Friday, 10 November 2006
The developments from sites around the world, around the globe, and around the bend, as at 9th November 2006:
From www.crossedfieldantenna.com –
IOMBI BAD NEWS : NEW !
IOM Canceld
IOMBI 279 License is revoked .
KAT has cancelled the IOMB CFA License , because the IOMB is financially dead and could not pay KAT the CFA license fees for the many last years
.
Consequently the IOMB 279 license is obviously revoked too , since it was awarded based on using the CFA .
KAT is not responsible for any funds raised into the IOMB by new investors or shareholders .
From the RadioCarolineForum:
Quoting Paul Rusling (as 'oconnor') at 19:29:
"There are at least two other suppliers of antennas using CFA technology
– IMIB severed their link with Kabbary Antenna technology some time ago
– over exhoribitant demands for licence fees and his penchant for making unauthorised and damaging statements. He was holding IMIB to ransom over the CFA and they refused to pay him off. Quite simple. I dont think this is a development at all."
From the IOMIB website:
"Press Statement
Antenna Problems Solved!
In 2005, IMIB signed a contract with KAT for the supply of a Crossed Field Antenna and a deposit of 50% was paid for this item, costing £300,000 sterling. Despite KAT claims that the antenna was completed, we have not received the necessary documentary evidence and the device has not been made available for independent testing. We must protect our investors and so have refused to make further payments demanded by KAT, including disputed licence fees for periods not used. Our view is that the level of these 'licence fees' is exorbitant, and that the principle of levying them is unprecedented in the broadcast industry.
Negotiations for the supply of a CFA from another source have now been completed and we have made an initial payment for use of the technology to the patent holders.
IMIB is considering what action to take to retrieve the advance payments made to KAT under the unfulfilled contracts.
ENDS
Issued by Rodney Collins on behalf of Isle of Man International Broadcasting plc.
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* Christopher England just said that *
The Crossed Field Antenna Technology only be used under license from the patent holder, "Kabbary Antenna Technology Co." [from Kabbary website].
Kabbary claims to be the patent holder.
If this claim is true then IOMIB would not be able to inward license for the deployment of the technology except by agreement with Kabbary or a licensee of Kabbary who is permitted to sub-license the use of Kabbary's patent.
So it Kabbary's patent claim is true and it is allowing IOMIB to have a licence, then IOMIB is stuffed.
If someone else other than Kabbary owns the patent, then IOMIB may be correct.
Patent 2,215,524 was issued in Great Briton, 626,210 in Australia and others issued in Europe and Japan. In 1992 the U.S. issued Patent Number 5,155,495.
The Kabbary claim appear to be correct.
Fathi M. Kabbary
Maurice C. Hately
Abstract
An antenna for a wide bandwidth electromagnetic field polarized in a predetermined direction at right angles to the field propagation direction includes plural metal elements that are not resonant in the bandwidth. The metal elements are excited to transduce an electric field in the polarization direction over the bandwidth range. The plural elements have an extent in the polarization direction no greater than an order of magnitude of the shortest wave length in the bandwidth. A structure between the element, which may be either a coil or parallel electrodes which derive a displacement current, transduces a magnetic field having lines of flux at right angles to the polarization and propagation directions. The electric and magnetic fields are excited by power from the same source with phases so that in an interaction region of the field between a pair of the metal elements there is E×H synchronism and a radiation Poynting vector having rotational E and H fields to transduce the electromagnetic field.
Testing the AAC+ stream,
http://wnkr.no-ip.org:8004
or
http://wnkr.no-ip.org:8005
aslo on streamerp2p via
streamerp2p://s=d1d9c8ec16dbe480|n=W.N.K.R. Broadband|b=19|t=acp|h=cjfxnpuayzfbzdhfpopwqhddwxhg|
Drop that in your address bar and if Streamer is installed it will launch.
17 odd hours of old cack , documentaries etc.
dave.
Dave Martin <...> said:
Testing the AAC+ stream,
http://wnkr.no-ip.org:8004
or
http://wnkr.no-ip.org:8005
aslo on streamerp2p via
streamerp2p://s=d1d9c8ec16dbe480|n=W.N.K.R.
Broadband|b=19|t=acp|h=cjfxnpuayzfbzdhfpopwqhddwxhg|Drop that in your address bar and if Streamer is installed it will
launch.17 odd hours of old cack , documentaries etc.
dave.
Sorry should read,
http://wnkr.no-ip.org:8004/d1d9c8ec16dbe480.pls
or
http://wnkr.no-ip.org:8005/d1d9c8ec16dbe480.pls
dave.
Can anybody confirm that the M.V. St Paul is actually docked in some Louisana ship yard? Having sailed, lived and broadcast from the St Paul, I can confirm that the call letters mentioned in the previous posting are indeed the call letters of the same St Paul, the ship that most people laughed off as a pile of junk, the ship that would have most definitely been the first of a new wave of truly offshore radio ships, a ship that I promised as far back on this AN site as late 2003 I would look for and eventually found, moved, invested in and finally set up Pirate Radio 603 AM on. I'll be damned if it is the same ship that has been moved from Denmark all the way to the south of the US. Let's read about some proof that it is the same ship. As for Mr Rusling, it was offered several times to him as far back as mid 2004. (sorry Paul, but the truth must be known...)So, if it is the same ship that has just crossed the mighty Atlantic, it just goes to prove that some people cannot look a gift horse in the mouth....and if it's just a wind up, well, shame as it was a truly beautiful vessel perfect for the job....(In the picture I took you can just make out the call letters or at least the bottom half of them...!)
