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Another 9% for Colliford and SWW are giving me £30. Come on rain!briantrumpet said:That Colliford Reservoir in Cornwall is still only 21% of capacity, at the beginning of this week. The two big Devon ones are only at 36% and 41%.
One has to hope that the relentless series of heavy showery rain this week will make a dent in the deficit.
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Would have thought distance from the more widely spaced transmitters would make more difference. Useful range of a mast is only 1-3 miles and you keep telling us how empty it is in Mid Lothian.First.Aspect said:
Yes Baldrick, I should have course have clarified that light travels in straight lines in a vacuum and in relation to space time.rjsterry said:
Atmospheric conditions can bend light so stating it travels in straight lines is incorrect. Atmospheric conditions also tend to bend RF towards earth, meaning that you can transmit beyond the horizon. Yes, of course LW is less affected by natural and man-made obstacles: that's the point of using it. Sound quality is pretty poor, though, which is why R3 doesn't bother with it.First.Aspect said:
Not really. It's on the border between radio and microwave, but 3G, 4G and 5G are getting progressively worse, in that respect.rjsterry said:
Pretty sure mobile signals have a wavelength close to the scale of hills so are likely to be diffracted by them. I may be misremembering.First.Aspect said:
No there are hills here and light travels in straight lines, you d!ck.rick_chasey said:
lol christ alive. Second world country.First.Aspect said:
Nope, in a lot of places close to here, no phone signal at all.rick_chasey said:You have a phone and 4g right?
Yes, I imagine if you live somewhere without *phone signal* then I can see why 21st century headphones are not your bag.
Same reason you get FM, DAB and Freeview blackspots everywhere, but you can still get test match special on 198LW.
You are conflating refraction, reflection and diffraction here. And signals bouncing off temperature inversion is is basically total internal reflection, which is a refractive effect, right?
Back to the point - how much diffraction occurs due to topography is dependent on wavelength and the size of the object(s) the radiation is interacting with. The salient point is that the wavelength of 5G is much shorter than LW radio, so the signals aren't diffracted as much, which in turn means more signal shadows in an incised valley in Midlothian than in the middle of a field on Cambridgeshire.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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Funny how you don’t get dead zones in other hilly countries.
Stop excusing poor infrastructure.
Anyway much more interesting is that the Belgian team speak in English when they’re playing.0 -
Meh, Starlink, greatness, do one!0
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Sorry, you don't know what you are talking about. You are basing your knowledge on holidays to touristy areas of Italy.rick_chasey said:Funny how you don’t get dead zones in other hilly countries.
Stop excusing poor infrastructure.
Anyway much more interesting is that the Belgian team speak in English when they’re playing.
The question you asked originally was about 4G/5G to pick up radio when I'm cycling.
I cycle on isolated unclassified roads in very unpopulated parts of a sparsely populated region. It isn't comparable.
If you find yourself one or two rows of hills away from the main routes anywhere, you'll likely find blackspots, unless there's an EU fund for keeping sheep internet connected.
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Borders. It's the same as Midlothian in the same sense as Hampshire is the same as Surrey. And Mid Lothian doesn't exist.rjsterry said:
Would have thought distance from the more widely spaced transmitters would make more difference. Useful range of a mast is only 1-3 miles and you keep telling us how empty it is in Mid Lothian.First.Aspect said:
Yes Baldrick, I should have course have clarified that light travels in straight lines in a vacuum and in relation to space time.rjsterry said:
Atmospheric conditions can bend light so stating it travels in straight lines is incorrect. Atmospheric conditions also tend to bend RF towards earth, meaning that you can transmit beyond the horizon. Yes, of course LW is less affected by natural and man-made obstacles: that's the point of using it. Sound quality is pretty poor, though, which is why R3 doesn't bother with it.First.Aspect said:
Not really. It's on the border between radio and microwave, but 3G, 4G and 5G are getting progressively worse, in that respect.rjsterry said:
Pretty sure mobile signals have a wavelength close to the scale of hills so are likely to be diffracted by them. I may be misremembering.First.Aspect said:
No there are hills here and light travels in straight lines, you d!ck.rick_chasey said:
lol christ alive. Second world country.First.Aspect said:
Nope, in a lot of places close to here, no phone signal at all.rick_chasey said:You have a phone and 4g right?
Yes, I imagine if you live somewhere without *phone signal* then I can see why 21st century headphones are not your bag.
Same reason you get FM, DAB and Freeview blackspots everywhere, but you can still get test match special on 198LW.
You are conflating refraction, reflection and diffraction here. And signals bouncing off temperature inversion is is basically total internal reflection, which is a refractive effect, right?
Back to the point - how much diffraction occurs due to topography is dependent on wavelength and the size of the object(s) the radiation is interacting with. The salient point is that the wavelength of 5G is much shorter than LW radio, so the signals aren't diffracted as much, which in turn means more signal shadows in an incised valley in Midlothian than in the middle of a field on Cambridgeshire.0 -
I’m not basing on that. I’m basing it on all the data that says Uk has some of the poorest coverage in the Western world. Go look it up.First.Aspect said:
Sorry, you don't know what you are talking about. You are basing your knowledge on holidays to touristy areas of Italy.rick_chasey said:Funny how you don’t get dead zones in other hilly countries.
Stop excusing poor infrastructure.
Anyway much more interesting is that the Belgian team speak in English when they’re playing.
The question you asked originally was about 4G/5G to pick up radio when I'm cycling.
