[crusher19860138]

Hello,is it my radio or is RTE Radio 1 off air on LW?iam hearing some very faint speech on 252,but it don't sound Irish!

[LaurelandHardy]

Can't get anything here, but then again my lovely neighbour next door has the TV on which blots out everything between 150 khz and 6000 khz!
252 usually punches through the interference but I can't hear it at the moment.

[crusher19860138]

Tried my car radio and it's definately off air.

[a516]

Originally Posted by crusher19860138

Tried my car radio and it's definately off air.

Can confirm this as well. Nothing on 252.

[FmBandScan]

Nothing here.

[Pete Baker.]

You're probably the only one who noticed

[old pilot]

Originally Posted by Pete Baker.

You're probably the only one who noticed

Yes a high cost transmitter with no listeners. I'm surprised long wave lasted in to the second decade of the 21st century.

[womer_uk]

Went off at 1430 during Liveline

[RadioRob]

The number of posts suggests it's got more listeners now that it's off the air.

[wavy-davy]

If it was off it's now back on again.

[spanners]

Originally Posted by wavy-davy

If it was off it's now back on again.

I was listening on longwave yesterday evening so it was on then too, I'm not not sure how long it was off for.

[womer_uk]

Off again today at 1330, I wonder if they are doing the old trick of seeing if anyone does listen to 252 in Eire / Ulster, as today it was announced the RTE are €20 million in debt.

I know TDF made their transmittion of France Bleue on 864 with bad modulation for a while to see if they got any complaints

[35321]

according to RTE teletext P169 (tech info) it is due to be off-air today as well:


RTÉNL - Summerhill, Co. Meath

Due to essential maintenance our
Summerhill transmitter is off the air, 27th June.

This essential work will affect LW radio from this transmitter.

RTÉNL apologise for any inconvenience caused by this necessary work.

[RadioRob]

Originally Posted by womer_uk

I know TDF made their transmittion of France Bleue on 864 with bad modulation for a while to see if they got any complaints

That was FIP on 585 from Romainville (Paris), non?

[crusher19860138]

Originally Posted by 35321

according to RTE teletext P169 (tech info) it is due to be off-air today as well:


RTÉNL - Summerhill, Co. Meath

Due to essential maintenance our
Summerhill transmitter is off the air, 27th June.

This essential work will affect LW radio from this transmitter.

RTÉNL apologise for any inconvenience caused by this necessary work.

Thanks for the info,is there any more engineering work planned?I do like to listen to RTE Radio 1 in the afternoon.

[crusher19860138]

Originally Posted by Pete Baker.

You're probably the only one who noticed

I do listen to RTE Radio 1 every day,i like the Irish view on the days's events,and the music shows are very good too!

[35321]

RTE's LW252 also due to be off tomorrow (Thursday) as follows:

Service Notification:
RTÉNL - Summerhill, Co. Meath
Due to essential maintenance, Radio 1 Long Wave transmissions from our Summerhill station will be off the air between 10am and 4pm on Thurs 26th July.
This work will affect 252 KHz transmissions only.
RTÉNL apologise for any inconveniences caused by this necessary work.

[SOUTHDOWNS]

Despite the RTE message I just checked and heard RTE on 252khz just after 12.00 BST today, a record request programme with the usual Algerian signal in the background.
AFter dark Algeria swamps the faint RTE signal here in Brighton.

[Ex Pat]

Originally Posted by SOUTHDOWNS

Despite the RTE message I just checked and heard RTE on 252khz just after 12.00 BST today, a record request programme with the usual Algerian signal in the background.
AFter dark Algeria swamps the faint RTE signal here in Brighton.

Today being what day?

[LaurelandHardy]

Originally Posted by SOUTHDOWNS

AFter dark Algeria swamps the faint RTE signal here in Brighton.

Same in my neck of the woods. 252 is certainly not as strong as it was in the Atlantic days.
Or maybe it's because RTE 1 is mostly a talk station and because of this we can hear Algeria a lot clearer now than we used to when Atlantic was playing mostly music?

[wavy-davy]

Originally Posted by LaurelandHardy

Same in my neck of the woods. 252 is certainly not as strong as it was in the Atlantic days.
Or maybe it's because RTE 1 is mostly a talk station and because of this we can hear Algeria a lot clearer now than we used to when Atlantic was playing mostly music?

RTE are running 300KW whereas Atlantic used 500KW daytime. RTE and Atlantic should be the same at night, both 100KW.

I used to be able to get decent reception on Atlantic at night near Reading on a Matsui MR4099 portable by turning it to null out Algeria but on a car radio it was very hit and miss.

[wns_195]

It was off air yesterday afternoon but I don't have exact times.

[LaurelandHardy]

Originally Posted by wavy-davy

RTE are running 300KW whereas Atlantic used 500KW daytime. RTE and Atlantic should be the same at night, both 100KW.

I used to be able to get decent reception on Atlantic at night near Reading on a Matsui MR4099 portable by turning it to null out Algeria but on a car radio it was very hit and miss.

Oh yes the lovely Matsui MR4099. I had the Saisho equivalent. Fantastic audio on those things!

[35321]

Its off air again today (Tuesday) and tomorrow (Wednesday) 9am-5pm according to
http://www.rte.ie/aerteldigital/desktopxhtml/169-3.html

Service Notification:
RTÉNL - Summerhill, Co. Meath

Due to essential maintenance, Radio 1 Long Wave transmissions from our Summerhill station will be off the air between 9am and 5pm on 31st July & 1st August.

This work will affect 252 KHz transmissions only.

RTÉNL apologise for any inconveniences caused by this necessary work.

[35321]

Its currently once again off air since yesterday morning (10:30) until 5PM today (Thursday):

"Service Notification: RTÉNL - Summerhill, Co. Meath

Due to essential engineering works, our Summerhill transmitter will be off the air from
10:30 on 17th April to 17:00 on 18th April.

These essential engineering works will affect the Radio 1 LW252 service from this transmitter. "