Sad I used to be able to hear it as Fever fm was quite low power when they begone, interesting to hear it drifting in and out, it is quite sad as student stations tend to play new music, I don’t think there are than many student stations that have community radio licences.
107.3 is quite an odd frequency, I was quite surprised when fever was given it, on older radios it is image of Emley Moor, now Capital fm 105.1, would make anything hard to receive on that frequency with a pocket radio.
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news ... ke-9124754
Siren fm to close
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The licence is been transfered
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news ... an-9380472
New station is called witham radio online only until its agreed with, it will maybe start on the old fm frequency, staff and volunteers from Siren will be on it, it does say professionals will make the programming, make you think no one will beable to get on air, I suppose its not something I can really hear, I do think the old name was better. Often I do find this a lot local news papers do this thing of making out something is really positive then it doesn't turn out that way.
I have fond memories of it coming through, similar to when crash fm used to come through on the hill I used live when that frequency was also clear, seemed to go through a period were 107.3 was fairly clear fever fm was weak when it first started. I'm not sure if what I said was accurate about student stations playing new music, I listened to URY it took ages to get to some Chappell Roan, you'd think they'd have this stuff on repeat,
I do think they don't have to run adverts with it not been a community station which is one thing.
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news ... an-9380472
New station is called witham radio online only until its agreed with, it will maybe start on the old fm frequency, staff and volunteers from Siren will be on it, it does say professionals will make the programming, make you think no one will beable to get on air, I suppose its not something I can really hear, I do think the old name was better. Often I do find this a lot local news papers do this thing of making out something is really positive then it doesn't turn out that way.
I have fond memories of it coming through, similar to when crash fm used to come through on the hill I used live when that frequency was also clear, seemed to go through a period were 107.3 was fairly clear fever fm was weak when it first started. I'm not sure if what I said was accurate about student stations playing new music, I listened to URY it took ages to get to some Chappell Roan, you'd think they'd have this stuff on repeat,
I do think they don't have to run adverts with it not been a community station which is one thing.-
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Re: Siren fm to close
900 signatories need to pay £20.00 each which may keep it on air. Financial motives to close or not.
Maybe mainstream FM is just dead as a door nail.
Small community stations are part of my FM listening these days. I like trying to pull them out of the noise with my Tecsun, they often run 10-25Watts and are fun to listen to out side their normal catchment areas. There are so few pirates on outside of London that often I go to these stations that play something other than a very limited pop rota which is incredibly boring.
One station I can hear from 13 miles away with ease in the right room and even as far as 24 miles away on a good day.
What receiving antenna and tuner have you got Northeast ?
Maybe mainstream FM is just dead as a door nail.
Small community stations are part of my FM listening these days. I like trying to pull them out of the noise with my Tecsun, they often run 10-25Watts and are fun to listen to out side their normal catchment areas. There are so few pirates on outside of London that often I go to these stations that play something other than a very limited pop rota which is incredibly boring.
One station I can hear from 13 miles away with ease in the right room and even as far as 24 miles away on a good day.
What receiving antenna and tuner have you got Northeast ?
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Hi its a JVC KD-X262, I found it a while ago 8 years ago the original blew up, loose speaker connection, I accidentally shorted, I had to get a new one 2/3 years ago. I looked through online manuals it had something called adaptive filtering, i’ve found out since that it has the tef chip inside, explains why the reception is so good on it. I use a 12v wall supply, it will never be used in a car, easier to stick the coax in the back, or have a short bit of it with a connector on it to connect to an aerial, I use f connectors, their very nice, the centre part just makes the connection of the 75 ohm cable, there are no screws. It has a very good audio amplifier too aux makes it possible to listen to stuff from my laptop, have small speakers connected up to it, it does take up a lot less room, i’ve quite a few audio amplifier modules only one was as good, it can be used with one speaker I think the amplifier is bridged.
The aerial a dipole, top element is 65cm bottom element 70cms, a choke at the feedpoint, 2 turns on 9cm diameter, a match, about 20cm wire (insulated) it connects to the feed point, wire runs down from the top element runs back up and connects to the bottom element, the cable is attached to two joist's, using 2 wires, holding it away by about meter. It dose work really well, i’ve tried all sorts of combinations, cable just to it, or just a choke but this is the one that works the best, is in fact the winning combination. Its held in place from the bottom in the loft, have bit of plastic connected to bottom of the element, afew cms gap to insulate it, then a short peace of tubing, it holds it in place vertically, the hole in the felt holds it in place at the top, it can be taken down easly. I put a low power signal across to another receiver, pretty much no drop in signal strength from 87.5-100 it is sensitive does pick up well over the whole fm band. The interesting thing is if you make a choke a quarterwave length down the coax from the feedpoint, you bring the cable down, tape it too the bottom element, it becomes an end fed aerial, I think it is abit less sensitive, the coiling of the choke becomes more critical, the coax is part of the aerial, its easier to put outside, if you have a hole in your loft or a tube.
I did once count how many community radio transmitters I could hear, I would do that with pirates, they are not pirates they can be home made. It was quite funny hearing adverts which had chitty bang bang in them on tmcr, it was a lot less slick, what i liked about it, the signal was tricky to pick up on it, have a vague memory of hearing the rsl, I read about it lately how it almost didn’t come on air, then got funding at the 11th hour.
