Sunday, 4 March 2007

Christopher England <...> said:

So then. This thing the moon's doing, right. All this going orange and
then disappearing. Does it affect radio and stuff, like causing a
'lift' or anything?

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* Christopher England just said that *

No i do not think so.

If the sun is blockt, than you see, a cant off lift.

Not the moon .

Theo

Richard Sharpe said:
Why was this, Was the tests on 846 not successful or did they know that
Enigma was returning?

Hi Richard, the 2 stations do communicate with each other so each will be aware of what the other is planning to do.

I will leave it to D.M. to give any definitive answers about WNKR but from my observations and from what folks have said to me the signals on 846 were not vastly different from those on 1476, perhaps a little weaker at short distance but a little better a few miles further away which is what you might expect on the lower frequency.

Engineers like to experiment and stations like to have options up their sleeves I guess.

Both stations are on air now by the way.

Oscar wrote:
: The next broadcast from Enigma TKR is planned for Sunday March 04th
: from 9am to 3pm on 846 kHz. Stream URL continues to be:-
: http://skeleton.servemp3.com:8000/listen.pls
: or
: http://skeleton.servemp3.com:8000
: or
: http://www.shoutcast.com/directory/?s=ENIGMA+TKR+846

I'm listening to the stream now and for 18kbps it sounds remarkably ok. ideally to save bandwidth it should be in mono and use AAC+ encoding. doesn't sound like an off-air feed though.
I'm thinking of going back to ye good olde fashioned MW piracy myself, what with all these RSLs wasting the FM frequencies.
I always loved watching the music dancing in the glow of the 807s.

Steve West said:
I'm listening to the stream now and for 18kbps it sounds remarkably ok.

Hi Steve,
The stream is aacPlus and the encoder is set to mono though some players including Winamp seem to report it as stereo, not sure why. The source is a "studio" feed and not off-air this time.

It would be great to have a few more stations on MW and as you suggest it remains good fun to do (even if listener numbers aren't what they once were!).

Oscar wrote:

From: "Steve Leyland" <...>

Oscar wrote:

:
: It would be great to have a few more stations on MW and as you suggest
: it remains good fun to do (even if listener numbers aren't what they
: once were!).

much easier to set up too, no scaffold poles to heave around just a
discreet thin wire and a good earth spike.
and seemingly less attention from ofcom.
but seemingly no-one supplies MW rigs of any decent power these days.

It is a pity our engineer friend doesn't do mw rigs anymore as his were top quality back in the 70's & 80's. Listening to an old clip of MAR 266 from 1979 the other day and they were getting quite a few reception reports from Dublin.

as for listener numbers, I reckon if you build it and play summat
different they will come.

It would be worth doing as an experiment just to see how much response there actually would be up here. I can't remember a mw pirate in these parts since Atlantis 252.

Quoting a previous Steve Martin contribution:-

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Listening to an old clip of MAR 266

Wozzatden? "MAR 266"

From: "Christopher England" <...>

Wozzatden? "MAR 266"

Merseyland Alternative Radio 266m/1125khz

It was probably the biggest pirate radio station in NW England from 1979 until about 1982/3.

http://www.merseypirates.co.uk

Hallo everyone. The website of Radio Seagull is now revamped. This radio station is temporarely transmitting from the Dutch villages Paesens-Moddergat till the new transmittor-site at Pietersbierum is ready, and is transmitting on the 1602 kHz AM daily from 7 PM British Time till the next morning 6 AM BT. See its website http://www.radioseagull.com/ for this revamping! Greetings of Nico from Gouda, the Netherlands.

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