{"id":16485,"date":"2015-12-31T10:18:30","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T14:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=16485"},"modified":"2015-12-31T10:22:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T14:22:02","slug":"ayar-notes-lw-and-mw-transmitters-still-active-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/ayar-notes-lw-and-mw-transmitters-still-active-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayar notes LW and MW transmitters still active in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16486\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/AM-Dial-Digital-Grundig-Mediumwave-MW.jpg\" alt=\"AM-Dial-Digital-Grundig-Mediumwave-MW\" width=\"650\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/AM-Dial-Digital-Grundig-Mediumwave-MW.jpg 650w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/AM-Dial-Digital-Grundig-Mediumwave-MW-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>In response to <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/mediumwave-france-luxembourg-and-germany-go-silent\/\">our previous post about France, Germany and Luxembourg leaving the AM broadcast bands<\/a>, <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Ayar (HB9EVW) comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is indeed a sad day for AM broadcasting. Not only Germany, France and Luxembourg, also the Czech Republic will turn off 3 MW transmitters on January 5th 2016. The three transmitters carrying the CRo Plus program are: 639, 954 and 1332 kHz.<\/p>\n<p>[In the\u00a0Czech Republic, there] are 2 transmitters on 693 kHz, the bigger one in &#8220;Liblice&#8221; with 750 kW will be switched off, but the smaller one in &#8220;Ostrava-Svinov&#8221; with 30 kW will remain active for now, or at least until the FM coverage is good enough for this region.<\/p>\n<p>In France (including Monaco), there will still be few active LW and MW stations:<\/p>\n<p>162 KHz. Allouis (France Inter)<br \/>\n216 KHz. Roumoules (RMC)<br \/>\n1467 KHz. Roumoules (TWR)<br \/>\n1467 KHz. Col de la Madone (Radio Maria France)<br \/>\n1593 KHz. St Goueno (Bretagne 5)<\/p>\n<p>I am already recording some of the transmitters from Germany and France. I can receive few of them here in Switzerland even during the day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many thanks, Ayar. I would love to share some of your recordings on <a href=\"http:\/\/shortwavearchive.com\" target=\"_blank\">the SRAA<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to our previous post about France, Germany and Luxembourg leaving the AM broadcast bands, SWLing Post contributor Ayar (HB9EVW) comments: It is indeed a sad day for AM broadcasting. Not only Germany, France and Luxembourg, also the Czech Republic will turn off 3 MW transmitters on January 5th 2016. The three transmitters carrying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[373,56,2436,433,3],"tags":[3831,4587,4585,4586,4584,4099,2479],"class_list":["post-16485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-broadcasters","category-longwave","category-mediumwave","category-news","tag-ayar","tag-france-longwave","tag-france-mediumwave","tag-germany-mediumwave","tag-luxembourg-mediumwave","tag-mediumwave","tag-shortwave-radio-audio-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4hT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16588,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/recordings-of-final-mediumwave-broadcasts-from-luxembourg-france-and-germany\/","url_meta":{"origin":16485,"position":0},"title":"Recordings of final mediumwave broadcasts from Luxembourg, France and Germany","author":"Thomas","date":"January 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to several of you who recorded the final sign-ons and sign-offs of several European broadcasters who pulled the plug on mediumwave transmissions this past weekend. SRAA contributor, Richard Langley, recorded the following broadcasts and posted them to our\u00a0Shortwave Radio Audio Archive. Click on the following links for recordings\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;AM&quot;","block_context":{"text":"AM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/am\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"AM-Dial-Digital-Grundig-Mediumwave-MW","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/AM-Dial-Digital-Grundig-Mediumwave-MW.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/AM-Dial-Digital-Grundig-Mediumwave-MW.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/AM-Dial-Digital-Grundig-Mediumwave-MW.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":16479,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/mediumwave-france-luxembourg-and-germany-go-silent\/","url_meta":{"origin":16485,"position":1},"title":"Mediumwave: France, Luxembourg and Germany go silent","author":"Thomas","date":"December 31, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"On Facebook, Mike Terry reminded me: \"Tomorrow France, Germany and Luxembourg go very quiet on medium wave.