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Yay! Quainton! Hope that fixes the dead area that is Buckingham town centre.
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Now that I have digital radio in the car it's amazing the amount of time it drops out whilst driving around locally in falkirk area. Still not up to the standard you'd expect
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In parts of Cornwall North Hessary Tor transmitter is a better signal than the Caradon Hill. Places like West Looe where the Caradon Hill transmitter is behind the hills and Plymouth and North Hessary Tor looking towards Devon is straight across the water!
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I suppose this is similar to South Wales being on Mendip, very directional from outside of the area to cover the parts that cannot be covered locally.
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Just noticed a mistake. Berkshire & N Hampshire 12D Step 1 New Dorking Cobbetts Lane.
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Now that I have digital radio in the car it's amazing the amount of time it drops out whilst driving around locally in falkirk area. Still not up to the standard you'd expect
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Just noticed a mistake. Berkshire & N Hampshire 12D Step 1 New Dorking Cobbetts Lane.
![]() is a bit of a black spot, so probably a very 'local' name ! https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/...79cd8ea6ee529a |
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#58 |
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Some local muxes are delivered by a ring of microwave links (so if you lose one link, you've got redundancy in the other direction). As you say, Caradon and NHT are easy
line of sight with each other. I suspect NHT will simply be fed by microwave from Caradon. We wouldn't notice, Radio Devon has such good overspill that it's probably available on the Isles of Scilly on FM anyway
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Kent alone at the moment is shocking for indoor reception and in cars when you travel into East Kent.
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What aerial are you using? Unless you have something on the roof you won't get good results.
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I'm somewhat surprised the Gloucestershire MUX is completely absent from this listing - IIRC from the earlier maps, there were quite a few additional sites planned for the Cotswold valleys and the Forest of Dean.
Of course, those are the areas where BBC Radio Gloucestershire (uniquely I think) re-opened AM services because FM was poor, and this plan is about adopting FM equivalence for the Forest of Dean. At least the majority of the Cotswolds district is covered by the two DAB transmitters at Cirencester and Icomb Hill. No transmitters currently in the Forest, and the original plans for transmitters sited at Coleford and Cinderford have come to absolutely nothing. Those of us living in the Dean feel on many fronts that we are the forgotten Forest, and the total absence of any local DAB coverage means that all we have to hear our local BBC is low quality AM. A scandal. |
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pity the poor inhabitants of central Powys (aka Radnor). I know there aren't many of them, but they have no local station (Hafren doesn't really cover them); only the BBC nationals on FM; no Digital One, and now no local DAB for the forseeable future. Did someone in Arqiva have a nasty experience in Llandrindod Wells at some time?
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Fab Coker Hill is on the list. Yeovil will get local DAB... just Digital 1 left to join now.
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What's missing is Cumbria, Channel islands and Isle of Man?
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'Hinkling' in Norfolk is actually Hickling.
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What's missing is Cumbria, Channel islands and Isle of Man? No idea about Channel Islands at all. But given Cumbria has a frequency allocation, they must be planning on advertising it at some point - surely. And the Forest Of Dean is also missing from the new frequency plan as has alredy been mentioned. Is anyone able to get ANY DAB in the Forest of Dean? |
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'Hinkling' in Norfolk is actually Hickling.
![]() ![]() I look forward to that one as north of Caister reception is naff. |
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All we know is that Isle of Man had Block 11C. Cumbria has been allocated Block 11B. Port St Mary and Ramsey will be sites of two new transmitters for BBC National DAB but still no news on local mux carrying Manx Radio etc like there was in 2003.
ago ? It carried Manx, Energy, as well as Virgin, TS, and Classic FM ? Lasted about a year ? The IoM's a bit different for radio, Ofcom don't have the same jurisdiction over radio there, as they do in the UK, (and Manx was never an 'IBA' station, in fact it predates BBC LR, (1964 ?) ) |
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Fab Coker Hill is on the list. Yeovil will get local DAB... just Digital 1 left to join now.
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And the Forest Of Dean is also missing from the new frequency plan as has alredy been mentioned. Is anyone able to get ANY DAB in the Forest of Dean? National DAB is pretty good, but not perfect, in the Dean. Local DAB is audible at the top end of Cinderford, but doesn't exist for the majority of the town. Nothing whatsoever in Coleford. It does get into parts of Lydney, but disappears on the main drag through the shopping area in the centre of the town. The two relays promised for Cinderford and Coleford are desperately needed. |
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Mid & West Wales adding BlaenPwylf will add coverage to Aberystwyth.
Liverpool multiplex will be improved in South Wirral & West Wirral by adding Moel Y Parc, Winter Hill should mean it's good in places like Wigan & Warrington! |
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Wasn't there a test DAB mux run by Manx Telecom (or was it O2-UK ?) about 10 years
ago ? It carried Manx, Energy, as well as Virgin, TS, and Classic FM ? Lasted about a year ? The IoM's a bit different for radio, Ofcom don't have the same jurisdiction over radio there, as they do in the UK, (and Manx was never an 'IBA' station, in fact it predates BBC LR, (1964 ?) ) A google search shows there is a debate going on about reactivating local DAB, as the main mast has BBC DAB adding a local mux should be straightforward. Manx Radio and 3FM want a grant to help get the local mux up (there is no local BBC station), but Energy is against it, but might be most affected if the Global and Bauer stations appear on the Island. As there is local Classic FM then if a local mux is added D1 might also appear. |
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This looks like a massive expansion for local DAB, and is testament to a lot of people's hard work. In terms of growing the existing patchy service, it's great.
But if we ever get to switchover and this becomes the main broadcast distribution channel (which.. let's face it.. is the reason for doing it) I predict there will be howls of anger from rural areas which have benefitted over the years from previous BBC (and IBA?) ideas of universal coverage. Maybe it's right that we give up on that ideal - but it will feel like the James Boyle Radio 4 schedule changes in the letters pages of the Telegraph and Mail! |
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It looks like the future might be multiplatform rather than just DAB.
There will not be a switch till DAB matches FM, the big hurdle might be the switchoff of 198 LW about 2020 as it still has reach to some remote areas which DAB, FM or the internet will not reach. But Freesat and Sky have almost 100% UK coverage for homes (although not cars like LW). |
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