Portable radio

[cloughie]

Referring back to the little Sony “tranny” present (msg 35) - does it have a socket for an external mains supply?

Does 'tranny' these days have other meanings away from portable radios?

[Old Grumpy]

20 year old - nothing. I’ve got radios which are nearly twice that age which still work, and I expect them to for the immediate foreseeable future.

Great news that you have a result, though.

[Old Grumpy]

Does 'tranny' these days have other meanings away from portable radios?

Oh, Cloughie, you are a tease! I think you already know the answer to that one...

... you may need to go for diversity training though!

OG

[Old Grumpy]

One thought which occurs to me is to enquire of dovers whether any new, especially tall buildings, have been put up in her immediate vicinity since the problem began, between where she lives and the transmitter? I have intermittent problems with my AM/FM radio alarm tuned to Radio 3, but in my case I put this down to being on the ground floor of a 4-story block of flats, with a longish wing projecting to the south-east. The receptor even seems sensitive to people moving around! I tend to get quite a lot of interference from low-flying planes, and especially if lawn mowers, hedge trimmers, leaf blowers etc are being used within 50 metres. These problems also applies to my freeview TV, the signal often being cut off or unavailable, and to re-establish it I have had to resort to dangling the attached aerial out of the nearby window, which is obviously inconvenient especially in winter! "House rules" dictate that we are not allowed to fix external aerials, which in my case would involve a long cable connection to the roof. This has been "explained" to me as down to the proximity of the Crystal Palace transmitter tower and the associated angle of signal reception. We are heavily wooded around here too, and I don't know if arboreal density is a contributory factor.

Dulidge/Crystal Palace - "heavily wooded" - you're 'avin a larf, encha, S_A?

OG

Erratum: On closer inspection I note that S_A's arboreal claim may have some merit

I do, however detect a certain degree of Southern hyperbole in the designation Great North albeit with considerable historic precedent.

[Old Grumpy]

Reading this thread has been better than watching an episode of Line of Duty!

Agreed - the forum at its best - and no reference to current politics. As regards Line of Duty - couldn't comment, I've never watched it.

OG

[cloughie]

Oh, Cloughie, you are a tease! I think you already know the answer to that one...

... you may need to go for diversity training though!

OG

Now, What'd thaat be then!...and having worked in the past for local government, is LBGT an anagram of LGTB?