<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Canalside's The Thread" <<a href="mailto:office@thethread.org.uk">office@thethread.org.uk</a>><div link="blue" vlink="blue" lang="EN-GB"><div><br><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Ian et al<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Ofcom have actually said we can apply, but
that’s about as far as we are at the minute. We can prove and have proved
that without a shadow of a doubt we deserve Macc, and Macc deserves us. Our
Community work over the last ten years has been second to none, and if one
wishes to talk about ‘’’ticking boxes’’’ we’ve
ticked the lot, twice over and some !</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Most of the Community Groups,
Organisations and Charities that we work with a based in Macclesfield or if
they ain’t, their HQ is in Macc. Can you believe we run some Programmes
specifically aimed at certain groups (with em and for them) and they can’t
listen because they can’t pick it up. Of course some can go onto the
internet, but as we know people are lazy and will always go for the easy
option switch the Radio on, if the signal is dodgy,
crackly or half none existent, then it’s Bye Bye Blackbird and Goodnight
Vienna.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">I have always maintained to Ofcom and the
CMA, that if Fred down the road chooses not to listen to us because he prefers
Radio 2 or 3, then that’s fine, that is a democratic choice, however, if
Fred is listening to the local Commercial drivel or Radio 2 because ‘HE
CAN’T PICK US UP AND HAS NO OPTION’ that is absolutely not
acceptable.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">As I have said, the excuse that gets
thrown back to us is ‘’you’re not licensed for Macc’’
yes, I know we’re not, but that’s because the
pathetic rules that most of us have been battling with for the last ten years
create the mess that we have to work in.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Community Radio is a fantastic thing, and
there has been a lot of good has come out of it, trouble is, it has been marred
by all the nonsense, bureaucracy and jobsworths. In the jobsworths defence, it
isn’t really their fault, they are merely doing their job, it is the
fault of the Governments / DCMS they allowed the
Commercial Radio big wigs to wine and dine them from the outset, that caused
problems that have been pecking away at us all since 2002/3.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">I wake up every morning with astonishment
that here we are in nearly 2015, and after all the debates, arguments,
discussions & rants and yet we still have Stations like Tudno in Llandudno
and Bay in Exeter
in the restrictions ! no on-air advertising. In fact, I think all the
bloody restrictions should go now, it’s a nonsense. I really feel for
these guys.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">I suggested at the meeting in <u></u>Sheffield<u></u> in the summer that every Community Station
should turn off for a week as a protest … we had at least a 85% support.
Sometimes you have to roll your sleeves up and get stuck in, it is regrettable,
but when you’re backed in a corner, what do you do. I also suggested that
we fight together to get the Radio fund up a little £££ and
everyone gets a set amount (the same amount) every year. Once again there was a
lot of support for this.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">I think for this Country (UK) the
Ministers need to wake up and smell the coffee it’s
an embarrassment !<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Apologies if I have gone off-piste
slightly LOL </span></font><font color="navy" face="Wingdings"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:navy">J</span></font><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> I think I’m going soft
in my old age, I’ve only had two rants this year. I’ll see if I can
squeeze another in before Chrimbo LOL<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Oh, I forgot to mention silk
fm got a double power boost at the drop of a hat and within 10 weeks, bizarrely
enough the Station who were pecking at them were the same Station who were
pecking at us, but on the other frequency mmm
??? like I said, bring out the Geese
and Ganders again, what’s good for one is good for another isn’t it
?<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Have a good weekend everyone<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Regards<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Nick<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-US">
Ian Hickling [mailto:<a href="mailto:transplanfm@hotmail.com" target="_blank">transplanfm@hotmail.com</a>] <br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> 26 September 2014 16:52<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:office@thethread.org.uk" target="_blank">office@thethread.org.uk</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> CR on AM</span></font><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Nick - this is brilliant.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">I should come and see you and get a feel of how you've
been treated and how to get on top.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Silk can have no moral or legal objection to your presence
if you are so licensed and their hike in power and coverage is the best
possible reason for you now to get justice.<br>
You are no possible threat to them and they can have no say in any increases
you might request.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Indeed if you can prove that you have a demand for your
service in Macc then that again is excellent ammunition.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Ian<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">From: <a href="mailto:office@thethread.org.uk" target="_blank">office@thethread.org.uk</a><br>
To: <a href="mailto:cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a><br>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 11:37:26 +0100<br>
Subject: Re: [cma-l] CR on AM<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Dear All</span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> </span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">I have only been half following this, but
I do get the gist of it. Ian talks about folk not really doing their homework
properly and he does have a case. However, I can point out that in our case the
allocation of frequency / power / coverage was a bit of a mish mash cock-up.</span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> </span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">As you know, we were in the
‘’’restrictions’’’ category, we had to
endure the constant whinging from the local commercial Station (silk) and it
was this that meant our launch was not going to be plain sailing. The truth is,
if we had said our main coverage area (officially) was Macclesfield, we may not
have gotten the licence. That’s why we had to walk around on egg-shells
and go for Bollington (just outside Macc) with a view to including
Macclesfield. We have always maintained that without Macclesfield the project
is a dead duck, and that still applies.</span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> </span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">On a scale of 1- 10 our coverage came in
at about 7. Off to the <u></u><u></u>North West<u></u><u></u>
we drift into areas that we don’t want, with half dead spots just 4 miles
down the road in Macc. All that said, we were getting away with it until Ofcom
licensed Real in <u></u><u></u>Wales<u></u><u></u>
…….. they now peck at us with hisses and crackles and spurts and we
do know that we have lost listeners because of it. On a scale of 1 – 10
our coverage in Macclesfield has now dropt to 6 ! and inside some
buildings possibly 2 !</span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> </span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">We do need to be nearer to Macc and/or
higher …… there may soon be a discussion about a transmitter move
and we are literally only talking about half a mile tops. This would at least
push Real / or is it Heart ? back a bit.</span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> </span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">So the point I’m making is some
Stations are where they are due to matters outside of and beyond their control.
