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In May 2016 SWU will be celebrating Bristol music culture with an
exclusive radio station dedicated to the city’s Urban, Electronic &
Dance music.
Finally, a decent station in Bristol, if only temporarily.
Unfortunately, I don't think the FM has been set up to work at it's best. This may be an Ofcom ruling that the aerial should be located on a low building or it could just be a lack of decent transmitter site. It could also be lack of experience in setting up.
This signal isn't all that good outside central Bristol. The 10 Watt rig is putting out a stereo signal with RDS 'SWU FM' and the aerial (gold plated dipole from the looks of it) is located on top of Hamilton House in Stokes Croft /
Cheltenham Rd, so this is one reason for the poor signal. It's
surrounded by hills and taller buildings. The aerial is also only half way up the thick white flag pole it is on, and may do better with the boom fastened at the top of the pole. I had trouble hearing it on my mp3 player's radio once I started heading towards Whiteladies Rd from Park Street, not that far away! I can only just hear it on my SDR setup at home in North Bristol / South Gloucestershire, the signal gets pretty weak by the time you get to Horfield Sports Center (I was using the Tecsun PL310 on the top deck of a bus for this). That said, if you get onto the M32 at Frenchay and travel into Bristol you'll have decent reception on a car radio all the way in. I've not yet explored how well it does going in other directions.
I've been listening on the stream (link below) and I like the pirate sound of the station. No jingles that I've heard, no ads, just back to back shows.
A lot of Bristol legends are involved, Roni, Krust, Die, Jakes, etc...
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Monday, 2 May 2016
Sunday, 22 December 2013
Merry Christmas :)
OK. It's been a long time since I wrote anything here. Work has kept me very busy this year and I generally don't feel like writing a blog when I get home from work or any other time I'm free. Here goes though...
1 - FEM FM - Fem FM's archives will be available from Bristol Records Office soon as mp3s. I'm not sure how you will be able to access them, but they should be the whole weeks programmes!
2 - There's a small station on in the city ;) I can't really hear it here, the signal is so tiny, but it should be a bit better in some areas.
3 - There is also a an RSL from Wales on 87.7 over Christmas, which is just audiable here. There was a fesitval RSL on earlier in the year with a similar signal level.
1 - FEM FM - Fem FM's archives will be available from Bristol Records Office soon as mp3s. I'm not sure how you will be able to access them, but they should be the whole weeks programmes!
2 - There's a small station on in the city ;) I can't really hear it here, the signal is so tiny, but it should be a bit better in some areas.
3 - There is also a an RSL from Wales on 87.7 over Christmas, which is just audiable here. There was a fesitval RSL on earlier in the year with a similar signal level.
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Multi FM 87.7 RSL
Multi FM is on 87.7 with an RSL from Kingswood. My Tecsun seems to be the only radio capable of a decent signal here in The Stokes, and only in a really odd sweet spot in the house, but then I'm at the bottom of a hill. Expect lots of underground and local music favoured by the yout dem.
No website!??!?!?? Surely the organisers could manage a free site and £5 for a .co.uk with the site designed by some html knowledge equiped youngsters? If you Google Multi FM, the first thing on the page is... this blog!
No website!??!?!?? Surely the organisers could manage a free site and £5 for a .co.uk with the site designed by some html knowledge equiped youngsters? If you Google Multi FM, the first thing on the page is... this blog!
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