A Mystery Transmitter Appeared! - This Is What It Does 

I read this comment as soon as I saw the smoke going into the stack 😄

Its one of gretas new CO2 vacuum facilities

I did that to see if anyone would notice 😂

See! Pigeons can fly backwards. :-)

​@@RingwayManchesterit's GUReat information thank you

I was thinking that.

That bothered me too.

Awesome to see others noticing this 👍

They will now :)

Everybody does that. No one cares about it 🙈

Time to start your own repeater like this one? Im up the road on the somerset border so i feel your pain

You could probably do with a high gain DAB aerial on the side of your house, to help bring in a stronger signal... Where I am (Northamptonshire) the signal is nice and strong and in some areas I can even get coverage from neighboring counties' multiplexes. The true Achilles' Heel with DAB is the super low bit rates, resulting in a less than stellar audio quality.

@@TheSpotify95 Radio stations here in Estonia have expanded there FM range and Coverage and signal quality but nobody is putting money into DAB. most new radios and car radios sold here have DAB built into them but is not used here.

Are any of those involved ex KFM, the 80s LBP station in Stockport?

I don't use DABradio as the quality of the audio, even in the car, is rubbish. It is like listening to AM mono radio compared to FM stereo. When i first heard tests on DAB in the 2000s the audio was over 200Kbps, now its mono at as low as 32Kbps.

Bah dum tiss!!! 🥁

@@the80hdgamingbeat me too it 😂😂

It is a training quarry

Hahahaha 😂😂😂😂😂

This is why I am still happy to pay for my broadband connection 😂

It only appears that way because Lewis is filming everything in reverse 😁

@@AdamSWL So it's a perfect K & T bracket?

every single PMR install i have seen since the 90s has the same problem with brackets.

I’ve always fitted them that way round, oops! I’ll have to hand my NVQ back in haha

And poor quality

It got you paying tax here there and everywhere... only to be blown on dodgy PPE from a Tory Lord

Mmmmmm…. Yes, that’s correct. 😂

Less power smaller sites new receivers is a cost for you but am and fm are better in a lot of ways

AM was total crap, especially at night. An AM transmitter can carry only only one channel but DAB can handle lots of them. DAB is very good for local limited range transmissions. Furthermore the same channel can be carried on many spread out transmissions without ant co-channel interference.

Do you know how much electricity costs these days?.

COFDM is very ghost tolerant but has a wider bandwidth and shorter range.

Water wheel powering the station? :D Is gathering rainwater to water the lawn required in UK?

Water cooling for the transmitter possibly

@@randomnickify One of the many rules we all ignore - the 'hosepipe ban'

I guess the lack of downpipe externally was an anti-climb effort.

Voices similar?! You jest, surely?

Radio Swiss Classic is the finest radio station (from Swiss). another decent station are ABC classic FM with "less" quality

A lot of stations are DAB+ now. There's only about 5 or 6 DAB stations on D1 National and the same goes for SDL National; all the remaining commercial stations are DAB+. Of course, there may still be vanilla DAB services on the BBC National multiplex, as well as whatever local multiplexes you can receive.

You can pirate on DAB so all is not lost! A bit more complicated and expensive, but you could get those old 10GHz links back out. On my TX aerial in the NW i used to be able to RX Dimension FM and IBC .

That is rather out in the sticks where there is no cellphone coverage.

The quality used by stations is also awful. Often mono and often with a lowest common denominator bitrate too

I guess LW must stay on the air then for long distance coverage on 198 kHz since DAB+ still is failing.

​@@AdamEbelgccengineeringworks great for me in Australia

It depends on what your antenna system is like. If you've got one of those really small aerials that stick to the windscreen (which you can buy off eBay or from certain car related shops) then it's no wonder your DAB reception is poor. You need a decent external aerial on the top of the car's roof mounted vertically.

DAB=Dead And Buried 😂 Give me old fashioned analogue FM everytime. 73 G7HFS/PA3IKH (ex 1980's FM pirate 😊)

Nothing to do with OFCOM. All that matters is whether the station operators are able to make it a going concern.

Same in my village in a valley in rural Northumberland. Small radios are useless. No DAB signal at all and FM is very poor too.

@@ChoppingtonOtter I have seriously considered buying a cheap 10W FM transmitter from eBay and just rebroadcasting the signal from an internet feed. BBC/Arqiva won't do it....

@@edwardbyard6540 I think you can still buy cheap FM transmitters. I have a 7W one which I'm keeping just in case.

