Has rinse turned off??? Got a silent carrier on here with no Rds

It is rinse I had the RDS and has been like this a few days now and I am sure they are in breach of their licence as they are supposed to provide a full time service not go on silent carrier like a pirate

There is a community station in Brighton on 101.4 which regularly just transmits 'dead air', was silent for almost a week not so long ago and regularly goes silent all day long.

....As far as I'm aware it is the part of the broadcasting law to have a 'silence detector' system installed with something like an MP3 player which automatically switches on when silence is detected.
But that doesn't seem to be the case...

Can see the RDS on a Deva Radio Explorer II: RINSE FM. PI: CD90.

Company Number: 07051472 (Rinse FM) is late filing accounts according to companies house.

So if they are not allowed to play why waste electric with the rig still switched on?

I'm not saying they're not allowed to play mate - could be lots of things; say an internet failure at the TX End and a site that you can't just turn up at. Stream is still up, still plugging 106.8 on the socials...

Apparently OFCOM needed feeding in respect of the licence, and now have been.

Rig is still off tho.

projuicer wrote: ↑Mon Dec 02, 2019 12:55 pm

Rig is still off tho.

The rig is on, silent carrier.

So it is - my bad

Next thing you know they'll be in Broadcast Bulletin for not providing the licensed service...

Silent here

You'd have thought they could have at least got someone up there with an MP3 player by now...

I always thought that they should have a silence detector to ensure that one comes on automatically.

Maybe they want to be like project were for ages? Just 106.8 with a silent stereo signal

Still silent, it's been a month or so - What issue takes this long to sort out??

Can’t pay the bill to ofcom maybe

Tec1 87.5fm London wrote: ↑Tue Dec 31, 2019 10:59 pm Can’t pay the bill to ofcom maybe

Anyone know how they finance? They dont have ads or even merch

mikus wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2020 9:29 am

Tec1 87.5fm London wrote: ↑Tue Dec 31, 2019 10:59 pm Can’t pay the bill to ofcom maybe

Anyone know how they finance?

Via the police and government .

Rinse have their audio back on FM today.

The story I heard was that they failed to pay some bills (big surprise), and the people they lease the transmitter from disconnected the mod.

It's a tactic I used to use - leave the carrier up with the RDS, and wait until the wankers pay their bill until you allow their audio through the rig. It's easy to do with RF links - you just have to be 6dB bigger into their link receiver.