Wednesday, March 04, 2015

German Radio Amateurs Breathe New Life Into 'Orphaned' Shortwave Channel

A few radio amateurs are frustrated broadcasters, and when German national broadcaster the Deutsche Welle closed down a 500 kW shortwave broadcast transmitter near Munich, an entity headed and operated by hams applied for and was granted the vacant channel of 6070 kHz in the 49 meter shortwave band. DARC Radio -- which has a business association with the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club (DARC http://www.darc.de/) but is privately owned -- now has a 10 kW broadcast station, branded "Channel 292 http://www.channel292.de," up and running, and a new Amateur Radio DX program will debut next month.

Read the full story at :  http://www.eham.net/articles/34115

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