Can you get the BBC world service on SW over there?

[kinphoenix2]

Yes I think I was mistaken, I think I get the Ascension Isl. & Kranji. I said Limassol xmitter but I am not so sure of that.

 

[BMR]

It would be interesting to know how much money they have saved by butchering the shortwave schedule to the extent they have.

I'll bet it's not that much in the great scheme of things.

 

[landtuna]

When the wifey's alarm clock goes off at 4AM MST I'm hearing BBC World Service on our local NPR outlet (91.5 I think).

 

[tomservo]

It would be interesting to know how much money they have saved by butchering the shortwave schedule to the extent they have.

I'll bet it's not that much in the great scheme of things.

Why keep sending signals to parts of the world that have advanced beyond shortwave? I think there are only a handful of people in all of North America who might have no other means of hearing the Beeb other than shortwave. Most get it via the internet, or a local station which programs the service at night. Or at least in text via their website.

It's a public service and the British people must get upset when the channel wastes money, so they needed to trim some easy fat. And shortwave to developed countries is a good start.

 

[OldNumber7]

It would be interesting to know how much money they have saved by butchering the shortwave schedule to the extent they have.

I'll bet it's not that much in the great scheme of things.

Why keep sending signals to parts of the world that have advanced beyond shortwave? I think there are only a handful of people in all of North America who might have no other means of hearing the Beeb other than shortwave. Most get it via the internet, or a local station which programs the service at night. Or at least in text via their website.

It's a public service and the British people must get upset when the channel wastes money, so they needed to trim some easy fat. And shortwave to developed countries is a good start.

I hope the BBC and others are holding on to their OTA transmitters and just mothballing them for now. Because when the solar storm wipes out electricity for an entire hemisphere restoring Internet service will be a low priority. Mass communication for months will be OTA to people with radios powered by generators/batteries.

 

[BMR]

It's a public service and the British people must get upset when the channel wastes money,

Oh they do, but I never heard much (any!) clammour for shortwave to be stopped.

Plenty of complaints about the salaries of top DJs and TV presenters, or the amount being spent on swanky new headquarters in Manchester, or the expensive Gaelic language channel hardly anyone watches or the massive number of people sent abroad to cover every Soccer World Cup, but no clammour for shortwave to be stopped..........

 

[tomservo]

I hope the BBC and others are holding on to their OTA transmitters and just mothballing them for now. Because when the solar storm wipes out electricity for an entire hemisphere restoring Internet service will be a low priority. Mass communication for months will be OTA to people with radios powered by generators/batteries.

Practically everyone in Europe and North America has some internet access; few have shortwave radios. The priority will be on restoring the medium that people need most — LOCAL radio and internet service. Shortwave will be an afterthought.

Plenty of complaints about the salaries of top DJs and TV presenters, or the amount being spent on swanky new headquarters in Manchester, or the expensive Gaelic language channel hardly anyone watches or the massive number of people sent abroad to cover every Soccer World Cup, but no clammour for shortwave to be stopped..........

Do they even know that shortwave services still exist?

 

[Tincap]

Here in eastern Ontario, at the moment (8:15 AM EST) I'm picking up the BBC WS through Nakon Sawan, Thailand (250 kW) on 11750 kHz and Kranji, Singapore (125 kW) on 9740. The Thai signal is the better of the two, though neither are brilliant, to be honest (no way near how Radio Australia's Asian Pacific signal rolls into this part of eastern North America).

~BG

 

[crainbebo]

Here in eastern Ontario, at the moment (8:15 AM EST) I'm picking up the BBC WS through Nakon Sawan, Thailand (250 kW) on 11750 kHz and Kranji, Singapore (125 kW) on 9740. The Thai signal is the better of the two, though neither are brilliant, to be honest (no way near how Radio Australia's Asian Pacific signal rolls into this part of eastern North America).

~BG

Kranji 9740 is always strong in the early morning hours (6AM-8AM PT).

-crainbebo

 

[Tincap]

Kranji 9740 is always strong in the early morning hours (6AM-8AM PT).

-crainbebo

I suspect it is, in your neck of the woods . Since the south east Asian transmitters, are pretty much the only ones the BBC has lit up during that time of the day, it's nice to snag them no matter the signal quality is here. I am surprised that they are not as strong as Radio Australia or RNZI, neither of whom who are targeting North America and running at lower power than the BBC sites.

~BG

 

[Tincap]

Wow, just checking the radio-info site. The only BBC shortwave broadcast, anywhere on this planet, right now (2200 UTC), is the 10 kW relay on the Solomon Islands. My how times have changed. :S

~BG