There will be daily KBC- live-transmissions from a big truck festival in Holland on 6095 khz SWfrom april on - More I think we will learn from the KBC page
EXTRA TEST 6095 kHz SW 49m-band (= KBC frequency) "We are testing on Wednesday the 4th of April 2012 10.00 – 11.00 UTC We testen op Woensdag 4 april van 12.00 tot 13.00 uur CET (10.00 – 11.00 UTC)"
not sure why they still have to test as 6095 khz. works perfectly all over Europe and far beyond - looks like as if Transport-Radio is joining KBC and its them who are going to do the tests At the moment you can find Transport-Radio on 6035 and 5955 khz. SW (49m-band) - also from Wertachtal (same location as 6095 khz.) in the morning hours
Zitat von PaulvosI guess Alec testing is cheaper than regular broadcasting...
makes a lot of sense what you say Paul . But its very probable that transport-radio and KBC will do a cooperation on 6095 khz (actually they've said it already ) as de wereldomroep will close down its SW transmissions and obviously there have been massive protests by the Dutch truckdrivers already so that they plan "to find new ways" in a cooperation to continue - and who else could it be as 6095 turned out to give excelent reception all over Europe ?
I'm confused about all this SW activity. Yes it might be good reception but I still have to ask does SW nowadays pull in anyone other than radio enthusiasts/anoraks? I have had a SW radio for 40 odd years but the only people I have ever found to listen are anoraks/radio-hams? Nowadays with the internet even those seem to be rare. 24/7 SW rental at 100kw must be horendous - where will KBC find advertisers to support this?
Is this really enough to run 24/7? OK I know Alec will say its for truckers but I am still not convinced that large numbers of European truckers have SW sets in the cab. I certainly know that UK trucks don't. With mobile phone use as radios still relatively low this new obsession with SW seems so odd. Following KBC we now have Seagull at it as well although I haven't found the signal to be that good here in Norfolk certainly weak in comparison. Maybe I am missing something (they are aiming at third world countries perhaps?) but I really don't know what?
BTW either this forum is running very slow or my PC is feeling ill again?
David, - I only can tell you what I found on transport-radio page and obviously they got a strong feed-back after having announced that the cooperation with Radio-Nederland-Wereldomroep will end due to the switch-off of R.NL.WO SW transmissions. Mind Dutch trucks you find all over Europe on the highways - I even would say that next to the Czech trucks they are the majority on German and surrounding high-ways even in Italy. Yes mobile-phone reception is a nice idea but extremely expensive above all when when you have to cross several borders e.g. 4 or 5 to get to Croatia or Hungary etc. SW is for free. (we are not in the UK which is an Island). Truck radio is pretty entertaining with loads of traffic news, infos from all over and about Europe. On the other hand us Continentals are a bit more polyglott as you British - we are more interested in other languages, music from other countries . Continental radio is pretty local and since all the foreign stations mostly AFN have gone KBC fills a gap to satisfy our sense of "wanderlust". As KBC comes in really strong - like a local MW station its an interesting alternative to what you hear on Central European's radio monotony. - Of course KBC will never catch the majority of radio listeners but maybe a kind of an loyal elite.
As to Seagull on 6150 - as far as I could see/hear there has been silence on 6150 khz. the last 3 days - Maybe they've given up as the results weren't too prickling - lets see what happens in the next days. Also over here 6150 was nothing to compare with 6095 though the distance of the Txes is about the same. But 6 KWs simply cannot achieve what 100 or 150 KWs easilöy can
12:03 h CET : Tests on 6095 khz KBC with transport-radio have just started - in their Dutch news they just reported about the ship havarie Coastie has told us about Tests on 6095 will be for 1 hour until 13:00h
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Fri Mar 16, 2012 1:00 pm
And much success for the mighty KBC
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