Saturday, November 20, 2004
Britain Radio New Site/History
Check out the britain radio international new site at http://www.geocities.com/britainradio48/home.html
and below is the history of britain radio international . It was during 1979 that plans first started to take shape for a new Short Wave (SW) free radio station. After working on Medium Wave (MW) and FM projects from the late 1960's, we had reached a point where we wanted a change of direction. We decided to create a new service for all European listeners. Having a much stronger influence on the free radio style of programming, we realised that we would be broadcasting to a totally different audience to that which we had been used to, with previous projects. The whole programme structure would have to be different and informative. We obtained our SW transmitter at the beginning of 1980, and built our antenna array. It was decided that the station would be run mobile, with the equipment operating from remote woodlands and fields. The broadcasting equipment was built to operate on an timer, with auto-reverse cassette players holding the programme tapes and everything being switched off at the end of the broadcast. The presenters, various other staff and programme schedule had been organised during 1979. We first tested the transmitter (a 20 Watt unit) on a dummy load for a number of hours during April/May 1980, just to be sure all was well. Then, on Sunday 15th June 1980 we made our first test transmissions on 6260kHz SW at about 11am (UK time). It was an hour long test with music and announcements, inviting listeners to send in reception reports to our P.O. Box address in Orpington, Kent. These were carried out by presenters Roger Davis and Chris James - who was assisting. We received 34 letters after these tests, which was very pleasing as our chosen frequency suffered some interference. Most reports gave signal readings of fair to good. With such a good response from this transmission, we decided to commence full programming 4 weeks later. Our programmes ran from 10am to midday (UK Time) with both Roger Davis and Chris James.We decided to run our broadcasts every 2nd and 4th Sundays, due to a lot of the other stations choosing to broadcast on the 1st Sunday. (We didn't want to compete too heavily with them.) As 1980 came to an end we introduced other presenters, including Dave Jason, Chris Johnson and Pete Lord. At this time we also increased the transmissions to 4 hours each broadcast. During the 1980's the interest in BRI became greater each year. After some broadcasts we would receive well over 100 letters from listeners all over Europe and beyond. We were getting a truly amazing response at the time. There is no doubt that the 1980's were BRI's most favourable time as far as support goes. click below for history continued.. http://www.geocities.com/britainradio48/history.html |
Thursday, November 18, 2004
DRM Transmission From Macedonia
DRM test transmissions from Macedonia
credit: medianetwork weblog We have been advised that the mediumwave transmitter at Ovce Pole (near Skopje) in Macedonia on 810 kHz will broadcast DRM test transmissions from Sunday 21 November to Friday 26 November at 0100-0400 and 0900-1200 UTC. # posted by Andy @ 10:43 UTC |
DRM Transmission From Macedonia
DRM test transmissions from Macedonia
credit: medianetwork weblog We have been advised that the mediumwave transmitter at Ovce Pole (near Skopje) in Macedonia on 810 kHz will broadcast DRM test transmissions from Sunday 21 November to Friday 26 November at 0100-0400 and 0900-1200 UTC. # posted by Andy @ 10:43 UTC |
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Norwegian shortwave transmitter noted on the air
credit: medianetwork weblog
Radio Netherlands' Ehard Goddijn drew our attention to a very strong SSB signal on 7360 kHz noted in progress at 1230 UTC, carrying the NRK domestic service in parallel with 1314 kHz mediumwave. The SSB was replaced by a silent carrier at 1240, then the modulation resumed at 1251 UTC. Bernd Trutenau tells us that transmitter operator Norkring is dismantling the Sveio transmitter site, and moving the equipment to Kvitsøy which needs to be tested. # posted by Andy @ 13:48 UTC |
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