Another day at Wembley and this time the club formerly from Newton Heath were facing off The Villains from Brum. We’d not treated this match as an official ‘major event’, so frequencies were available online and many were booked that way. It was good to be on the ground seeing how the web-booking translated to the effective use of spectrum on the day.
Thankfully there were no real issues reported, although as I’ve seen before, the TV gantry was a little ‘hot’ due to the cluster of talk-back antennas. This could result in portable radios cracking and popping a bit, but once moved away from the immediate area they soon settled down. The most useful way this could be resolved would be to spread the antennas out a bit – not always easy given the limited space. Or to turn the power down – five-watt base stations do seem a little excessive to cover the length of a football pitch – especially given they can be heard as far as Hanger Lane (yes, I’ve checked)!
