The @BBC has announced that the Droitwich Transmitter on 198kHz will be permanently closed down during 2026. The Scottish Long Wave transmitters at Burghead and Westerglen will also be turned off.
The RSGB and the BBC Amateur Radio Group are planning to mark this occasion on the air. More details of how this will be achieved will be available soon. Read more via https://t.co/on6BD1fPTz
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On this day March 24, 1896 Russian physicist Aleksandr S. Popov sends the words “Heinrich Hertz” over Morse code through wireless telegraphy, which may have been the first recorded wireless audio transmission in history.