All posts by Pete
Below are all of Pete's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.Despite the power of Wenvoe, Radio Wales still sounds better in Rainow, Cheshire with no distortion than it does in Cilfynydd. The topography of the valleys seriously distorts the signal
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The BBC World Service isn't quite ONE service as its programme schedules vary in different parts of the globe Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia, Australisia, North & South America to name but a few.
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Congratulations on an excellent site. I have gained a huge amount of pleasure and knwledge from it since I discovered it just four years ago. It is an extremely informative and helpful site for people of all levels of technical ability. It must have consumed a vast amount of your time (Brian in particular), especially during periods of illness, not to mention your house move and the incident with the half dressed individual !! Happy Days !!
I know I have had my moans and groans about DAB over the years, but I hope my points have always been backed up with reasoned and constructive critisism based on my vast listening experience together with well researched background investigation. I am a keen radio listener both in my home and on the move (in cars and on the many rural areas I walk in with my FM/DAB radio with me) and abroad (when I swap it for my AM/FM/SW radio). Who knows one day the government will see sense and allow the BBC enough capacity to broadcast all their stations on DAB in high quality stereo with a decent bit rate (I may well be in my grave by the time this happens however), using the total the overall DAB full capacity available, that is currently well under utilised (you remember the Channel 4 radio project that never took off - that Multiplex is still unused I believe). I also cannot believe we are in a stuation now where DAB channels are losing further slots to broadcast stereo programmes in mono. The evening addition of THE ARCHERS on DAB Radio 4 being a recent victim. A previous controller of Radio 4 (Jenny Abramski) stated that it was a mistake to lower bit rate at certain times on Radio 4 and this "won't happen gain". Well sadly it has.
It is also outrageous that FREEVIEW viewers are possibly going to have their signal interefered with by the 4G phone network in the near future costing up to £200 for an additional box to put it right. What spectacularly poor planning !! Just as we move to a point when the nation is about to be fully digital and the vast majority of viwers receive digital TV on FREEVIEW. You couldn't make it up.
Thanks anyway for a terrific multi-themed site and good luck for the future.
Best wishes, NEDBOD.
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I notice more and more BBC Radio 4 DAB programmes are being broadcast in MONO on DAB this year, especially in the evenings including Radio 4's flagship drama series THE ARCHERS and the 6:30pm comedy slot, the daily drama at 7:45pm, Front Row and many more programmes all made in STEREO out of our licence fee. If these programmes were able to be broadcast in STEREO in previous years on DAB why not 2012, what has changed. It can't be due to the Olympics as these have now finished and said programmes are STILL going out in MONO at a low bit rate of 80 kbps. So much for new technology. FM of course is still churning them out in stereo, so my £400 DAB tuner is now redundant. I have gone back to my 1979 ROTEL FM tuner. Really looking forward to the big FM switch off...... NOT
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Will the main Winter Hill FREEVIEW transmissiions in NW England be affected by the 4G network switch on and if so will it simply be cheaper to ditch FREEVIEW and buy FREESAT with all the extra capacity benefits and wider choice of channels than wasting additional money on additional FREEVIEW equipment (just as the countey goes completely TV digital).
It would have been good for the government to have warned potential FREEVIEW purchasers beforehand that some of them would have to shell out a fortune in additional equipment (in most case dearer than their original box) in order to block 4G interferance. You couldn't make this up if you tried.
Just like they weren't very open about FREEVIEW LITE in most of the the areas served by relay transmitters, where many people would have opted for FREESAT if they had been made fully aware of the restricted number of multiplexes and channels in these locations.
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Is this SUTTON COMMON radio tranmitter (broadcasting SILK FM & SIGNAL 1) on the main concrete BT tower or is it the small transmitter next to it ?
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Not to mention interfering with FREEVIEW Michael forcing us to fork out an extra £200 + on a new box to stop said interference. MADNESS !!!!!!!!!!!!
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Nedbod: Thanks Mike for a very comprehensive and helpful response. I still think we should have been warned of this possibility before deciding which DIGITAL option to take. I personally would have opted for FREESAT if I had known in advance that interference was even a possibility on FREEVIEW.
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Nedbod: Funny you should say that Dave as indeed the tower does seem to block Silk FM reception when you are in locations where the little chap is hidden (e.g. Gradbach), so it may well be that Silk FM is on the little chap after all and not the tower. The little chap is on the Macclesfield side of the tower which would tie in with the coverage map above.
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Friday 25 May 2012 12:38AM
Macclesfield
Any idea when Freeview Channel : 4 SEVEN is due to start. Tried ringing Channel 4 but they didn't seem to know ?