\" He's right--there will be more empty space on the AM broadcast\u00a0band for those living in or near France, Germany or Luxembourg. I\u00a0hope\u00a0there are Post readers out there who might be able to make\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;AM&quot;","block_context":{"text":"AM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/am\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"france-germany","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/france-germany.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/france-germany.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/france-germany.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":13092,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/bayrischer-rundfunk-to-shut-down-four-mw-transmitters-end-of-september-2015\/","url_meta":{"origin":16485,"position":2},"title":"Bayrischer Rundfunk to shut down four MW transmitters end of September 2015","author":"Thomas","date":"April 30, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader,\u00a0Alexander (DL4NO), who writes: \"Today I found a\u00a0message that Bayrischer Rundfunk will shut down its four MW transmitters at\u00a0the end of September: http:\/\/www.br.de\/unternehmen\/inhalt\/technik\/mittelwelle-abschaltung-radio-100.html The two higher-powered transmitters (Munich 100 kW, N\u00fcrnberg 20 kW) are on\u00a0801 kHz. The two smaller transmitters (W\u00fcrzburg and Hof, both in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;AM&quot;","block_context":{"text":"AM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/am\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Bayerischer-Rundfunk-Logo","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Bayerischer-Rundfunk-Logo.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Bayerischer-Rundfunk-Logo.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Bayerischer-Rundfunk-Logo.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":17990,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/radio-belarus-to-shut-down-shortwave-mediumwave-and-longwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":16485,"position":3},"title":"Radio Belarus to shut down shortwave, mediumwave and longwave?","author":"Thomas","date":"March 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to several SWLing Post readers who have shared this news from the Radio Belarus website. Since I rely on a machine translation of the news page via Google Translate, I'm not totally clear about the details, but it appears Radio Belarus is shutting down their longwave, mediumwave and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;AM&quot;","block_context":{"text":"AM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/am\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"SX-99-Dial-Nar","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SX-99-Dial-Nar.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SX-99-Dial-Nar.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SX-99-Dial-Nar.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SX-99-Dial-Nar.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":16425,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/radio-france-to-shut-down-mediumwave-broadcasts\/","url_meta":{"origin":16485,"position":4},"title":"Radio France to shut down mediumwave","author":"Thomas","date":"December 27, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Marc, who shares this news from Radio France. The article (in French) notes that as of midnight on December 31, 2015, Radio France will cease all mediumwave broadcasts permanently. Up to this point, Radio France's mediumwave transmitters have broadcast France Info,\u00a0France bleu RCFM and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;AM&quot;","block_context":{"text":"AM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/am\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"La Masion de la Radio, Paris, France, (Photo source: G\u00e9rard Ducher via Wikimedia Commons).","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-1024x540.jpeg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-1024x540.jpeg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image-1024x540.jpeg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":14210,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/radio-france-mediumwave-and-longwave-broadcasts-to-end\/","url_meta":{"origin":16485,"position":5},"title":"Radio France: mediumwave and longwave broadcasts to end","author":"Thomas","date":"July 29, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Marc, who sends\u00a0this news from France Inter. The article (in French) states that Radio France, in a cost-cutting measure, will end mediumwave transmissions by the end of this year (2015) and longwave transmissions\u00a0by the end of 2016. It's estimated that\u00a0this will save 13 million\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;International Broadcasting&quot;","block_context":{"text":"International Broadcasting","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/international-broadcasting\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Maison_de_la_Radio_Paris","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Maison_de_la_Radio_Paris-1024x539.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Maison_de_la_Radio_Paris-1024x539.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Maison_de_la_Radio_Paris-1024x539.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}