<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Stroud's situation is absolutely mirrored here in Somerset - pesky hills and valleys.<div><br></div><div>Soo at Ofcom tells us that increasing the height of our transmitter (which they'd allow) would have a greater impact on reception than increasing output power, but the landlords aren't happy with the idea and I suspect the planners might have a wobbler as well.</div><div><br></div><div>Equally we are aware that some households are amazingly inept when it comes to tuning a radio and don't realise that trying a different room, changing position in the room, or just turning the radio round can make a big difference. </div><div><br></div><div>That aside though, we can do nothing when people complain to us about poor reception, apart from suggest they try the web stream.</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps the most frustrating thing is that a commercial station in Wales (about two hour's drive from here) that transmits on the waveband next to ours has a stronger and overpowering signal when one is listening just a few minutes away from our studio.</div><div><br></div><div>Julian</div><div>10Radio</div><div>Somerset</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On 11 Oct 2010, at 01:42, claire penketh wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit; "> Absolutely!!!!! Here in Stroud we have a nightmare topography of valleys and hills, reception has been traditionally been really tricky here, even for the mainstream media. Despite the fact that there is no commercial station in Stroud itself, as Star FM handed back their licence, and only the ubiquitous Heart blasts from Gloucester, we had to trim our transmitters output to just over 20 watts in order to comply with OFCOMS regs <div>The feedback we get from people is that they lo<span>ve</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>us, but can't pick us up easily. Tricky to reach the whole community really...</div><div> </div><div>Claire Penketh</div><div>Station Manager</div><div>Stroud FMl</div><div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>