{"id":63376,"date":"2025-07-12T06:20:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T10:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=63376"},"modified":"2025-07-12T06:20:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T10:20:31","slug":"arctic-252-longwave-returns-test-transmissions-set-for-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/arctic-252-longwave-returns-test-transmissions-set-for-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Arctic 252 Longwave Returns: Test Transmissions Set for August"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Paul Jamet who notes that\u00a0Arctic 252 plans to conduct on-air tests in August 2025. The project received a donation of a Nautel ND2000 transmitter, complete with its matching antenna tuning unit and antenna.<\/p>\n

Initial test transmissions will run at 500 Watts. Once testing and fine-tuning of the antenna system are complete, transmission power will be increased to 1 kW for broader reach beyond Finland.<\/span><\/p>\n

For more updates as the launch approaches, visit arcticradio.net<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Paul Jamet who notes that\u00a0Arctic 252 plans to conduct on-air tests in August 2025. The project received a donation of a Nautel ND2000 transmitter, complete with its matching antenna tuning unit and antenna. Initial test transmissions will run at 500 Watts. Once testing and fine-tuning of the antenna system […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[2436,3],"tags":[10855,9691],"class_list":["post-63376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-longwave","category-news","tag-arctic-252-longwave","tag-paul-jamet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-guc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26704,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/rte-longwave-252-maintenance-shutdown-june-27-july-8-2017\/","url_meta":{"origin":63376,"position":0},"title":"RT\u00c9 longwave 252: maintenance shutdown June 27 – July 8, 2017","author":"Thomas Witherspoon","date":"June 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, James Leary, who shares the following news and audio clip from\u00a0RT\u00c9: Hi Thomas, I heard this announcement the other day about RTE 252 and thought it might be of interest for your site. 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