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In article , Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:
In article , Jim Lesurf
wrote:
Use the radio streams on Freeview. Not entirely brilliant, but a
sight better than DAB.

Alas, less useful as advice in Scotland. :-/

FTA satellite? I don't much use mine, but pretty well every radio
station seems to be up there if you look.

I'm happy enough with the internet streams.

Just that I don't think recommending 'Freeview' for BBC radio is the first
suggestion I'd make. In England it may be fine as they don't lose out to
Alba TV.

Jim

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Yea, but.......

Classic FM is only available in mono on Freeview - at least it is in
(some form of) stereo on DAB and certainly in good stereo on Sky.


--
Woody

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"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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In article , Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:
In article , Jim Lesurf
wrote:
Use the radio streams on Freeview. Not entirely brilliant, but
a
sight better than DAB.

Alas, less useful as advice in Scotland. :-/

FTA satellite? I don't much use mine, but pretty well every radio
station seems to be up there if you look.

I'm happy enough with the internet streams.

Just that I don't think recommending 'Freeview' for BBC radio is the
first
suggestion I'd make. In England it may be fine as they don't lose
out to
Alba TV.

Jim

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me.
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http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scot...o/electron.htm
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On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 17:09:20 +0100, "Woody"
wrote:


Yea, but.......

Classic FM is only available in mono on Freeview - at least it is in
(some form of) stereo on DAB and certainly in good stereo on Sky.


Classic FM is pretty much unlistenable on any medium because of the
pumping amplitude compression. I'd still go with Freeview, but maybe
add to it - move to England (before Ms. Sturgeon sells you out).

d

Meanwhile on a DAB station near you... was: More audio tomfoolery
 

In article , Jim Lesurf
wrote:
In article , Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:
In article , Jim Lesurf
wrote:
Use the radio streams on Freeview. Not entirely brilliant, but a
sight better than DAB.

Alas, less useful as advice in Scotland. :-/

FTA satellite? I don't much use mine, but pretty well every radio
station seems to be up there if you look.

I'm happy enough with the internet streams.

Just that I don't think recommending 'Freeview' for BBC radio is the
first suggestion I'd make. In England it may be fine as they don't lose
out to Alba TV.

Perhaps worth adding that recent examinations indicate that the new 'BBC
Radio App' for Android, etc, seems to allow the user to download 320 aac
files for the UK stations. Using the app these may 'self destruct' 30 days
after over-air broadcast. But if you have a suitable mobile device, etc,
you may find this info handy. The limit then may be the audio quality you
can get *out* of your device. 8-]

Jim

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On 19/07/2015 22:00, tony sayer wrote:
Theres a trial Mux being started from Cambridge shortly, AFAIK there are
some 192K streams on there!...

Ooh tell me more!

Andy

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In article , Vir
Campestris scribeth thus
On 19/07/2015 22:00, tony sayer wrote:
Theres a trial Mux being started from Cambridge shortly, AFAIK there are
some 192K streams on there!...

Ooh tell me more!

Andy

I will as soon as I know more, its likely to be on-air late August on
channel 7D its being operated by Messers UKRD. However its quite low
power so unless you are in Cambridge or have an outside aerial I doubt
it'd be good for indoor reception where I believe you are...
--
Tony Sayer

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On 21/07/2015 22:26, tony sayer wrote:
I will as soon as I know more, its likely to be on-air late August on
channel 7D its being operated by Messers UKRD. However its quite low
power so unless you are in Cambridge or have an outside aerial I doubt
it'd be good for indoor reception where I believe you are...

We have a loft aerial. One of those halo things meant for VHF, but I'll
give it a go. It picks up the ordinary muxes OK.

Andy

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In article , Vir
Campestris scribeth thus
On 21/07/2015 22:26, tony sayer wrote:
I will as soon as I know more, its likely to be on-air late August on
channel 7D its being operated by Messers UKRD. However its quite low
power so unless you are in Cambridge or have an outside aerial I doubt
it'd be good for indoor reception where I believe you are...

We have a loft aerial. One of those halo things meant for VHF, but I'll
give it a go. It picks up the ordinary muxes OK.

Andy

Well any bit of wire will act as an aerial..

However the shape of that wire has a lot to do with how efficiently it
works as an aerial.

That Halo design is well, in several peoples opinion, worse than a bit
of damp string. A much better bet is a simple vertical di-pole which
works very well for fM and oddly enough works quite well for DAB also.

Those transmissions, DAB, are vertical only polarisation and thats where
that aerial scores for both as most all FM services are mixed
polarisation however.

If I were you I'd bend it straight and put it vertical:)....

--
Tony Sayer

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In article ,
tony sayer wrote:
That Halo design is well, in several peoples opinion, worse than a bit
of damp string. A much better bet is a simple vertical di-pole which
works very well for fM and oddly enough works quite well for DAB also.

Round here the standard pair of aerials seem to be a posh Televes UHF and
halo for FM. In an area where there's so much UHF that you could run an
electric fire from it - but some FM comes from a long way off. Priorities,
heh?

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Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

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On 24/07/2015 15:21, tony sayer wrote:
If I were you I'd bend it straight and put it vertical:)....

I will if I have trouble. I used to have a correct-length-for DAB dipole
at the old house. This one was pre-installed - even to the extend of
being bent open slightly to get around an inconvenient rafter!

Andy