I'm sure everyone else that's taking sky news radio via astra is getting a 5 second delay too, which is annoying as it cuts the news off unless you adjust the clocks, I've emailed sky and am awaiting a reply to see if this is now the normal delay (5 seconds) or it's going back to 2 seconds.

Regards,
Paul Moore

HitMix Radio
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Can you tell me when this started happening as to my knowledge we have experienced no change to the 3 second delay we have always had.

Neil

This started on Wednesday last week.
it only effects those using the Astra A2 feed.
I've spoken to a number of community stations all suffering this issue.

Regards,
Paul Moore

HitMix Radio
0792 858 1075

Hi to all,

I can confirm our audio has gone to pot, thought it was a local timing issue till I just seen this post, many thanks Paul for the post and update from Tim at IRN, would have been nice to have been told directly by IRN!! Still that would have been internal news I suppose and they out source everything these days!

Regards
Mark Carney
Chief Executive & Technical Advisor
Digital Hits Network Limited

Digital Hits One
Home of the Big Hits ...
Online . DAB . 104.4fm
www.digitalhits.one

I knew something was a miss thats why I emailed to find out why.
Now we all have the answers.

They always seem to forget about the community stations and inform the big boys first,
we pay our money too !!! Talking of money, wait til the next bill comes in for IRN, ours came last week,
no longer 100 per year, it's shot up to 300 per year now.

Good luck rescheduling those clocks !

Regards,
Paul Moore

HitMix Radio
0792 858 1075

Kind of makes me glad that we've always used the Sirus feed, must be a right old PITA when ever things like that change unannounced.

Craig Arthur

Engineering & IT Manager
Radio Royal, Royal 2 & Royal Gold.

we may change to sirius soon, Craig can you tell me what size dish you use to get a good signal,
it used to be 80cm for the south of the uk.
and a frequency etc would be handy ;-)

Regards,
Paul Moore

HitMix Radio
0792 858 1075

I'm sure it's a 1M dish we use in central Scotland.  As for tuning details, the IRN engineering site seems to have no info any more, but the wayback machine will help you:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070317033613/http://www.irnengineering.co.uk/ will give you all you need to know.

Craig Arthur

Engineering & IT Manager
Radio Royal, Royal 2 & Royal Gold.

Thanks again Craig, I'll test it at home on a few dishes I have, it used to be 80cm in the south and thats a massive dish to have really.
all for a few seconds too LOL

Regards,
Paul Moore

HitMix Radio
0792 858 1075