Did Long Wave Only Radios Exist?

[Colly0410]

Heard somewhere that long wave/FM radios used to be sold in France & Poland. Long wave was quite popular in those countries. They're shutting down long wave stations in most of Europe nowadays. Here in Britain there are 3 long wave transmitters still working carrying BBC Radio 4 all on 198khz (1515 metres) as a synchronised single frequency network. Most radios over here no longer have long wave just AM/FM. (AM here used to be called medium wave) I have a few older radios with long wave. The only English language stations are BBC Radio 4 & RTE 1 from Ireland on 252khz.

Long wave travels far: When I was based in West Germany near the then East German border (hundreds of miles away from Droitwich LW 400 KW's TX) we used to listen to the English top 40 as BBC Radio1 used to transmit on long wave for 2 hours between 5 & 7 PM on Sundays evenings, it was a highlight of our day, lol, sad lot weren't we?