I've only heard this a couple of times and I'm pretty sure it's a young lad up the road setting off in his papap 👍
Loving the discussion over int other place about Yorkshire pirates, just a pity i can't contribute thanks to the wazak that runs it 👍

I would not spend money having a folded dipole installed. How will that SWR if it is no tunable and so on, 50 Ohm coax feeder ?

I would simply experiments with copper wires. GPA using an SO-239 or simple copper wires, even simply using centre core and braid of coax in dipole shape.

Better RX means more signals from more paths I guess, maybe neighbour electric wiring and antennas or extra height means you are RXing a reflected
longer path from the neighbourhood over a couple of miles.

With a GPA instead of spreading the radials over the 360 degrees roughly equally, you can bunch them in one 90 degree sector and get a slight directivity in the direction the radials face from the sector they are bunched probably 1-2db which is not much but you get corresponding rejection of 1-2dB the other way.

I like to make GPA from solid core copper 2.5mm twin and earth wire, sometimes I just use the thinner solid earth, they are almost self supporting I insulating tape the radiating element to a fibreglass flag pole.... and the legs dangle and hang out at roughly 45 degrees providing a match without any extra support. Not much good for outdoor windy situations but perfect for loft and
a quick bit of fun radio from a garden mast.

Don't get nicked NE... random, short bursts with a clean signal hurts no one. With the lack of big pirates OFCOM will be bored twiddling thier thumbs in front of the scanners/ DF array stations.
They might want to put a spanner in the works some regular timed anoraks day.

It would be quite possible with some milliwatts and a low down antenna. Unless your antenna was on a chimney of a house on a clear hill it would be attenuated massively through all the local domestic walls if you are in a built up area.. you could just test it at different heights... start at 2m off ground and check around the neighbourhood. I bet 150 milliwatt would barely go 300m with an antenna low to the ground.

when I tested 1w, brough the aerial down so the aerial would of been 1 meter off the ground, indoors too, there was nothing there on the remote reciever, I guess that was an experiment.

i’ve been thinking of getting an aerial outside, it seems were ever I move it to in the loft maybe start to get some mulitpath, or start to loose some signals, while others maybe increase, is mondo annoying, I removed the tv lead that went all the way across the top of the loft, it can be moved down the loft, there does seem to be no sweet spot. I’m wondering with it been just a single story, if having an aerial at the same height outdoors would cure it.

Maybe get an installer to put one of those folded things other people have on the tv pole, would be inconspicous, I don’t suppose afew mw would go very far, it might not pick up that well either. Any aerial up there would need an installer would be awkard, not knowing it would work until it was up.

I suppose walking round with the aerial on a pole could be done see if it works. If you’ve got a pole that attaches to the wall, with my own aerial on top, I don’t know see how it could be done, attached to the wall with the aerial on top, but there would barely any wind resistance if it could be done, (visible obviously) to get it above the loft would need an extra 2meters would mean wind resistance, I guess this is a problem.

An aerial could sit behide the fence it would be barely off ground, any low power mw signal wouldn’t go far, unless there was some weird sweet spot close to the ground I doubt it work well for hearing anything. I was able to get an aerial through the roof at the old house, the only vents here are low down dosen’t seem like anyway.
I suppose the most structally sound way would be to have a hole near the apex of the roof, the aerial can go through and the pole holding it up would be in the loft not have the wind resistence, asumming it would work the aerial could sit outside, don’t see how that could done. I was going to ask on rn, don’t know if i’d get anywere with it, I don’t know how i’m going to approach the subject of getting an aerial semi permenant outside.

it would nice to have a 1w, make playlists, put programes from older stations, with nice sounding stereo, beable to hear it through a remote reciever know its your own would be something, its not something you can have.

I just had another thought listening to a station that is not very clear.

Imagine if you varied the power output and also at the same time had a secondary audio signal of maybe a few hours long and played under the main music
that had dead carrier, noise and crackles and interference. It would sound to the ear that the signal was getting weaker as the noise got louder and crackles more frequent.
This would also give some kind of psychological listening problems as it randomly sounded like the signal was becoming weaker to the tracker, that and power modulation would make it really weird
for them to understand what was going on.

All of these are probably non starters but funny. Quite technically challenging as well.

Anorak listeners would not care about the signal going up and down up and down and all the random, hiss and noise, in fact they would be all the more excited for it.

travistock reminds me of the group travis, maybe it could have the boo radleys, coldplay, sounds abit indie, joe wiley could be on