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CD wrote:
On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 19:56:38 -0000, Max Demian wrote:

Actually that sketch is closely based on one on the radio programme "The
Burkiss Way" in February 1978.

Not a lot of people know that. (See he
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sndZQHYQ2AY )

You learn something new every day. Not based but 90% verbatim, I presume
the original writers were credited on NTNON

I suppose the common link is John Lloyd, producer of both programmes ?

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CD wrote:
On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 19:56:38 -0000, Max Demian wrote:

Actually that sketch is closely based on one on the radio programme "The
Burkiss Way" in February 1978.

Not a lot of people know that. (See he
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sndZQHYQ2AY )

You learn something new every day. Not based but 90% verbatim, I presume
the original writers were credited on NTNON

And the idea came from Flanders and Swann's 'Song of Reproduction'.

Bill

On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 14:54:53 GMT, Paul Ratcliffe
wrote:

On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:16:13 -0000, Woody wrote:

There was an item by David Silito on Today this morning and I
think the video version of the same item on BBC Breakfast. It was
nothing more than a blatant advert saying DAB is good, all else
is bad.

I don't think it quite said that, but I found it confusing in general
and didn't really explain anything (that the great unwashed would
understand anyway).

They interviewed Rob Mannion, the former editor of Practical
Wireless and a very active radio amateur. Not only did they make
him look like a chump and would-be militant,

The report focussed on aerials, or the lack of them, was not
comparing like with like, didn't help the argument either way and was
just pointless.

they compared DAB mainly with AM and even visited an AM only local
station for cost comparisons.

Spire FM. That's not an AM only station. The clue is in the name.

ASDA FM Live must be pretty clueless then.



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Graham.

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On Thursday, December 12, 2013 6:53:25 PM UTC, Davey wrote:
Although youngest lad (22 yrs) has just discovered vinyl, the biggest
challenge was to clear a horizontal surface 420 x 360 mm in his room.
What's that in real measurements?

About 0.0073 nanoWales.

Owain

"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
...
I just think most people are now quality deaf.

Like me :-)

I don't give a beep what the quality of sound out of a radio is like, as
long as it is intelligible

But as about 90% of my radio consumption is when in a car the fact that 95%
of cars don't have DAB radios is a deal breaker here, and I can't believe
that it isn't bleeding obvious to everyone that it is

tim

On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 13:16:42 +0000, Ian Jackson
wrote:

In message , Max Demian
writes
"Davey" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 10:29:40 +0000
Phil Cook wrote:

On 12/12/2013 19:57, Mark Carver wrote:
Davey wrote:

Thanks! And it certainly sounds right for a deck. I am about to
start to make my own plinth for a naked Garrard deck, unless the
two decks that I am bidding on tonight at the local auction
tomorrow turn up one with plinth and cover.

Lad's one is a Ariston Q Deck, a friend of mine had in his loft.

What's all these decks? I thought they were turntables.

That's what's in the bottom of the microwave oven!

Is not a turntable the part of the deck that rotates? Just wondering.
Not sure what DJs call them, though.

Noo! Noo! That's the 'platter'.

(You'll be asking for a gram-o-phone next.)

I'm pretty sure that a 'turntable is a turntable, and a 'platter' is a
gram-o-phone record (or a disc - as in 'golden disc) - or at least they
were when I were a lad.

Yes, the platter was the record. You would brag about cutting your
latest waxing. Don't try Googling that incidentally.



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Graham.

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On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 21:48:30 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

CD wrote:
On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 19:56:38 -0000, Max Demian wrote:

Actually that sketch is closely based on one on the radio programme "The
Burkiss Way" in February 1978.

Not a lot of people know that. (See he
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sndZQHYQ2AY )

You learn something new every day. Not based but 90% verbatim, I presume
the original writers were credited on NTNON

And the idea came from Flanders and Swann's 'Song of Reproduction'.

Bill

You beat me to it Bill.

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Graham.

%Profound_observation%

"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
...
In article , Davey
wrote:
On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 10:29:40 +0000 Phil Cook
wrote:

On 12/12/2013 19:57, Mark Carver wrote:
Davey wrote:

Thanks! And it certainly sounds right for a deck. I am about to
start to make my own plinth for a naked Garrard deck, unless the
two decks that I am bidding on tonight at the local auction
tomorrow turn up one with plinth and cover.

Lad's one is a Ariston Q Deck, a friend of mine had in his loft.

What's all these decks? I thought they were turntables.

That's what's in the bottom of the microwave oven!

Is not a turntable the part of the deck that rotates? Just wondering.
Not sure what DJs call them, though.

This seems to be one of the topics where the meaning varies. So you may
get
both 'deck' and 'turntable' used by some to cover actual turntable + arm +
cart + stylus in some cases. I wonder if Dansettes will make a
come-back...

FWIW I've never been a fan of elastic-band drive for turntables. Nor
wobbly
wheels... ;-

What do you want, direct drive?

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Max Demian

On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 14:27:11 -0800 (PST)
wrote:

On Thursday, December 12, 2013 6:53:25 PM UTC, Davey wrote:
Although youngest lad (22 yrs) has just discovered vinyl, the
biggest challenge was to clear a horizontal surface 420 x 360 mm
in his room.
What's that in real measurements?

About 0.0073 nanoWales.

Owain


One day, our Thermodynamics lecturer threw the concept of Furlong,
Ferkin, Fortnight measurement systems at us, to see who was awake.

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Davey

On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 19:40:05 +0000
Davey wrote:

On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 15:32:10 +0000
Mark Carver wrote:

On 13/12/2013 15:19, Roderick Stewart wrote:

Long ago when the systems we might use for stereo on FM were being
discussed, there was mention of a system used in America for
"storecasting" (or "shedcasting" as I suppose we could now call
it), involving extra subcarriers above the stereo difference
signal. The shed wouldn't need satellite to receive this, just
FM. I don't think it was ever used here though.

No, though I think the IBA ran some tests ?

SCA (Subsidiary Communications Authority) sub carrier on 67kHz
IIRC ?

Must have required a thumping great signal, thanks to FM's
triangular noise spectrum ?



See;
http://www.daytonindustrial.com/scasub.htm
for some info.

And:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_broa...rrier_services

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Davey.