[A-DX] Reakivierung 1476kHz

[Clemens Paul]

Hallo A-DXer,

hier eine Weiterleitung von der MW-/LW Afu Liste.
Ich kann den Piepser hier im Moment relativ gut hören.
ca 185km Distanz.

73
Clemens
DL4RAJ 
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After the sad demise of all LW and MW broadcasts in Germany, a handful of pioneers came up who are operating legal low-powered
medium wave stations in the context of a radio museum or for educational purposes. One of them is Ralph (DL2NDO, one of the
participants in the legendary Donebach 137 kHz activation in 2002). He has obtained a transmitting license for 1476 kHz (former
frequency of Vienna Bisamberg), built a 3 Watt AM transmitter, and with the help of a small team raised a quarterwave antenna on the
Fraunhofer premises south of Erlangen (JN59MN21HF). 

Yesterday they got on air for the first time, running a preliminary test transmission consisting of a switched 1000 Hz beeps (one
second on, one second off, audio frequency locked to the RF carrier). This pattern will be continued for a few days, before they
will eventually.take over the audio from the local DAB student radio "funklust".

The current test pattern is relatively easy to make out in the noise so it may be a good chance for some DX detections.  At night
we've actually heard the beeps on Twente SDR and a couple of German Kiwi-SDRs. But I guess using narrowband signal processing
techniques, the carrier and coherent tones coud make it much further. The carrier frequency is derived from an OCXO and is currently
at 1476000.411 Hz.
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