Відео

These are most definitely Davenport. 100v caution sticker & driver gives it away.

I know I am a little late to the party, but here is my tribute to Absolute Radio - with the emphasis on multipath reception that occurred at night: ua-cam.com/video/huN5leqqOOA/v-deo.html

i've been trying to find out some information about some large Davenport branded column type speakers that are installed in a british legion club. They are running off a 1960's vortexian PA amplifier and are still in use!

Does anyone have a recording of the closure of the AM stations that were used for Greatest Hits Radio/Radio Hallam for example on 1548kHz??

Radio Caroline is available on low power on irony of ironies the establishment's former frequency of 648kHz previously occupied by the BBC World Service. Probably receivable in the South & South East only. It's high time Radio Caroline was given Nationwide on AM or DAB+ coverage as a mark of gratitude to them showing that commercial radio could work in the UK and breaking the BBC's monopoly of the UK airwaves! 👍

on January 20, 2023... At 12:00 I remember :( ABSOLUTE RADIO THE FAMILY THAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN WITH US! ❤️ Bye bye...

Goodbye Absolute radio 😢

I only just noticed that the dial is actually on 247 metres.

now your channel name makes more sense 😜

Absolute Radio is my favourite station but I was never able to get good reception in the car on AM due to the poor aerial meaning it was swamped with noise. I bought a DAB unit a few years ago but was disappointed to discover Absolute is only available in mono here. I have some old 1950's vintage radios and was surprised how good 1215 sounded on them. Sadly the MW band is falling silent now.

Such a beautiful radio moment. Beautiful beyond belief.

Very sad, I liked to hear Absolute Radio on AM from Germany. Was the real 80s feeling.

I now heard that the Irish RTE Radio 1 is also going to close down their 252 LW station on the 14th. Try and record that assuming you can pick it up from your location.

There aren't many left now. Manx Radio and BBC Radio Scotland are still there.

Internet is almost everywhere... What if one day it will be switched off ... From where will you get informations? Im sad HF is dying.. but luckly HAM radio operators are still there (included me).

Thanks for preserving the last moments of 1215kHz with this pretty vintage rig 😎

So long and thanks for all the fish.... the end of analog radio is the end of an era.

ive got a recording of this directly to tape from my own reciever that i got when it stopped

A Roberts R303.....my aunty Bess in Erith had one of those, it was navy blue and she never switched it off, just turned the volume down on it so it used to whisper LBC all day (on 261 metres)and night! Roberts made some of their best models with either the 'square semicircle' design or the halfmoon one.

What's on 1215 now?

They've lost me as a listener. The DAB take up has been pathetic, the quality is bad just 8bit in most instances, in fact it has been so bad that Southern Ireland has scrapped DAB altogether and many European countries haven't adopted it at all..

I didn't know Absolute Radio was on AM.

I still remember Richard Skinner doing the announcments on the test transmissions before the launch of Virgin. Was on a loop and Whole of the Moon by The Waterboys was one of the tracks in the loop.

Quite nicely produced but totally missed out on the golden era of AM on MW - the offshore stations - especially the 70's with Caroline, RNI, and the amazing Laser. All had huge audiences with signals tuned to punch through on AM. And then, the landbased pirates - Jackie, Kaleidoscope, and Thames Radio - a whole genre missed in the clip!

Unpopular opinion: I think AM should be phased out, it's archaic technology at this point. DAB and FM are far superior, get better receptions with less static and don't require you to point your radio in a certain direction for the best reception. Everyone talking about natural disasters should remember 2 things. 1. The UK is a very small place relative to AUSTRALIA and CANADA, we don't have huge areas of wilderness between towns. 2. If a war did happen then we still have the satellites for television, we don't need to rely on radio for news.

Question: Why did AM Stereo become a thing? It sounded better than FM Stereo, in the examples I heard on UA-cam. You could broadcast far away with top notch sound quality. FM, under normal circumstances could only broadcast 200 km.....

Thanks for sharing this. I didn't listen to Absoloute radio and haven't heard AM for a while now but nice to hear this on UA-cam.

