The Wrekin Channel Allocations
Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:09:33 -0700 (PDT)
Something I've wondered about for years...
Why, when the standard channel allocations on Group A transmitters
which use those channels is almost always (from BBC1 to C4)
33-26-23-29, the Wrekin allocations have got BBC1 and 2 reversed, i.e.
26-33-23-29?
There doesn't seem to be any logical reason for it, and ...
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Hijacking some of a satellite transponder bandwidth
Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:42:36 -0700 (PDT)
I was reading an old satellite technology magazine that said that in
the 1980's there were organisations who would hijack part of a
satellite transponder and use it for their own nefarious purposes.
Apparently they even made their added signals (analogue days remember)
symmetrical so that they were harder to spot. ...
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Re: Switch off at the socket?
Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:20:35 GMT
Interesting discussion. Here's some food for thought:
If a sealed container does *not* allow particles to pass its walls but
*does* allow loss of energy via exchange of thermal radiation with its
outer environment, then a chemical reaction within that container could
increase the temperature within that contain ...
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Re: Switch off at the socket?
Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:51:20 +0100
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:43:07 +0100, "Norman Wells"
<no-one@myarl.co.uk> wrote:
>The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> Norman Wells wrote:
>
>>>> Because relativity says its so. ANY release of energy is accompanied
>>>> by a loss of mass.
>>>>
>>>> Its vanishingly small for typical mechanical and chemical energ ...
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Re: Switch off at the socket?
Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:45:45 +0100
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:22:20 +0100, "Norman Wells"
<no-one@myarl.co.uk> wrote:
>The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> Norman Wells wrote:
>>> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
>>>>>>>>> Energy is neither created nor destroyed
>>>>>>> Only according to classical physics.
>>>>>>>> Except in nuclear power stations a ...
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Re: Switch off at the socket?
Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:14:59 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:44:23 +0100, Roderick Stewart wrote:
> In other words, selling bits of paper they knew to be worthless.
Yes, of course -- why do you think banks and other financial institutions
are so keen to sell on debt? It is called hedging the risk, or
as some might say, distributing or even sharin ...
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Re: Eurobird 1 failure (was Sky satellites)
Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:37:10 +0100
In article <pan.2009.09.16.18.48.42@yoyo.ORG>,
J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> wrote:
> The type of programming that used to be shown on BBC-2 and has
> now been moved to the digital cultural/intellectual ghetto of BBC-4,
> and just the type of programming that should be shown on BBC-4 rather
> than pretentious p ...
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Re: Eurobird 1 failure (was Sky satellites)
Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:48:57 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:05:10 +0100, Mike Henry wrote:
> Er, the BBC's World Cinema series was mainly on BBC4. I don't think they
> were going for the mass audience here.
Exactly. The type of programming that used to be shown on BBC-2 and has
now been moved to the digital cultural/intellectual ghetto of BBC-4,
...
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Skelton
Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:32:00 +0100
The One Show did an item on Skelton tonight. About half the report was
about radio's contribution to the war effort during WWII and I am sure
they said or implied that Skelton broadcast domestic services. Is that
true?
The item started with a comment about seeing the big aerial mast from
the M6, the VLF anten ...
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nostalgia time
Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:36:47 +0100
Especially for Bill.
Have a look at an auction at Bonhams, Knightsbridge at the end of
this month. www.bonhams.com and look for sale 17616 on 30 September.
Jump to lot 570 and scroll on.
Take the dog before you email me. ...
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