I cycle on isolated unclassified roads in very unpopulated parts of a sparsely populated region. It isn't comparable.
If you find yourself one or two rows of hills away from the main routes anywhere, you'll likely find blackspots, unless there's an EU fund for keeping sheep internet connected.
It’s not even in the top 50 for coverage.
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Netherlands is good, but then again it's so fvck1n flat and boring, it's easy to transmit/receive signals.0 -
Ah Switzerland, that flat country
Though most people don’t have 5g so 4g is the coverage you should be interested in0 -
Coverage in % population, or % area? Or don't you know?rick_chasey said:
I’m not basing on that. I’m basing it on all the data that says Uk has some of the poorest coverage in the Western world. Go look it up.First.Aspect said:
Sorry, you don't know what you are talking about. You are basing your knowledge on holidays to touristy areas of Italy.rick_chasey said:Funny how you don’t get dead zones in other hilly countries.
Stop excusing poor infrastructure.
Anyway much more interesting is that the Belgian team speak in English when they’re playing.
The question you asked originally was about 4G/5G to pick up radio when I'm cycling.
I cycle on isolated unclassified roads in very unpopulated parts of a sparsely populated region. It isn't comparable.
If you find yourself one or two rows of hills away from the main routes anywhere, you'll likely find blackspots, unless there's an EU fund for keeping sheep internet connected.
It’s not even in the top 50 for coverage.0 -
rick_chasey said:
Ah Switzerland, that flat country
Though most people don’t have 5g so 4g is the coverage you should be interested in
Good 4G is what I'm waiting for in France... they should be putting up a mast in the village in the next year. If I go about 100m from my house, I can see the current mast about 5km away, and the speed's good, but if I can't see the mast (there's a gert big mountain in the way), it's very unreliable, so I can vouch for them waves not turning corners. And yes, 4G is fine for most needs for me.0 -
Uk better than Italy though, RC.rick_chasey said:Ah Switzerland, that flat country
Though most people don’t have 5g so 4g is the coverage you should be interested in1 -
Hilarious. Up to 9 million people afraid to move to rural areas because...rick_chasey said:
And for my next statistic I will just pop to the toilet. Give me ten minutes.
Anyhow, what's an article about urban download speeds got to do with my use of 4g and Bluetooth headphones in rural Scotland? Aside from the Pope/Catholic observation that things tend to be less good than in cities?0 -
Eh? We should be building old tech infrastructure because not enough people have new tech yet?rick_chasey said:Ah Switzerland, that flat country
Though most people don’t have 5g so 4g is the coverage you should be interested in
That’s like you having crappy train services as we didn’t upgrade the network due to only having old rolling stock.
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No it’s more 5g coverage is so low as it’s so new it’s not expected to be full coverage so a bad measure for mobile coveragePross said:
Eh? We should be building old tech infrastructure because not enough people have new tech yet?rick_chasey said:Ah Switzerland, that flat country
Though most people don’t have 5g so 4g is the coverage you should be interested in
That’s like you having crappy train services as we didn’t upgrade the network due to only having old rolling stock.0 -
Stop trying to reason with him, or he'll post another article.Pross said:
Eh? We should be building old tech infrastructure because not enough people have new tech yet?rick_chasey said:Ah Switzerland, that flat country
Though most people don’t have 5g so 4g is the coverage you should be interested in
That’s like you having crappy train services as we didn’t upgrade the network due to only having old rolling stock.0 -
Just that if you want to listen to the radio just listen to it on a 4g app and then you have have the superior wireless headphone experience.First.Aspect said:
Hilarious. Up to 9 million people afraid to move to rural areas because...rick_chasey said:
And for my next statistic I will just pop to the toilet. Give me ten minutes.
Anyhow, what's an article about urban download speeds got to do with my use of 4g and Bluetooth headphones in rural Scotland? Aside from the Pope/Catholic observation that things tend to be less good than in cities?0 -
But if my wireless ear bud falls out of my ear when cycling, a car will drive over it. Or if it happens when I'm rowing, it will sink. And if the battery runs out, I will get bored.rick_chasey said:
Just that if you want to listen to the radio just listen to it on a 4g app and then you have have the superior wireless headphone experience.First.Aspect said:
Hilarious. Up to 9 million people afraid to move to rural areas because...rick_chasey said:
And for my next statistic I will just pop to the toilet. Give me ten minutes.
Anyhow, what's an article about urban download speeds got to do with my use of 4g and Bluetooth headphones in rural Scotland? Aside from the Pope/Catholic observation that things tend to be less good than in cities?0 -
Chr1st, we have it tough in today's society.0
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Ohhhh, the bloody misery of it all.0
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Where have you been I thought you might have been kidnapped by one of Joe B’s hit squads for supporting the melon and the comb over king.focuszing723 said:Chr1st, we have it tough in today's society.
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I posted h*t squads on the post above and it got censored.
It’s all your fault Focus.0 -
OK, it's all my fault. What I want to know though is how come all you pothead horse eaters are still using/quoting twitter?webboo said:I posted h*t squads on the post above and it got censored.
It’s all your fault Focus.0 -
What’s twitter. Do I get it cheaper if I show them my bus pass when I try to get on.0
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk9L1N9bRRE&vl=en-GB
I'm really not a fan of modern art, impressionism, cubism and other isms, buuuut, this just works.0 -
Did he just have such a strong work ethic that some were bound to work?0
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I don’t think he can hear you.focuszing723 said:Did he just have such a strong work ethic that some were bound to work?
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Works too.1
