[cma-l] DCMS consultation meetings on amendments to community radio law

[Ian Hickling]

Sorry - the "restriction" is not abritrary.
Unless you can of course show me where it is enshrined in Law, conveyed by Ofcom in writing, or expressed as such by Ofcom to any Applicant or Licensee.
I've never seen any of these instances, but I'm happy to be corrected.

In technical terms of course, you can't stop radio signals from travelling more than any specified distance.
The way is could be expressed - but isn't - is by saying that there must be no signal at a specific strength receivable under specific conditions at any point further than 5km from the transmitter.
Again, I have never seen this stipulated by Ofcom nor by the Radio Authority in 15 years as a general restriction - only in very specific cases where a licensee is required to protect the MCA of an existing broadcaster.
 
Please - let's deal in hard facts - not in conjecture or hearsay.
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Ian Hickling
Partner
transplan UK





From: cma-l at commedia.org.uk
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:35:27 +0100
To: cma-l at commedia.org.uk
Subject: Re: [cma-l] DCMS consultation meetings on amendments to community radio law

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From: Gary Jackson <gary.jackson at skylinegold.co.uk>
To: CMA-L <cma-l at commedia.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:17:23 +0100


On 14/10/2011 15:34, Alan Coote wrote: 


Hi Ian et al, 
  
In simple terms, Ofcom says "Tell us the Community you wish to cover - and how you propose doing it.
If you look on Ofcom's published "TX Params", you'll see the stations that have asked for and got much higher powers and sites. 
My direct experience is that this simply not true! 
  
Ofcom hide behind what they have called a ‘Policy’ to  limit CR to 25 Watts ERP. The restriction is real and affects many stations outside of remote parts of Wales and Scotland. There are 21 stations which have great than 25W ERP. 

For the rest of us, the 5km limit is arbitrary and a nonsense. It should be removed.++

Our experience is the same as Alan's. We had two people living well within the 5km radius. Both wrote to support our application to Ofcom to increase our signal because neither could receive us.

Our application was turned down flat

Gary

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