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Bbc H&w Mw
There seems to be an audio problem with BBC Hereford & Worcester's 738MW outlet,i don't mean the content!,rather the audio keeps dropping out momentarily every 5 mins or so,i have checked their other MW outlet on 1584 and that seems ok, FM & DAB are both fine too,so it just seems the one frequency,has anyone else noticed this?maybe a transmitter fault?
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There seems to be an audio problem with BBC Hereford & Worcester's 738MW outlet,i don't mean the content!,rather the audio keeps dropping out momentarily every 5 mins or so,i have checked their other MW outlet on 1584 and that seems ok, FM & DAB are both fine too,so it just seems the one frequency,has anyone else noticed this?maybe a transmitter fault?
Best to send a complaint in, let them know about it. |
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Or could be a deliberate fault to see if anyone is listening.. BBC Lincolnshire, Humberside and Norfolk MW outlets were doing the same thing last month where the audio would dip for a second like someone was hitting the fader down then back up every few minutes.
Best to send a complaint in, let them know about it. |
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I always listen on MW,FM is patchy and DAB drops out too often!
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I've listened to it for 30 minutes from 17:30 to 18:00 the day after your original post, Wednesday 28 December. As you probably know, I live just south of Stoke Prior ( the Leominster one ). The infamous £8 Tesco World Radio hasn't detected any breaks in transmission. It has of course been a very still day, so if there's something loose at your end or their end, it might resurface when the breeze picks up again...
I was interested to hear the young lady say at 6 PM that "everything is fine across Herefordshire's main roads". She's obviously never driven across the potholes at Eaton Bridge east of Leominster on the A44... Anyway, all seems to be good at the moment, but post again if it reoccurs, and we'll take another listen. If DAB has faults, have you tried contacting Muxco or PMing Mattd perhaps ? All the best ! |
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If DAB has faults, have you tried contacting Muxco or PMing Mattd perhaps ?
All the best ! |
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Listening to Chris Needs on Radio Wales tonight via 882AM Washford Tx, the audio is dropping out every 20 mins the same as H&W,so looks like a bigger issue affecting all MW transmitters,i have not tried the nationals (5 Live).
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I presume Chris's problem with DAB is the signal level at his location is right on the threshold, not a tx fault ?
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OT, but in East Scotland, BBC R2 vanishes after 30 seconds, then comes back and stays all day! (DAB)
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All BBC LR AM transmitters are now fed by satellite I think.
If the change to Satellite is to save money and/or take advantage of ViLoR centralisation it was probably decided that RBLs might as well stay as they are. It's also interesting changing to satellite when they keep saying they plan to shut of the local AM TXs. |
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I was told a long time ago that BBC Surrey 1368AM is RBL 104FM. Today there is no delay between the two so that suggests it still is.
If the change to Satellite is to save money and/or take advantage of ViLoR centralisation it was probably decided that RBLs might as well stay as they are. It's also interesting changing to satellite when they keep saying they plan to shut of the local AM TXs. http://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/technol...30802172702565 Perhaps a little bit over-dramatised, but we'll forgive them for doing that ! David Holdsworth is attributed as saying, in the text, and actually says in the video, that the "emergency broadcasting" aspect is a vital one that ViLoR has solved. I in my innocence visualise this as meaning that the satellite will be the point of origin, so that even if the FM/DAB transmitters and the internet feeds are lost, disaster recovery can be communicated from the satellite to the nation. We can imagine Teresa May and colleagues in their bunker under Whitehall communicating with us via satellite dish... Which is why ( if I'm right ) that every BBC local station is now carried by the satellite - not having a TV I can't tell... Going back to Chris's interruption difficulties, Chris could either of these drops in signal be when you're mobile and there is either a loose or dirty connection in - say - a car aerial ? A decrease in signal strength can also be caused when another transmission on either on an adjacent or harmonic frequency is much stronger - although you can't hear the modulation of the other transmission, the strong carrier swamps your receiver's AGC causing it to reduce gain, so giving the appearance that the "wanted" programme has suffered a loss in strength. No doubt the others following this thread will comment further... Regarding the atmospheric pressure, according to the pressure model being issued by "Weather Online", the current high pressure will last for most of the coming week, with a stormy time and low pressure on January 1, so anything loose will be shaken up on Sunday - you can see the pressure forecast at : http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/cgi-b...L=gfs&VAR=prec ...and advance to whatever day you want... |
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David Holdsworth is attributed as saying, in the text, and actually says in the video, that the "emergency broadcasting" aspect is a vital one that ViLoR has solved. I in my innocence visualise this as meaning that the satellite will be the point of origin, so that even if the FM/DAB transmitters and the internet feeds are lost, disaster recovery can be communicated from the satellite to the nation. We can imagine Teresa May and colleagues in their bunker under Whitehall communicating with us via satellite dish... Which is why ( if I'm right ) that every BBC local station is now carried by the satellite - not having a TV I can't tell...
Plenty of BBC LRs are FM/DAB only. In any case the satellite delivery we're talking about is not using a DTH satellite, but a communications one at a different orbital position. In short the feeds are not recoverable by any standard domestic receiving equipment. The only BBC Local station on 'domestic reception' satellite is BBC Radio London. If you count BBC R Wales, Scotland, and Ulster as 'local' they are there too, but that's it |
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BBC Radio Wales still has very patchy FM/DAB coverage in hilly Wales,so i would have thought the MW service is still well needed.
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