Monday, 5 February 2007
Suddenly on the OMR home page it says the sale is now withdrawn. Was it really ever for sale?
Andy P <...> said:
Can I assume this could result in a little channel sharing then?
Andy
Ah, I have no idea whether Steve has spoken to Badger or not , I'm not in a position to speak to those involved but Steve has so I shall question him on the subject! Well we don't want a war on our hands do we?
I personally think 1476 is a better night time channel than 846, there's a high power Irish pirate on the freq I believe.
dave
Trevor Mcilveen wrote:
Suddenly on the OMR home page it says the sale is now withdrawn. Was it
really ever for sale?<
Or maybe they were influenced by the fact that Wi-Fi radio listening is becoming increasingly more popular, who knows?
Andy
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Stewart Ross <...> said:
Sale Of OMR withdrawnwell well what a suprise was it all a pr stunt. i
wonder. from stewart ross x OMR,
from stewart ross
Hmmm....Methinks it was a stunt to get people to take notice.
What surprised me was that I learnt there can only be a max of 50 listeners per server to internet stations. Not that OMR would exceed that. Hi! What with the lack of attention shown by Ofcom to MW stations these days, a Mw tx may get more listeners. In fact in the 70s, Radio sunshine on 6235khz, of which I was involved, got 50+ letters a week, for a few hours on sunday.
Christopher England <...> said:
Well, well, what excitement.I log on to Anorak Nation, and what do I find in the centre of the main
page? An exciting exclusive picture of the actual CFA that's due to be
used to bring us love peace and good music on 279!I had to look very closely, because I was sure it had been photoshopped,
although it's very hard to tell. It looks genuine to me.
What do you think? Is it real?
--
* Christopher England just said that *
What's it they say on the Guinness ads? Good things come to those who wait?> Mind you, a pint of the black stuff would probably work better than a CFA!
Dave Martin <...> said:
I personally think 1476 is a better night time channel than 846, there's
a high power Irish pirate on the freq I believe.
Hi Dave I dont agree, Here in Welling which is in your target area there is a strong German station on 1476 after dark, While 846 is quite clear,
I would imagine the reason you want to move down in frequency is to try and alleviate the attenuation problems caused by the Spring growth on the tree's etc.
Regards
Richard
Hi Richard,
The "German" station on 1476 is in fact Austria, 60 kW´s from Bisamberg which is near Vienna. It has been there since I got started in radio decades ago. It is in German though, so you partly got it right!
Regards,
Peter
