Re: Just to liven thing up a bit here
- From: "davidrobinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <davidrobinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 06:00:40 -0700 (PDT)
On Aug 27, 5:20 pm, boltar2...@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:31:29 +0000 (UTC)
J G Miller <mil...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
So how do they manage continuous coverage over a similar land area then?
They do not provide blanket wall to wall coverage on VHF even on the
Eastern seaboard.
Really? Thats not my experience when I drove up the east coast all the way
from Baltimore from Boston. There were always affiliates on the dial.
"Driving up the cost" is a linear (1-D) problem. Covering the UK is a
2-D problem (at least).
However, the excellent coverage in US most cities (where most of the
people are) makes the coverage in most UK cities (including London)
seem pitiful. In the UK, reception is better away from city centres
(fewer buildings), while in the USA, it can fall off rapidly. They do
seem to use spectacular amounts of power.
What surprised me driving around the UK the other weekend was how many
parts of the UK now have _something_ on FM every 200 or 300 or 400kHz.
It does seem that far more use is being made of the FM band than it
was a decade or more ago.
Not up here in the Yorkshire Dales of course, but down there where
there are more people than alpine plants ;-)
Cheers,
David.
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