"tony sayer" <tony@bancom.co.uk> wrote in message
news:r4I5AhJbM0QKFwUU@bancom.co.uk...
> In article <CQIA3QFTXyQKFwTk@g3ohx.demon.co.uk>, Ian Jackson <ianREMOVET
> HISjackson@g3ohx.demon.co.uk> scribeth thus
>>In message <W6SdnfohqtaJAt_XnZ2dnUVZ8l6dnZ2d@bt.com>, Kráftéé
>><kraftee@b&e-cottee.me.uk> writes
>>>Jimbo GM4DHJ .... wrote:
>>>| "DAB sounds worse than FM" <dab.is@fooked.com> wrote in message
>>>| news:7afjm6F1vb133U1@mid.individual.net...
>>>|| There's a 10 Downing St petition to stop FM/AM being switched off:
>>>||
>>>|| http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/AM-FM-Radio/
>>>||
>>>|| Please sign. Thanks.
>>>||
>>>||
>>>| cool thanks ......
>>>
>>>Maybe some more bandwidth to play with.......Naah I doubt it (it'll be
>>>sold to the highest bidder)
>>>
>>Who IS going to buy that part of the spectrum? There's not a lot of
>>activity between (say) 30 and 87MHz at the moment, so I don't think that
>>there will be as great a demand for the FM radio spectrum as some people
>>think.
>
> There are tracts of spectrum from around 30 to 87 MHz that are hardly
> used as no one wants them;!...
> Tony Sayer
>
>
Broadcasters need consistantancy, 30 to 80MHz suffers from Sporadic E,
high ignition interference QRN.
Digital DRM will offer some immunity.

Steve Terry