Weird thing in shop radio
Posted: June 10th, 2017, 11:32 pm
I just thought I'd share something I found rather... strange earlier on.
Earlier today I was having a day out to Hunstanton (North Norfolk Coast), and the preferred transmitter for all services there is Belmont (even for TV), despite being still part of East Anglia. This is due to the Line Of Sight across the Wash (meaning that signals are very strong - even set top TV aerials will work).
What I noticed in one of the shops, was that they were playing a radio station (I couldn't tell what it was, it played similar music to Heart but with more modern songs as well). The radio was a simple CD/radio player, but it had a pen shoved in the radio aerial hole, and the aerial seemed to be completely missing (or snapped off). I couldn't tell what frequency was being picked up (I couldn't see the tuning dial/display) but the signal was fine and it was picking up the station no problem at all!
I can only guess that they were playing Lincs FM and that they were receiving from Belmont, which has a really strong signal for FM, TV and presumably DAB as well.
If only the mobile signal was as good - which it would be if the panels weren't pointing in the wrong direction!
Earlier today I was having a day out to Hunstanton (North Norfolk Coast), and the preferred transmitter for all services there is Belmont (even for TV), despite being still part of East Anglia. This is due to the Line Of Sight across the Wash (meaning that signals are very strong - even set top TV aerials will work).
What I noticed in one of the shops, was that they were playing a radio station (I couldn't tell what it was, it played similar music to Heart but with more modern songs as well). The radio was a simple CD/radio player, but it had a pen shoved in the radio aerial hole, and the aerial seemed to be completely missing (or snapped off). I couldn't tell what frequency was being picked up (I couldn't see the tuning dial/display) but the signal was fine and it was picking up the station no problem at all!
I can only guess that they were playing Lincs FM and that they were receiving from Belmont, which has a really strong signal for FM, TV and presumably DAB as well.
If only the mobile signal was as good - which it would be if the panels weren't pointing in the wrong direction!