[cma-l] 4ZZZ accounts and parameters

[Two Lochs Radio]

Keep up Ian - JFMG lost the PMSE contract to Arqiva a while back, maybe 2013. 

Then that contract was terminated early in April this year and it went back in-house. 

In April Arqiva announced:
Ofcom has made the decision to insource the people, services and processes as they believe this will provide continuity for the delivery of licensing services as well as providing value for money for UK citizens and consumers. It further provides an excellent opportunity for experts in both organisations to come together within Ofcom to build upon the close working relationship established during this contract on key events such as the Olympic and Commonwealth Games; and to continue this close collaboration into the future for the good of the sector. 

(I see Arqiva invented a new verb there, by the way, "to insource", ugh but I suppose a natural consequence of adopting "outsource".)

The invoice for our latest PMSE licence came from Ofcom rather than JFMG and was payable to Ofcom: 
PMSE Licensing,
2nd Floor Riverside House
pmse at ofcom.org.uk

Alex
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ian Hickling 
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  Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2015 11:11 PM
  Subject: [cma-l] 4ZZZ accounts and parameters


  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.


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