I remember Atlantic 252 back in the 90's and used to listen to it all the time. That mast and transmitter is one piece of radio engineering that really should be appreciated :)
I remember every night around 6pm here in london you would get a hiss noise of around 5 seconds while the transmitter would reduce power then it would go back top normal again, but one thing i found out is that atlantic did not always reduce there power even if you heard that hiss..You could always tell if they had reduced power at 6pm when they cut off for a few seconds as when they came back on it would sound a lot worse in london prior to them reducing power and you'd get a wave effect after
In France well received but only in good conditions when night was coming, it was nice to hear it at my location near Paris.
In Portugal it also did work well at night near the coast.
I hope DRM will be working soon and bring back radio station on MW and LW bands like Atlantic 252 and hell , that some pirats use it too cause MW/LW and even SW are good bands for spread a signal.
i was at work the night 252 handed over to team talk,it happened at midnight and i was in my taxi waiting for a run,i didnt realise it until 00.20am and hadnt heard music for 20 mins just talk of sport then i realised what had happened R.I.P 252 wish it would come back
because of the poor bandwidth that was in the IF of the available tuners, look for an AM stereo capable tuner, they sound a lot better, mind you I live in Australia where AM has a lot more room to spread its HiFi wings to be competitive with FM.
Funny that, weird things do happen when you have RF energy at close proximity, I experimented with a 2 watt MF transmitter, with the antenna on top of the barn shed, it was used to transmit Psytrance around a hippie community on a farm, the roof used to sing with the hihats coming out of some of the corrugated iron panels :D
Still have my atlantic 252 bumper sticker stuck to my old bedroom door back at mums house...loved listening to it in the late eighties early nineties... sandy beach was brilliant.. good that the site has found a new home with rte.. which i also listen to...
This transmitter was state of the art at the time it first fired up in 1989. RTE Radio 1 now use this 252 kHz rig with daytime carrier power of 300 kW (100kW at night). I learned recently that it is solid state rather than uses valves so it has far less power consumption.
Oh, how I miss Atlantic 252!
wildphoenix1984 3 months ago
I remember Atlantic 252 back in the 90's and used to listen to it all the time. That mast and transmitter is one piece of radio engineering that really should be appreciated :)
julietcharlieen1 4 months ago
I remember every night around 6pm here in london you would get a hiss noise of around 5 seconds while the transmitter would reduce power then it would go back top normal again, but one thing i found out is that atlantic did not always reduce there power even if you heard that hiss..You could always tell if they had reduced power at 6pm when they cut off for a few seconds as when they came back on it would sound a lot worse in london prior to them reducing power and you'd get a wave effect after
LondonFocusRS 7 months ago
In France well received but only in good conditions when night was coming, it was nice to hear it at my location near Paris.
In Portugal it also did work well at night near the coast.
I hope DRM will be working soon and bring back radio station on MW and LW bands like Atlantic 252 and hell , that some pirats use it too cause MW/LW and even SW are good bands for spread a signal.
cgac99 8 months ago
the 2 guys at the end of this video are sadly no longer with us
ikeano29 1 year ago
would love knowing how high the tower is..looks to be electrically short at 252 kHz...
DG19075 1 year ago
@DG19075 Shes 248 meters! (or 813.6 feet)
markbryans1987 1 year ago
I often listen to the station. The reception in Holland was very good.
JeBeNL 2 years ago
The station is now RTÉ Radio One on that frequency.
kazimann 1 year ago
i was at work the night 252 handed over to team talk,it happened at midnight and i was in my taxi waiting for a run,i didnt realise it until 00.20am and hadnt heard music for 20 mins just talk of sport then i realised what had happened R.I.P 252 wish it would come back
baggyboo 2 years ago
because of the poor bandwidth that was in the IF of the available tuners, look for an AM stereo capable tuner, they sound a lot better, mind you I live in Australia where AM has a lot more room to spread its HiFi wings to be competitive with FM.
Cringle84 2 years ago
Funny that, weird things do happen when you have RF energy at close proximity, I experimented with a 2 watt MF transmitter, with the antenna on top of the barn shed, it was used to transmit Psytrance around a hippie community on a farm, the roof used to sing with the hihats coming out of some of the corrugated iron panels :D
Cringle84 2 years ago
@Cringle84 Sure does I once lit up F40 florescent tubes with RF from a 50 watt VHF amateur radio transceiver.
bratina501 1 year ago
It was a bit of a failed project;RTL sold the station to a sports talk network and that didn't last very long.
AnthonyUK 2 years ago
Still have my atlantic 252 bumper sticker stuck to my old bedroom door back at mums house...loved listening to it in the late eighties early nineties... sandy beach was brilliant.. good that the site has found a new home with rte.. which i also listen to...
radiotwiddler 3 years ago 2
@radiotwiddler lol
Radification 1 year ago
This transmitter was state of the art at the time it first fired up in 1989. RTE Radio 1 now use this 252 kHz rig with daytime carrier power of 300 kW (100kW at night). I learned recently that it is solid state rather than uses valves so it has far less power consumption.
anorak64 3 years ago
it was in its element around 1992-1995
ashdude9 3 years ago
As I recall, the people who set up Atl. 252 were the running Laser 558 for a while previously, or have I got that wrong?
Amazing thing with that lock arcing, so much RF energy in everything metal around there! Sad to hear 252 is no more.
G0IFI 3 years ago
Back in 2000 I picked up that station for the first time with a LW loop antenna using a DX-392 I have the old broadcasts on tape somewhere.
gccengineering1996 4 years ago