{"id":47713,"date":"2026-05-08T11:23:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=47713"},"modified":"2026-05-08T11:23:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:23:01","slug":"closure-of-the-droitwich-transmitter-on-198khz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/rsgb-notices\/2026\/05\/08\/closure-of-the-droitwich-transmitter-on-198khz\/","title":{"rendered":"Closure of the Droitwich Transmitter on 198kHz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has announced that the Droitwich Transmitter on 198kHz will be permanently closed down during 2026.\u00a0The Scottish Long Wave transmitters at Burghead and Westerglen will also be turned off.<\/p>\n<p>The Droitwich transmitter was commissioned during September 1934. These transmissions have always been part of our lives as radio enthusiasts. A date has not yet been formally given, but the BBC is committing to providing two months\u2019 notice to listeners.<\/p>\n<p>The RSGB and the BBC Amateur Radio Group are planning to mark this occasion on the air. More details of how this will be achieved will be available soon.<\/p>\n<p>Please email <strong>ContestClub@rsgbcc.org<\/strong>\u00a0if you would like to register your interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has announced that the Droitwich Transmitter on 198kHz will be permanently closed down during 2026.\u00a0The Scottish Long Wave transmitters at Burghead and Westerglen will also be turned off. The Droitwich transmitter was commissioned during September 1934. These transmissions have always been part of our lives as radio enthusiasts. A date has not yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47716,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47713\/revisions\/47716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}