Many of us spend a lot of time and effort improving our DSL performance, but some of the things that impact performance are outside of our control. One of those is medium wave radio, especially for those of us with overhead lines. Call me obsessive, but I went through all of the dips in the SNR for my line and mapped them to MW radio stations...and it's sobering to see how many more bits could be loaded if there was no MW - a classic case of 21st(ish) century technology being held back by early 20th century technology.
I found it especially interesting to see the effect of the BBC's recent MW switch off for local radio - being in Kent, of particular interest was the local Radio Kent transmitter on 1602kHz (aka tone 702
). If you check my stats on MDWS (GaryW) you can see the effect when the transmitter was finally switched off (as opposed to transmitting instructions on how to retune) in the middle of yesterday (1st Feb).
Anyone fancy starting a campaign to kill off Radio 5 Live, TalkSport, Virgin AM, Premier, Sunrise, Capital Gold...? Not to mention NAVETX...