August 9th marked the first test of the Nautel ND2000 transmitter on a temporary antenna. The test consisted of test tones.
August 24th marked the first broadcast of prerecorded audio content.
The transmitter is currently on a temporary antenna so our reach is only 150km (groundwave) at present. The proper antenna is yet to be moved and installed but this should take place in September before the winter season.
The Nautel ND2000 is currently running at 600W carrier and 750-800W peak modulation. The losses in the temporary antenna are huge! Further changes will mean more power at a later date. We are on the lookout for a Nautel ND4000 and it's ATU.
Audio enhancements are being carried out so we are still in a testing phase using prerecorded programming.
If you can help the station in any way it would be great to hear from you as we are also still in need of a MW and SW transmitter plus an Optimod audio processor.
A huge and grateful thanks for those of you who have supported the project, it has taken a long time to get to this point with many ups and downs along the way but we are there, after 32 years a new LW station from Finland is on air, albeit a small start.
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