Available to listen to and buy at Bandcamp
Release date: 27 June 2026
Format: digital download. Artwork and typography by Landschaft.
Farewell to 198:
The BBC ceased longwave transmission from it's three sites in the UK on 27 June 2026 ending nearly a century of analogue broadcast. The transmitter will be fully disabled on 30 June. I frequently travelled past the Droitwich Spa masts on journeys to Worcester. Parallelling the ending of transmissions, I will no longer be travelling this route to Worcester. My work colleague whom I visited retires 30 June too. So in a sense this is farewell to 198 and to Dave!
My fascination with analogue radio signals started early when I spent hours scrolling the dial on our family valve radio picking up the crackly vestiges of transmissions from far away shores. A few houses away a local gentleman Mr Shaw, a radio ham sat hermit like scanning the skys searching for I know not what.