Can you hear the chimes of Big Ben on an FM Radio sooner than you can hear it in real life, even when standing next to the Elizabeth Tower? Vicki Pipe is on Westminster Bridge to find out ...
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@spongbros10 жыл бұрын
I always assumed that they used a recording.
@dfluff10 жыл бұрын
***** I have listened to the mic feed direct - you can hear the traffic from the street below, but you need to not be listening at that volume on the 15 minute marks!
@qwertyTRiG8 жыл бұрын
If you listen at midnight on New Year, you'll hear the fireworks.
@skylark.kraken6 жыл бұрын
No, the fireworks don't start instantly
@xorbe25 жыл бұрын
@@qwertyTRiG because it's a recording they use once a year!
@RenaissanceEarCandy3 жыл бұрын
I thought so too, but for some reason, I'm very pleased that it's actually live every time.
@Mortimer501458 жыл бұрын
A nice demonstration. I tried to measure the time difference by examining the waveforms of the left and right channels in Audacity. It's very difficult to tell, but it looks as if it's about 200 milliseconds so Vicki was probably about 70 metres away. I knew that the Radio 4 bongs were live at 6 PM - you can occasionally hear emergency vehicle sirens in the pause between the chimes and the first bong of Big Ben - but I've always wondered whether the bongs on the title sequence of ITN's News at Ten were live or a recording. I'd forgotten that the tower changed its name from St Stephen's Tower to Elizabeth Tower in honour of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee..
@Londonistvids8 жыл бұрын
+Mortimer50145 This is brilliant! yes, i would estimate we were about 70 meters away - well calculated! As far as we know, only the bongs at 6pm are live, all the others are recorded.
@tardiskeeper610 жыл бұрын
I didn't realise that the bongs in the news are a live recording.
@dunebasher1971 Жыл бұрын
They're just live, not a live recording.
@daveherbert62152 жыл бұрын
Ah Vicki I really thought that this new stuff from you. Still enjoyed it though
@lvbfan8 жыл бұрын
You used to be able to do this at baseball games, too. The radio station would have a mike right behind home plate. If you sat out in centerfield and listened to the game on the radio, you'd hear the crack of the bat on the broadcast before you'd hear it in person... which used to AMAZE ME as a kid. Sadly, this doesn't work any more, because most radio broadcasts are on a delay (typically 7 seconds).
@yegventures10 жыл бұрын
That's so awesome! I remember during the gold medal hockey game in Canada during the Vancouver Olympics, I was listening to the radio feed as I was driving along the highway. Canada won and I honked the car all the way to an electronics store. To my amazement, almost 10 minutes after I had heard Canada win, the TV feed was broadcasting the game 'live' and I saw them win again 'live'. With the number of people in the store watching the feed, since it is Canada's game, I should've made a bet with someone on who would score. lol
@matt47569 жыл бұрын
I live in North Vancouver
@HassanRaashid8 жыл бұрын
She looks like a really fun person to hang out with
@Smartychase4 жыл бұрын
@Rosida Andriyanathe how would u know..Spill the beans
@PaulCampy10 жыл бұрын
Nice to see Vicki again!
@bender75653 ай бұрын
Everybody loves Vicki!
@PinkThorn24210 жыл бұрын
This was a plot device in a Captain Scarlet episode, wasn't it? That if you're a certain distance away you can hear thirteen chimes at midnight.
@drsteele9 жыл бұрын
***** Oh lummy now you mention it - yes it was.
@spoods46287 жыл бұрын
Yes, they used it to locate a parking lot with a bomb in it.
@passthebutterrobot26006 жыл бұрын
PinkThornVlogs: Yep, the episode was called "Big Ben Strikes Again". The distance was such that the radio chimes & live chimes coincided, but one chime out of sync, so Big Ben appeared to strike 13 times. Someone did the math & worked out the distance from Big Ben needed for this to be 1440m or 1574 yards. In the episode it was said to be 1500 yards, which was pretty close.
@oliviaalwen21427 жыл бұрын
westminister bridge the brige of the tragic area attack R.I.P the victims and bigben's threts
@awells0511909 жыл бұрын
That's the tree I planted in the speakers garden, it's the bigger one!!
@SteveMorton10 жыл бұрын
It will also depend on the route the sound takes to get from Westminster to Wrotham Heath in Kent in this case, I suspect it is via a high speed ISDN line of some kind, but there will be a slight delay in the sound reaching the transmitter.
@MarkPentler5 жыл бұрын
it's surprising how many ISDN lines are in use for broadcast purposes (guaranteed bandwidth!), but this definitely wouldn't be that.
@Nico937 жыл бұрын
We have a simalare radio tradition here in denmark with the big radio station.
@johnmurrell31755 жыл бұрын
Digital TV has an even greater delay due to the time taken to encode & decode the digital signal. At New Year I can see the London Fireworks from my house - you can see them start a few seconds before the chimes of Big Ben sound from the TV speaker. Hence large parts of the UK probably start the New Year a few secons late !
@theoldar4 жыл бұрын
It's even worse on satellite TV. People with cable TV typically see a play a few seconds before I do with DirecTV.
@cassandranoorman71542 жыл бұрын
It's the other way around in this video. The delay from the radio is actually LESS than the delay of the sound travelling through the air. So you hear it on the radio before you hear it in real life. Whereas you're talking about seeing things in real life before seeing them on screen, which is not impressive at all.
@ExplorerDS67896 жыл бұрын
Well, I'll have to take your word for it.
