[cma-l] 4ZZZ accounts and parameters
Ian Hickling
transplanfm at hotmail.com
Tue Dec 8 23:11:56 GMT 2015
I hadn't heard that JFMG no longer had that contract, it looks like the new contractor bounced it.
Same people - just a different company name
I thought that most radios used a high local oscillator which would start around 98 megs? Is the other one an image?
Local oscillator is designed to run at 10.7 MHz higher (or occasionally lower) than the first stage circuit thereby generating a heterodyne of 10.7 MHz so that the IF circuits have only one frequency (+/- 100 kHz) to amplify
I also thought that one of the arguments for low power (<=25 W) was that overseas co-ordination wasn't required.Nice theory - doesn't work in practice.
Ian Hickling
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Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 18:20:34 +0000
From: ravensound at pilgrimsound.co.uk
To: cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk
Subject: Re: [cma-l] 4ZZZ accounts and parameters
Alex:
There has probably been more contention about delivering that part
of Section 105 than any other and not confined to community radio
either.
I hadn't heard that JFMG no longer had that contract, it looks
like the new contractor bounced it.
I thought that most radios used a high local oscillator which
would start around 98 megs? Is the other one an image?
I also thought that one of the arguments for low power (<=25 W)
was that overseas co-ordination wasn't required.
The point about users having control over the assets is that the
parameters can be changed.
Regards, Tony
On 08/12/15 17:09, Two Lochs Radio wrote:
Alan Coote wrote: I’ve long contended that Ofcom have a
responsibility to only license stations that stand a fair
chance of being financially sustainable.
Isn't that a legal obligation on Ofcom when awarding
licences, Alan? It certainly is a primary consideration when
licensing commercial stations. In fact, while they aren;t in
orde rof priority, it happens to be the very first of the
criteria laid down in the Broadcasting Act, Section 105, which
says:
Ofcom is required to have regard to...
(a) the ability of each of the applicants for the licence to
maintain, throughout the period for which the licence would be
in force, the service which he proposes to provide;...
Maybe it's not the same for community licences, I haven't
checked, but I thought it was.
Tony Bailey wrote: Actually now may be the time for the
CMA to bid for this, if the authorities wish to devolve
licensing? For special events (JFMG) and radio amateurs
(RSGB) are doing it already.
Didn't Ofcom most recently move in the other direction - I
thought they brought JFMG back in-house?
It would be easy to underestimate the amount of work that
would be involved in administering a community sub-band.
The coordinating body for such a sub-band wouldn't have a free
hand within that band, since as well as keeping clearances
within the band, you also have to keep clear of local
transmissions that are +/-10.7MHz from any given frequency, and
around the periphery also coordinate with the French/Dutch/Irish
and co. That's a fair bit of work, and potential duplication of
effort in parallel with the same coordination done for BBC/ILR
frequencies. If the frequency coordination and clearance
paramters weren't changed it seems unlikely that a separate body
could do a much better job - it's the parameters being used for
frequency planning that generally control the way things end up,
not who does the leg work.
Alex
----- Original Message -----
From: Alan Coote
To: cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2015 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: [cma-l] 4ZZZ accounts
A prominent person at Ofcom told me that there wasn’t a
community station in the country that doesn’t want more
power – which tells you quite a lot about Ofcom and their
willingness and ability to support the sector!
I’ve long contended that Ofcom have a responsibility to
only license stations that stand a fair chance of being
financially sustainable. It stands to reason the larger the
audience the greater the potential revenue.
Kind Regards
Alan
Alan Coote
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