{"id":31355,"date":"2018-03-27T06:22:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T10:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=31355"},"modified":"2018-03-27T06:22:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T10:22:04","slug":"radioworld-radio-caroline-returns-to-its-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/radioworld-radio-caroline-returns-to-its-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"RadioWorld: “Radio Caroline Returns to Its Roots”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Source: RadioWorld<\/a> via Mike Hansgen)<\/p>\n

The station is now operating 24 hours seven days a week on AM<\/strong><\/p>\n

NEAR COLCHESTER, England \u2014 Well into its second half-century of broadcasting, Radio Caroline has begun the next phase of its operations, returning to wide-area AM transmissions for the first time in nearly 30 years. Although by no means the first offshore radio station (that honor probably goes to one of the gambling ships that operated off the coast of California back in the mid-1930s), it is nevertheless the archetypical \u201cpirate\u201d station and one of the most famous names in European broadcasting.<\/p>\n

[…]Under its new license, Radio Caroline is permitted to broadcast with a radiated power of 1 kW, not a particularly high-power service in terms of its earlier offshore activities. However, given the lack of incoming interference on the frequency, and its long-wavelength signals, the result is effective coverage that, in practice, for many listeners is larger than planning criteria might suggest.<\/p>\n

In many ways, Radio Caroline has both kept up with the times in terms of the broadcasting technologies it uses and come full circle with its recent return to AM broadcasting.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the full article via RadioWorld<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: RadioWorld via Mike Hansgen) The station is now operating 24 hours seven days a week on AM NEAR COLCHESTER, England \u2014 Well into its second half-century of broadcasting, Radio Caroline has begun the next phase of its operations, returning to wide-area AM transmissions for the first time in nearly 30 years. 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