All posts by Briantist
Below are all of Briantist's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Dave: I found it very surreal to find this DRM poster in the BBC Cafe when I went to the recording of Hitchhiker's Live a few weeks ago.
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@Alvin Pritchard: My guess is that we will start seeing DAB+ stations being introduced slowly: possibly for "side stations" such as Kistory or those serving a non-English language section of the population.
It's hard to know what the level of DAB+ enabled sets is.
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Mr G.Ellis: It seems that Showcase is now carrying the new Irish TV channel, Live | Irish TV .
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KEVIN GARDINER: please see Are we going to get BBC local radio on Freeview in England? | Freeview news | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice
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MikeB: Just to add..
"And whats on LW that you cant get elsewhere? 'The Daily Service' for 15min each weekday, 'Yesterday in Parliament' for 30min six days a week, and Test Match Special. So 4 and a half hours a week, plus cricket when its on. For a hundred quid a head. "
Test Match Special, when it is being broadcast, is also carried on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra
"I couldn't find out how up to date that '90,000' figure is (and if that number is just in the UK, includes expats, or how many are actually are licence fee payers)"
The bit I don't get is: if you can only get Radio 4 on long-wave, why are you paying the Television Licence Fee?
If you can get any form of TV in the UK, BBC Radio 4 is carried on it. So you don't need long-wave...
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michael: "this would serve the largest number of battery and car radios in an emergency using a minimum of transmitters. To cut costs further, these could even be removed from DAB and FM. An emergency services network could be established on 198kHz using new solid-state transmitting equipment, but military-style technology on shortwaves might be more flexible and less vulnerable."
I'm really not clear what you are trying to suggest.
We ALREADY have a perfectly good emergency radio system, based on TETRA technology:
The Police, fire, NHS ambulance services, Border Force, Immigration Enforcement, some armed forces, Highways Agency Traffic Officers, Civil Contingency Services, HM Coastguard, Red Cross, Highland Council, and misc. emergency services uee Airwave.
London Transport uses CONNECT and Heathrow, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Aberdeen airports use AirRadio AR-en.
There is no possible requirement for short-wave radio as an "emergency system" when there are working (and workable) replacements.
Even if the power was lost to every single part of the UK, the Astra satellites would continue to work as they are solar-powered: this renders shortwave radio pointless as a "backup".
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Stan: I'm not sure if Economy 7 meters still use a LW signal: if they did, how could Faulty electricity meter clocks 'could be costing households thousands' | Money | The Guardian be true?
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R Stephen: hi. There isn't a problem listed with the transmitter.
I would check for something at your end: perhaps the power to a booster box has been disconnected?
It would be a very unusual day for this transmitter to be not supplying any signals at all.
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Phil Reed: As I don't have a call centre, I am not really clear what the issues you are having with your ... Sky subscription ... are.
We can try and help, please can you explain what the problems you are having are?
Thanks
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Sunday 20 April 2014 12:15PM
Colin Campbell: You should do exactly as you suggest: use Belmont to get the "Full Freeview" service and then use the local transmitters to supply the correct versions of the BBC and ITV channels.
You will need to use two aerials - with a " diplexer" to connect them together, and you will also need to use a Freeview box that understands how to change the regions.
For your location, this is the standard arrangement.