The thing that frustrates me (which kinda backs up Ian) is that sometimes
doing a few tweaks doesn’t harm anyone, it doesn’t interfere with
anyone but you still get told no.</span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> </span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">The main objection for us seems to be
‘’well, you’re not licensed for
Macclesfield’’ yes
but we’re not licensed for Macclesfield because you
wouldn’t let us/the rules wouldn’t let us be licensed for
Macclesfield. We have always argued this case since day dot, and it is a valid
point. Silk fm had a power boost and are now out of the 116,000 category, they
are over 200,000
so, silk changed the rules, so did Ofcom, we didn’t. All we are doing is
running alongside the rules. We are out of one restriction, not because it was
the correct and moral thing to do, but for the complete wrong reasons. I still
have a very nasty taste in my mouth re:- this matter</span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> </span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">I find that in our business certainly over
the past 10 years, there has been one hell of a lot of goalpost moving and
ignoring things that don’t suit. What’s good for Geese and Ganders
spring to mind as well.</span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> </span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Mmm ?</span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Nick</span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-US">
<a href="mailto:cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a>] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Ian Hickling<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> 25 September 2014 19:09<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> RJ THORNE; The Community Media
AssociationDiscussion List<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [cma-l] CR on AM</span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">We see this all the time.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Applicants take advice and make vital decisions without
consulting a propagation specialist and wonder why they don't get the coverage
their Licence requires.<br>
The original Application goes in with a notional transmitter site and a
coverage area someone has drawn on an OS map with a pencil round a jam-pot lid
- or something not much better qualified.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">When it comes to installing transmission the site has
already been agreed and we have to do what we can with what we're given - and
then get questions afterwards when the result isn't good enough.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">With VHF/FM we can plan reasonably well to give the
coverage that's specified. but we're always up against this "25 plus 25
giving a 5km radius fits all" edict which in most cases simply isn't
enough.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">At the moment we're looking at a station licensed to cover
two towns whose centres are 6km apart and the urban area alone spans a minimum
of 12 km but Ofcom refuses to consider two transmitters.<br>
So we proposed 100 + 100 on a central single site and that's refused too.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Ofcom predicts coverage with its own excellent software
from the Applicant's proposals, tells him it's not good enough, but won't allow
another transmitter or higher power.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">With MW/AM as illustrated below it really is a shot on the
dark - and who suffers?<br>
The Licensee - who goes ahead and spends his (and other peoples') money - and
then wonders why his project fails.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">OK - an over-simplified analysis maybe - but let's see who
disagrees?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 16:34:03 +0100<br>
From: <a href="mailto:rj.thorne@btinternet.com" target="_blank">rj.thorne@btinternet.com</a><br>
To: <a href="mailto:cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a><br>
Subject: Re: [cma-l] CRonAM<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">There
may well be life in the old dog yet but after our experience with <u></u><u></u>Forest<u></u> of <u></u>Dean Radio<u></u><u></u> I never want to be on AM
again. Throughout the life of the station we constantly got complaints about
the quality of the signal and spent thousands looking for ways to improve it.
Even with two frequencies and two transmitters (one of which had 250 watts)
there were whole areas of the Forest where the signal was either too poor to
listen to comfortably or didn't exist at all, especially at night.(We did get
picked up in <u></u><u></u>Sweden<u></u><u></u>
though).</span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">I'm not a technical bod and didn't
understand many of the discussions and suggestions made except that most of
them cost way more than we could afford, still didn't offer too much and
certainly couldn't guarantee we'd get what we needed. The geography and geology
of the <u></u>Forest<u></u> were major factors it seems, as
were the hundreds of thousands of trees. </span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Personally I'm convinced the way forward
for those who can't get FM is to go digital in whatever form becomes
universally available.</span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"> fantasy office
<<a href="mailto:office@fantasyradio.co.uk" target="_blank">office@fantasyradio.co.uk</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a> <br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 25 September 2014,
12:33<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [cma-l] CRonAM</span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><br>
it's true to say AM is not considered very sexy these days, but there's life in
the old dog yet.<br>
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Our first RSL broadcasts were on AM back in 1995, using a transmitter of my own
design, and we had good daytime reception over a wide area, with none of the black
spots you often get on low power FM! The antenna design is vital for AM, but we
were on 1 watt EMRP and we had listeners as far away as <u></u>Sweden<u></u> and <u></u><u></u>Germany<u></u><u></u>. It's worth remembering
that there are far fewer stations on AM these days, causing less interference,
so for community broadcasting, AM could be very worthwhile. especially when
backed up by a good quality stream.<br>
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If anyone would like more info on AM, feel free to get in touch.<br>
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Phil Dawson<br>
<br>FANTASY RADIO 97FM<br>
<i><span style="font-style:italic">DEVIZES AND MID WILTSHIRE</span></i><br>
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<a href="mailto:office@fantasyradio.co.uk" target="_blank">office@fantasyradio.co.uk</a><br>
07710 027389 </span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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