Quote from India Four Two:
"MW AM radio - that takes me back. Who says nostalgia ain't what it used to be!
Radio Luxemburg 208
Radio Caroline 199
Radio London 266"
You had me foxed on those BS numbers for a moment - then I realised they were not frequencies, but wave-lengths in metres! Don't think you'll find wave-lengths on the dial or frequency-selector of any airborne ADF receiver, but I stand to be corrected.
In case it hasn't been mentioned earlier, the landlubber's MW (medium-wave) and LW (long-wave) are aviators' MF (medium frequency, i.e., 301 kHz - 3000 kHz) and LF (low-frequency, i.e., 31 kHz - 300 kHz) respectively.
Your quoted Radio Luxembourg wave-length of 208 metres MW would equate to a frequency of about 1442 kHz (300,000 divided by 208). However, all MW frequencies now have to be divisible by 9, so it was on 1440 kHz, I believe.**
Don't forget Droitwich, which has its big, powerful long-wave antenna-array (for BBC Radio 4 LW) broadcasting on 198 kHz (used to be 200 kHz in the days when I was using it for navigation). You can receive it well down into France. I believe France itself, sadly, is shutting down its LW broadcasts.
**(EDIT) I now see this (Radio Luxembourg) transmission shut down at the end of 1991...
Last edited by Chris Scott; 13th January 2017 at 13:46.
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