the UK. Cheerio and give us your money twice a year is the classic official Ireland attitude. When small money is needed to secure the cultural lifeline, it is grudged.


  • #58
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,834 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    How many other countries, via the tax payer, fund a radio service for those that left the country?

    Why is anything critical of such things always classed, lazily, as begrudgery?


  • #59
    Stasi 2.0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 295 ✭✭Stasi 2.0


    Not sure if emotionally charged appeals to consider "elderly" are the best way to make the case for retaining the longwave service when people of any age can and do benefit from it.
    ThisRegard wrote: »
    How many other countries, via the tax payer, fund a radio service for those that left the country??

    Quite a lot actually.


  • #60
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,834 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    It was a question, which ones?


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  • #61
    Car99
    Registered Users Posts: 2,530 ✭✭✭Car99


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    It was a question, which ones?

    UK for one.


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