Below are the 8 most recent journal entries recorded in Devon County Radio's LiveJournal:

Monday, February 12th, 2007
5:37 pm [brodies]	RADIO DEVON goes DRM! The BBC and National Grid Wireless have announced today a trial of a new transmission technology which will allow the two organisations to assess the practicality of digital radio services in the medium-wave bands. The trial, which will last for a year, will be centred on Plymouth. From the end of April, the BBC and National Grid Wireless will re-use a current medium-wave frequency (855KHz)in the Plymouth area to broadcast a trial digital service using the digital radio mondiale (DRM) standard. DRM is an emerging technology which has been designed to facilitate digital radio at frequencies below 30 MHz. The BBC, which has been involved in the engineering research and development of the standard over the last few years, already makes the World Service available on short-wave using the technology to some parts of western Europe and north Africa. Find out more about DRM ( DIGITAL RADIO MONDIAL) at http://www.drm.org/ (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
11:23 pm [brodies]	24th BIRTHDAY Happy 24th Birthday. The Station celebrated with Birthday Cakes in Exeter & Plymouth. Only one year to go to the quarter century - hope to see lots' of you together in January 2008. GB (Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
10:46 am [brodies]	GILL THOMPSON I'm very sad to report that Gill Thompson passed away last week. Many of you working on the station in the early will remember Gill, and her sparkling personality. A service of thanksgiving and celebration of her life will be held at: The Salvation Army Temple Friar's Walk EXETER Devon Wednesday 24th May 2005 Starting at 10am. This will be followed by a short Service at Exeter's Crematorium at or about 10.45am All Gills friends and colleaugues are welcome to come along. ( PS - No flowers please - donations to St.Lukes Hospice SW ) GB (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
11:59 pm [brodies]	Moor to Sea at Twenty Three Twenty Three years on and the station is still developing, with FM coverage from the moors to the coast, and now with a new FM transmitter and service for Plymouth (95.7MHz). Some of the kit is now very old, and everyone awaits full digital refurbishment. Jim White - station Engineer retired in January and Gary Wright took over the reins. More pictures and some history will be added to this site soon. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 26th, 2005
11:05 pm [brodies]	WHAT'S NEW AT TWENTY TWO! 22 years old - the needles are still wagging. So what's new - Plymouth now has its own morning Opt (again) - but now on 855kHz and on DAB, and in the not too distant future it's own FM service. Plus listeners from around the world on the web-streaming service. Digits abound, they're everywhere now, apart from the microphones which still use bit's of string..... GB (Comment on this)
Thursday, September 30th, 2004
8:18 am [brodies]	HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY!! Exeter's "Broadcasting House" Studios were officially opened 21 years ago today by DG Alisdair Milne. The building is still going strong with it's original studios and desks, and much of the original wiring. Although no longer the main control centre for Broadcasting the studios still output half of the daily programming. GB (Comment on this)
Friday, June 25th, 2004
6:09 pm [brodies]	Fabulous CD! I still have a couple of copies of the CD with the 20th party pictures and audio bit's and pieces plus loads of other pictures. If anyone wants one let me know and I'll post one on. Hopefully there will be an updated version soon with more updated photos on. Graham Brodie ( If you want access to write to this list, you can visit Livejournal.com and apply to become a member of this community!) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, June 13th, 2004
11:48 pm [brodies]	WELCOME! What a great day out - and well organised by Alan - THANKX. Pictures will be on this website eventually, but as and added extra I've put this "blogger" onto the website, courtesy of LiveJournal.com In the near future I will send out invititations for people to join this, and it will then give the option to write stuff on this page yourselves, and help keep as all updated with who..what...where...when...etc... so talk soon!! Graham Brodie (Comment on this)