February 2025
The 1kW longwave transmitter is now ready and a matching unit is currently being built.
The antenna has been a big problem and due to the winter conditions it's unrealistic to expect any station startup before the summer now. The 300kW transmitter that was offered was withdrawn and an extremely high price tag was put on the dismantling and engineering oversight by the communications company. The costs were vastly inflated in order to deter the project from acquiring this transmitter. In fact the costs were double that of a TRAM LW transmitter shipped complete!
Other high-power transmitters may become available in time as decisions have not yet been made about them. The stations interest in these has been conveyed to the companies. In all the amount of communication alone spent on this project is immense. The station is still getting emails from well-wishers and pleas from people to succeed so it drives the project on knowing at least some people will be happy to hear the station on air.
We would still really need a higher power transmitter so any leads are very welcome no matter how old the transmitter is. MW, LW or SW! We have been offered a 1kW MW transmitter so this will be used for a project that will be announced in a few months.
Interest in Shortwave broadcasting has also been expressed so if we can find a shortwave transmitter or even a good broadband linear amplifier SW can start very easily.
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