The radio station on DAB operated by Age UK is having a senior moment.
Last night it was playing music like a fast winding tape in bursts with
gaps. It sounded just like what happens if you attempt to join mp3s together
of different bit rates without making them the same first.
The really sad thing is that it went on like this for hours. One would
have thought that somebody might have been listening and turned it off till
an engineer was available.
Brian

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On Saturday, 31 December 2016 09:17:32 UTC, Brian Gaff wrote:
The radio station on DAB operated by Age UK

Sounds cheerful. Shouldn't it be on Medium Wave though?

One would have thought that somebody might have been listening
and turned it off till an engineer was available.

In my radio days we were told no more than 3 seconds of silence (except for Remembrance of course).

Still, it doesn't exactly inspire confidence in their hearing aids or stairlifts does it?

Owain

On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 09:17:26 -0000, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

The radio station on DAB operated by Age UK is having a senior moment.
Last night it was playing music like a fast winding tape in bursts with
gaps. It sounded just like what happens if you attempt to join mp3s together
of different bit rates without making them the same first.
The really sad thing is that it went on like this for hours. One would
have thought that somebody might have been listening and turned it off till
an engineer was available.
Brian

They probably don't have engineers on the payroll. The time taken
probably represents the time to arrange a call-out of a freelance
engineer with other clients look after.

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Brian Gaff wrote:
The radio station on DAB operated by Age UK is having a senior moment.
Last night it was playing music like a fast winding tape in bursts with
gaps. It sounded just like what happens if you attempt to join mp3s
together of different bit rates without making them the same first. The
really sad thing is that it went on like this for hours. One would
have thought that somebody might have been listening and turned it off
till an engineer was available.

The days of having a human capable of fixing that sort of thing actually
on hand and listening have long since gone. No need for them as computers
never make mistakes.

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It actually worries me as I'm actually not sure, much like that other
station Encore which is wall to wall musicals music and interviews as they
run more repeats than new content.
I just wonder how they get away with it, the other day the edit was so bad
we had a snippet of the news from last September on the end of the
programme!

No nobody uses medium wave due to the way so many of the devices we have
chucking out crap all over the wavebands from long wave to who knows where.
Brian

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On Saturday, 31 December 2016 09:17:32 UTC, Brian Gaff wrote:
The radio station on DAB operated by Age UK

Sounds cheerful. Shouldn't it be on Medium Wave though?

One would have thought that somebody might have been listening
and turned it off till an engineer was available.

In my radio days we were told no more than 3 seconds of silence (except
for Remembrance of course).

Still, it doesn't exactly inspire confidence in their hearing aids or
stairlifts does it?

Owain

Well that shows what is wrong with everything today. its the same with the
nhs. Somebody brings out a law, writes a document, sends it to the trusts
and then ticks their box they have done the job. Only later on is it found
that nobody has even read the docs let alone realised its now the law to
comply with it.
There is a yawning gap between good ideas and well meaning laws and getting
the actual folk who have to impliment it to do so when the are not even
given the resources to cope with what they do now.
Accessible Information Standard, if you want to look that up. A farce, most
certainly.
Brian

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In article ,
Brian Gaff wrote:
The radio station on DAB operated by Age UK is having a senior moment.
Last night it was playing music like a fast winding tape in bursts with
gaps. It sounded just like what happens if you attempt to join mp3s
together of different bit rates without making them the same first. The
really sad thing is that it went on like this for hours. One would
have thought that somebody might have been listening and turned it off
till an engineer was available.

The days of having a human capable of fixing that sort of thing actually
on hand and listening have long since gone. No need for them as computers
never make mistakes.

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*I'm really easy to get along with once people learn to worship me

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

In article ,
Brian Gaff wrote:
No nobody uses medium wave due to the way so many of the devices we
have chucking out crap all over the wavebands from long wave to who
knows where.

I have a decent external aerial for my Quad AM tuner. Gives pretty
interference free reception.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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