Making the news today....

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1 hour ago, GarethM said:

 DAB is something ridiculous like 1kw.

Is that why it's so shit?

[GarethM]

Don't know, mines pretty good even in my rural backwaters.

 

They've turned off a lot of AM transmitters this month, from what I've seen on "Ringway Manchester" YouTube. Guessing it should be less interference?.

 

From my old physics class, AM bounces off the atmosphere. TV and FM are more line of sight, not sure about DAB, but guessing it's the same.

Edited February 23, 2023 by GarethM

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The weans bought me a DAB radio years ago when it was forecast to be a great thing.

 

There's fewer digital stations on it now than there was when I got it, although to be fair, internet radio has really caught on in a way that wasn't really envisaged back then.

 

Luckily the radio has FM on it as well and that's mostly what it stays on.

 

Classic FM at present for the sheep during housing.

[GarethM]

The older ones can't receive the newer DAB+ stuff. I found that it started tailing off, when I got a newer car it found hundreds tho.

 

Ended up buying a cheap new radio for the shed and it's got about 50 in the Faraday cage of a steel shed.

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Just now, GarethM said:

The older ones can't receive the newer DAB+ stuff.

Typical, another built in obsolescence product.

 

Never knew that.

 

I'll just stick with the old one and FM.

[Doug Tait]

Local company in the news today, Elliot Henderson bought the 19,000th forestry machine supplied by Ponsse, a Scorpion Giant Harvester. Coming soon to a windblow nearby.

 

 

https://www.thesouthernreporter.co.uk/news/environment/new-machine-piped-out-4036218

[Mark J]

Therese Coffey filmed smoking turnips | The Daily Mash

WWW.THEDAILYMASH.CO.UK

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THERESE Coffey has been secretly filmed shredding and smoking turnips for what she claims is the ultimate British high.

 

[GarethM]

Turnips, the farm gateway drug.

 

I was trying for a more root of all evil comment, police search ends in muddy boots and dawn raids.

[eggsarascal]

A BLT will never be the same again.

[waterbuoy]

I was thinking of Baldrick for some reason