11-12-2016, 10:37 AM
(10-12-2016, 05:29 PM)Murphyv310 Wrote: I am using a 1566khz crystal but any in the AM band will work fine
Interesting choice of frequency, Trevor - I assume it was purely random, based on availability?
Basically the same channel as used by the Dutch pirate Radio Veronica - 1562kHz/192m - which, it is alleged, inspired Ronan O'Rahilly to open Radio Caroline 5 years later.
However, there were a few 8kHz channel shoe-horned into the very top end of the MW but this was rationalised by WARC '79 which not only made all channels 9kHz wide but also exact multiples of 9kHz. Thus 1566kHz, which is an excact multiple of 9, is the same channel as was used by Veronica in the revised allocations.
You'll be co-channel with two low power transmitters - 500W in Surrey and 630W in Somerset, so I don't think they will be bothering you or, more importantly, you bothering them!
There's nothing of significance in the adjacent channels, either, other than a 300kHz transmitter in Nice, if it still exists (I'm working from a three year old listing at the moment).
