If there's a radio station broadcasting on the frequency you choose, it will likely prevent you from hearing your music. Not sure if other BBC LR stations have a similar approach. The disadvantage is that it does not exhibit "capture effect" that wide FM does.
The original County Sound was on 1467 back in the day, so there's another unused AM frequency.
It might be apocryphal, but wasn't there a religious station that was offered 666kHz by either the IBA or Radio Authority who turned it down?
I suppose if you have a car that still only has AM/FM, or an older radio at home, you still need AM to hear Absolute, Talksport and 5 Live, or a handful of local golden oldies stations, but this is rapidly dying out.
Most DAB radios do not have AM facility.
Radio Cumbria still uses 1485, but its commercial rival, CFM, has only ever been on FM, and that started in 1993 when AM was still quite popular. Radio Cumbria still uses 1485, but its commercial rival, CFM, has only ever been on FM, and that started in 1993 when AM was still quite popular.
Welcome to the Digital Spy forums. AM is capable of very good quality audio and was considered for VHF use instead of FM. Actually I'm a big supporter of SSDAB but the sheer frustration of living on the wrong side of a not particularly big city, only a couple of miles from the centre but by unhappy chance on the far side from where the transmitter is, has really got to me after four years.
Sure it's AM but still usable.
However when tested on VHF they found that generally it produces high quality signal, and for 50+dB S:N FM needs less signal. Just type your zip code or city and state and click the Go button. 1260 , 1368 , 1476 and 1521 all all available in this area due to stations being taken off. DIGITAL SPY, PART OF THE HEARST UK ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK. Introducing the Soap Scoop podcast!
1233 is now also clear as Absolute have closed their transmitters at Swindon and Reading this allows a Czech radio station to be heard playing a wonderful mix of local music. So it was Premier that took over County Sound from Guildford on 1566.
©2020 Hearst UK is the trading name of the National Magazine Company Ltd, 30 Panton Street, Leicester Square, London, SW1Y 4AJ. So it was Premier that took over County Sound from Guildford on 1566.
AM / medium wave TX facilities are much more expensive than FM. 405 line TV was AM.
For example, a radio station on 89.9 can make 89.7 and 90.1 unusable for transmitter audio, too. But then again, Exmoor is on high enough ground to get sufficient coverage from nearby TX's. Therefore if you have a weaker signal/one full of interference it performs better than FM (as with MW for example). Listen now for interviews with the biggest soap stars and all the latest spoilers - available on every major podcast app , https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0029/83288/somerset_dab_coverage_plan_final_report_jan15.pdf, http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/mendip/maps.php, http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/huntshawcross/maps.php. Why doesn't Ofcom re-advertise unused AM frequencies? I always thought with AM signals the higher up the band the sharper the signal is locally but it doesn't travel as far over distance, the opposite lower down the band ie. If you’d like to join in, please sign in or register.
603 or 558. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us.
However, the allocation was used by the BBC Radio York team some months before the station launched for a special broadcast covering Pope John Paul II's visit to the city.
Local radio VHF/ FM coverage does not cover Exmoor: It does show the 95.5 MHz before it was reconfigured to serve Somerset but I recall that the reconfiguration only consisted of reducing the power in the direction of south Gloucestershire (North from Mendip) and not an increase in power in other directions.
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The fact that various stations have been closing down on AM because there's more money to be made from the land the transmitter sits on than the radio station itself tells you all you need to know. Here in NI, 1521 and 828 kHz were used in Craigavon and Magherafelt / Cookstown respectively some years back. Otherwise it is guess work. It's the Find Unused FM Frequencies in Your Area Web page offered by radio-locator.com. It’d be great to have a decent oldies station on them.