Thread: Return of Big L to 1395 AM

At the risk of going OT, I found on several 'listens' that the programme content was at least 10 seconds behind real time on the Internet.

Quote: Originally Posted by Zelandeth ......There *is* however a big screechy band of interference right where it should be though, so not sure if that's drowning it out..... What's that all about then ? Some co-channel interference perhaps ? Good to hear other members welcoming the return of Big L ! Music selection is quirky, tending to the cheesy, but we love it ! For the record, I bought one of those little cheapo Bush...

Hmm, no sign of them at the moment - well, at least not in this giant faraday cage of a block of flats in Aberdeen. There *is* however a big screechy band of interference right where it should be though, so not sure if that's drowning it out. Will check next time I'm out and about. Will try again later too, if it's here, I'd hope the old Selena Vega 215 should pull it in, it tends to manage to pull in pretty much anything...

Quote: Originally Posted by Station X I'm sure I remember Kenny Everett quoting "Fifty Thousand Watts of Power", but it was 40 plus years ago. ..and also as 50 milli-megawatts! Quote: Originally Posted by StationX It's interesting that stations that lasted barely three years are remembered fondly today. Probably because those of us who were there at the time remember how unique they were after having put up with...

I am down in Southampton and I have been wondering why I wasn't able to receive Big L.. that is until I turned my computer off at the mains. I have been having interference problems on MW (after I solved my LW interference issues), right across the band at certain frequencies I was getting a repeated cyclic burst of interference. It was by luck that I saw the LED flashing on my computers USB wireless mouse/keyboard, even with the computer...

Big L were offering to send out QSL cards but I never noted the address to send a report to. Dave

I can receive it reasonably well (good enough to listen to in the background) on car radios and new-ish portables around this area but it is far better (S7) on my Yaesu FRG-100 with an external antenna connected. On the portables the fading etc gives it a bit of character, just like the old days when just about everything was on AM! Biggles.

In Bath I can just about get it in my kitchen on a Fidelity MR 1 - Philips Reverbeo refuses to hear it, BUT, Philips 622a Radiogram is having no trouble with it. It phases in and out somewhat (at 18:45 I expect that on MW), but here in the valleys of Bath I'm lucky to get anything! As usual, there is a second - to two second delay on the internet version.... I wonder why that is so difficult to get around......? SEAN

Quote: Originally Posted by SeanStevens As usual, there is a second - to two second delay on the internet version.... I wonder why that is so difficult to get around......? Latency. You simply don't know how long a packet of data is going to take to get to its destination. That's also why NTP is the way it is. By the time you've got an answer to your "what time is it?" question, it's already wrong; so you...