FINLAND New low power LW station in Inari, Finland.
Arctic Radio 252 - later this year 2024.Arctic Radio started as a project in the Spring of 2024. With the decline
in LW broadcasts it was mostly with nostalgia the project was born but the
need for an independent Arctic based radio station was recognised.
Multi-language programming in English, Finnish, Inari Sami, Northern Sami
and Skolt Sami it caters for the people who live in our Arctic area.
We will begin broadcasting later this year from Inari, Northern Finland
with 1 kW, we hope to slowly upgrade the power as time goes on. Our goal
is a dedicated LW station that will cover most of the Arctic region in the
future.
252 kHz was the former home of Finland's YLE longwave station from Lahti
that was switched off in 1993. A commonly asked question is why 252 kHz ?
The short answer is Finland only has 252 kHz allocated under the GE75 ITU
plan. We are aware of the power of Algeria also on 252 that may hinder re-
ception of our station further South but we are hopeful in future that we
may be granted a clear channel by the ITU.
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(via Risto Harjula-FIN, Suomen DX-Liitto F_Book 11 Aug;
[co-ch Tipaza Algeria on 252 kHz does suffer outages and is often off air]
via Alan Pennington-UK, BrDXC-UK iogr August 11)