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Posted by Mike Terry [ miketerry73@btinternet.com ] on April 26, 2025 at 17:17:41.
Will it abandon long wave in favour of digital short wave? We are aware of the problems encountered by this country in the operation of its long-wave transmitters. A meeting was held in September at the central station in the presence of the Minister for Electronic Development, Innovation and Communications. He stated that ‘due to a lack of maintenance, the propagation of radio waves has deteriorated to 55% of the territory. People in remote areas of Mongolia can no longer listen to the radio’.
Aware that national radio is the main tool for rapidly transmitting information, especially on disasters, the director of the national radio and television network spoke out. He pointed out that the transition to world-class digital system services has been going on for more than 10 years, but has not led to a clear solution.
As a result, the minister in charge of the sector wants to focus on the transition of radio stations to digital technology and the expansion of short-wave radio.
With the transition of national radio to digital technology, it will cover 95 per cent of the entire country and 3.5 million citizens will be able to listen to the radio regularly.
It should be noted that only one of the long-wave transmitters has been replaced by a DRM-compatible transmitter, while the others date from the 1960s. Mongolia is also likely to suffer from a lack of long-wave receivers.
Digital shortwave is the least expensive solution for covering an area three times the size of France.
(Michael Fremy, Radio Magazine Facebook group, September 15th 2024) via Mike Barraclough
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