The Pirate Archive

North East Birmingham

89.7 BCMR (Stereo, RDS)
90.2 City Beats (RDS)
92.0 Hot 92 (Stereo, RDS)
94.4 Stingdem (Stereo, RDS)
95.1 Kriss
99.7 Distinct (RDS)
101.2 Genesis (Stereo, RDS)

Busiest I have heard it for a while!

Stereotool is a bit of software that does auto processing, and can generate RDS and Stereo. I can't see how it would make a transmitter sprog or not - but it would control over deviation (or make it worse) Yeah, I am familiar with the software, I just didn't understand the comment :lol: Hot and Sti...

City Beats much stronger now here with RDS.

Hot 92 hasn't gone anywhere. Not sure what the comment above about stereotool means!

The quality of DAB is so piss poor in comparison to FM though, with some stations at 56kbps or other ridiculously low bitrates. I can't believe we have invested so much in this country into something that runs on MP2 technology, that's somehow supposed to be the future of radio! I know that FM is de...

It's clearly all written in the past tense!

i noticed over the past few weeks in birmingham non of the blocks that the pirates use :pirate seen several blocks that a couple of stations use. nothing on them, no dipole or mini discone or end fed, the council have locked down the blocks in certain estates, i know when we done our homework to ob...

Don't know much about RDS but when I tune to Hot the TP flag lights up on my tuner.

Their scrolling RDS has gone a bit weird too, it says the station name then a load of garbage afterwards.

It might be this one from down south:

http://www.radionecks.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2187

Sting back on this evening here in Stereo with scrolling RDS, good signal where I am.

Some garage / D&B very weak on 90.2 as well, is that City Beats back on their previous freq?

Thanks for the uploads, they will keep me busy! I still have a soft spot for UK radio - I lived in Bilston in the mid-late 90s and the postcode of the address they gave out was only a digit away from mine. I have a vague memory of phoning into the bogus jobseeker's show once and winning a CD single ...