Re: RE: BBC radio program(me) on sundials on 13 Dec.
All, Here is an extract from 'The Radio Times' for 10 Saturday 13 December 2003. 'New sundials are being erected everywhere, including Mars, where, from 4 January 2004, NASA will measure the Martian day with a sundial designed by artists and children, as well as astronomers.At the Basildon retail centre, shoppers are invited to stand at a certain point where the fall of their shadow will tell them the hour, while the development of Pater Noster Square in London will include a new “noon marker”.At the Chelsea Flower Show this year, one of the first displays featured the sundials of David Harber, who creates original post-modern architectural sundials, and who researches and re-creates designs from the classical world. Paul Allen talks to Woodruff T Sullivan III, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Washington in Seattle, who worked on the Mars sundial, and is hoping to take the design to Seattle. He meets a retired naval engineer who makes faithful copies of the sundials which, until 1922, the French railway network depended on. Richard Swain and Adam Walkden take him to the reclaimed land near Chesterfield where the vast, stainless steel solar pyramid they have designed is being built.They, and Robin Catchpole of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, consider the fascination of sundials and the ancient and modern compulsion to focus the movement of the cosmos on a needle to reveal time.' Presenter/Paul Allen, Producer/Julian May. Here is the Uurl for the pdf file: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/docs/bbcradiowk50_days.pdf This programme will be available on both LW am and fm as well as the internet. See their website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/index.shtml Hope that is of some help. Terry D Re Radio Programme - Sundials. Any more details ? Who by, What about, Where ?etc. David. --- This mail sent through http://webmail.zoom.co.uk -
Re: RE: BBC radio program(me) on sundials on 13 Dec.
Any more details ? Who by, What about, Where ? etc. David. Message date : Nov 28 2003, 06:04 PM From : Andrew James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To : sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de Copy to : Subject : RE: BBC radio program(me) on sundials on 13 Dec. Actually BBC Radio 4 long wave is on 198 kHz, 1514 metres, not the other way round. It's broadcast from Droitwich near the middle of England (grid ref SO929663, at a power of 500 kW) and from two smaller stations in Scotland, Westerglen and Burghead (each 50 kW). It also goes out locally on various MW stations around 720-774 and 1485 kHz as well as FM in the 92-95 MHz band. As far as I know it's not on the 5975 kHz frequency (which is BBC World Service in Central America and possibly other things). Andrew James -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 November 2003 17:42 To: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de Subject: Re: BBC radio program(me) on sundials on 13 Dec. In a message dated 2003/11/27 02:50:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BBC Radio 4 will carry a 30-minute show on sundials on Saturday, 13 December at 1530 GMT. It's of course easy to hear in the UK, but anyone with a Web connection who can stream audio can also listen at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/ or through the ether on long wave at 198 meters. I have a shortwave receiver that picks up BBC on 5975 kHz rather well. Will the program be at that frequency also? (This ancient computer won't handle streaming audio.) What would the frequency of 198 m be? Is that a band, rather than a frequency? Haven't heard of that band, but I'm a rank novice at this sort of thing. Let's see... 299792458/198 = 1514 kHz (Not correcting for the refractive index of air.) Have I messed that up? Thanks! John Bercovitz - -
Re: BBC radio program(me) on sundials on 13 Dec.
In a message dated 2003/11/27 02:50:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BBC Radio 4 will carry a 30-minute show on sundials on Saturday, 13 December at 1530 GMT. It's of course easy to hear in the UK, but anyone with a Web connection who can stream audio can also listen at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/ or through the ether on long wave at 198 meters. I have a shortwave receiver that picks up BBC on 5975 kHz rather well. Will the program be at that frequency also? (This ancient computer won't handle streaming audio.) What would the frequency of 198 m be? Is that a band, rather than a frequency? Haven't heard of that band, but I'm a rank novice at this sort of thing. Let's see... 299792458/198 = 1514 kHz (Not correcting for the refractive index of air.) Have I messed that up? Thanks! John Bercovitz -
RE: BBC radio program(me) on sundials on 13 Dec.
Actually BBC Radio 4 long wave is on 198 kHz, 1514 metres, not the other way round. It's broadcast from Droitwich near the middle of England (grid ref SO929663, at a power of 500 kW) and from two smaller stations in Scotland, Westerglen and Burghead (each 50 kW). It also goes out locally on various MW stations around 720-774 and 1485 kHz as well as FM in the 92-95 MHz band. As far as I know it's not on the 5975 kHz frequency (which is BBC World Service in Central America and possibly other things). Andrew James -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 November 2003 17:42 To: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de Subject: Re: BBC radio program(me) on sundials on 13 Dec. In a message dated 2003/11/27 02:50:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BBC Radio 4 will carry a 30-minute show on sundials on Saturday, 13 December at 1530 GMT. It's of course easy to hear in the UK, but anyone with a Web connection who can stream audio can also listen at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/ or through the ether on long wave at 198 meters. I have a shortwave receiver that picks up BBC on 5975 kHz rather well. Will the program be at that frequency also? (This ancient computer won't handle streaming audio.) What would the frequency of 198 m be? Is that a band, rather than a frequency? Haven't heard of that band, but I'm a rank novice at this sort of thing. Let's see... 299792458/198 = 1514 kHz (Not correcting for the refractive index of air.) Have I messed that up? Thanks! John Bercovitz - -
Re: BBC radio program(me) on sundials on 13 Dec.
The Radio 4 longwave transmitter is on 198 kHz. Not 198 m mediumwave. Reception is more or less restricted to Europe. -- Richard Langley Professor of Geodesy and Precision Navigation On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 2003/11/27 02:50:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BBC Radio 4 will carry a 30-minute show on sundials on Saturday, 13 December at 1530 GMT. It's of course easy to hear in the UK, but anyone with a Web connection who can stream audio can also listen at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/ or through the ether on long wave at 198 meters. I have a shortwave receiver that picks up BBC on 5975 kHz rather well. Will the program be at that frequency also? (This ancient computer won't handle streaming audio.) What would the frequency of 198 m be? Is that a band, rather than a frequency? Haven't heard of that band, but I'm a rank novice at this sort of thing. Let's see... 299792458/198 = 1514 kHz (Not correcting for the refractive index of air.) Have I messed that up? Thanks! John Bercovitz - === Richard B. LangleyE-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geodetic Research Laboratory Web: http://www.unb.ca/GGE/ Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics EngineeringPhone:+1 506 453-5142 University of New Brunswick Fax: +1 506 453-4943 Fredericton, N.B., Canada E3B 5A3 Fredericton? Where's that? See: http://www.city.fredericton.nb.ca/ === -
Re: RE: BBC radio program(me) on sundials on 13 Dec.
Many thanks to all! Just checked - nothing happening at 198 kHz except heterodynes and voice I can't make out at this time here at 37.7N, 122.1W. (not that I seriously expected to be able to hear anything in the longwave bands at this distance) Thanks again, John -
