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I agree Roger - AM should be kept alive, for this & many other reasons. LW Radio 4 could be kept on with a smaller TX not so greedy of power. For one example for the UK.
It seems the Spanish fault, was the sudden loss of a lot of available power from some Solar power, probably from some combining station with a fault.
This caused the rest of the system, to be unable to meet the load, 50hz frequency would have dropped to a lower frequency & other generators would have automatically disconnected as well - along with interconnections to the rest of Europe - thus Spain ended up with virtually no power, apart from standby Generators for Hospitals & UPS systems.
That's as I understand it from the info from Red Electric.
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Interesting to see that, during yesterday's power cut (where did 'outage'come from - Oh yes, the US!) a Spanish Government spokesman suggested that people should turn on their AM radios if they had one!
Given the developed world's reliance on a fragile technology, maybe some governments may think again (or maybe not!)
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Long Live AM - RogerT 29/4/2025, 9:47:11
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