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Radio Data |
The Droitwich site is considered to be one of the most important in the country
because it transmits the Radio 4 Long Wave service. This high power (400kW)
transmission can be heard throughout most of England, Wales and Ireland and also
in parts of Western Europe. (There are two other 198kHz Long Wave transmitters
in Scotland at Westerglen and Burghead providing
the R4 service there.
Long Wave transmissions
have a high degree of penetration but reception is very prone to
interference. The carrier frequency of the
Droitwich Long Wave transmitter is a long established frequency standard (until
1-Feb-1988 it was 200kHz) and is
carefully monitored by the National
Physical Laboratory in Teddington, Middx. |
