Naturally
Washington Post: Human Ninja Turtles keep emerging from New York City manhole covers.
Circling the drains
BBC will be shutting off its Radio 4 service at 198 kHz longwave (LW) on 27 June. Being old in age and fashion, I travel with a radio and have always loved listening on the LW band, especially to hear Radio 4 on 198. (For example, here. In that post, I pointed to a Guardian piece saying the signal would continue until they burned out the last vacuum tube required to produce the signal—a kind no longer made. That was in 2014.)
A gigantic advantage of LW is its extreme range across the ground, day and night. Radio 4 on 198 covers all of the UK, Ireland, and the northwest coast of mainland Europe. I just checked on a bunch of scattered SDRs (software-defined radios). You can too, here. I’m even listening right now to Radio 4 on 198 across the pond in Prince Edward Island.
But the band is being abandoned. So is mediumwave (MW), called AM in North America, though more slowly. I also just learned that Canada’s CHU, the shortwave time signal station to which I set clocks for much of my life, will also shut down. CHU will go away on 26 June, a day before Radio 4 on 198 vanishes forever.
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