On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:07:16 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:


"tony sayer" wrote in message
...
In article , Brian Gaff
scribeth thus
Although I feel most of the report including this proposal comes from
cloud
cuckoo land, I've signed anyway as there are a lot of stupid people about
and the colour of the Government is almost certain to alter next year.

I simply cannot imagine the commercial interests wanting to lose the fm
outlets at the moment with such a muddled and maybe if idea of what is to
be in its place. I know a lot of people still listen to AM due to poor
reception of both dab and fm in cars and for news and sport who needs
either?

What they do not want, despite some industry spokesman who like most
government advisers know sod all about the subject, is that they don't
want to have to carry on transmitting on FM and DAB as its bloody
expensive especially with a monopoly transmission provider (Arqiva) who
have them by the short and curlies, let alone any other issues...

Horses for courses. I mean who will the government sell such relatively
small frequency ranges to for goodness sake?


God alone knows ....


What stops them farming it out entirely to the private sector (like
everything else) - would that be doable? Would there be any takers?


The problem is finding the right application for it. Stuff around
100MHz is absolutely ideal for broadcasting. It gets in and out of
nooks and crannies nicely, it is dead easy to produce huge amounts of
power, and the horizon shuts it off very cleanly, allowing regional
broadcasting.

Anything less than that would really be to waste a huge asset.

In fact an ideal use would be a National FM service. I wonder if they
have thought of that?

d