All posts by Stephen Phillips
Below are all of Stephen Phillips's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Thanks Mike - £80 plus £20 or more for bits!
It will need to come down!
Would it work throughout a house?
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WE Ap Rhys - shortly after you get decent road and rail links to N and S Wales.
ie This year; next year; sometime; ... you guessed it!
http://stakeholders.ofcom….pdf
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... Grant Goddard : radio blog: PORTUGAL: DAB digital radio switched off
On 1 June 2011, Rdio e Televiso de Portugal [RTP], the state broadcaster in Portugal, instructed Anacom, the national transmission provider, to switch off all DAB radio transmitters.
RTP explained in a press statement that its decision was the outcome of budgetary constraints and the fact that no commercial broadcasters had agreed to broadcast on DAB. Additionally, it said that high priced radio receivers had prevented many people acquiring them.
Says it all really?
How much money is anyone other than BBC spending on DAB?
And as Digital Radio is already broadcast on DTB, what point is there in having a second digital broadcast network?
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Mike/Jonathon - Lest there is any doubt, I'm not saying that radio on the digital telly is a substitute for FM/MW/LW; simply that it should be enough for those who want digital toys to play with.
For those of us who just want to listen to the wireless, we do not have a problem with what we now have.
As to commercial radio on digital, how much are they paying for it?
In Portugal - seems not willing to pay at all. And the Portuguese BBC had the sense to take the same view.
I'm surprised that speeds below 100miles per HOUR cause an effect on waves at 186,000 miles a SECOND - but I suppose once you are cramming a lot of information into a waveform things get trickier.
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Jonathon - I wonder what the total audience of those is? But if they cannot be accommodated on FM, by all means let them be on digital broadcast. I am not hostile to the new; only to the forced obsolescence of what we have.
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Are neighbours getting the same?
Could your booster have been depowered? Can you power it on/off and see a difference?
Booster would not make weak signals WEAKER though it could feasibly make them noisier so less effective.
But your change seems to fit in with the timings Brian has noted above - as copied here
NOTE: The commercial multiplexes at Sandy Heath will remain on their pre-switchover channels and powers for a period after digital switchover. SDN will then temporarily move to channel 31 (at 20kW ERP) on 31 Aug 2011, before adopting its final allocation of channel 51 on 18th April 2012. Arqiva A will adopt its final allocation of channel 52 on 23 Nov 2011. Arqiva B will temporarily move to channel 67 (at 20kW ERP) at switchover and then it will adopt its final allocation of channel 48 on 14 Sept 2011. NOTE: D3&4 and HD use transitional S1 antenna until 27 June 2012. NOTE: Ofcom have projected that a local television service could use an Interleaved Frequency on the Sandy Heath transmitter using C49. NOTE: Ofcom have projected that a local television service could use an Interleaved Frequency on the Sandy Heath transmitter using C23.
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Friday 8 July 2011 11:46PM
Mike D - I do not believe Wolfbane's ae choices - I can at home get a signal with a set top loop where they say "amplified high gain"
But they have a very clear presentation of what might be available and relative strength; bearing, etc.