Here in Estonia i have seen Radio stations put money into better FM antennas and better signal coverage. nobody is putting money into DAB here. Telecom companies here have made it so your phone/tablet/car has mobile data coverage pretty much everywhere so you can just pull up a Radio app if the FM signal falls short. currently the only problems we have with pretty much any radio signals is once you get close to the Russian border. i am fairly close but not too effected because i am living very close to TV/Radio tower like 1,3 km away

@@ToomasTelling DABradio is finished in the UK, it failed because of - 1. Advertisers 2. Poor Audio Quality 3. Choice of different stations When it first appeared, the audio quality was brilliant as bitrates were high, some as high as 320kbps stereo on the BBC test stations. As time went on, it was all monetised and people looked at ways to get back their investment and make money. It went away from being a method of transmitting stations to one of selling advertising, making every channel play automated music with adverts and a bit of talking over the top. Many of my local DAB stations play the same music from the same feed, but change the announcements. Why just have 4 stations on a multiplex for example, when you would have 12 or 24 all running really low audio bitrates. That is why no one listens now. Who wants MONO audio at a bitrate and audio quality lower than a standard AM radio. In North West UK if you listen at home or in a car to stations on 88-108MHz FM Stereo, the audio quality is really good. Listen on DABradio and you get thin or tinny MONO with 16kbps to 64kbps and it is "quiet", plus there is no processing, no dynamic range, no compression etc, so unusable in cars. Most stations rely on streaming. DABradio was a "gap filler" while Streaming Services were improved and people started to use them more thanks to unlimited data on phones etc. I now just stream music in the car, I don't bother with DABradio and only use normal radio if there is no coverage on the phone! The choice of frequency up around 200MHz was odd too, if they had used 68-88MHz the coverage would have been vastly improved, especially for mobile use. Less transmitters and links would have been required. I use 4M amateur band (70MHz) and the coverage is really good compared to 2m and 70cm for example.

I just reversed it to see if you were paying attention

carbon capture device obviously

TV channel 6 would be picked up on radios.

I uploaded those pics :)

It depends on the aerial. If you only want local coverage, a single aerial with medium to high angle radiation pattern will cover the locals if it is low down. If it was high up, a downward tilt or something like a Slim Jim or J pole would be better to give a blanket coverage and not get too far. No need for higher gain aerials there.

Came as standard, in the display menu

The Topo also helps lol good joke

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It's generally accepted that the K bracket should go at the bottom, so the more substantial bracket takes the weight of the whole structure. It probably doesn't make much difference in practice - nevertheless, the pair in the video ARE the wrong way round.

@@Bartok_J With the T at the bottom, it is taking the whole weight. I always fit them as in the video - bottom one holding the structure, the upper one negating the wind torque

You're not missing much. It's like digital tv. If you've a very strong signal and a good receiver its great. If you're any way "fringe" reception it's painful to listen to. Music breaks up and drops out and speech sounds like they're broadcasting from a bathtub under the water !

Also they cram as much in as possible in as little bandwidth, so many stations are mono and low bit rate. Even the high bit rate stereo channels aren't as good as their FM equivalents. You do get quite a variety though.

We have SiriusXM satellite. Same ideas. Lots of choices but poor quality sound.

With all those stations hooked up to the same audio feeds, just with different adverts played and different announcements. it really is in a terrible state now, I was SO disappointed when I got a DABradio after it first come out. I expected what was lied about on the false DABradio adverts about "crystal clear sound" and "Great audio Quality". I got lots of stations, only two local ones in stereo and everything else was mono, some sounding worse than MW. I had DABradio as standard in my car and used to listen to KISS as the bitrate was 160kbps and it was stereo. That last a few months and it went to 128kbps, then 112kbps and now I think it's 64kbps MONO. No one wants that rubbish quality. I wanted a DARradio with TWO speakers (for stereo) and could never understand why so many of the Pure radios were sold with just one. They knew everything was going to be low quality mono, so no point selling a radio with two speakers! Advertisers lied about DABradio to promote sales and they misled people. Many were fined and forced to stop lying about the audio quality, coverage and claims of "interference free crystal clear audio".

its just a bad way to do things its like the worst of analogue and the worst of digital combined

Tell me more

Also happy birthday to my grandpop! Born on this day in 1931!

UK dab is bust Lewis they went under last year. And block 7d, 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b and 9c was allocated to ssdab only along with Bolton on 10b and Cheshire east on 11c as there free freqs in that area that is usable.

That is an absolutely fantastic spot! Well played! I didn’t notice it

​@@RingwayManchesterI can't see it

@@RingwayManchester Great antenna it's on my to buy list 🙂

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