Not pirate but new legal LW station

[EFR]

https://arcticradio.net/

Thats something new!

[Persona Non Grata]

Assuming the whole thing is not a joke/hoax anyone seriously contemplating starting a longwave service with any serious amount of power in 2024 is embarking on a brave venture.

[EFR]

I hope that they get their transmitter and start broadcasting. 1kW from north isnt much, but that someone even try, is amazing.

[radionortheast]

station update, he is a dxer himself, wanted to move frequencies, must be more relaxed over there, he's only able to broadcast weekends at the moment but wants it be a full service, maybe have an fm relay

[Alex728]

I guess it would be a similar arrangement to 208 in Denmark and even Caroline, European countries still have their LF/MF allocations so even if the PSBs and big commercials no longer want to use them its not a big issue for the Communications Ministry to license the frequency to a community or hobby broadcaster using lower power (I don't think there's much chance of any station on LF/MF becoming that large or being a commercial success compared to 40 years ago)

[EFR]

One day i tried to search that listing for LW and MW frequecies, but I didnt find it anymore.

[Alex728]

I've used this site for LW/MW and SW frequencies (it contains both licensed stations and pirates)

https://www.mwlist.org/ul_login.php

[radionortheast]

The signal won’t reach over here, but good luck to him, remember years ago making one of those sstrans kits, tuning to on an old hifi reciever vlf display, on his video he was tuning to it one one reminded me of it. Making announcements with text to speech, it did sound like a radio station went round the house..really bassy throught speakers sounding like something from forbidden planet.

[Geordie]

Just checked and it's still a no go,is it really that hard to source a 1kw AM transmitter, couldn't they use something designed for amateurs?

[radionortheast]

I read some were that laser 558 was involved, trying to do a similar thing like Caroline has done on mw on longwave I could be wrong, maybe need a more powerful transmitter I suspect, I suppose these are rumours, theres problems with the frequency with Algeria been on it.

[David2999]

I do hope Matt gets his LW (Arctic 252) station on the air. Perhaps Matt should be a PIRATE. Then he can choose a better QRM (Algeria) free LW frequency. Hardly "crime of the Century" to be a LW / MW / SW pirate!! One Once Droitwich 198 goes QRT in June, that would be a good Free Radio frequency to experiment on.

[EFR]

I do hope Matt gets his LW (Arctic 252) station on the air. Perhaps Matt should be a PIRATE. Then he can choose a better QRM (Algeria) free LW frequency. Hardly "crime of the Century" to be a LW / MW / SW pirate!! One Once Droitwich 198 goes QRT in June, that would be a good Free Radio frequency to experiment on.

I have couple Nautel NDB transmitter pll units, predrive, PSU unit, poweramplifiers and ATU.

Lets go LW pirate?

[EFR]

500W of carrier, enough with about 40m long Marconi-T about 20m high?

[Albert H]

That'll work!

The one time I tried Longwave, it was 400W (carrier) into a disused railway line as the antenna. It was heard 850 km away! It was just done over a long weekend to see if it was feasible. Unfortunately, the railway tracks were removed a couple of months later.

[EFR]

What I know, there is multiple projects in Finland to get on air at 252kHz.

You Albert know these guard rails at the side of highway, some norwegian dudes did dump quite much power to one, rail was bolted to rock, and sunny summer day, it was insulated from ground quite well.

Aaand, mobilephone operators like plant tall new masts around the countryside, just go to an rocky area of country, search one and clamp coax to the guywire of it. Higher is better.

And all of these skilifts, sadly not used at summer, nice long steel cable going up to the hill, it almost looks like big slimjim, feeding it at MW is easiest from about 1/2wl up from lowest point, these metal pylons make it quite funny to match.

Can I say, free antennas by "nature"?

[Albert H]

I know someone who loaded up a bridge on Medium Wave! It worked very well, and really confused the Radio Investigation Service guys sent out to locate and impound it. Apparently Gotts and one of his sidekicks walked backwards and forwards over the "aerial" with their DF receivers, trying to locate the transmission site... They didn't realise what was going on and assumed that it was coming from nearby, in a very dense area of forest!