The Radio 4 longwave transmitter is on 198 kHz. Not 198 m mediumwave. Reception is more or less restricted to Europe. -- Richard Langley Professor of Geodesy and Precision Navigation
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >In a message dated 2003/11/27 02:50:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> BBC Radio 4 will carry a 30-minute show on sundials on Saturday, 13 >> December at 1530 GMT. >> >> It's of course easy to hear in the UK, but anyone with a Web >> connection who can stream audio can also listen at >> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/ >> >> or through the ether on long wave at 198 meters. > >I have a shortwave receiver that picks up BBC on 5975 kHz rather >well. Will the program be at that frequency also? (This ancient >computer won't handle streaming audio.) > >What would the frequency of 198 m be? Is that a band, rather >than a frequency? Haven't heard of that band, but I'm a rank novice >at this sort of thing. Let's see... 299792458/198 = 1514 kHz (Not >correcting for the refractive index of air.) Have I messed that up? > >Thanks! >John Bercovitz > >- > =============================================================================== Richard B. Langley E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geodetic Research Laboratory Web: http://www.unb.ca/GGE/ Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Phone: +1 506 453-5142 University of New Brunswick Fax: +1 506 453-4943 Fredericton, N.B., Canada E3B 5A3 Fredericton? Where's that? See: http://www.city.fredericton.nb.ca/ =============================================================================== -
