Save the longwave Radio

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
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MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

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

Who doesn't have an FM radio in 2016?

BoJack Horseman

What are the LW listenership numbers like?

darkpagandeath

Sure are they not all getting high speed broadband in the country ? I hear you can also listen to the Radio on your mobile. Or on the TV if you have virgin don't they still do the radio channels on that.

NIMAN

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

1) Can you only listen to LW252 if you are old, alone, sick?
2) I think to call it a disgusting attack is slightly OTT
3) Monday at 2.52pm , no work that day for all the protestors?

I look forward to seeing the thousands of people at this protest, and the headlines all over the news.

maregal

Your life must be pretty easy if the winding down of a Long Wave radio station outrages you this much. Don't forget to bring the Palestinian flags to your Halloween protest.

NIMAN

Some people love being outraged by the most trivial things.

Why get annoyed at the health or education service when you can get annoyed at an outdated radio service with a few hundred listeners being scrapped.

HensVassal

maregal wrote: »

Your life must be pretty easy if the winding down of a Long Wave radio station outrages you this much. Don't forget to bring the Palestinian flags to your Halloween protest.

Flabbergasting how you can shoehorn a dig at Palestinians into just about every thread.

ArthurG

Can you add in a few shouts about the demise of the hand written 'thank you' note while you're at it?. Old people love those, and its a disgusting crime that no one does it any more. Something must be done etc. Someone think of the children!

Stealthfins

Nothing like the crackly sound of a radio on long wave.
It reminds me of being at my grandmas house in Kerry long ago.

Nothing like listening to long wave radio and looking from your window out over the Atlantic ocean on a windswept wintry wet afternoon.

Best done in damp cold clothes.

Pure bliss.

Or else you could listen to spotify.

savertelw252

It's OK for you upstarts to talk about the internet and "smart"phones and dongles but these people who rely on longwave don't know what those things are, many of them have never even used a standard telephone, let alone a "smart"phone, whatever that is.

savertelw252

savertelw252 wrote: »

It's OK for you upstarts to talk about the internet and "smart"phones and dongles but these people who rely on longwave don't know what those things are, many of them have never even used a standard telephone, let alone a "smart"phone, whatever that is.

Who are these people? How many of them are there?

I imagine (pie in the sky guess) it would be cheaper for all, and more beneficial to 'them' to offer 'them' all technology lessons and bring them up to date with the world than continue to support a dead technology.

_Kaiser_

savertelw252 wrote: »

It's OK for you upstarts to talk about the internet and "smart"phones and dongles but these people who rely on longwave don't know what those things are, many of them have never even used a standard telephone, let alone a "smart"phone, whatever that is.

Well to be fair now there's plenty of adult and senior education options out there (source: I used to work in the education sector) that would help them get to grips with these things for minimal or no cost as I recall.

In short, there's no excuse for not being able to use these things.

L1011

savertelw252 wrote: »

It's OK for you upstarts

You aren't going to get much support with hysteria and insults.

savertelw252 wrote: »

many of them have never even used a standard telephone

Or insanity.

10000maniacs

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

Are we back in the 60's again?
I think all those valve AM radios have given up the ghost at this stage.
RTE should hand out €20 FM radios to everybody in the protest.
This protest is beyond ridiculous.

Note: How many radios with LW functionality have been sold in the last 2 decades? I would say very few.

Red_Wake

Completely agree with the OP, today it's longwave radio they're after. tomorrow they're decommissioning vacuum tubes!

the groutch

savertelw252 wrote: »

We are planning a protest outside RTE Donnybrook on Monday October 31st at 2.52pm

Did your longwave radio not tell you that October 31st is a Bank Holiday, so there will be almost nobody working in RTE that day?
Or that there's a little thing called the Dublin City Marathon on that day that will render RTE almost inaccessible?

Musketeer4

Feck sake op, where were you and your protesters when they phased out telegaphs in the post offices?

LW is a fairly outmoded technology at this stage. I'd be surprised if LW recievers are even widely available anymore.

And "they" have never used a standard telephone? Yerra get off the stage will you. Are you the chair of the hermits society or what?

10000maniacs

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Well to be fair now there's plenty of adult and senior education options out there (source: I used to work in the education sector) that would help them get to grips with these things for minimal or no cost as I recall.

In short, there's no excuse for not being able to use these things.

Steps to buying an FM radio.

1: Go into a shop that sells FM Radios
2: Give the teller money for the said radio.
3: Walk out of the shop.
4: Go home


Tune in next week for my next lesson.
How to plug in the radio and tune in to RTE Radio 1

HensVassal

As an engineer I'm always a little sad to see some technologies go the way of the dodo or at least be consigned to the museum but LW is just outdataed at this stage.

veliktom

I don't know about 252 but I still listen to BBC Radio 4 on 198 LW occasionally, for the cricket commentary. It can be picked up all over Ireland in the car. I think the shipping forecast is still broadcast on 198 LW due to it being the most reliable radio transmission method for ships at sea, so not sure it is completely gone the way of the dodo yet.

For Reals

Mod Note
Closing for move to Radio.

hullaballoo

Radio mod: Thread already duplicated here so unless there's some significant insight in this thread, it will remain closed. If there is some significant insight I've missed, report this post and I will merge the threads.