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It doesn't seem to be working - I can't get Russell Brand.

Where does the 8 track cassette get plugged in?

Same place as Russell

Oooh! Glen you are in a particularly charitable frame of mind this evening I have noticed.

I'm doing the crossword - what do call someone who gets £6M for abusing old men?

Glen - I have to apologise I thought it said Richard and I thought you were talking about the Producer!! OOoops!!

I do have an answer to your question but it will get me barred!!!

Hello guys.

Tip top show thenight. Please excuse my non-participation as working for the biggest bank in the world might provide a little too much ammunition for the GIOners!

Thursday might be a wee bit more productive for me.

The obvious ones.

Bowie -Scary Monsters. a blistering return tae form from Mr Jones.

R Dean Taylor - There`s a ghost in ma hoose!

The Police - Invisible Sun (from elpee Ghost in the Machine)


Not so obvious. Del Amitri - Whisky Remorse... a melancholy choon & cockle warming SPIRIT welocme in any hoose, haunted or not!

Dont listen alooooooooooooooooooooooooone!

Kindest regards

Paul

No, no Meester Miller!
Ees no rat! Ees hamster!

Just give me a large Bwandie

That office has even more techie stuff lying around seemingly in a random state than mine does! Between the PC's, monitors, phones, stacks of CD's and DVD's, code printouts, project charts, the leaky kettle and the white german shepherd chasing the output from a laser pen, it's a health and safety nightmare for me just getting out the door to go home...

Did Trevor Bayliss make that,or is it a wind up?

It's not a wind up - really the guy did was give the DAB radio a better antenna. The sound quality on DAB is bad enough but unless you have a decent antenna the signal quality does not 'degrade gracefully' as with analogue - you you REALLY need a decent antenna or it's complete pants!

heehee

Good one, Joe!

Why is there a delay with DAB? The time signal is always wrong. Does it take time to encode the signal? Is there someone sitting at a keyboard with headphones on typing out the digits like a court stenographer?

Glen, I do actually know the answer to this.....all to do with the speed of sound and converting analogue to digital and converting back again. It can be up to 1.5 seconds out. Good for watching the football in the comfort that your team has not actually conceded a goal!

Norrie - almost correct! There is an additional delay as the digital stream cascades it's way out to multiple layers of servers there to provide the load out to the thousands of users demanding a connection at a given time.

I worked on this for Radio Clyde some years back - it was BIG deal to get it all working!

Jim,
At home I usually listen to the radio on TV. (You know what I mean)
Thing is, if the TV in the bedroom is on the same channel / radio station as the TV in the living room there is still a time lapse, up to maybe half a second.
A wee bit like an echo, but more irritating than U2
Wossat aw aboot?

That would be down to the different Freeview hardware/software having different processing rates. Next time don't buy cheap chinese grey imports!

Also if one of your TV's is connected to a Sky box or similar, you have to account for the signal doing the round trip to space and back...

"What are you saying Jim?" (in dramatic Dr McCoy voice, again)

Perhaps if we linked the dilithium crystals to the Freesat transmitter we could make contact with the beings from Sportsound.

Glen that would require a subspace transmitter and God knows how many dilithium crystals we would need for that... On the other hand we could try tapping into the Sportsound Arsenal... Give that a boost?

Adam - It's strife, but not as we stow it...