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Thank you for being so polite. I only said that it was odd not anything about the technical details.
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I have had this reply which seems sensible.
The BBC local stations that are based at the local TV hub are going live first. BBC Cornwall will go live as soon as the online feed is upgraded to stereo. Redruth will then switch to Cornwall and Caradon Hill take both. |
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I have had this reply which seems sensible.
The BBC local stations that are based at the local TV hub are going live first. BBC Cornwall will go live as soon as the online feed is upgraded to stereo. Redruth will then switch to Cornwall and Caradon Hill take both. Do you know of a timeline for the upgrading of the other stations? Thanks |
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What is your sorce for this info? I wondered if there was a DIRECT link between the webstreams in stereo and Freeview feeds - that proves it if true.
Do you know of a timeline for the upgrading of the other stations? Thanks |
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I have had this reply which seems sensible.
The BBC local stations that are based at the local TV hub are going live first. BBC Cornwall will go live as soon as the online feed is upgraded to stereo. Redruth will then switch to Cornwall and Caradon Hill take both. I'm a bit confused about the Redruth/Caradon Hill suggestion. Don't they both get supplied exactly the same BBCA mux? I would expect when BBC Cornwall is ready it will go out over the whole SW footprint, the same as BBC Devon that has just appeared. Splitting the two will have big costs in terms of coding and mux equipment. Or am I wrong, and BBCA is different from Redruth & CH? |
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I'm a bit confused about the Redruth/Caradon Hill suggestion. Don't they both get supplied exactly the same BBCA mux? I would expect when BBC Cornwall is ready it will go out over the whole SW footprint, the same as BBC Devon that has just appeared. Splitting the two will have big costs in terms of coding and mux equipment. Or am I wrong, and BBCA is different from Redruth & CH?
I can't believe they would go to the expense of a dedicated set of code/mux kit just for Redruth to exclusively carry Cornwall. |
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No Radio Derby?
we've just gone DAB in the last 6 months, get the signal from the Waltham transmitter. Just done a retune, Radio Nottingham now on Freeview, but no Radio Derby |
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Have you actually read Post 1 in this thread
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Yes read it, see what you mean, we get BBC East Midlands today on channel 1, as its broadcast from Nottm we won't see BBC Radio Derby on Freeview, only BBC Radio Nottm, I think!
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According to the head of BBC East Midlands here: https://twitter.com/stuartthomas/sta...69272033906689, Radio Nottingham will be joined by Radios Derby and Leicester later in the year.
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We plan to launch more Local Radio stations on Freeview over the course of 2015, however we have to complete more technical work before this is possible. We thought it better to launch the stations we’re able to now rather than waiting until other stations are available.
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Clearly we are going to have a bunch of these services detected across the country. Can I suggest we hang fire a bit on the changelog thread and later on let somebody who has tracked it all (any volunteers?) do a single changelog post covering as much as possible?
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A good suggestion, but sadly being ignored.
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The Changelog is for logging changes as they are discovered by posters. I would suggest a summary of changes is more appropriate to this thread.
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Radio Suffolk
So I'm sitting here in Ipswich and receiving BBC Norfolk and BBC Cambridgeshire! WHAT THE FCCK ?
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So I'm sitting here in Ipswich and receiving BBC Norfolk and BBC Cambridgeshire!
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So I'm sitting here in Ipswich and receiving BBC Norfolk and BBC Cambridgeshire! WHAT THE FCCK ?
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Does anybody know which channel group number to search to find Radio Cambridgeshire? There's no sign of it on either Waltham or Belmont, so I thought I'd try my luck with Sandy Heath, even if it's probably a futile quest. I can't find it listed there either, but it must be somewhere.
Don't say 722 because my Toshiba Regza can't search for that, only the channel groups, which I think begin at 28. |
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Does anybody know which channel group number to search to find Radio Cambridgeshire? There's no sign of it on either Waltham or Belmont, so I thought I'd try my luck with Sandy Heath, even if it's probably a futile quest. I can't find it listed there either, but it must be somewhere.
For Sandy Heath, pop your postcode into http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/coveragechecker/ remember to tick the "detailed view" box and you'll get a list of the muxes from each possible transmitter and relay for your location, including marginal ones. Local radio is on the BBCA mux. |
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Thanks, but that simply says channel 722. I can't search for that, only one of the groups for each transmitter, containing about 30 channels on average. I can't find any up-to-date transmitter information that has Radio Cambs in its listings.
For instance, if you look up the Sandy Heath page it lists the channels available on C27 (522.0MHz). That's the kind of number my television searches on and has to pick up everything in that group. I'm not able to cherry pick individual channels. |
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Same as the internet feed I'd expect, prerecorded loop. Hopefully not needed, will have to remember to listen tomorrow night.
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Thanks, but that simply says channel 722. I can't search for that, only one of the groups for each transmitter, containing about 30 channels on average. I can't find any up-to-date transmitter information that has Radio Cambs in its listings.
For instance, if you look up the Sandy Heath page it lists the channels available on C27 (522.0MHz). That's the kind of number my television searches on and has to pick up everything in that group. I'm not able to cherry pick individual channels. |
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Do a manual scan on UHF Ch 27, and you should find the station at EPG position 722, (in the radio section of the EPG)
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I've found that I get no signal at all on Channel 27, so it seems I'm out of luck. I should be able to in theory if I turned the aerial round to face Sandy Heath, but I think the signal would be inferior to the alternatives.
The only BBC LR Waltham carries at present is Radio Nottingham, and Belmont carries no LR service. If you want Cambs you need to receive from Sandy Heath, if you can't receive Sandy, that's it, end of story. |
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radio solent is now on 719 as of this morning, here via rowridge
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