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BBC Local Radio Stations that lost their Medium Waves service |
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WM lost its AM frequency on 828 to the BBC Asian Network. Presumably the same happened to BBC Radio Leicester.
although we do still have 1026 but i find its prone to having interference and the quality aint that good |
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same thing happened here to bbc radio cambridegshire's northern frequency 1449, it became the asain network.
although we do still have 1026 but i find its prone to having interference and the quality aint that good Radio Cambridgeshire on 1026 AM covers most of the East of England from Bedford across to Bury St Edmunds, always been a good clear frequency. I wonder how much longer this will be in use? |
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Radio WM lost many listeners in the hilly southern black country,where reception on its main 95.6FM frequency is very poor,and marred by interference from Radio Shropshire on 96.FM. 828AM was the only way we could hear WM.
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Radio WM lost many listeners in the hilly southern black country,where reception on its main 95.6FM frequency is very poor,and marred by interference from Radio Shropshire on 96.FM. 828AM was the only way we could hear WM.
Granted their frequencies are pretty close, but both are medium powered tx's a fair distance apart. In south and west Fife, Kindom FM is on 96.1 (500 watts I think) and Radio 4 is on 95.8 (250,000 watts). Most modern radios can cope with it fine. |
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There is either something wrong with your radio, or a fault at the transmitter if 95.6 is being affected by a station on 96.0.
Granted their frequencies are pretty close, but both are medium powered tx's a fair distance apart. In south and west Fife, Kindom FM is on 96.1 (500 watts I think) and Radio 4 is on 95.8 (250,000 watts). Most modern radios can cope with it fine. |
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We can see the Wrekin from our house,which is where Radio Shropshire have their transmitter on 96.0FM,we have a 300 foot hill in the way of the WM signal from Sutton Coldfield on 95.6FM,also,we suffer terrible multi-path distortion on the nationals on FM from Sutton,i get a clearer FM signal for them from Llangollen over 60 miles away!
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I was hoping if the Asian Network had closed down like it was looking like last year,WM could have returned to 828AM for our parts!
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Possibly to save money if the audience was covered adequately on FM?
The likes of Cumbria, Devon and Cornwall need MW to fill in gaps in FM coverage whereas the likes of West Midlands don't. I believe Radio Merseyside kept their medium wave transmitter as they had a particularly large number of listeners, particularly in North Wales who preferred medium wave and/or couldn't pick up 95.8. As far as I know radio Wales is still on 882 MW, because in Wales the mountains tend to block good FM signals, which puzzles me why Radio Cymru is on FM. When I used to go to Wales regularly over 20 years ago, you could set your automatic scaning tuner on the FM waveband and it would just keep on going and going as there was nothing strong enough to stop it. Last edited by Simon Rodgers : 12-01-2011 at 00:01. Reason: Typing error |
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In my teens in the late 70's/early 80's i used to holiday in Betws-y-Coed and all you could get on FM was BRMB on 94.8, Radio Birmingham on 95.6 and Beacon on 97.2. Oddly, at night, Radio Forth banged in on 194, when i was searching for Radio City.
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