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Australian radio quiz asks for name of London Mayor.Amazingly one caller knows his first name.”So it’s Boris..?” Confident answer: “Yeltsin”

Scilly Comment

“That was George Harrison there. He was influenced by all things Indian wasn’t he? From a time when we looked to India for spiritual enlightenment rather than banking and support enquiries”

Radio Scilly DJ underlines his radio hyper local credentials with a questionable comment following the playing of a George Harrison track.

Local DAB No Thanks

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“DAB is clearly a nonsense for genuinely local commercial radio services and the growing realisation amongst operators that this is a car crash waiting to happen has now bubbled to the surface and needs to be taken seriously,” …“It’s quite clear now that a growing number of existing local station operators do not want DAB as their future platform.”

“There are many of us in the industry who are clear about what needs to be done and I hope that the Government won’t take too long before it realises the errors that are being made and allows local radio operations to be left alone to continue to broadcast on the excellent, and far more appropriate, FM platform.”

“We don’t need, want or support this change. Things are tough enough as it is without the Government heaping more costs, uncertainty and damage on the local commercial radio sector. DAB for local commercial radio is inappropriate. It should be dumped.”

William Rogers CEO UKRD makes it clear that many think that digital radio is not a good fit for local radio.

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I Can Hear Clearly Now

I bloody hate DAB radio.I’ve owned two DAB capable models and had problems with reception on both. But the other day I saw a video on youtube where somebody improved reception by placing other aerials in a tri pattern near the radio to act as a distributed aerial.

In my case I improvised with a desk lamp and a metalic flask. Incredibly it appears to work and boosts the signal to a thershold level where I’m not continually listening to a broadcast by Norman Collier or accompanied by that characteristic DAB burbling that gives the impression of radio broadcast whilst drowning.