Thread: AM Radio fading into history
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Old 05-02-2023, 14:51   #16
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Re: AM Radio fading into history
There were two other factors to the downfall of Atlantic 252. One was the location of the mast at Clarkestown, west of Dublin which lost a lot of groundwave propagation due to Wales standing between it & London. The other was the 252 frequency being given clearance for use by a 1.5 megawatt Radio Algeria service, which used to swamp reception in southern England, especially at night when Clarkestown was restricted to 100kW output.

When the radio Cleveland frequency was dropped in 1992, the ILR service for that area (Radio Tees) was already established using 1170kHz. I can only speculate that two changes occurred around this time with other ILR services that may have caused contention issues, as both Radio Forth & Radio City had to re-site their 1548 masts due to local issues.
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