I used to listen to longwave radio on a small
clock radio. The book at bedtime, you could pick 
that up, the shipping forecast, 
"Fair Isle 
Malin 
Hebrides 
Rockall
Faeroes 
Southeast Iceland"
the pips at midnight,
Not exactly hi-fi sound.  This tech was going
back to pre transistor days. 


Atlantic 252 kHz was the other one!
This would come in on the clock radio
with a five hundred thousand watt 
transmitter thirty miles away.
This was aimed at the UK.

They played all the floor fillers.
What was I hearing? The longwaves seemed to
impart their properties to the music.

It was commercial but there was something 
special about that fuzzy mono sound 
in the misty morning gloom. 
TECHNO
ELECTRO
GARAGE
TRANCE
HOUSE
I envisioned the long waves being 
conducted across misty fields... 
Each wave was over a thousand meters. 

Long waves were only for groundwave listening.
There were no night time skywaves.
That is the properties of longwave.
These things became a bit niche. Not all
receivers had the LW band.
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