Comment on Requiem For Long Wave, As The BBC Goes Silent by MIKE

In reply to Menno.

You can buy a COTS 40 kW VHF FM solid state transmitter. Now, Its possible that is using a C class amplifier and a tuned circuit that isn't suitable for classical AM modulation but there are multichannel DVB-T transmitters that could output 12 kW RMS or 25 kW PeP in UHF and they're absolutely linear. I think with the transistors they use it's absolutely possible to design an am transmitter working in the long wave frequencies.

If there was interest to maintain the service I think building a solid state replacement was absolutely possible, but when a political decision is done a technical excuse will pop up to justify it.

In Italy the medium wave service was shut off even id all the transmitters were modern solid state ones and the reason was because nobody listened to AM frequencies, that wasn't true, actually. Italian public broadcaster is known to fire beloved tv hosts only to get then landing to the private broadcasters and with that most of the viewers and therefore the adverts.