Often Silent (blank carrier stations)
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Often Silent (blank carrier stations)
More and more I notice both Project 106.5 and Rinse 106.8 silent, and today, they both are.
What is going on?
A complete waste of spectrum!
What is going on?
A complete waste of spectrum!
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Re: Often Silent (blank carrier stations)
Project you can expect but what is the exuse for the legal Rinse ?
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Re: Often Silent (blank carrier stations)
Rinse are often going silent for hours. They need to get their act together if they want to keep the licence
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Re: Often Silent (blank carrier stations)
Even some pirates use Silence Detectors these days, so no excuses.
....There is a CR station down in Brighton on 101.4 which regularly goes silent, sometimes for days on end!
....There is a CR station down in Brighton on 101.4 which regularly goes silent, sometimes for days on end!
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Re: Often Silent (blank carrier stations)
Rinse silent again this morning
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Re: Often Silent (blank carrier stations)
Problems with payments again? Slightly remember it was something like that last time they were silent for a while, too. Maybe someone else can remember properly.
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Re: Often Silent (blank carrier stations)
Rinse audio was back on yesterday evening but silent again this morning.
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Re: Often Silent (blank carrier stations)
Probably too much hassle to goto TX site, and wont power down when they drop link TX, Maybe...
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Re: Often Silent (blank carrier stations)
Noticed on the ofcom website that their licence expires in February. Maybe they've given up on the FM
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Re: Often Silent (blank carrier stations)
I always thought legal stations weren't allowed to be on silent. Anyway, you cant beat rude fm 88.2 for silence. 2 years.
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Re: Often Silent (blank carrier stations)
HCR 92.3 near me often goes silent for hours at a time. Plus, a few months back after the George Floyd killing in the USA Rinse along with some other media outlets (including Point Blank) went silent for the day in protest and never had any repercussions.
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Re: Often Silent (blank carrier stations)
Project seem to have vanished, meanwhile blank carriers on 95.1, 97.9, 99.0 and 99.6 for days and weeks...
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Re: Often Silent (blank carrier stations)
Sorry to go off-topic but as you are around near Runcorn/Warrington area I was just wondering if you pick up that Base FM on 87.7 from Manny?
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Re: Often Silent (blank carrier stations)
I don't get it at my home (I'm further into the Wirral) but I have heard it weakly as far as Lymm village, but my car reception is a bit crap so it probably goes a bit further than that. It's only really listenable with good signal once you're in Manchester's council areas proper.teckniqs wrote: ↑Tue Feb 09, 2021 10:01 amSorry to go off-topic but as you are around near Runcorn/Warrington area I was just wondering if you pick up that Base FM on 87.7 from Manny?
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Re: Often Silent (blank carrier stations)
If any RSL's suddenly pop up they'll probably not even realise until they get taken off, which will probably happen soon if they don't find a better dial.
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Re: Often Silent (blank carrier stations)
I thought that when they popped up on the frequency, not the best choice if you want to try and avoid getting taken off. The FM dial in the North West is really congested (according to Ofcom), even Radio Warrington had to go on AM because of it, but there's a good few slots above 100Mhz they could comfortably sit in and not interfere with anything. Practically every dial in London is used and I can listen to any station (legal or not) as long as the next station is 200khz I don't hear any interference.
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Re: Often Silent (blank carrier stations)
Which makes me wonder about all these rigs on silent, what's the point?
To try and lay claim to a frequency?
Pah! If you're not putting out anything, move on so others can use it
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Re: Often Silent (blank carrier stations)
Isn’t it that these stations that go silent are using link systems, and whilst they can turn off the studio desk, they can’t remotely turn off their TX? As they don’t know how to add that capability to the link system.
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Re: Often Silent (blank carrier stations)
^^ Lee's right, it's probably that the DJ's shift finished and they forgot to turn AutoDJ on (or it broke). While it's a total waste of spectrum stations down in London can't really afford to turn their rig off for long as someone else will inevitably jump on it.
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