From IOMIB website, (Timetable update)
Anticipated start of test transmissions: (early 2007)
(delayed due to a change in antenna supplier following a breach of contract)
Expected Full Programme Launch Date: (test plus four weeks)
Scheduled Tx power levels: Year 1 250 kW (Day) 100 kW (Night)
Post Txer site development: Year 2 500 kW (Day) 100 kW (Night)
Programme line up to be announced one week prior to launch
Richard
Right I know that at least 6 of you have had a listen!
Could any of you tell what you used to listen with and did you encounter any problems? Did all of the URL's work?
I'm asking because instead of using my usual method of SHOUtcast and Streamer, I'm only using Streamer on it's own but in dual mode, ie p2p and global unicast.
dave.
From: "Dave Martin" <...>
Right I know that at least 6 of you have had a listen!
Could any of you tell what you used to listen with and did you encounter
any problems? Did all of the URL's work?I'm asking because instead of using my usual method of SHOUtcast and
Streamer, I'm only using Streamer on it's own but in dual mode, ie p2p
and global unicast.dave.
I could listen via streamer but couldn't get the others to work.
What is wrong with using SHOUTcast?
Steve Martin <...> said:
I could listen via streamer but couldn't get the others to work.
What is wrong with using SHOUTcast?
Nothings wrong with SHOUTcast I'm just trying out some thing different. When you say you couldn't get the others to work what was happening?
I'm at work using a different IP than the source which is at home and all methods work for me. Mind you I may have set the unicast a bit low at about 50% of the available bandwidth and I have seen a couple of "503 server full" screens pop up.
dave
From: "Dave Martin" <...>
When you say you couldn't get the others to work what was happening?
I'm at work using a different IP than the source which is at home and
all methods work for me. Mind you I may have set the unicast a bit low
at about 50% of the available bandwidth and I have seen a couple of "503
server full" screens pop up.dave
OK
If I open Streamer I can click on the station and listen no problems.
If I click the other 2 links it asks me to download, save to disc or open, I try and open then it downloads and opens my Sonicart playout software that I forgot I had! But sadly no audio :-(
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Martin" <...>
Right I know that at least 6 of you have had a listen!
Could any of you tell what you used to listen with and did you encounter any problems? Did all of the URL's work?<
I happened to see you were on Streamer earlier Dave, I just clicked on WNKR from there. When I checked my mail I saw that you had posted with the two links. I've tried one, seemed to work ok although I still had Streamer open, not sure that would make a difference though.
Andy
Sorry correction to my last post, I've tried the links again Dave and they dont work this end. I selected another station on Streamer, clicked your links, all that happens is it tries to connect to your URL, briefly displays cant find server, then reverts back to the station I was listening to. I was all ready listening to WNKR when I tried the links the first time, I just assumed the links were working.
Andy
From: "Dave Martin" <...>
Nothings wrong with SHOUTcast I'm just trying out some thing different.
OK worth a try I suppose.
But it is easier for listeners if you use SHOUTcast, no bits of extra software to download.
Steve Martin <...> said:
From: "Dave Martin" <...>
Nothings wrong with SHOUTcast I'm just trying out some thing different.OK worth a try I suppose.
But it is easier for listeners if you use SHOUTcast, no bits of extra
software to download.
Thats the whole point if you paste this url
http://wnkr.no-ip.org:8004
into winamp via file/play url it will play the stream without any other software. Streamer is acting as a unicast server.
dave.
Dave Martin <...> said:
Thats the whole point if you paste this url
http://wnkr.no-ip.org:8004
into winamp via file/play url it will play the stream without any other
software.
Streamer is acting as a unicast server.dave.
Equally if you click on this link, http://wnkr.no-ip.org:8004/d1d9c8ec16dbe480.pls
whether using IE or firefox etc, providing winamp or your acc capable player is set to be default for pls files, then the player should auto launch. It does this end.
So, plenty of you gents seem to be from the area that includes that large stick with a radio station in it, and details on it about 96.7.
What do you guys think about the people in the large stick also getting the105.9 frequency for their all-talk all-the-time service? The only real future radio has is with the talking format, so what dya reckon, larr?
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* Christopher England just said that *
From: "Christopher England" <...>
So, plenty of you gents seem to be from the area that includes that large stick with a radio station in it, and details on it about 96.7.
What do you guys think about the people in the large stick also getting the105.9 frequency for their all-talk all-the-time service? The only real future radio has is with the talking format, so what dya reckon, larr?
OK kidder,
I reckon it is an absolute disgrace that Ofcom gave EMAP a THIRD licence for Liverpool. Whatever happened to the concept of competition? Not only do EMAP now have 3 major licences for Liverpool but they also run the DAB multiplex too, how can that be seen as healthy?
City had a go at running CityTalk in 1989 on 1548khz, at a time when am radio was still quite popular and it failed miserably, within a year it was replaced by Radio City Gold. As everybody knows, I'm from a "rock" background, so I would have preferred a rock station, but that said I still feel it is unhealthy EMAP should have won the licence.
I see Terry Smith is also behind the Piccadilly Talk licence application for Manchester, lets just suppose they win that, how long before we get a networked talk station, with only 4 hours of local programming?
OK I've got the bug now.
I've had a little fiddle (ooh er missus) I've had a go at setting up a station in streamer.
I dunno how successful I've been, but the station ID is Radio Jackie North if anyone wants to sample the delights of the late Rick Dane on RJN in 1977.