During my stay in the UK (the decade of the '70s) Radio 1 was *always* 247m on MW... never referred to as AM or expressed in kHz. Even FM was "VHF". We were so excited to get stereo (and simultaneously commercial) radio in 1973 in Scotland, precipitating the purchase of a new hi-fi setup (although most of our cars' radios remained MW and LW only through '75).

It's so sad to hear an era come to an end. May these recordings and archives keep the memories with us always. I really like new tech but not at the cost of memories of old.

Apparently Europe especially Germany believe they will not, at some time, feel the effects of climate change? Good luck since their arrogance may well be rewarded with a storm like we experienced in Atlantic Canada. Germany, keep thinking you are special.

A naive mistake from those who think a computer can replace everything. The problem with computers replacing radio broadcast transmitters is the effort & complexity required to share computer access, coverage, throughout a large and often difficult geographic area. What a stupid time to take this transmitter down! In Atlantic Canada, where I live, our computers and cell phones went down in a horrific storm in September 2022. Cell and Computer connectivity took as long as 7 weeks to be restored in all areas within the Atlantic Canadian Region. Meanwhile, CBC Radio broadcasting continued from AM & FM transmitters such as CBC 1140AM in the Sydney Nova Scotia Metro Area. CBC had the advantage of backup electricity and the fact that AM towers are slender catching less ferocious wind than bulky heavily laden cell towers. Now the silly and foolish CBC wants to abandon transmitters for the vulnerable internet. Not smart with climate change where the storm of the century is becoming three or four savage storms every seven years. CBC has the perfect system for stormy climate change weather, it is called AM Radio. How dumb are these idiots sitting in their board rooms???

More space for ANOTHER Spanish station, should rename from Medium waves to Spanish waves :D - Still remember it from the times of Virgin Radio , great station , great reception also here in Northern Italy , especially in past.

You will be missed :(

its up to the pirates to SAVE RADIO NOW

The world will miss you.

Why is the digital screen saying 1197kHz and not 1215kHz?

Thanks for uploading this, very nice sound quality too, used too love listening too Virgin on 1215 back in the day b before it became Absolute Radio

I daily drove a 1997 Ford Fiesta for years and always listened to Virgin/Absolute on 1215am, was the sound track to many a daily commute/shopping trip/holiday etc - Even remember listening to it on the way to the hospital the morning my daughter was born. DAB will never sound as good as 1215 AM did in that old car.

they should've finished at 12:15AM 😝

After years of listening radio I found that "Good reasons" are rarely ever good

Amazing why Virgin/Absolute Radio needed so many AM freqs 1197 AM 1215 AM 1233 AM 1242 AM 1260 AM BBC Radio 5 can be found on 693 kHz 909 kHz 990 kHz 1593 KHz Bretagne 5 can be heard from UK from France clearly... even at 20:33 The following BBC Local Radio AM transmitters closed by June 2021 Radio Lancashire on 855 Radio Leeds on 774 Radio Sheffield on 1035 Radio Stoke-on-Trent on 1503 Radio Wales on 657 and 882

"There are a number of good reasons we've made this change (but why would we bother explaining them to you troglodytes listening on this channel? We'd much prefer to explain them to those listeners who are already convinced of the benefits of digital...") Yeah, there was a famous book written about that kind of thinking by a man called Joseph Heller. It's called "Catch 22".

Ah...Memories of 1215Khz and Radio Tirana causing interference to BBC Radio 1 when listening on a portable radio on my way back from school in the 70's just as it was getting dark! 73.G7HFS/PA3IKH

RIP Virgin/Absolute Radio 1993 - 2023

6:06 tbf "Sex Havers Radio" would probably have been a better name than Absolute

Love my Sony ICF-6700W. So nice to see and hear another. They are not that common!

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Digital broadcasting is a joke, and a bad one at that. Here in Australia, AM stations simply switched to the 88-to-108Mhz FM band so they could broadcast in high-quality stereo and still be able to cover most of the service area covered by their former AM frequency. Prior to this there were several stations that tried AM-stereo and found it wanting, so they opted to convert to FM.

Okay, my mistake, I took this to be a lowly American radio station. I didn't realise it was a British station until further into the video, now I realise "Absolute Radio" is/was the station call-sign as British radio and TV stations had *PROPER* identities based on their corporate names.