Scandinavia has never sought a high profile in information broadcasting. The league table of international broadcasters issued by International Broadcasting & Audience Research includes only one Scandinavian country - Sweden - which it places seventh from the bottom. Norway, Denmark and Finland do not even get a mention. When the station was commissioned in the summer of 1988 it was the most modern in Europe. Since then it has operated without serious fault or interruption to service. Finland, to its credit, is one of the first countries in the world to use compatible SSB in its broadcasts. The new station is a far cry from the old SW station designed in the 1930s, which was described to me as 'The world's only functioning radio transmitter museum'. This is the nicest compliment to pay to transmitters that are taken out of service not for unreliability, but simply because they cannot meet the operational requirements of single-sideband broadcasting in the year 2015.
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