[cma-l] Norway to switch off FM in 2017

Tue Apr 21 14:23:22 BST 2015

I recall quite a few years ago, when one of my daughters was living in 
Glasgow, that the border areas were a radio desert - no FM and the BBC 
had engineered the long wave to have a mush zone due to a (mistaken in 
my opinion) need to synchronise the various transmitters.  Now, although 
radio is carried on every platform available, it still doesn't get 
everywhere!  Interestingly, the Nordic reference to keeping band 3 for 
tv also makes economic sense when you are using tv channels for digital 
radio services.  Having DAB on band 3 doesn't, which was presumably why 
L band was proposed.  The best place for DAB if you must have it is 
actually band 2.

Regards,  Tony Bailey

On 20/04/15 13:34, Two Lochs Radio wrote:
> It's also worth noting that the percentage of population figures 
> papers over the issue of huge geographical areas without adequeate 
> coverage. Many of these area, especially here in the north, have very 
> tiny populations that have no great impact on the percentage 
> popualtion totals, but carry roads connecting centres of population. 
> If I drive from my home to the nearest large town, I lose DAB coverage 
> within the first mile of the 70-mile trip and it isn't restored until 
> a large proportion of he journey has elapsed. With so much focus being 
> put currently on how many new cars are being fitted with DAB 
> this would become a significant issue in the event of a BBC FM switch off.
> There's also no sign of a plan to provide proper FM equivalence for 
> most of rural Scotland, even where DAB multiplexes have been 
> established, and yet they seem to be counting in the populations 
> served' anywhere that has a BBC multiplex.
> Because of the weak-willed insistence on sticking with DAB rather than 
> moving to DAB+ for geographically isolated roll-outs, the two Scottish 
> national network services are not available on DAB outside the largest 
> cities (in the urban areas the BBC rents space on commercial 
> multiplexes to carry them). And as for the regional optouts, forget 
> them! The DAB multiplexes do however carry the Asian Network and BBC 
> World Service...
> So presumably for very large geographic areas the BBC will continue to 
> have to maintain expensive FM services anyway to carry those networks 
> for the time being. Or maybe there is a plan, and we just haven't been 
> told - we can hope.
> Alex
>
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>     *Sent:* Monday, April 20, 2015 12:41 PM
>     *Subject:* Re: [cma-l] Norway to switch off FM in 2017
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>     James,
>
>     The talk of percentages is misleading and I think masks a
>     significant problem.
>
>     If 91% of the population will be able to receive a commercial DAB
>     station in the UK by the end of the year, it means 5.4 million
>     people can't. Which by the way is more than the 5 million total
>     population of Norway.
>
>     I wouldn't like to be on the Digital Switch Over Help Desk when
>     that lot start complaining!
>
>     Kind Regards
>
>     Alan
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