Taking with a pinch of salt but according to ChatGPT BBC radio Wales on 657 is gone and most 882 transmitters. The ones that are left are in reduced power. It seems though 882 from Washford is still going at full power. Most BBC Radio Scotland transmitters are at full power
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BBC Wales is still on 882
I hear them on the Merthyr Tydfil, UK SDR, But for how long
I hear them on the Merthyr Tydfil, UK SDR, But for how long
That would make sense as Washford is in Somerset. They're audible on the Wooferton SDR now but getting hammered by a Spanish sounding station.
Honestly I don't get the logic of having a high power AM station in an area with good DAB and not having a transmitter covering the mountains properly where DAB is going to be hit and miss or non existent
How well can a transmitter cover the mountains there?
I lived over in Birmingham years ago so have no personal experience but just a guess AM would work better than FM or DAB due to lower frequency.
Lots and lots of little repeater stations. BBC national DAB hasn't been "hit and miss" for years. The network is considered pretty much complete, and equivalent to FM. In hilly areas, it's better than FM, because you aren't getting the reflections and multipath.
Here's a map of all the BBC DAB transmitters - you can see how many there are in the mountain and valley areas of Wales:
I stand corrected. That's impressive.
Thanks for the map and explanation
Over here on the AM band, we have an equivalent: Coast To Coast AM being broadcast on hundreds of stations simultaneously.
I briefly had two separate KiwiSDRs open at once, each tuned to a different frequency, and both frequencies had stations playing Coast To Coast. It was kind of creepy, actually, and it reminded me of that infamous Sinclair TV news collage someone made back in 2017 or 2018, particularly the part where all the clips of the many news anchors reading the same lines are played simultaneously, creating an ominous, Borg-like sound.
I can totally see someone making a sound collage featuring many stations broadcasting Coast To Coast and having that Borg sound.
Who says we can't have AM Stereo? I can hear Coast To Coast in 5.1 surround sound if I wanted to! All I need are six radios tuned to six frequencies that carry C-T-C, and the various delays and fades will create quite an interesting effect.
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No longer available where? I'm listening to Absolute Radio right now in the US:
And here's Capital Dance.
No longer available where? I'm listening to Absolute Radio right now in the US:
Las Vegas. Interesting. I wonder why it's available there and seemingly nowhere else
Listening here in Vermont, too.
That doesn’t make sense
My main go to is Tunin but I've got several others like radio.net and Mytuner and Radio Garden.
Don't all these apps need a license to stream? In fact there was a ruling in the UK a few years ago Tunin lost because apparently they didn't have the rights to stream internationally
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KC8UOK: Have you tried streaming the station directly from its website (which is what I was doing when I reported hearing it here) or are you only using Alexa and various apps and outside websites?