Sunday, 15 April 2007

I still reckon Project 279 should convert to digital and do away with Longwave.

Project 279

• Internet (world)
• Sky Digital (UK)
• Satellite (UK/Europe)

this way the shareholders and the directors can at least have an audio (radio) station on the air and be reaching an audience.

IMO the whole longwave thing has dragged on for way too many years and in the meanwhile LW has lost favor with the GP (General Public)

Project 279 could be run quite nicely from a secluded mansion somewhere deep in the West Sussex countryside. No need for a ship or an unusual antenna design and massive consumption of diesel oil.

BTW – Is the license still held by 279 and is it worth anything to sell ??
 

Christopher England wrote:
: Quoting a previous Steve Leyland contribution:-
:
:: it's simply not catered for here unless I turn my
:: naughty rig on.
:
: ...or buy a DAB radio, of course…
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Aye young Christopher, I'll buy one of those as I'm sure I'll be needing a doorstop in the near future when they switch over to AAC+ or DRM.

BTW I'm still getting strange — symbols in plain text emails, jiglu techs please note.

Now Sunday 21:00.

Phone-in winner on "Journey back in time" this morning went into a sudden rant about the demise of the pirates (which he seem to think was 1968...OK Caroline was, temporarily) "they should have brought Caroline and London ashore etc". Presenter managed to side-step that one.

On 15 Apr 2007 11:11:00 +0100, Ted Finch <...> wrote:

Now Sunday 21:00.

Phone-in winner on "Journey back in time" this morning went into a
sudden rant about the demise of the pirates (which he seem to think was
1968...OK Caroline was, temporarily) "they should have brought Caroline
and London ashore etc". Presenter managed to side-step that one.

Well in reality and as far as significance to the general public, that is absolutely true. The odd one or two remaining stations while fun
for minorities were hardly ever a challenge to mainstream broadcasters and most of the public were unaware of their existence.... Apart of course for Laser 588 for a while in '85, but that's kinda another
story.

Geoff

Christopher England <...> said:

The tactic being used by those who worship the original IOMIB was handed
down to them via a secret meeting of the faithful. I quote the minutes:

"Item 4.9: Interference with debate about IOMIB or 279.

It was decided that a campaign of disruption would be mounted against
any who dared speak against the project. It will be codenamed
"Operation Manntower".

It was obvious that a small number of contributors appeared to be using very similar tactics and that there had to have been at least an element of collusion. But was it REALLY this organised?! (Or are you taking the piss?) 

I think Radio Northsea International was more popular than
some people would give credit to.

Even back in 73/74 there still wasn't that much around compared to now.

In fact during 1973/1974 both RNI and Caroline were both heavy weights on the AM dial and were reaching into South East UK with punchy signals.

Radio Atlantis often suffered from poor signal strengths and didn't really carry the same level of support largly because of it – Although I thought it was a fun station
– espectially during 1974 up to closedown.

Expecting flack, but I can't recall ever listening to Atlantis. RNI yes

Eric

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I can understand that, most members of the general public would say the same thing
Eric

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VERY GOOD addition

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Quoting a previous Gash McGash contribution:-

It was obvious that a small number of contributors appeared to be using
very similar tactics and that there had to have been at least an element
of collusion. But was it REALLY this organised?! (Or are you taking the
piss?)

Well, since you ask, I may have put dramatic affect into the point in order to labour it, but the basis of what I was saying is absolutely true.

The defenders of the IOMIB / 279 faith certainly do collude in order to decide whose turn it is to get a thread closed down, and they use the very tactics we recognise time and time again.

You will notice that they will tend to leave just one of them with the duty of being disruptive and then complaining, and the others will be very noticeable by their absence. Then the next time a thread starts, the disrupter / complainer will be the next in their membership and not the one who disrupted / complained last time, and so on.

It's a tactic often used in campaigns orchestrated by America's far right when they want to hound a broadcaster off the air or terrorise the families of doctors who work at an abortion clinic. It works because the free-thinkers and the other 'normal' folk on a thread will not see the bigger picture of what they are doing, and will react honestly when prodded, until eventually they do and say exactly what is needed for the disrupter / complainer to complain about and thusly silence the thread.

