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Medium Wave Sunset In Europe

Looks like Mongolia never switched to the new frequencies when all of the LW/MW frequnecies were adjusted to make them all multiples of 9. I believe that was in 1978.
 
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Ed Nielson said:
Looks like Mongolia never switched to the new frequencies when all of the LW/MW frequnecies were adjusted to make them all multiples of 9. I believe that was in 1978.
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The 9 kHz spacing realignment was in the late 1970s for mediumwave, while longwave was a decade later. MW moved up 1 kHz while LW moved down 2 kHz. I have no idea why Mongolia never made the change.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
The 9 kHz spacing realignment was in the late 1970s for mediumwave, while longwave was a decade later. MW moved up 1 kHz while LW moved down 2 kHz. I have no idea why Mongolia never made the change.
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Europe 1 (which targeted a French audience from a transmitter just on the German side of the border) was on 183 kHz (outside the 9 kHz plan) right up until it closed at the end of 2019. A lot of European car radios tune long wave (but not medium wave) in 1 kHz or 3 kHz increments, pretty much entirely for this reason.

There is a single MW station in north Africa which uses 10 kHz spacing, a Sahrawi station on 1550 kHz, broadcasting from a refugee settlement in far south-western Algeria. It was often detectable as a heterodyne whistle when you were tuned to 1548 at night, but has been audible with programming at night since all the UK 1548 stations went silent.
 
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