OT Talking of 'The Wireless'

[Brian Gaff]

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

[spuorgelgoog]

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

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

[Scott]

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.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

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.

[Brian Gaff]

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

[Brian Gaff]

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

[Dave Plowman (News)]

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