Still, at least the IOMIB / 279 faithful don't turn up at random funerals with placards yet.
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Quoting a previous David * contribution:-

In fact during 1973/1974 both RNI and Caroline were both heavy weights
on the AM dial and were reaching into South East UK with punchy signals.

Not into (North) London they weren't. They were always at just above 'anorak level', yet acceptable to me of course, being an anorak. You couldn't really listen in the car or anything.

Non-anoraks may well have sought them out as there wasn't much else, but people generally were very content with the brand new Capital Radio alongside the existing Radio 1/2 combo, and the novelty of those hadn't worn off enough for people to seek out weak signals.
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Honest Oscar some people do still fax. Beyond me why.
But still they do. Lawyers have a thing about faxes, maybe they cannot print pdfs

Eric

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Sorry about the dire emailing at the mo, noraml service should be resumed tomorrow.
Yes I think you could a films and stuff.
Whilst I get your drift about places, the problem is one of the place not being full of wannabe Chiefs and few indians. A.N. can and does get a bit heated but rarely do the chiefs outweigh the indians.
There was a bunch of reserach done on this and one the biggest problems consumers have with the web is the fear of joining in. Not to mention the issue of getting moaned bz morons when thez do not follow the exact rules, and no help.
And another comlaint was that there are not enough general interest sites, places where people can go and cover a wide range of subjects, not always expecting an answer more a place where thez can just go and read stuff.

Eric

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That is a good challenge

Chris Moyles and Chris Evans, damn nearly wrote a talk station person, Jonathan Ross, El Tel, Bob Sinclair does a goodly job, there are lots really Eric

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If you find the talent it can be coached. Most of our Slovak girl DJs have no radio experience, but they do a good job. Our youngest has started doing some telly as well. I say GOOD ON HER.
But she fully appreciates the main rule is listen or watch where you are aiming to work.
And she also knows that proposing something way left field will just receive raised eyebrows and not much else, that point to be confused with good creative ideas.

Eric

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Are you looking for investors Roy

Eric

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Ok, you can understand playing a burst of oldies in the middle of an 'ordinary' show, although I personally think Radio 1 is playing too many these days, especially with that Veron blokey on a Sunday, Jeez.

But why oh why is there 10 minutes of oldies slap bang in the middle of the Radio 1 Chart Show? They aren't even the (say) Top 5 of x years ago, so there's nothing 'charty' about them. They are just random songs all from one particular year, usually over a decade ago. Why?

Surely the Chart Show should be about, erm, the current charts. When it comes to playing the current charts, whole songs are missed out and not actually played. Why? Because there's not enough time. Why? Because they've wasted loads of it playing the oldies!!

What is the mental condition that leads to playing a block of random oldies in the middle of a current chart run-down? Is it me or does anybody else think this is odd?
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Quoting a previous ... contribution:-

Honest Oscar some people do still fax. Beyond me why.
But still they do. Lawyers have a thing about faxes, maybe they cannot
print pdfs

I've had to fax things with signatures on before, especially Purchase Orders for expensive camera equipment. They wouldn't accept a pdf or even Word doc. But, surely, faxes can be more easily forged and untraced than something sent properly by company email?
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Depends if you understand tracking or not

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Eric Tesug <...> said:
Depends if you understand tracking or not

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From: Christopher England ...
Date: 15 Apr 2007 16:39:06 +0100
To: ...
Subject: Re: [Anorak Nation] 279 kHz

Quoting a previous ... contribution:-

Honest Oscar some people do still fax. Beyond me why.
But still they do. Lawyers have a thing about faxes, maybe they cannot
print pdfs

Or and I've said it before, if you don't understand the technology then you will come up with some sad result. Lawyers don't use PDFs, why should they? They employ others to do this job. If they can't do it they should be moved sideways(I can't say sacked any more app) Dave