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I was watching Prince Charlie's Birthday Salute at 1200h. I noticed for
the first few rounds. As each round was fired the picture on BBC News.
froze. Then something seemed to have been changed over and the rest were OK?





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JMB99 wrote:

I noticed for the first few rounds.-a As each round was fired the picture
on BBC News. froze.

I've noticed that on gun salutes before.

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On 14/11/2025 12:28, Andy Burns wrote:

I've noticed that on gun salutes before.

What causes it?




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On 14/11/2025 12:31, JMB99 wrote:

On 14/11/2025 12:28, Andy Burns wrote:

I've noticed that on gun salutes before.

What causes it?

Could it be something as simple as the loud bang causing shock waves
through the air which knock a satellite uplink dish off-axis, requiring frantic attempts to restore the uplink?
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On 14/11/2025 20:38, NY wrote:

Could it be something as simple as the loud bang causing shock waves
through the air which knock a satellite uplink dish off-axis, requiring frantic attempts to restore the uplink?

I think it was just outside Buck House, didn't they used to fixed
circuits to places like that could just be plugged into?

I suppose just another 'advantage' of progress, like the way that
contributors calling into programmes from mobile phones are so often unreliable rather than using an old fashioned fixed line phone which
works every time.





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JMB99 <mb@nospam.net> wrote:

On 14/11/2025 20:38, NY wrote:

Could it be something as simple as the loud bang causing shock waves through the air which knock a satellite uplink dish off-axis, requiring frantic attempts to restore the uplink?

I think it was just outside Buck House, didn't they used to fixed
circuits to places like that could just be plugged into?

I suppose just another 'advantage' of progress, like the way that contributors calling into programmes from mobile phones are so often unreliable rather than using an old fashioned fixed line phone which
works every time.

I called in to a local radio programme using a TBU, with a frequency
response flat to 3.3 Kc/s, on a fixed line. The quality on transmission
was absolutely dire; it sounded as though they had switched in a
'correction' circuit for a carbon mic.
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On 2025/11/15 9:57:12, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

JMB99 <mb@nospam.net> wrote:

On 14/11/2025 20:38, NY wrote:

Could it be something as simple as the loud bang causing shock waves
through the air which knock a satellite uplink dish off-axis, requiring
frantic attempts to restore the uplink?

I think it was just outside Buck House, didn't they used to fixed
circuits to places like that could just be plugged into?

I wonder if the old fixed links (ferrets were involved, in the parks at
least - I remember a mention around Diana time, not sure which, the
wedding probably) are HD-capable?>>

I suppose just another 'advantage' of progress, like the way that
contributors calling into programmes from mobile phones are so often
unreliable rather than using an old fashioned fixed line phone which
works every time.

I think it's when they use Skype/Teams/Zoom/whatever, so as to have the contributor visible. I always think why don't they set up the 'phone
link anyway at the same time, as a fallback. (Though these days, even
before VoIP, although the contributor probably _has_ a landline [for
their broadband], s/he may well not have an actual 'phone anywhere
connected to it.)

I don't think, for contributor-calling-in cases, they _do_ use actual
mobiles much.>

I called in to a local radio programme using a TBU, with a frequency
response flat to 3.3 Kc/s, on a fixed line. The quality on transmission
was absolutely dire; it sounded as though they had switched in a
'correction' circuit for a carbon mic.

Wouldn't surprise me. Possibly their mixing desk (or whatever the modern equivalent is) still has such a circuit in _by default_ for the input
that comes from ye olde 'phone line.>
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On Fri, 14 Nov 2025 12:19:17 +0000, JMB99 <mb@nospam.net> wrote:

I was watching Prince Charlie's Birthday Salute at 1200h. I noticed for
the first few rounds. As each round was fired the picture on BBC News. >froze. Then something seemed to have been changed over and the rest were OK?

I think he should receive USD 1bn in compensation.
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On 15/11/2025 11:25, J. P. Gilliver wrote:

I wonder if the old fixed links (ferrets were involved, in the parks at
least - I remember a mention around Diana time, not sure which, the
wedding probably) are HD-capable?>>

Didn't there used to be contribution points at regularly used location, perhaps abandoned on cost grounds because availability of mobile phones etc.

But it seems to happen much of the time on news programmes and just gets really annoying.

Of course with even more 'progress', most of the telephone kiosks have gone.

I often just switch off / over when they say they are going to try and
get a better "line" - they sometimes do but if do then why did they not
check beforehand?



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JMB99 wrote:

Didn't there used to be contribution points at regularly used location

Yes <http://www.bostonmanor.plus.com/exbhcomms/LOCO.html>

But was it upgraded to deal with HD, or has it withered away?
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On 2025/11/15 12:38:23, Andy Burns wrote:

JMB99 wrote:

Didn't there used to be contribution points at regularly used location>

Yes <http://www.bostonmanor.plus.com/exbhcomms/LOCO.html>

But was it upgraded to deal with HD, or has it withered away?

I remember reading - might have been Radio Times - about the need to
upgrade London TV wiring, for some major event: I think it might have
been the Diana wedding. The implication (IIRR) was that the cabling
dated from the coronation, but given that this was '70s or '80s, and the
above LOCO article, it probably wasn't that old - but I think it (the
new cabling that was being installed) probably _was_ before HD. The main
thing I remember, I'm afraid, was that there was some edict "thou shalt
not dig trenches through the royal parks", so ferrets were indeed used:
I think the article mentioned some of them by name. (Thinking about it
now, I wonder how the ducts got there in the first place! Unless they
were originally drainage ducts or something put in when the parks were
set up, and they'd _always_ used ferrets for cable laying.)
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In article <10f9qec$3fq4p$1@dont-email.me>, JMB99 <mb@nospam.net>
scribeth thus

On 15/11/2025 11:25, J. P. Gilliver wrote:

I wonder if the old fixed links (ferrets were involved, in the parks at
least - I remember a mention around Diana time, not sure which, the
wedding probably) are HD-capable?>>

Didn't there used to be contribution points at regularly used location, >perhaps abandoned on cost grounds because availability of mobile phones etc.

But it seems to happen much of the time on news programmes and just gets >really annoying.

Of course with even more 'progress', most of the telephone kiosks have gone.

I often just switch off / over when they say they are going to try and
get a better "line" - they sometimes do but if do then why did they not >check beforehand?

I believe at lot of them were ISDN lines now gone fro BT's product
line..
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Tony Sayer


Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.

Give him a keyboard, and he will reveal himself.


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