Medium-wave ends, in Germany.

[Trenchfriend]

On 31. December 2015, medium-wave finally ends, in Germany. "Deutschlandfunk", the last public-station offering a medium-wave-signal, will shut down its medium-wave.

 

[hatsRme]

Thank you for this notification, TrenchF. JUST yesterday, I was having a video call with my son in Israel, asking him about Medium Wave broadcasts there. Our concern was his being notified of any calamity in his community, such as happened last week. What will replace this aspect of medium wave programming in Deutchland, I wonder?

 

[Trenchfriend]

Medium-wave will have no successor.

And our beloved ultrashort-wave, still used by nearly everybody, is threatened, permanently. Next time will show, if DAB+ will have it's triumphal procession or not.

 

[hatsRme]

So will an "Emergency Notification System" of some technology be maintained?

 

[Trenchfriend]

I don't know.

 

[hatsRme]

There MUST be some kind of system planned. Think of derailed rail cars carrying toxic chemicals as an example of an emergency incident... how will the population know to evacuate, or otherwise react?

 

[Trenchfriend]

You mean "B.O.S-Funk"? That's the intra-radio-system of public-authorities and security-organizations in Germany.

 

[hatsRme]

I'm thinking of a system to alert the general public of catastrophes, in the event all people need to react to an emergency.

 

[Trenchfriend]

That would be a thing on the police and the civil-protection.

 

[Stanley Doble]

What do you mean by medium wave? Would it be like North American AM 560-1700Khz or FM 88-108Mhz?

I have a few German tube radios, the prize of the collection is a SABA Breisgau with 16 tubes and 4 bands.

 

[galopede]

What do you mean by medium wave? Would it be like North American AM 560-1700Khz or FM 88-108Mhz?

I have a few German tube radios, the prize of the collection is a SABA Breisgau with 16 tubes and 4 bands.

Medium wave is the AM

Gareth

 

[The Reno Kid]

It's kind of eerie. I drive an older car (sort of--it's a '99) and it has an AM/FM radio. The AM band is basically static, although I can pull in the odd French station from time to time. At the right time of day, I can even pick up the BBC. It's been quite a while since I've heard any German stations on AM.