All posts by KMJ, Derby
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Richard Goodson: Probably not. The frequencies of your local relay are well away from those of the current phase of 4G installations, so any problems are only likely if you use a high gain amplifier in the presence of a strong 4G signal, which results in the tuner being overloaded rather than any direct interference to the required signals. In such cases fitting a filter before the amplifier should remove the problem.
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Ian: If the BBC was to accept advertising revenue it would be at the expense of the broadcasters which are currently funded by advertising (ITV, C4, C5, plus Sky in part). You would then need the licence fee to pay for public service broadcasting, where provided, across all the TV stations to make up for the lost revenue. Note that the original concept of PSB driven independant local radio is dead and buried. Ofcom has given up requiring radio to provide anything more than minimal local content.
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Ian: Or they all become part of Sky's basic package at an increased price of about £150 a year! Anyway isn't East Midlands Today and BBC local radio alone worth £2 odd a week? What does the Leicester Mercury cost to read?
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Nedbod: ITV2/3/4HD were intended to be subscription channels from the outset. To make them free to air does not add any viewers (they already have the SD version) but would lose subscription revenue. NHK took the decision to switch off the SD service and just transmit in HD in order to save money. However if ITV was to do this they would lose viewers as there are many SD Sky and Freesat boxes in use. Note that the commercial services in Germany are likewise free to air on SD and subscription on HD. As in the UK it is only the PSB services that are free-to-air in HD.
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Sophie Oban: Film4 has been added to PSB2 and the service on ArqB carries an instruction to re-tune as it is shortly to be withdrawn from that mux. If your boxes have an automatic scanning facility it could be that they have responded to the re-tune command which would explain your findings.
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Frank: Selecting Anglia does not guarantee that the receiver will choose Tacolneston frequencies. You could have been tuned to West Runton for the PSBs, or with slight lift conditions, Sudbury, which would fall away when conditions returned to normal. Check that Tacolneston frequencies have been stored. Your aerial should be pointing roughly South for Tacolneston, mounted with the rods horizontal.
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trevorjharris: Perish the thought that we would have to rely on mobile phone networks in order to receive radio stations! I must agree though, that DRM+ would have been a better choice in hilly areas, where medium wave reception currently is more consistant than FM. As you say, the public resent being told to buy new radios for an FM switch off - this is really why the BBC are stuck with DAB rather than biting the bullet and telling everyone to buy a radio capable of receiving DAB+ transmissions.
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Thursday 25 July 2013 8:51PM
steph: Yes. All TV and FM/DAB radio services are shown as off air since 16.19 today, 25th July 2013.