All is well! There has been no negative response the the public notice, and the final landlord signature is just being obtained. We’ve been busy placing orders for equipment, etc, and getting ready to being installation later this month.

We’re reaching the final stage, where a public notice must now be served for 30 days to allow the public to comment on our proposed installation. Here’s hoping there’s no negative response!

We’ve had a couple of weeks of responding landlord questions regarding aspects to do with the design, installation, structure and how it will ultimately look – and rightly so, given the nature of the building.  It’s also meant that we’ve had to think very carefully about how we will approach this, and plan accordingly. As…

The day we’ve been waiting for… news from Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council regarding whether we’ll need planning permission or not. It’s big up Alan from Commtronix day… thanks to his innovative design that will allow us to install our antennae using a freestanding frame that would not be attached to the building in any…

Today we’ve submitted our planning permission enquiry into Basingstoke & Dean Council. We not wait with bated breath to find out if we need to apply for planning permission. In the meantime, things are underway with our landlords, as there is an official process to follow. We’ve been advised that this may take some time……

The first pass of the report/proposal for the Basingstoke installation has been completed, and is looking really good! Alan from Commtronix has really excelled in his ingenuity, with an antenna installation proposal that is considerate to the needs of the listed building, practical in it’s implementation, and cost-effective enough to make it a truly viable…

Today we met in person with the landlord and other officials at the prospective transmitter site, to discuss our proposal, and look at how this might be undertaken. We’re very pleased to say that the meeting went very well, and they were very accommodating to our ideas. Our next step is to conduct a formal…

Of the sites that we’d shortlisted, one has proved more complex than expected due the height of mast that would be required, so this really does take us down to the last site in our list.  This also happens to be the very best prospective coverage that we’ve yet encountered, but we think the landlord…

Following many, many hours of extensive signal propagation and antenna modelling work with Rash from digris, (which we’ve just completed at 2.30am!), in which we have been looking to ascertain the best transmission site for SS-DAB coverage across Basingstoke, we are very pleased to have shortlisted a couple of potentially suitable sites. Basingstoke, it turns…