White Spaces!....

On 11/04/2013 20:04, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:24:04 +0100, Richard Evans wrote:

But isn't there going to be a lot less hot air available now that she's
gone ?

Hadn't she lost her marbles in the last, maybe, ten years?

Didn't think she had time to play marbles.

On 11/04/2013 18:10, tony sayer wrote:

Well I've got a Three year olde Nokia and it's fine most all of the
time, yes sometimes there is a bit of break up and I tend it use it in
preference sometimes to the landline to use up those inclusive minutes.

I'm still using a little Nokia that must be about 6 years old now. I
paid just 30 quid for it. Only 2G, but does the job and fits nicely in
my pocket.

I have considered getting something more advanced, but smart phones seem
to be significantly bigger than my Nokia, and also look a lot more
fragile. I was tempted by the idea of 4G, until I saw the tariff
charges. May well be tempted at some point in the future, if a bit of
competition brings the charges down.

On 12/04/2013 00:38, Dave Liquorice wrote:

Orange but it's on all GSM phones. Any call from a GSM mobile has *at
least* a 20 mS delay by the nature of the coding. Maybe you are just used
to it I hate it and the poor sound quality compared to a
landline/landline call.

You must be extra sensitive to the delay, I've never noticed it.
I've never noticed any problem with sound quality either, but then I
don't use my phone much, and when I do I'm only interested in
understanding what is being said.

Sound quality mostly only bothers me when it is music with poor quality,
then it becomes annoying, as it spoils my enjoyment.

On 12/04/2013 00:14, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:28:39 +0100, Richard Evans wrote:

The private land route can easily fall foul of not being able to find
the actual land owner and getting a positive, or any, response. Then
there is the person who spots they hold a key position and try to
wangle a big fee etc.

Perhaps in the scheme that I saw on the TV the farmers might have been
among the people who wanted to get Broadband. Presumably in a remote
rural area farmers can also have trouble getting broadband.

There's nowt as strange as folk. Some will quite happily cut of their
nose to spite their face.

Whatever the reasons, this particular scheme existed, as I saw in on a
TV program, probably a news program, but I don't remember now.

There may well be other cases where it is not worth running cables
across fields. In this case, perhaps it may be a good idea to consider
radio links.

Richard E.

In message , Richard Evans
writes:
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One interesting system I read about used scatter propagation, and it
used high frequencies, perhaps microwave I'm not sure. The idea was to
use very high power transmitters, and a very high gain aerial arrays,
to sent a huge ERP at the sky. Then due to dust or whatever in the
atmosphere the signal would get scattered. A tiny percentage of the
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Troposcatter. Basically, the system used by the mayor (?) in the Batman
stories ... (-:
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On 12/04/2013 21:23, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Richard Evans
writes:
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One interesting system I read about used scatter propagation, and it
used high frequencies, perhaps microwave I'm not sure. The idea was to
use very high power transmitters, and a very high gain aerial arrays,
to sent a huge ERP at the sky. Then due to dust or whatever in the
atmosphere the signal would get scattered. A tiny percentage of the
[]
Troposcatter. Basically, the system used by the mayor (?) in the Batman
stories ... (-:

That would be another possible use of the idea lol

Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:10:38 +0100, tony sayer wrote:

I'll probably still have one I detest the delay and appalling sound
quality of mobiles.

Well I've got a Three year olde Nokia

A mere baby. My current phone is a Sony Ericson T610 from about
2003/4. Obtained as it was one of the very few mobiles that could do
email natively at that time. It's the third phone I have had since
getting the first one in about 1994.

Alright if you need email, but the T610 is deaf as a post.

My main phone is still a Nokia 6310i from 2002, they work well,
are easy to use, and they have the longest lasting battery of all.

Steve Terry
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In article ,
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Richard Evans
writes:
[]
One interesting system I read about used scatter propagation, and it
used high frequencies, perhaps microwave I'm not sure. The idea was to
use very high power transmitters, and a very high gain aerial arrays,
to sent a huge ERP at the sky. Then due to dust or whatever in the
atmosphere the signal would get scattered. A tiny percentage of the
[]
Troposcatter. Basically, the system used by the mayor (?) in the Batman
stories ... (-:

Whereupon Batman responded with a carefully focussed
incredibly-high-frequency transmission ...

Nick
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"The Internet, a sort of ersatz counterfeit of real life"
-- Janet Street-Porter, BBC2, 19th March 1996

Steve Terry wrote:

My main phone is still a Nokia 6310i from 2002, they work well,
are easy to use, and they have the longest lasting battery of all.

Yay! Good for you - the 6310i is an all time classic, and quite
collectable (you can still buy refurbished ones on eBay). It's a
cracking phone, I reckon.

--
SteveT

Steve Thackery wrote:
Steve Terry wrote:

My main phone is still a Nokia 6310i from 2002, they work well,
are easy to use, and they have the longest lasting battery of all.

Yay! Good for you - the 6310i is an all time classic, and quite
collectable (you can still buy refurbished ones on eBay). It's a
cracking phone, I reckon.

If it's good enough for Saint Bob Geldof it's good enough for me

BBC Top Gear (Series 17, Episode 5)

Steve Terry
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