RS
I'm sure Tumble would have made it over there, had his account not been deactivated.
Surely not doing any harm here? Had we not started the "should it have been moved" discussion the thread likely would have died anyway ...
wells posted:
Nick Harvey posted:
As this topic is both about radio and largely technical, would it not be a good idea to decamp over to Metropol and continue it over there?
I'm sure Tumble would have made it over there, had his account not been deactivated.
Surely not doing any harm here? Had we not started the "should it have been moved" discussion the thread likely would have died anyway ...
SG
I listen to mw broadcast even foreign ones but what i listen to is a pirate radio every sunday called WNKR-West and North Kent Radio which is broadcast like an old offshore station playing no ads and playing great 60's 70's and 80's .It is on a loop every four hours and it will start up again untill 9am monday morning.
Not sure why they havn't been shut down they say they are the last remaining medium wave pirate.
1476 mw.
they can be heard online also past broadcasts:
http://www.1476.co.nr/
Not sure why they havn't been shut down they say they are the last remaining medium wave pirate.
1476 mw.
they can be heard online also past broadcasts:
http://www.1476.co.nr/
DV
The only time I ever listen to MW is if I'm in my dad's car as he is a Five Live listener. He also used to listen to it on MW when pottering in the garage, but now that he's replaced that one with a DAB receiver, all our radio listening in the house is on FM, DAB or DTT. Only our dining-room hi-fi has MW now but it's usually playing CDs or Radio 2.
Round here, and I imagine across most of the country, there is nothing on AM that can't be received on FM or DAB.
Round here, and I imagine across most of the country, there is nothing on AM that can't be received on FM or DAB.
MI
There is a problem with Radio Wales - they have both AM and FM frequencies but only one on DAB. Which means that if you're in an area with low FM reception (like say the valleys) and you want to listen to the footy / rugby of an afternoon, you may not be in luck on DAB, as it can only broadcast one version of the station. And I think I'm right in saying that I tried to listen to a rugby match on FM once but it was only on AM, or vice-versa...and not on DAB either.
MU
However AM MW Stereo will never sound as good as FM stereo because it has less bandwith (i.e. less space to carry the audio) and uses a less robust modulation scheme (AM is more susceptible to clicks and pops than FM)
Well, it depends on the processing really. MW can sound almost as good as FM if it's allowed to. The law has some rule about rolling all the top end off above a very low threshold, hence all our MW stations sound muffled.
noggin posted:
However AM MW Stereo will never sound as good as FM stereo because it has less bandwith (i.e. less space to carry the audio) and uses a less robust modulation scheme (AM is more susceptible to clicks and pops than FM)
Well, it depends on the processing really. MW can sound almost as good as FM if it's allowed to. The law has some rule about rolling all the top end off above a very low threshold, hence all our MW stations sound muffled.
JO
However AM MW Stereo will never sound as good as FM stereo because it has less bandwith (i.e. less space to carry the audio) and uses a less robust modulation scheme (AM is more susceptible to clicks and pops than FM)
Well, it depends on the processing really. MW can sound almost as good as FM if it's allowed to. The law has some rule about rolling all the top end off above a very low threshold, hence all our MW stations sound muffled.
I do remember Capital Radio (before it split of it into Capital FM/Gold) in the late 80's on AM and it always sounded very clear, had a quick flick over recently & it sounded rather bad, quite a bit of interferance.
Virgin Radio always used to get a bad signal in my part of London, whether it was AM or FM. 105.8 got interference from Hackney FM (or whichever pirate radio station was on 105.65 that day) and 1215AM used to get interference from soem French radio station after 11:00pm
mulder posted:
noggin posted:
However AM MW Stereo will never sound as good as FM stereo because it has less bandwith (i.e. less space to carry the audio) and uses a less robust modulation scheme (AM is more susceptible to clicks and pops than FM)
Well, it depends on the processing really. MW can sound almost as good as FM if it's allowed to. The law has some rule about rolling all the top end off above a very low threshold, hence all our MW stations sound muffled.
I do remember Capital Radio (before it split of it into Capital FM/Gold) in the late 80's on AM and it always sounded very clear, had a quick flick over recently & it sounded rather bad, quite a bit of interferance.
Virgin Radio always used to get a bad signal in my part of London, whether it was AM or FM. 105.8 got interference from Hackney FM (or whichever pirate radio station was on 105.65 that day) and 1215AM used to get interference from soem French radio station after 11:00pm
FB
Radio Five was a much more general station - with sport, kids and educational output. (Some of the sports output had previously been carried on split FM/AM networks - but slowly the BBC had their dual frequencies removed, so rather than lose the MW frequencies they launched a new network on them)
The first Gulf War showed the appetite for something close to a rolling radio news channel, when Radio Four switched to a rolling news format on its FM frequencies (aka "Scud FM")and proved popular. When the war ended, there was a perceived demand for this kind of output.
Equally - Radio Five had not been a major success (though its kids output was critically popular - and campaigners were unhappy when it was axed)
Thus Five Live was re-born out of Radio Five as a News and Sport station (retaining the sporting content, jettisoning everything else and replacing it with news and discussion). Major change in output, and the Live was added because most of the output was live - quite important for a News and Sport station! (It also helped pioneer national radio having a conversation with its audience - something previously really limited to local radio)
Two quick comments to make about mw radio.
Where I live in the Wharfev alley there is no DAB coverage or Digital TV. (Indeed we get our TV from a repeater station so only get chs 1, 2, 3 +4)
As for rdaio of which I'm a huge fan, FM is fine at home with a roof aerial but try driving from say Leeds to home FM signals just don't carry down the valleys MW does. happily I'm a fan of 5 Live so that suits me.
Where I grew up in North London LBC ran the news service on FM and MW it was years ahead of R5L but the format was much the same. Bob Holness of "Blockbusters" fame was one half of the Breakfast slot along with Douglass Cameron. This was around 1975...
noggin posted:
Tumble Tower posted:
The present Radio 5 Live replaced the original Radio 5 on 28 March 1994. Why the change I don't know. Pie in the sky really. Apart from appending "Live" to the back end of the name, what else changed about the station?
Radio Five was a much more general station - with sport, kids and educational output. (Some of the sports output had previously been carried on split FM/AM networks - but slowly the BBC had their dual frequencies removed, so rather than lose the MW frequencies they launched a new network on them)
The first Gulf War showed the appetite for something close to a rolling radio news channel, when Radio Four switched to a rolling news format on its FM frequencies (aka "Scud FM")and proved popular. When the war ended, there was a perceived demand for this kind of output.
Equally - Radio Five had not been a major success (though its kids output was critically popular - and campaigners were unhappy when it was axed)
Thus Five Live was re-born out of Radio Five as a News and Sport station (retaining the sporting content, jettisoning everything else and replacing it with news and discussion). Major change in output, and the Live was added because most of the output was live - quite important for a News and Sport station! (It also helped pioneer national radio having a conversation with its audience - something previously really limited to local radio)
Two quick comments to make about mw radio.
Where I live in the Wharfev alley there is no DAB coverage or Digital TV. (Indeed we get our TV from a repeater station so only get chs 1, 2, 3 +4)
As for rdaio of which I'm a huge fan, FM is fine at home with a roof aerial but try driving from say Leeds to home FM signals just don't carry down the valleys MW does. happily I'm a fan of 5 Live so that suits me.
Where I grew up in North London LBC ran the news service on FM and MW it was years ahead of R5L but the format was much the same. Bob Holness of "Blockbusters" fame was one half of the Breakfast slot along with Douglass Cameron. This was around 1975...