Friday, 15 August 2008

Christopher England <(Address removed)> said:

You have to remember that micro-blogging and presence-sharing seems pointless and crazy to a lot of older stick-in-the-mud folk today who have only just mastered email (Meanwhile kids no longer use email, just micro-blogging and instant messaging as the Ofcom findings pointed out). I'm reminded of the 1960s when the older stick-in-the-mud types couldn't see the point or purpose of ships in the North Sea playing all that racket and thought it was all going to just be a pointless flash in the pan. They were wrong weren't they.

It does seem that many young people inhibit communication, e.g. hding behind headphones and using the shortest form of interchange. Twitter narrows rather than broadens communication.

Dave Martin <(Address removed)> said:

Sterling Times <2@slewis.biz> said:

Allegedly 1 watt!

You are looking at around 100 watts from their TX to achieve 1 watt EMRP or is it EIRP?

Dave, what do they use for aerials?

If memory serves me right, no more than a 10 metre vertical with top loading, there are a few commercial options out there but some make their own, I was going to direct you to a couple of instances, notably Stoke Mandaville Hospital radio and L&DHR but they both seem to have updated their sites and removed the interesting (to us) technical stuff! So You will have to google a bit.

Dave

Of course there were radio amateurs who transmitted top band mobile so it's reasonably plausible to use loaded whips of one type or another.

I used to have an ATU that could load anything HF into anything. I had considerable success when I matched my KW Vanguard on 27 MHz into an aluminium window frame  with considerable success.

I also had a low-end signal generator that could transmit for some miles on medium wave when connected into a long wire without any matching at all.

Sterling Times <2@slewis.biz> said:

It does seem that many young people inhibit communication, e.g. hding
behind headphones and using the shortest form of interchange. Twitter
narrows rather than broadens communication.

Think of it like this: In days of old you wrote a long letter then despatched it. A reply came after a delay, and it too would be long. Likewise amateur radio. One person keys up and goes bla bla bla bla (and bla) forever until he finally hands over to the next person for them to spend forever going bla bla (etc). So, old style communication was long winded and intense with long gaps inbetween.

Nowadays yoof communication is short and rapid-fire 'grunts' coming very frequently, sometimes incorporating simultaneous multi-tasking conversations across multiple platforms, using voice and text, and not necessarily waiting until a previous 'grunt' has finished. Today's yoof are parallel running, whereas people used to be serial running.

Christopher England <(Address removed)> said:

Nowadays yoof communication is short and rapid-fire 'grunts' coming very frequently, sometimes incorporating simultaneous multi-tasking conversations across multiple platforms, using voice and text, and not necessarily waiting until a previous 'grunt' has finished. Today's yoof are parallel running, whereas people used to be serial running.

Well argued, Christopher.

In business, it's the  Blackberry culture.

We used to have time to think, reflect and compose before responding.

Today, executives fire out messages on their Blackberries from early morning to late evening.

When they do not receive an instant response then they get annoyed and then angry. It is a personal slight to them that they have been kept waiting.

Sadly, for those of us who prefer to think and reflect the new culture is alien. The proponents of quick fire decision-making believe that there is no lost of quality in  speed decision-making.

I think that at the age of 52 I'm no longer "with it".

Laugh. The tears were rolling down my face. I'm really re-warming to the Chris Moyles show in recent weeks, and what a brilliant hour and a bit of radio this morning with Noel Gallagher was. Well worth catching if you go to iPlayer and slide up to just after 8am. No wonder so many people listen.

Radio Cavell's aerial

I did capture this through a Googling. This hosital radio MW aerial looks reasonably substantial. A little better than a long wire strung down the garden.

Sterling Times <2@slewis.biz> said:

We used to have time to think, reflect and compose before responding.

Today, executives fire out messages on their Blackberries from early
morning to late evening.

When they do not receive an instant response then they get annoyed and
then angry. It is a personal slight to them that they have been kept
waiting.

Sadly, for those of us who prefer to think and reflect the new culture
is alien. The proponents of quick fire decision-making believe that
there is no lost of quality in speed decision-making.

And they may be right. For them.

I'm an anorak of a guy who's studying how things are changing and has produced some excellent thought provoking videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o

and then

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/420984/web_2_0_the_machine_is_us_ing_us/

showing how the kids of today are changing and indeed how the communication technology of today is changing. He's also done some fascinating lectures.

However, in conclusion he says we are just old bastards who have to give way to the new ways...!

Christopher England <(Address removed)> said:

However, in conclusion he says we are just old bastards who have to give way to the new ways...!

Chris, thank you. I'll give these a watch/listen when I can break awy from other activities.

I hope that the young bastards are right because they'll be fuelling my pension in the fullness of time.

Having an infinite capacity to multiplex is surely a virtue.

Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

I'm hearing on the grapevine that Ofcom have some how or other got their act together. Today and yesterday they completed a series of massive raids on some of the bigger London pirates, somehow managing to hit their studios and, more interestingly, hitting them at times when they can round-up loads of the organisers and high profile pirate men.

Naturally of course, they didn't do this to any of the stations typically causing interference to legal stations and being run by aggressive ethnic minorities. Why not? I think we should be told!

Hello everyone. Due to maintenance Radio Waddenzee will tomorrow, Saturday, use its strong transmitter on its LV8 "Janni Baynton". Read a pressrelease about this in the Dutch language on http://www.herrykuipers.nl/Actueel%20nieuws/Wad%20%27n%20Krant%21.html
Greetings of Nico from Gouda, the Netherlands.

In article <578133.13835.(Address removed)>, (Address removed) () wrote:

I am gonna have to teach you to Google:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Ofcom+DAB+Lickey+Hills&sourceid=navclient
-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enSK261SK261

Eric

Christopher England <(Address removed)> said:

I'm hearing on the grapevine that Ofcom have some how or other got their act together. Today and yesterday they completed a series of massive raids on some of the bigger London pirates, somehow managing to hit their studios and, more interestingly, hitting them at times when they can round-up loads of the organisers and high profile pirate men.

Naturally of course, they didn't do this to any of the stations typically causing interference to legal stations and being run by aggressive ethnic minorities. Why not? I think we should be told!

 It's because they(Ofocm) are scared of the PC brigade. if the stations were not playing music aimed at the indiginous population of the UK and not reciting the koran every 5 minutes or broadcasting to drug dealing/using black people then they would not have been raided!!!!!!.

Christopher England <(Address removed)> said:

I'm hearing on the grapevine that Ofcom have some how or other got their act together. Today and yesterday they completed a series of massive raids on some of the bigger London pirates, somehow managing to hit their studios and, more interestingly, hitting them at times when they can round-up loads of the organisers and high profile pirate men.

Naturally of course, they didn't do this to any of the stations typically causing interference to legal stations and being run by aggressive ethnic minorities. Why not? I think we should be told!

 FOR EVERY TX THAT OFCOM TAKE OFF AIR WE SHOUL PUT TWO ON AIR