On Sun, 31 May 2009 13:22:33 +0100, tony sayer
wrote:

Indeed it is .. we once used around three miles of phone cable overhead
and underground for an RSL and apart from a bit of "top" loss its was
very quiet indeed..

I was once told that the cables on telephone posts are arranged to
form a twisted pair. (I.e. the cables move from insulator to
insulator so that they twist around each other.)

Pardon my ignorance, but what is an RSL?

Thanks,

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Chris Isbell
Southampton, UK

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On Sun, 31 May 2009 13:22:33 +0100, tony sayer
wrote:

Indeed it is .. we once used around three miles of phone cable overhead
and underground for an RSL and apart from a bit of "top" loss its was
very quiet indeed..

I was once told that the cables on telephone posts are arranged to
form a twisted pair. (I.e. the cables move from insulator to
insulator so that they twist around each other.)

Pardon my ignorance, but what is an RSL?

Thanks,

--
Chris Isbell
Southampton, UK

A Restricted Service License. Ofcom, the UK government Regulator for
Broadcasting, issues temporary licenses for special events. Typically they
are for 30 days in any one year, on FM, and usually power is limited to
25watts ERP or less.

Some RSLs, like our Hospital Radio Station are long-term, but we are
restricted to broadcasting to the local Hospital on AM, and are not allowed
to acknowledge on-air any listeners from outside the Hospital grounds that
may be listening to us. By going on the Internet, we can now acknowledge
outside listeners, but must be careful not to imply that they heard us on
1350.

RSLs are an expensive way to get on-air, as Ofcom charge a lot of money,
£2000 if I remember correctly for 30 days broadcasting a year or to a tiny
area.

S.
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On Sun, 31 May 2009 13:22:33 +0100, tony sayer
wrote:

Indeed it is .. we once used around three miles of phone cable overhead
and underground for an RSL and apart from a bit of "top" loss its was
very quiet indeed..

I was once told that the cables on telephone posts are arranged to
form a twisted pair. (I.e. the cables move from insulator to
insulator so that they twist around each other.)

Well they are twisted to stop crosstalk like the wires in a CAT 5
cable..

Pardon my ignorance, but what is an RSL?


Sorry .. Restricted Service Licence a form of short term broadcast
licence usually for FM radio normally issued for some event or other.

In this instance with was used to link two studios together...
Thanks,


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Tony Sayer

On Sun, 31 May 2009 17:34:31 +0100, Chris Isbell
wrote:

On Sun, 31 May 2009 13:22:33 +0100, tony sayer
wrote:

Indeed it is .. we once used around three miles of phone cable overhead
and underground for an RSL and apart from a bit of "top" loss its was
very quiet indeed..

I was once told that the cables on telephone posts are arranged to
form a twisted pair. (I.e. the cables move from insulator to
insulator so that they twist around each other.)

Pardon my ignorance, but what is an RSL?


I presume he's talking about a Restricted Service License. This would
be something like a special temporary FM transmitter serving an event
(the British Grand Prix will certainly have one next month).

It would need a signal feed from a studio somewhere.

d

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On Sun, 31 May 2009 13:22:33 +0100, tony sayer
wrote:

Indeed it is .. we once used around three miles of phone cable overhead
and underground for an RSL and apart from a bit of "top" loss its was
very quiet indeed..

I was once told that the cables on telephone posts are arranged to
form a twisted pair. (I.e. the cables move from insulator to
insulator so that they twist around each other.)

Open -wires were arranged that way. Two pairs on 4 insulators were rotated
90 degrees every so often forming a quad. But therse all went out of use
years ago, in overhead cables the pairs are twisted inside the cable.

David.