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Not sure if anyone else has experienced this...
I live just outside of the Wave 105 main area. All I can hear all the time cutting through on 105.2 is Release FM. What a pain this is..The Wave RDS disappears and Release comes up with phone numbers etc.
Have complained and it appears because I am "just outside the area" Ofcom are reluctant to do anything about it!!! What a cop out!!!
The interference keeps cutting into the music of Wave 105 and makes it unlistenable to.
Don't Ofcom bother anymore?????
I bet if this coming from a ship in the Thames Estuary they would be out there in a flash talking about interference etc!!!
I live just outside of the Wave 105 main area. All I can hear all the time cutting through on 105.2 is Release FM. What a pain this is..The Wave RDS disappears and Release comes up with phone numbers etc.
Have complained and it appears because I am "just outside the area" Ofcom are reluctant to do anything about it!!! What a cop out!!!
The interference keeps cutting into the music of Wave 105 and makes it unlistenable to.
Don't Ofcom bother anymore?????
I bet if this coming from a ship in the Thames Estuary they would be out there in a flash talking about interference etc!!!
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Around my area (Farnborough/Farnham/Aldershot) Wave is now unlistenable. Of course, Release will claim that it's an unauthorised relay that has nothing to do with them, as they simply brand themselves as an internet station.
Is there an official TSA map for Wave anywhere?
HERE YOU GO. ;-)
Yes, I live in Basingstoke. I often listen to Wave 105 on journeys from here, southwards.
The jungle music crap station also on 105.2 cuts in and out thanks to the FM PLL capture effect. All the way out of Basingstoke, until Wave dominates when I reach M3 J7.
Basingstoke is well outside the MCA, so tough I guess, though Release, or whoever is rebroadcasting them is illegal, so why don't Ofcom track 'um down, and disable them ?
Yes, it's Caen I think ?
Thank you
It's France Info, 500kW from Lille- a bit of a powerhouse.
Wave isn't supposed to be listenable anywhere near Farnborough. Or Hindhead.
No, but that doesn't give pirate stations the right to use the frequency, or for Ofcom to let them get away with it
Not sure what power this pirate is using but it covers a huge area. It's as above audible upon leaving the tunnel Northbound and gives a perfectly audible signal around most of Hertfordshire. Wave105 used to be fairly easy to pick up even here in Herts.
Post deleted .... see below... all thanks to BT Total CRAP Broadband !!!! >:(>:(>:(
Agreed. OFCOM are a waste of space and actually hassle and hinder legit stations, prevent the proper evolution of LOCAL Community radio ( Since ILR is a thing of the past in most places) and fail to take the pirates off the air.
IMO legit stations should be campaigning for a regulator with more teeth to protect their revenues etc and lobbying for a refund of license fees for OFCOM's failure to be fit for purpose. >:(
But a lot of community radio applications are turned down and Ofcom say there are no suitable FM frequencies in many areas just AM ones?. Presumably the illegal relay of Release is not affecting anything else, but not fit in with the technical requirements, if it does it might be used in the next round of applications (SE and London in 2015) with no guarantee Release will get it if they apply?
Bauer seem happy in the South Wave is just a station tailored for the Solent Southampton/Portsmouth area and Magic just for London
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/dee-ford-a-local-radio-star-with-an-eye-on-the-global-market-2298010.html The next expansion for Bauer are the national "Passion" stations on DAB and D2.
Edit: Must read the whole thread before posting replies!
I was on the A3 today, Release cut in on a north facing gradient halfway between Petersfield and Horndean, which is within Wave's MCA, though admittedly there's
a hole at that point on Ofcom's map, so is that OK or not ? ;-)
I don't know but where I live in northwest Hampshire (just outside the Wave area) Release is a total pain. Why aren't ofcom chasing the pirates and closing them down? - especially ones with transmitters as powerful this... It can't be difficult to find their transmitter!
I don't live in your area, but what kind of coverage area are Release achieving then?
If (by the sound of it) they are using a lot of power then surely the OFCOM lot should find them easy?
I was astonished today, Release stamped all over Wave, until I reached the top of the hill, at which point Wave's Chillerton Down transmitter is very nearly visible, (and this is well within the transmitter's main beam, as Portsmouth is in direct line).
Wave is 10kW, and this location was just 24 miles from the tx, (and its tx antenna is 380 metres above sea level)
Yep Release must be vertically polarised because on the Eton if I move the aerial horizontal Wave can just about be heard through Release. It's amazing that this has gone undetected by OFCOM as it covers a really large area. I haven't tried 105.2 further North than here since Release started. It probably interferes with Planet Rock near North Buckinghamshire.
Well, sounds like someone who lives within the affected area, should get on the 'phone and give OFCOM (lazy basta**s) a kick up the you know what!
How this kind of thing can go on, is beyond me.
Because Ofcom have priorities other than pandering to 'necks' DX-ing outside of a station's official licence area. Guess what, Bauer don't care about you either!
The Government has been cutting back departments and even though some of Ofcom's money is from companies, Ofcom has been cut back and may not have the resources to track FM pirates, the policy seems to be to encourage them to get community licences, but is struggling to keep the community licence timetable on track.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/oct/14/ofcom-scms-jeremy-hunt
Well, at least it's refreshing to know, I can stick a 100+ watt burner on my 1mW domestic transmitter, and drive around town and beyond listening to it on my car radio.
It's not tuned to any frequency that any radio station in my area is using, so that's OK then ?
Excellent, thanks Ofcom
After reading the above postings for a legit station which is one of the few really good ones to be interfered with like this I certainly wouldn't give Release a licence.!!!
Perhaps as Mark C says above we should all have a go if Ofcom don't bother!
But did I read somewhere that it is now the job of the BBC to track down illegal broadcasts and stop them?? Or am I imagining it? If so I'm sure the BBC don't worry a bit if a commercial station service is messed with
COME ON OFCOM!!!