Droitwich
About Droitwich
Droitwich Spa is an historic spa town and civil parish in the Wychavon district, in northern Worcestershire, England, on the River Salwarpe. It is located approximately 22 miles (35 km) south-west of Birmingham and 7 miles (11 km) north-east of Worcester. In 2021 the parish had a population of 25,027.
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The Germans sent some signals from Droitwich as well — they had someone on the inside, so they could use the Droitwich transmitter to send their own signals to people in France. There was a German spy in Droitwich, and they don't know who it was, but they assume it was someone working at the BBC.
from 586: No Such Thing As A Levis Jury, 2025-06-05 at 00:19:51 · read transcript
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They've got like, they've got no spares in the cupboard. They're using their last two valves. When one of those goes, the system goes. Yeah. One interesting thing about the long wave, especially this thing in Droitwich, is you have to send out a frequency and it has to be exactly 198 kilohertz, right? How do you make sure that the frequency is always the same when you're sending this signal out? Yeah. I don't know.
586: No Such Thing As A Levis Jury, 2025-06-05 · listen
Twice a day, Radio 4 sends out this message from Droitwich, which is in the middle of the country and is a transmitter that can reach the whole country, and it just goes blip, and hundreds of thousands of homes across the country switch onto the new tariff that they're paying for their.
586: No Such Thing As A Levis Jury, 2025-06-05 · listen
The way they do it, switching twice a day, is that they are set up to receive a signal embedded in the BBC Radio 4 long wave radio. It's nuts. Twice a day, Radio 4 sends out this message from Droitwich, which is in the middle of the country. It's a transmitter that can reach the whole country. It just goes blip. and hundreds of thousands of homes across the country switch onto the new tariff that they're paying for their electricity.
No Such Thing As A Levis Jury, 2025-06-05 · listen
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