It's easy to avoid if you simply keep using what works. For example, I still use Office 2003 because it does everything I need.
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BBC 198 kHz longwave closure date?
- Thread starter Mediafrog+
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Here’s an article about the Long Wave masts and some other historical info and pictures:
www.bbc.com
This video includes Al Ryan’s signoff @Miss Tuned mentioned, which included a “good night” in Gaelic, “oíche mhaith”:
Long Wave radio era set to end with Droitwich switch-off
But campaigners want the LW masts in Worcestershire to be given listed status.
www.bbc.com
This video includes Al Ryan’s signoff @Miss Tuned mentioned, which included a “good night” in Gaelic, “oíche mhaith”:
The redirect loop is still going on 198 kHz early Tuesday, June 30 in the UK. Quite possibly its last day on the air after over a century of BBC broadcasting on longwave.
Absolutely!
For that reason, I'm using MacOS 10.14 Mojave(released September 2018 and last updated July 2021) on my computer. It hasn't received updates in awhile, but it still works well enough and is safe enough if I'm careful.
I actually did try to upgrade, but every time I went past Catalina (MacOS 10.15), my audio interface broke. On Catalina, my interface worked, my DAW software broke, so I decided to stick with Mojave because everything works.
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198 kHz is now off the air. Unsure when the final shutdown occurred, but no signal received on various SDRs in the UK around 1400 UTC today.
Goodbye to the BBC on longwave after more than a century.
Goodbye to the BBC on longwave after more than a century.
According to posts by Alan Pennington and Richard Langley on Glenn Hauser’s World of Radio site, the final shutdown of 198 kHz was at 1103 UTC today, or just after noon in the UK.
For whatever it's worth: I block Youtube's embed JavaScript in my browser. One side-effect is that Youtube thumbnails don't appear in those embeds, only direct links. Had I known that video had a slop thumbnail, I'd have included a clarification assuring the video itself was real.
And now that I'm looking at it, @Mediafrog+ is correct that the model in the video is the same as what's in the slop thumbnail (black face). I have no idea why the uploader decided to generate it with his Slopomatic '76 when he could have just photographed the actual radio. Maybe he was after the dramatic lighting effects.
I know the guy, I'll ask him. My guess is that he used one of those tools that offers to generate an AI thumbnail for you when you upload a video.
They are killing off some of the smaller ones where Radio 5 is the only station left. The sites used to be shared, but one by one the other AM stations have gone, and the resource required to broadcast just Radio 5 on AM to a town of say, 50,000 where most people are listening on DAB isn't worth it.
We also have the same issue as the U.S. where the land is worth more as a development site for residential or business than as a radio station. Both the sites that are closing this month are on the edge of towns with housing developments butting right up against them, and will have houses on them as soon as the towers come down.
BBC starts closing BBC Radio 5 Live AM transmitters – RadioToday
radiotoday.co.uk