There was some kind of play used to go out on Tempo fm, think there was alot of criticism think it had alot of amercian presenters piped from else were, they seem to get ours over there too, heard one on tmcr too.
The classic hour on bcb, played through a mono transmitter, the only classical music heard on fm outside of radio 3 and classic fm, they made me think about how poor ILR used to be, how stayed it was.
The glitching on Vixen 101 of the automated tape, seem to happen often random music combinations of crying at the discoteque elton john, jingles have a very deep voice on them, simliar to that of a pirate. I once thought there transmitter was broken, I started to hear it coming through weakly on another frequency, turned out to br another transmitter, then I went to find the location of it, find the transmitter power of it too.
They have provided something funny something to talk about without them there would be bauer to talk about, Ken Bruce creating a new radio 2, or zoe ball leaving radio 2. Its often said they do go much further than there were meant to, interesting both annoying at sametime to dxers. They often do exist 100khz away from other stations, the actual area someone could tune to on a normal radio is a few miles.
I heard the eye a year or two ago, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eye_(radio_station) pretty much the only one i’ve heard other than seaside fm under ducting, Seaside it has got new transmitters too, maybe theres a transmitter shop down there. Theres coast & county, hear on dab, so far i’ve not heard on fm, it has a new transmitter on 106.7, quite interesting I used set up little transmitters there, used to hear a station from Liverpool when I used to lived on a big hill, did hear something weak last week, I couldn’t tell what it was. There was a report a while someone though they were hearing a pirate in whitby on 105.5, turned out them turning on, did make me think there was something playing gothic music, interesting they don’t have any stations based there, without a transmitter it wouldn’t be so interesting, a place would just be a place. These stations are similar power maybe more to old towerblock radio, but in places that didn’t have any radio station before, making them interesting technically.
I’d like to hear a pirate that was set up by someone from a record shop, centered round, playing dance had a buzz round it, someone picking out music they liked, they don’t seem to set them up anymore.
The aerial a dipole, top element is 65cm bottom element 70cms, a choke at the feedpoint, 2 turns on 9cm diameter, a match, about 20cm wire (insulated) it connects to the feed point, wire runs down from the top element runs back up and connects to the bottom element, the cable is attached to two joist's, using 2 wires, holding it away by about meter. It dose work really well, i’ve tried all sorts of combinations, cable just to it, or just a choke but this is the one that works the best, is in fact the winning combination. Its held in place from the bottom in the loft, have bit of plastic connected to bottom of the element, afew cms gap to insulate it, then a short peace of tubing, it holds it in place vertically, the hole in the felt holds it in place at the top, it can be taken down easly. I put a low power signal across to another receiver, pretty much no drop in signal strength from 87.5-100 it is sensitive does pick up well over the whole fm band. The interesting thing is if you make a choke a quarterwave length down the coax from the feedpoint, you bring the cable down, tape it too the bottom element, it becomes an end fed aerial, I think it is abit less sensitive, the coiling of the choke becomes more critical, the coax is part of the aerial, its easier to put outside, if you have a hole in your loft or a tube.
I did once count how many community radio transmitters I could hear, I would do that with pirates, they are not pirates they can be home made. It was quite funny hearing adverts which had chitty bang bang in them on tmcr, it was a lot less slick, what i liked about it, the signal was tricky to pick up on it, have a vague memory of hearing the rsl, I read about it lately how it almost didn’t come on air, then got funding at the 11th hour.
There was some kind of play used to go out on Tempo fm, think there was alot of criticism think it had alot of amercian presenters piped from else were, they seem to get ours over there too, heard one on tmcr too.
The classic hour on bcb, played through a mono transmitter, the only classical music heard on fm outside of radio 3 and classic fm, they made me think about how poor ILR used to be, how stayed it was.
The glitching on Vixen 101 of the automated tape, seem to happen often random music combinations of crying at the discoteque elton john, jingles have a very deep voice on them, simliar to that of a pirate. I once thought there transmitter was broken, I started to hear it coming through weakly on another frequency, turned out to br another transmitter, then I went to find the location of it, find the transmitter power of it too.
They have provided something funny something to talk about without them there would be bauer to talk about, Ken Bruce creating a new radio 2, or zoe ball leaving radio 2. Its often said they do go much further than there were meant to, interesting both annoying at sametime to dxers. They often do exist 100khz away from other stations, the actual area someone could tune to on a normal radio is a few miles.
I heard the eye a year or two ago, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eye_(radio_station) pretty much the only one i’ve heard other than seaside fm under ducting, Seaside it has got new transmitters too, maybe theres a transmitter shop down there. Theres coast & county, hear on dab, so far i’ve not heard on fm, it has a new transmitter on 106.7, quite interesting I used set up little transmitters there, used to hear a station from Liverpool when I used to lived on a big hill, did hear something weak last week, I couldn’t tell what it was. There was a report a while someone though they were hearing a pirate in whitby on 105.5, turned out them turning on, did make me think there was something playing gothic music, interesting they don’t have any stations based there, without a transmitter it wouldn’t be so interesting, a place would just be a place. These stations are similar power maybe more to old towerblock radio, but in places that didn’t have any radio station before, making them interesting technically.
I’d like to hear a pirate that was set up by someone from a record shop, centered round, playing dance had a buzz round it, someone picking out music they liked, they don’t seem to set them up anymore.
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Glad that set up works for you, maybe I have to try and get a better listening situation here for sometimes this year.