Thanks for the link, Mike. I am pleasantly surprised to hear that they have not (thus far) succumbed to the false lure of abominably over-compressed multiband audio processing that ruins so many LF and HF broadcasts in recent times.WHILEITMAYBEPOSSIBLETOBETTERDISCERNCONTENTFROMNOISEABITMOREREADILYBYSQUASHINGTHEDYNAMICRANGE
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OTHEREMOTIONALIMPACTOFTHEBROADCAST,THE LACK OF "WHITE SPACE FOR THE EARS" IS AS DISTRACTING AS IT IS FOR THE EYES, AND JUST AS BAD FOR MENTAL RETENTION. AND DON'T EVEB GET ME STARTED--
I mean, don't me started on the race for loudness in radio generally. For longwave broadcasters in particular, it not only adds to ear fatigue, but also draws further attention to the terribly limited audio bandwidth.
Every single pop music DJ in the entire world is trained from birth to never let a quarter of a second of dead air escape, by keeping "a smile in his voice and a song in your ear."* Leave it to the pros to maintain the energy level, I say, not some soulless box in the transmitter room. ;)
At any rate, their audio sounded quite pleasant. Do you happen to know how far from the station the recording was made?
John
[* The expression comes from the Guy Goldentone ADVENTURES OF RADIO MAN series, © 1974.]