All posts by Stephen Phillips
Below are all of Stephen Phillips's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
If they just leave R4 on FM I, and my dozen or more FM receivers, will be content.
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Wesley - do you clearly understand how the tuning, recording, and display functions of your kit fit and work together?
IIUC, you now have TWO tuners (one in the recorder and one in the TV).
Do you know how to use the TV just as a screen on which to watch whatever comes out of the recorder? If you do that you should still be able to record as before.
You do need to get an aerial connection into BOTH - either split or chained. SCARTS do not transmit RF signals.
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IP27 is too vague but according to this
UK digital TV reception predictor
you do not even GET C67!
But 27dBuV/m is a weak signal and 67 end of frequency range. Rain may affect reflected signals
Digital has a "cliff" from good to useless, not a fine gradation.
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Isn't the issue that even when as good as supposed to be DAB does not use enough bandwidth to match FM quality?
What I don't understand is what problem DAB is supposed to solve. FM seems entirely satisfatory. With DTB there is a clear gain over analogue. But not for radio.
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According to our resident guru, R4 on FM will be switched off because BBC can't afford to keep FM txs going as well as Digital ones.
Am i REALLY supposed to believe that community boradcasters can affod it if BBC can't?
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Mark - my point is that if it costs too much for the BBC to use FM; who else can afford it?
Or are we saying that it will ONLY be used for pirate radio scale operations? What a waste of spectrum.
Where I think the planners went wrong is not realising how many FM radios are inj use - most integrated into clock radios; ipods, radiograms, musicentres, CD players, cars, etc. etc. etc.
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C Mallow - did you try with the old aerial first?
Does the new one use the old wiring, or a new direct link?
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Friday 1 July 2011 9:41AM
Check the connector you have to wiggle.
Is it a fly-lead, or at the end of the cable from the aerial.
Lofts not ideal for digital - roof better.
And large ae - which you should not need, hard to align properly.