Just remember that important date, in 1990, when Caroline last broadcasted, on medium wave, from the North Sea.
Remember, remember, the 5th of November 27 years ago !!!

@BigJohn Not neccesarily any reason to be sceptical that full reasons for the delay have not been made public. I can only repeat my earlier comment: Earlier in the history of Big L, I believe a move to a far better Tx. site was scuppered, when details leaked out. Sometimes it's better to just say nothing, until everything is concrete. Peter Moore would be a fool to show his hand until all is settled. Same with any enterprise really.

Thanks Alec, number6 and Cookie. I can understand the significance of November 5th. and also not revealing the final location of the transmitter. I don't think it would take Global long to throw a spanner in the works!!

Yes Alec-I agree-especially in this social media age we live in now. The word will spread like wildfire-and will quite quickly gain a large audience

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Just remember that important date, in 1990, when Caroline last broadcasted, on medium wave, from the North Sea.
Remember, remember, the 5th of November 27 years ago !!!

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Are they actually on the air NOW? I seem to be picking up something very faint on 648kHz and I don't recall it being there before yesterday??

If it IS Caroline it's very disappointing as far as reception is concerned up here in NE Derbyshire. But I suppose it's only 1Kw- so can't expect much!!

I'd imagine any initial tests would be at significantly less power, while everything is optimised.

Maybe I'm wrong Ian. You keep checking too. If we all do-as we are in different locations- one of us may hear something at some time!

By the way Alec-many thanks for the link to the final hour download from BigL. I have it now on my system. Much appreciated

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Are they actually on the air NOW? I seem to be picking up something very faint on 648kHz and I don't recall it being there before yesterday??

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That's reassuring number6-because if it WAS Caroline I heard it would have been very disappointing!

Must be that pesky Algerian station!

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Maybe I'm wrong Ian. You keep checking too. If we all do-as we are in different locations- one of us may hear something at some time!

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Yes-I had one in the mid 60's when Caroline north started. We were living in south Wales then-and as I remember - daytime reception wasn't bad!! I remember hearing Mike A'Herne playing 'Sillhouettes' by Hermans Hermits- and thinking how marvellous it was to hear contemporary pop music being played IN THE DAYTIME!! (All we had at that time was the BBC Light Programme- which rarely played pop- that was reserved for Luxy at night!!)

PS Of course they were using about 20kW at the time-so its going to be more difficult now-with just 1 Kw on offer!

I can reccomend the Tecsun AN-200 AM loop. Works very well and not too expensive if you shop arround.