Personally, I read this information from the MW Circle group on FB (it appeared originally in the open_dx Yahoo mailing list), but it was reported also elsewhere on the Internet:
Roberto Rizzardi also remembered to me, in a post on the ndblist e-mail reflector on Yahoo, that - according to a report by Mike Terry (mwdx Yahoo group) - "The German national public broadcasters Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandradio Kultur will disappear from longwave at the end of this year. Wasteful channels are going off the air due to cost considerations. The money saved will be invested in digital terrestrial radio (DAB+). At the end of 2015 the mediumwave transmitters of Deutschlandfunk will also close.
Deutschlandfunk currently still broadcasts through longwave 153 and 207 kHz and seven mediumwave frequencies including 1269 and 549 kHz. Deutschlandradio Kultur broadcasts by means of the longwave frequency 177 kHz. The mediumwave frequency 990 kHz went off last year".
As an european NDB listener, I could think this is not so bad news for the frequency range around 207 kHz and 225 kHz, where some canadian NDBs should become easier to catch, but of course it is sad to admit that LW are getting poorer, day after day. Is the history of long-haul radio broadcasting coming to an end?
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| The impressive 646 meters of Warsaw Radio mast in Konstantynów, before its collapse in 1981 (Wikipedia) |
