{"id":16588,"date":"2016-01-04T11:55:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T15:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=16588"},"modified":"2016-01-06T11:18:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T15:18:37","slug":"recordings-of-final-mediumwave-broadcasts-from-luxembourg-france-and-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/recordings-of-final-mediumwave-broadcasts-from-luxembourg-france-and-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Recordings of final mediumwave broadcasts from Luxembourg, France and Germany"},"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\" \/>Many thanks to several of you who recorded the final sign-ons and sign-offs of several European broadcasters <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/mediumwave-france-luxembourg-and-germany-go-silent\/\">who pulled the plug on mediumwave transmissions this past weekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SRAA contributor, Richard Langley, recorded the following broadcasts and posted them to our\u00a0Shortwave Radio Audio Archive. Click on the following links for recordings and Richard&#8217;s excellent notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shortwavearchive.com\/archive\/france-info-lille-1377-khz-final-sign-off-december-31-2015\">France Info Lille 1377 kHz Final Sign-off: December 31, 2015<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shortwavearchive.com\/archive\/france-bleu-alsace-1278-khz-final-sign-off-december-31-2015\">France Bleu Alsace 1278 kHz Final Sign-off: December 31, 2015<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shortwavearchive.com\/archive\/rtl-1440-khz-final-sign-off-december-31-2015\">RTL 1440 kHz Final Sign-off: December 31, 2015<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shortwavearchive.com\/archive\/rtl-final-sign-on-on-1440-khz\">RTL 1440 kHz Final Sign-on: December 31, 2015<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bernhard Albicker of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.IntervalSignals.org\" target=\"_blank\">IntervalSignals.org<\/a> and AM-Tuners also contacted me with links to recordings he made of the following:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RTLElHistory20151230T235214Z1440\/RTL_el-history_2015-12-30T23_52_14Z_1440.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Luxembourg (RTL) special broadcast in honor of the former English service<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-16588-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RTLElHistory20151230T235214Z1440\/RTL_el-history_2015-12-30T23_52_14Z_1440.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RTLElHistory20151230T235214Z1440\/RTL_el-history_2015-12-30T23_52_14Z_1440.mp3\">https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RTLElHistory20151230T235214Z1440\/RTL_el-history_2015-12-30T23_52_14Z_1440.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>00:00:00 CRI german, no closing announcement<\/li>\n<li>00:07:49 RTL special broadcast: final 2 hours of RTL &#8220;Great 208&#8221; from Dec., 1991<\/li>\n<li>02:12:12 National Anthem of LUX<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RTLElHistory20151230T235214Z1440\/DLF_dt_start_2015-12-31T21_58_18Z_549.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Deutschlandfunk DLF final sign-off<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-16588-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RTLElHistory20151230T235214Z1440\/DLF_dt_start_2015-12-31T21_58_18Z_549.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RTLElHistory20151230T235214Z1440\/DLF_dt_start_2015-12-31T21_58_18Z_549.mp3\">https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RTLElHistory20151230T235214Z1440\/DLF_dt_start_2015-12-31T21_58_18Z_549.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>A special thanks to Bernhard for including the following notes from the final DLF broadcast (in German):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>01:03 Announcement of closure. This announcement was broadcast before the full hour since the month of November\u00a0followed by time signal and news.<\/li>\n<li>Within the news at\u00a005:05&#8211;item about shutdown of Medium Wave &#8220;Era of medium wave ends in Germany&#8221;\u00a0followed by weather report at 05:37<\/li>\n<li>46:35 switch from regular programming to interval signal loop<\/li>\n<li>51:57 sign off transmitter Nordkirchen 549kHz<\/li>\n<li>53:13 sign off transmitter Thurnau 549kHz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 and Richard&#8217;s excellent notes: France [&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":[373,56,433,3,288,746],"tags":[4607,4610,4609,4608,4585,4586,4584,4099,3516,4606,2479],"class_list":["post-16588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-broadcasters","category-mediumwave","category-news","category-radio-history","category-recordings","tag-bernhard-albicker","tag-deutschlandfunk-dlf-final","tag-france-bleu-final","tag-france-info-final","tag-france-mediumwave","tag-germany-mediumwave","tag-luxembourg-mediumwave","tag-mediumwave","tag-richard-langley","tag-rtl-final-sign-off","tag-shortwave-radio-audio-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4jy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16479,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/mediumwave-france-luxembourg-and-germany-go-silent\/","url_meta":{"origin":16588,"position":0},"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. 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The article (in French) notes that as of midnight on December 31, 2015, Radio France will cease all mediumwave broadcasts permanently. 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