Re: Radio 3 sound quality. Is it getting better?

Scott wrote:

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:12:06 +0100, Roger Thorpe
<myinitialdotmysurname@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip].

FM
Well, i've fiddled around and put an aerial in the loft. Horizontal polarization, pointing the right way, doesn't work as well as vertical polarization. I suspect my best signal is bouncing off something else. I suppose that means I should expect a little sibilance and sure enough I do, but it's tolerable. Still get the occasional problem from cars and my own washing machine though.


I thought best practice was the roof not the loft, horizontal
polarisation and directional aerial if there are local problems.

Scott

Quite so, but a clumsy bloke like me has no business going up there.
The polarization issue surprised me too, but as I wrote I suspect that nt much of the DIRECT signal is reaching me. Either that or I've been looking for the wrong transmitter! (Sutton Coldfield I presume, for Coventry)

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