Low power mediumwave in the Netherlands. After switching off a number of high power transmitters in 2015, at the end of December the Dutch government has launched a public consultation on ‘opening up’ the mediumwave band for radio and non-radio applications with 'low power' and with limited government regulation. When referring to 'low power' this means both a power in the range of 1 – 5 watts (site coverage) and 50 – 100 watts (municipal coverage). The idea is that the same frequencies will be re-used across the country. They will be handed out on the basis of a first-come, first served basis. Deadline for comments is 14 February 2016.
Marcel Rommerts (12/1-2016)
I don't see why this won't happen in the United States as AM radio is dying. Hobby Radio could save it for most small communities like Deltaville Virginia. I can cover most of the complex using the wire antenna on the talking House AM transmitter version 5.0. If station 8 ever gets a company 2 machine has antenna we will have it made. I've talked to him and he's having issues finding a company to do that for him.
There's a difference between the Netherlands and the USA. There's only one high power station left. We've got lot of frequency's (1 kW till 400 kW) but, with one exception, nobody is interested. You could say, the Medium Wave band isn't commercial anymore (an important difference with the USA).
Last year we send an annotation (a vision on the mediumwave band where e.g. part 15 and ALPB is ment) to the government/Minister, guess what? They listened! So now it's going on and we hope the best of it (1 Watt EMRP licence free).
Rob Veld