I have been playing around with some old video I made at Orfordness as a tribute to the work done by engineers to keep BBC 648 kHz on the air from the building on the marshes that once housed Cobra Mist. Audiences to mediumwave in the Benelux have waned to a point that keeping the transmitter on the air for upwards of 300,000 pounds a year no longer makes sense. The web now provides a better audio quality service to my location near Amsterdam - although I realise it will no longer be an option in the car.
I hope the BBC uses the money it has left to maintain vital AM services into countries like Burma, Somalia, Sudan, Nigeria and Zimbabwe where shortwave still makes a lot of sense.
http://www.vimeo.com/20996209
Hope you enjoy it.
Jonathan Marks
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