<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi Nick<br><br></div>As well as for now. I never felt, during the demo or in any of the follow-up, that this was a means to replace FM. So I don't think we should get bogged down in that here. Let's look at this for what it is ... an opportunity to trial an accessible form of digital radio.<br><br></div>5-6 years you only had the option to spend £12,000 to £20,000 in your first year to get your single station on DAB. This smaller scale version is only going to cost a fraction of that per service (up to six of course). Don't knock it until we've 'trialled' it.<br><br></div>Cat<br><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">-- <br><b>Catherine Lake</b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Consultant Engineer<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><i>Digital Media & Infrastructure</i></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-family:arial;font-size:small"><a href="http://www.artisanbroadcast.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.artisanbroadcast.uk/</a><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 December 2014 at 09:00, Canalside's The Thread <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:office@thethread.org.uk" target="_blank">office@thethread.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Sorry everyone for a rather Numpty-ish
question, but if all this goes well and ‘’’within’’
a Community Radio Budget are saying this would be an ‘’’<u></u><u></u>AS-WELL<u></u> <u></u>AS<u></u><u></u>’’’
or an ‘’’INSTEAD OF’’ ie:- either /
or ???<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">I don’t see any benefit at all if
you have to switch off FM and go just DAB ……………….just
so folk don’t get selective memory loss I would like to point out that
the DAB discussion started about 5 – 6 years ago with the original
suggestion of ‘shifting’ all the Big Stations over, thus leaving FM
for Community Radio, which of course would mean a heck of a lot of Community
Radio.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Obviously the discussion has gone off on
lots of different routes since. Nowt wrong with that may I say … not
complaining, just making a point<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">All the best everyone<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Regards<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Nick<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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