Numbered Diamond Stickers On Radio

[Arran]

Re: Numbered Diamond Stickers On Radio

Old Radio 4 frequencies 1960s to 22/11/1978

908 kHz MW London (Brookmans Park)
1088 kHz MW Midland (Droitwich)
692 kHz MW North (Moorside Edge)
1151 kHz MW North (Stagshaw)
1052 kHz MW West (Start Point)
1457 kHz MW West (Clevedon)
809 kHz MW Scottish (Burghead)
809 kHz MW Scottish (Westerglen)
881 kHz MW Welsh (Washford)
1340 kHz MW Northern Ireland (Lisnagarvey)

New Radio 4 frequencies after 23/11/1978

200 kHz LW National service (Droitwich, Burghead, and Westerglen) 23/11/1978 to 31/01/1988
227 kHz LW Allocated to Westerglen but never used
198 kHz LW National service (Droitwich, Burghead, and Westerglen) 01/02/1988 to today
603 kHz MW Newcastle upon Tyne
720 kHz MW London, Belfast, Derry
756 kHz MW Redruth
774 kHz MW Plymouth, Enniskillen
1449 kHz MW Aberdeen
1485 kHz MW Carlisle

Radio 4 replaced the Home Service on 30/09/1967 which was broadcast on MW as it provided regional news and programmes for each group of transmitters. In the 1970s it had become a national radio station so in 1978 swapped with Radio 2 for the LW frequency supplemented with low power MW transmissions in areas where reception of the LW transmission was difficult.

Some cheap imported radios could not receive LW so users lost the facility to receive Radio 4 unless they lived in an area where Radio 4 was available on MW.

LW is not officially used in Northern Ireland as it is difficult to receive from transmitters on the mainland. Radio 4 is broadcast in Northern Ireland on MW.

[Trickyvee]

Re: Numbered Diamond Stickers On Radio

Wow that’s given me a blast from the past! One mention of diamond stickers and the front of our old radio zoomed into view with its array of diamond number stickers arranged haphazardly across the dial. I’ve not though of that for about 35 years!