Atlantic 252 Transmitter Site

Tom Hands shows us the mighty 500kW giant at Summerhill, EIRE. 1998

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• atlantic
• 252
• longwave
• summerhill

[wildphoenix1984]

Oh, how I miss Atlantic 252!

[julietcharlieen1]

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 :)

[LondonFocusRS]

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

[cgac99]

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.

[bratina501]

@Cringle84 Sure does I once lit up F40 florescent tubes with RF from a 50 watt VHF amateur radio transceiver.

[ikeano29]

the 2 guys at the end of this video are sadly no longer with us

[markbryans1987]

@DG19075 Shes 248 meters! (or 813.6 feet)

[DG19075]

would love knowing how high the tower is..looks to be electrically short at 252 kHz...

[kazimann]

The station is now RTÉ Radio One on that frequency.

[Radification]

@radiotwiddler lol