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Peter,
AM broadcasting here is on the 521 to 1602 khz for normal broadcasting stations. The 2368Khz is concidered a SW freq here although the lowest of them. Yes here it is "shared" with "broadcast" and "mobile or fixed" services. I'm not sure on the exact freq limits but this is the first of the Shortwave Bands as designated by the ITU. It isn't concidered anything too usefull for the purposes of International Broadcasting. That happens from about 5 mhz upwards plus needs to be shared on a time table basis as you would know. So here we find a lot of long distance two way system for long distance trucking companys and a system here called the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Also a mob that are a FWD club have a network of stations around the country. Alot of this is all done now on Sat phones etc, so the ACA are looking at what to do with stacks of HF spectrum being left dorment. Here TXers are AWA / Blyth / RVR / Rhode & Shcwarz / Harris -------thats about as far as memory goes for now! Very interesting. Don't forget Barratt HF transceivers, I have one:-) AWA must be locally made! I'm familiar with typical coverage of the above band. The HF spectrum must be busier here in western Europe than down in the Pacific. Our UK government do not issue HF broadcast licenses - period. People have tried, unsuccessfully, to apply. There again, we now live in a police state. Thanks for the info. -- Philip de Cadenet G4ZOW Transmitters 'R' Us http://www.transmittersrus.com |
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Interesting this is to me Phil!!!!
See in this part of the world WE (Australia) are largely on our own!!! By this I mean the size of this place is mind blowing to most European people. Driving from one side of the country to the other is measured in WEEKS not hours. Also in a "broad" sence we are as far away from the technologicaly developed countries as you can get without coming back closer. Plus we "almost are" the only ones in the race for the southern hemisphere. Over your way the SKIP potential would be more pronounced. Thus causing the authorities to think the way they do. I got it here when asking for a HF Domestic license on the 2368.5 KHZ. We tolerate the night time extension in coverage given the d layer. As you know the groundwave is not too favourable so I was asked a lot of suss questions for wanting one. Here the "general idea" is everything needs to be big to cover enough area to get a workable audience size. So anything that reduces the effective coverage area is not liked too much with the engineering people. Also I've bookmarked your site. I'm on the hunt for gear to set up the licenses i have. Regards Peter PS AWA = Amalgmated Wireless Australia (I think-----yes local fellas) Also R.M.E. =Radio Manufacturing Enigineers (Local fellas too---not sure if still around) |
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Peter Tate wrote:
Also in a "broad" sence we are as far away from the technologicaly developed countries as you can get without coming back closer. Plus we "almost are" the only ones in the race for the southern hemisphere. Over your way the SKIP potential would be more pronounced. Thus causing the authorities to think the way they do. I got it here when asking for a HF Domestic license on the 2368.5 KHZ. In South America, there are a lot of broadcasters using the 120 meter band down in that area. Stations have a very large coverage area, and often are the only communication at all, so 120 meter and 60 meter shortwave broadcast is used for local programming. We tolerate the night time extension in coverage given the d layer. As you know the groundwave is not too favourable so I was asked a lot of suss questions for wanting one. The night time extension is the wonderful thing about these bands, of course. Here the "general idea" is everything needs to be big to cover enough area to get a workable audience size. So anything that reduces the effective coverage area is not liked too much with the engineering people. Also I've bookmarked your site. I'm on the hunt for gear to set up the licenses i have. How much power are you licensed for? Fair Radio Sales right now has a bunch of wideband broadcast transmitters for reasonable money. Are there type acceptance requirements in your country for that band? If not, you might consider using higher grade amateur gear. Even HCJB is running a little Viking II transmitter on one band, and it gets out nicely and is apparently reliable. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Interesting this is to me Phil!!!! Snip I got it here when asking for a HF Domestic license on the 2368.5 KHZ. We tolerate the night time extension in coverage given the d layer. As you know the groundwave is not too favourable so I was asked a lot of suss questions for wanting one. Here the "general idea" is everything needs to be big to cover enough area to get a workable audience size. So anything that reduces the effective coverage area is not liked too much with the engineering people. Also I've bookmarked your site. I'm on the hunt for gear to set up the licenses i have. OK, so do you intend to broadcast with AM on the above frequency? Musical format, maybe some non copyrighted stuff so no copyright fees? Had a colleague succeed attaining a UK T & D (Testing and Development) license for somewhere around your frequency. This was to carry out some antenna development work. Or at least that was his story! Played I do believe some old jazz from the 50's which was not copyright. Now a nice Franklin antenna would do you well for some serious ground wave coverage. I wonder how tall that baby would be on 2368KHz. Now I've talked to Aus from my mobile ham station on numerous occasions on 160m (1.8-2MHz) albeit on SSB. If your frequency is clear here in the UK there's no reason you could not be received here under favourable conditions early in the morning. I searched in vain for both the Aus companies! I'd be interested therefore what equipment you'll use and if it has to meet any type approval spec. there's just not many manufacturers out there who offer broadcast transmitters that go as low as 2MHz. Rhode & Schwarz, but don't ask the price. Contact Brian Blythe in New Zealand: http://www.blyth.co.nz/index.html I'm sure you know of his fine medium wave rigs. I'm his Euro distributor as you'll see. He may be able to move one of his boxes down there! I'm afraid it's pretty much impossible for the 'small guy' to get into station ownership here in the UK. It's for that reason I'm looking to invest in another US 'small-town' AM or AM/FM combo though the fed's allow only a max of 20% station ownership by foreigners. Hope I'm not boring you to death. We can take this off list if it's upsetting anyone. -- Philip de Cadenet G4ZOW Transmitters 'R' Us http://www.transmittersrus.com |
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