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R4 launched on 30 September 1967 as a replacement for the BBC Home Service. The BBC Longwave (running from Daventry in 1926) closed during WWII. Before R4 took the channel it was BBC Light Program (now R2) on 200 kHz, but moved to 198 kHz as part of a general […]

RTE 1 LW is gone though the running cost was 1% of the top (overpaid) RTE presenters. The only Irish station with universal portable coverage on the island of Ireland, which also was received in Great Britain. BBC R4 LW is to close this year (2024). Internet is fragile and […]

This was made for 70 MHz (without matching). The FC-40 matches it usably on 40m (< 1.5), 30m (1:1), 20m (1:1, but need to retune across the band), 17m (1:1), 15m (1.25), 12m (1:1) and 10m (1.1). The 6m (50 MHz to 52 MHz) varies across the band from 1:1 […]

I made a vertical whip for 70MHz by adapting the fibre glass chassis and the radials of a dead Watson 300. The internal colinear of the Watson 300 was a bit corroded and the capacitor on the base loading coil had disintegrated. I extended the three radials with sliding alloy […]