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Iceland’s RUV closes 189 kHz longwave

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Iceland’s public broadcaster RUV has shut down its longwave transmitter on 189 kHz. The planned closure was announced early in 2023 and scheduled for the end of 2024, but apparently due to some technical issues the date was moved up. The other RUV longwave transmitter on 207 kHz was closed last year. RUV now serves the country through an extensive FM network.

Article in Icelandic that you can Google Translate: Tilkynning um lokun langbylgju - RÚV.is

For longwave, that leaves only Antena Satelor Romania on 153, Morocco’s Medi 1 on 171, BBC Radio 4 on 198, Polish Radio on 225, Chaine 3 Algeria on 252, plus the Mongolian Radio transmitters on 164, 209 and 227. The BBC on 198 is supposedly shutting down in 2025, but no date yet.
 
I saw it in person on my second trip to Iceland several years ago. It's on right on the coast on the western edge of the Snæfellsnes Peninsula several hours drive north of the capital. It's right next to the road the rings the peninsula. If you like hunting radio towers, that should be on your bucket list (assuming they don't tear it down) as that whole area is spectacularly and other worldly beautiful. If I recall, it is the tallest free standing structure in western Europe.

About a half hour drive south of the radio tower is Djupalonssandur, home of a black pebble beach and Djupalonssandur’s famous ‘lifting stones:’ four boulders of different sizes that are named after their weights — fullsterkur (full-strength) at 340 pounds (154kg); hallfsterkur (half-strength) at 220 pounds (100kgs); hallfdraettingur (weakling) at 119 pounds (54kgs); and amlooi (useless), at 50 pounds (23kgs) — the stones were once used to gauge the strength of fishermen. To earn a place on local boats, they were expected to lift the hallfdraettingur — anything less, and they weren’t strong enough. Erosion has made them smaller over time...

The beach still contains the iron remains of the March 1948 wreckage of a British trawler. Between the black pebbles, green moss on the lava rocks, cliffs, and the ocean, and the eerie plane wreckage scattered about, it's surreal and amazing.
 
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