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FM radio via satellite: problem today?

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  • #32
    Storm 10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,181 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    Just wondering if I am reading correctly here, if I attach a cable from my Satellite Dish to my FM Radio will I be able to receive Radio Channels from the BBC etc


  • #33
    Dinarius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭Dinarius


    Gone again.

    :(:confused::mad:

    D.


  • #34
    Johnboy1951
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    Storm 10 wrote: »
    Just wondering if I am reading correctly here, if I attach a cable from my Satellite Dish to my FM Radio will I be able to receive Radio Channels from the BBC etc

    No, not that simple unfortunately.


  • #35
    Dinarius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭Dinarius


    Storm 10 wrote: »
    Just wondering if I am reading correctly here, if I attach a cable from my Satellite Dish to my FM Radio will I be able to receive Radio Channels from the BBC etc


    Not sure how it would work with satellite BB.


    With Virgin, it's a hangover from UPC days.


    I rewired my house 12 years ago and put FM/Sat/TV/CatV sockets (all four connections on one wall plate) in every room. It means that I can have cable BB in every room if I want it, rather than WiFi.


    It also means that I can have BBC radio from a bedroom FM clock-radio, by simply plugging a coax cable into the FM socket and baring the copper wire at the core of the cable at the other end, and attaching it to the aerial on the radio.


    It worked for 12 years until yesterday.


    No idea how you could do this with satellite.



    If any of their competitors carries FM through their feed, I'm gone from Virgin.



    D.


  • #36
    JDxtra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,126 ✭✭✭JDxtra


    There are no cable competitors. If the FM relay service is not gone already, it will be soon.


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  • #37
    SPDUB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,357 ✭✭✭SPDUB


    Maybe some version of what I did a few years ago

    I was trying to listen to R4 LW but the problem was there was a lot of interference on LW where I was working so I set up the radio in a location free from interference and then used one of those small FM transmitters to transmit the LW signal
    I already have WiFi radio downstairs, and I use my computer in my upstairs office.

    So maybe plug one of those FM transmitters into the WiFi radio and transmit that signal to your bedside radio

    Anyone know if any satellite boxes have a headphone socket so you could do the same for any station on satellite


  • #38
    lgs 4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 692 ✭✭✭lgs 4


    Why not use your phone, I find this a great app dependable and great audio quality.UK Radio app


  • #39
    Apogee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,904 ✭✭✭Apogee


    SPDUB wrote: »
    Anyone know if any satellite boxes have a headphone socket so you could do the same for any station on satellite

    Most have phono sockets for L+R audio. Use male phonos->female 3.5mm stereo cable

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    If it has SCART only, use one of these in addition to above.

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