The 1368 signal would EASILY make it across the Irish Sea to where Ronan is, Snaefell Mountain, where the Manx Radio 1368 tx is stationed is quite high up. H,M, Coastguard have a VHF aerial on the same site and that, at only 25 wattts, covers a very large area, so Manx's however many kilowatts will cover a vast area on Medium Wave.

Ahh! Then in that case I am wrong and got it all mixed up. I thought it was the other way around.

Yes, she was, though not initially.

No, that was a rumour, they never did have a 75kw tx, just a more efficient aerial set up than Caroline..

I've just copied this from the Hans Knot report:

"Finally, as John mentioned he worked briefly on Big L, did they ever achieve the full 50kW? The reason behind this question is taken from something Tom Danaher wrote. He states that just before he left the Galaxy in 1964/65, the engineers were struggling to get the system to handle more than about 20kW due to the rigging and the hostile marine environment; it would arc over. I spent most of my youth listening to Big L, but would tune into the other stations on occasion, and when Radio Caroline appeared on 259m it was stronger than Big L. I remember the big publicity stunt (fronted by Kenny Everett from memory) about Big L going up to 75KW, but I never noticed much of an improvement, so assume that's what it was, a publicity stunt; probably done to hoodwink the advertisers! Kind regards Allan.’ "

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The information I have from The Radio Guide is that the am Tx is situated at a place called Foxdale and that the power is 20Kw?
Snaefell is where the FM Tx is situated.

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Thanks for posting Alec

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Quote: BigJohn wrote in post #134

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I seem to remember that Big L 'seemed' to have a stronger signal at the time. It certainly appeared to be the more powerful signal on my KB Cavalier transistor portable!!

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Quote: BigJohn wrote in post #134

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I seem to remember that Big L 'seemed' to have a stronger signal at the time. It certainly appeared to be the more powerful signal on my KB Cavalier transistor portable!!

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BigL 1395 khz had 15 KWs from Lelystad/Trintelhaven

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Quote: Cookie wrote in post #138

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I know we're not talking about the current Big L in it's 1395KHz days here, but for the record. In it's early days iirc the power was 20Kw. During it's second stint, in partnership with KBC, power was 10Kw, with an occasional broadcast at 20Kw. I believe, with the Nautel Tx. we used, you could increase power in 10Kw stages, to a max. of 50Kw. I belive the Tx. site at Trintelhaven, was restricted to a max. of 20Kw. I could be wrong on that.

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