Long Wave Radio RTE

muchos04 · 30-07-2011 7:14pm #1

Hi

Can you get rte 1 on long wave radio? Want to use a portable radio in car in uk.

Thanks

yiddo59 · 31-07-2011 12:58pm

muchos04 wrote: »

Hi

Can you get rte 1 on long wave radio? Want to use a portable radio in car in uk.

Thanks

yes you can. it's on 252khz LW

Greenman · 17-08-2011 12:22am

For the past week I've been a getting a hetrodyne sound on 252 :mad: which is making it unlistenable as the best of time. So who's off channel? Irl or Algeria?

Anyone else hearing the hetrodyne?

kazoo106 · 17-08-2011 12:03pm

Its not only happening in your neck of the woods - a mere 65km north of the Transmitter, the heterodyne makes it unlistenable at night. Furthermore this tone sounds to be close to 1kHz so either RTE or Algeria are operating up to a kHz off channel

Fuzzy Clam · 17-08-2011 2:38pm

Checking it in SSB, RTE seem to be on channel.

Greenman · 18-08-2011 3:22am

I e-mailed RTE on hearus@rte.ie on tuesday as yet nothing heard. Now I'm going to mail europe@rte.ie and see what turns up. If you can tell me a contact e-mail or number I will use it directly.

It seemed a little less bad yesterday.

Come RTE get the finger out.

Maybe they are creating the hetrodyne themselves and seeing how many complain, if not too many complain they'll switch it off. :mad::(:confused:

Greenman · 18-08-2011 3:29am

Algeria on 250 khz? can that be so?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96SeWcvDiXg

Antenna · 19-08-2011 12:27pm

Algeria were on 253kHz instead of 252kHz last time I checked a few hours ago.

not the first time it has happened according to 'World of Radio'

http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1101.txt

go down to 'Algeria' on that page

Mycroft H · 19-08-2011 3:20pm

RTE is loud and clear on 252 in the midlands ±5khz either side. No hint of Algeria. I'll try again tonight

Fuzzy Clam · 19-08-2011 11:42pm

Quite bad here tonight. Very had to null it out completely. I wonder if it's deliberate

padd b1975 · 20-08-2011 8:00am

Coming in loud and clear all week throughout the Uk in my truck.

Mycroft H · 21-08-2011 4:57pm

On a side note radio 4 198lw is pretty hazy this week

Antenna · 23-08-2011 9:24am

Greenman wrote: »

For the past week I've been a getting a hetrodyne sound on 252 :mad:

now fixed when I checked it last evening -there was less than 0.1 Hz between the 2 carriers (Algeria/RTE).

Greenman · 23-08-2011 5:48pm

Antenna wrote: »

now fixed when I checked it last evening -there was less than 0.1 Hz between the 2 carriers (Algeria/RTE).

Thanks for confirming that as it was impossible to listen to 252 here in Belgium with the thunder and lightning weather.:)

I wonder what the cause was?

lacase · 28-08-2011 11:58am

I lived in Bournemouth until recently RTE 1 LW was not great. There was lots of noise and I only used to listen to the news as it got very annoying. I changed to using my itouch and wifi. Not much use in a car and costly if you were to use the App on your phone. Mind you Bournemouth is on the South coast and only 70 miles from France. So as a positive even there you could pick it up!!

Radio 4 on LW here has gone so bad it is just like RTE LW in Bournemouth. Thank God for satellite and the internet!!

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