Residents of Baldoyle in Dublin 13 are celebrating a victory against a Mobile Phone Giant Hutchison 3G (H3G) who must now remove 2 masts from the roof of their local football club. The masts were installed in October 2004 and a local campaign against their installation was mounted. Finally the masts must be taken down…
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No Digital in RTÉ licence
ComReg is required to issue a licence to the RTÉ Authority for the transmission ofits programme services under the Broadcasting Authority Act 1960 as amended.The Licence must also conform, with the new EU regulatory framework.In summary: The Licence permits the transmission of RTÉ radio and televisionservices. (2005 – 2012) The Licence is being renewed for…
Radio Fax
Ive been busy on the community campaign front of late so apols for less blog posts, Ive stumbled onto CW RTTY and HF Fax as I get ready to do DRM decode in my radio shack, the wierd thing is I should have done this years ago, back in the 386 days of computing I…
Microhard
Microsoft and Viagra maker Phizer have teamed up to sue Viagra spammers. It was announced yesterday that Microsoft and Pfizer will become partners to slow down the Viagra spam that MSN users receive. —all legal attempts to slow down spam are failing, what is needed is a technology solution to slow it down, I don’t…
Dublin to have new TV station by mid-2005
Dublin to have new TV station by mid-2005 The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) has awarded a licence for a new television station for Dublin, to be called City Channel, which could be broadcasting by the summer. Backed by media entrepreneur David Harvey and a group of as-yet-unnamed investors, the station will initially be available…
Digital Radio Mondiale
The DRM on-air system will propel the AM broadcasting bands below 30 MHz ? short-wave, medium-wave and long-wave – to the next level. DRM is the only universal, non-proprietary digital AM radio system with near-FM quality sound available to markets worldwide. The quality of DRM audio is excellent, and the improvement upon analogue AM is…
6 months jail time form Rambo Burke
The former Fianna Fáil minister, Ray Burke, has been jailed for six months by the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for tax offences. Yes only 6 months for not decaring taxes in an amnesty. He has received what amounts to one tenth of the maximin sentence. Judge Desmond Hogan told Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that he…
Old blog back
On Dec 10th my old blog hosted here died, the DB has been restored and here it is. My old rants and pics are all there, this was my blog using my homespun blog tool newsvendor. NewsVendor is still available as a news site tool for CMS at www.newsvendor.com via the design works of Dublin…
Guna Nua – dinner with friends
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