Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
December 26th 12, 01:39 PM Posted to cam.misc,uk.tech.broadcast,uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 6
Views: 984
Midnight Mass From Cambridge on 105 fM...
Chris Youlden wrote:
Absolutely, Tony, well done. Community Radio can provide a service (no
pun intended) which the well established radio stations have long since
disregarded in favour of...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
November 25th 12, 06:49 PM Posted to uk.tech.digital-tv,uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 49
Views: 3,419
DTTV TXs and 4G
JohnT wrote:
"Mark Carver" wrote in message
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/nov/16/tvs-retuning-room-mobile-services?INTCMP=SRCH
The...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
November 25th 12, 02:58 PM Posted to uk.tech.digital-tv,uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 49
Views: 3,419
DTTV TXs and 4G
Don Pearce wrote:
Hmm - I never thought of it as out of area. I live in Hampstead and
work in Stevenage, so BBC London is loud and clear all the way to
work.
As it is here in Hampshire, but...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
November 25th 12, 02:32 PM Posted to uk.tech.digital-tv,uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 49
Views: 3,419
DTTV TXs and 4G
Don Pearce wrote:
In the Hatfield tunnel you can get radios 2, 3 and 4.
Ah, that's something at least. Last time I went through (2009 ish) R4 fizzled
out once inside.
BBC London 94.9
is...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
November 25th 12, 02:01 PM Posted to uk.tech.digital-tv,uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 49
Views: 3,419
DTTV TXs and 4G
Don Pearce wrote:
And more often than not these days has a leaky feeder repeater system
installed from almost DC to daylight;!...
The one in the Hatfield tunnel is selective. Only a...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
November 25th 12, 12:52 PM Posted to uk.tech.digital-tv,uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 49
Views: 3,419
DTTV TXs and 4G
Jim Lesurf wrote:
BTW I was told yesterday that there was a critical item about this topic in
The Granuoad last Saturday. Anyone see it? I'm not fit enough to carry such
a large newspaper home...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
November 24th 12, 03:42 PM Posted to uk.tech.digital-tv,uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 49
Views: 3,419
DTTV TXs and 4G
Andy Burns wrote:
Don Pearce wrote:
Most 3G is now at 1800MHz isn't it?
No, most 3G is 2100MHz, O2 have re-purposed some of their 900MHz
spectrum for 3G.
1800MHz was mostly...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
February 10th 12, 06:25 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.broadcast
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Replies: 965
Views: 37,616
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
February 10th 12, 08:40 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.broadcast
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Replies: 965
Views: 37,616
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
November 25th 11, 05:49 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.digital-tv,uk.tech.broadcast
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Replies: 111
Views: 5,147
The BBC, PCM and NICAM for radio
On 25/11/2011 18:42, J G Miller wrote:
On Friday, November 25th, 2011 at 18:14:33h +0000, Graham. wrote:
I had a VHS tape that would stop playing if a light was turned on
A particular VHS...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
November 25th 11, 04:20 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.digital-tv,uk.tech.broadcast
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Replies: 111
Views: 5,147
The BBC, PCM and NICAM for radio
On 25/11/2011 16:55, Jim Lesurf wrote:
I wonder how other European national broadcasters, (some with
geographical spreads that dwarf ours) dealt with the challenge in the
1970s ?
I'm...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
November 25th 11, 03:23 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.digital-tv,uk.tech.broadcast
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Replies: 111
Views: 5,147
The BBC, PCM and NICAM for radio
On 25/11/2011 08:53, Jim Lesurf wrote:
The main intent was twofold.
To raise the profile of the work involved. I think we owe those involved a
lot of thanks for producing such an excellent...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
November 24th 11, 09:31 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.digital-tv,uk.tech.broadcast
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Replies: 111
Views: 5,147
The BBC, PCM and NICAM for radio
On 24/11/2011 17:13, Jim Lesurf wrote:
Hi,
I've just put up a new page that people may find an interesting read, It
outlines the history of the use of PCM and NICAM by the BBC to distribute
...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
January 24th 08, 06:21 AM Posted to uk.d-i-y,uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.broadcast
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Replies: 96
Views: 4,867
DAB aerial
Don Pearce wrote:
Most of the time yes, but I've studied an awful lot of anomalous
propagation over the years and particularly around sunset it is not
unusual to get signals coming through...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
January 23rd 08, 06:06 PM Posted to uk.d-i-y,uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.broadcast
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Replies: 96
Views: 4,867
DAB aerial
Andy Burns wrote:
On 21/01/2008 19:21, Mark Carver wrote:
I've always used my vertical Band II (aka FM band) dipole for DAB, it
works very well, pulling in distant muxes from miles...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
January 21st 08, 06:21 PM Posted to uk.d-i-y,uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.broadcast
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Replies: 96
Views: 4,867
DAB aerial
Don Pearce wrote:
That should do nicely. I know DAB is supposed to use mulitpath signals
actively, but I did some simulations ages ago, and you still get much
better performance by choosing...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
January 21st 08, 06:21 PM Posted to uk.d-i-y,uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.broadcast
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Replies: 96
Views: 4,867
DAB aerial
Don Pearce wrote:
That should do nicely. I know DAB is supposed to use mulitpath signals
actively, but I did some simulations ages ago, and you still get much
better performance by choosing...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
November 17th 07, 10:38 AM Posted to uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.digital-tv,uk.tech.tv.video.pvr
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Replies: 63
Views: 3,070
Maplin Bareback Twin Tuna PVR
JPG wrote:
Sounds very fishy to me.
You can tune a radio, but you can't tune a fish.
--
Mark
Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply.
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
November 16th 07, 05:36 PM Posted to uk.rec.audio,uk.tech.digital-tv,uk.tech.tv.video.pvr
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Replies: 63
Views: 3,070
Maplin Bareback Twin Tuna PVR
Keith G wrote:
"Mark Carver" wrote in message
Looks interesting. One of my teenage lads wants a PVR, this might be
an affordable solution.
Any screenshots of...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
March 7th 07, 06:14 AM Posted to uk.tech.broadcast,alt.radio.digital,uk.media.radio.bbc-r3,uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,000
BBC R3 gone from DAB multiplex
tony sayer wrote:
this was in cambridge: i don't know which tx serves us (presumably not
the tiny repeater just over our horizon that gives us such poor fm
service ... after all, with...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
February 10th 05, 02:12 PM Posted to alt.radio.digital,uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 261
Views: 12,968
PC Speakers
Stewart Pinkerton wrote:
When I was a senior design engineer at Marconi Space and Defence, we
*never* hired 1sts, because they invariably couldn't find the hot end
of a soldering iron with...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
February 8th 05, 05:46 PM Posted to alt.radio.digital,uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 261
Views: 12,968
PC Speakers
Richard L wrote:
In message
Mark Carver wrote:
They can't really these days. However, as you can extract...
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Forum: uk.rec.audio (General Audio and Hi-Fi)
February 8th 05, 12:18 PM Posted to alt.radio.digital,uk.rec.audio
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Replies: 261
Views: 12,968
PC Speakers
John Phillips wrote:
In article , Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Don Pearce ...
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