@Liam_10 жыл бұрын
wow. might try this. though I won't carry a huge radio with me haha
@johnusher19217 жыл бұрын
Now, throw in the chimes on a DAB radio and on radio on a digital TV and we'll probably have four different timings - or more if you allow for variations in digital chipsets from different manufacturers. It's a fun world!
@Michael_Comment Жыл бұрын
But ever since 2017 when restoration started they used a recording but I don’t understand why they can’t record the chimes live now because Big Ben is working again so there’s no reason for them to use the microphone
@nivikb7 жыл бұрын
How about testing the theory that you can hear Big Ben strike 13. To do this you need to be at a distance from the tower so that you hear the first bong via a radio, then the second bong on the radio at the same time that the first bong arrives via the air live from the the tower. Thus when you hear the twelfth bong over the radio you are hearing the eleventh bong from the tower and finally the last twelfth bong over the air equaling a total of thirteen bongs. I think I remember seeing this in a film once but memory fails me as to which film.
@arimago7 жыл бұрын
Can you still hear the tower itself over that distance with modern traffic?
@matthewsung30146 жыл бұрын
It's about 4.5 seconds between each **BONG** so you'll need to be standing about 1.53km away. The Big Ben is about 118 decibels four feet away, so at 1.53km, we're looking at about 58 decibels. City traffic is about 70-80 decibels, so tough luck hearing it if you're on the street!
@WerewolfLord6 жыл бұрын
nivikb It's been done. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i5qcmql8vr3cYKM.html
@godfreypoon51486 жыл бұрын
After twelve bongs, I think you wouldn't know what the crap you were doing.
@TheDemocrab Жыл бұрын
@@godfreypoon5148 That just depends on your tolerance, my friend.
@tinblue9 жыл бұрын
Why can't we see more Vicki videos?
@Cpr12346 жыл бұрын
Londonist's new video of Southwark Cathedral is talked by Vicki
@TwmUkLive2 жыл бұрын
Viki now works at Modern railways magazine
@timothyp8738 жыл бұрын
infact this was used in the classic gerry anderson seires Captain scarlet.
@dan4lau4 жыл бұрын
Wow! Talk about short and sweet! Hardly gave you time to work it out. Unedited version please!
@padiyar7 жыл бұрын
BUM BAM BUM BAM BEM BOM BAM BEM BOM BOOM BEM BOMMMM!! BOOOOOOM BOOOOOOM BOOOOM BOOOOOOM
@britoroque2 жыл бұрын
Is it possible to sing a song then travel faster than sound and then stop and listen to the song you sang?
@spoods46287 жыл бұрын
That was used in an episode of Captain Scarlet!
@ellensant86358 жыл бұрын
That's really good thumbs up
@caitlinbeerer7199 жыл бұрын
THAT IS SO COOL!!!
@dansmith46016 жыл бұрын
Do the BBC not bother with this anymore now that the bell doesn't ring
@RichardGMoss8 жыл бұрын
When is Vicki going to present a new video?
@WagDemTails5 жыл бұрын
Oh my Favourite
@con50906 жыл бұрын
It's sad that Big Ben is going silent
@donholsomback22563 жыл бұрын
Isn't she the one that did Harry Potter locations. If not very similar.
@bigbenclocktower1329 жыл бұрын
I didn't understand the last bit; can you hear it on the radio first or not?
@riceuteneuer26789 жыл бұрын
Big Ben Clock Tower Yes, Vicki says "a split second"
@FarlandHowe10 жыл бұрын
Like it.
@tasineria96875 жыл бұрын
Big Ben will be silenced until 2021
@shenghe98763 жыл бұрын
If you listen on DAB radio, it will be delayed for about 10 seconds.
@Mrch33ky3 жыл бұрын
Case closed!
@jacksugden81906 жыл бұрын
It’s a BBC sound effect found on their Essential Sound Effects CD on iTunes. That’s the reason for the delay on the BBC Radio 4, other examples are found on Radio 4 with Brian Perkins announcing over the real chimes, where there’s no delay.
@MarkPentler5 жыл бұрын
The only time it's been a recording is during the repairs to parliament.
@LukeWatson994 жыл бұрын
I like that
@xjjam96076 жыл бұрын
Did she say “firster” ?
@skyking69892 жыл бұрын
I thought it was a recording
@danielbtdm6 жыл бұрын
omg that's so cool!
@haunter82015 жыл бұрын
OI M8 ITS 7 BONG
@WagDemTails5 жыл бұрын
She is dabbing
@Test0_-_10 жыл бұрын
cool :)
@QuarioQuario543217 жыл бұрын
Not it doesn’t chime at all
@ib9rt10 жыл бұрын
Are you sure that's an FM radio? It looked like a digital radio to me. It might not work so well as there is a split second encoding delay for digital broadcasts compared to analog broadcasts.
@ib9rt10 жыл бұрын
***** Right you are. I guess it's easy to miss details like that without paying close attention to what is on the screen.
@riceuteneuer26789 жыл бұрын
***** Aha, so was 93.2 MHz the closest transmitter ?
@MrFixer-mg1nf9 жыл бұрын
ib9rt It is a analog FM radio with a digital display. You are getting this mixed up with a HD radio which receives a digital singal. A lot of people get them mixed up.
@PSByte9 жыл бұрын
ib9rt That's an FM radio. Note the antenna.
@riceuteneuer26789 жыл бұрын
Well, a DAB radio would have an antenna as well
@carlmiller567810 жыл бұрын
Xd
@gooblord90065 жыл бұрын
I miss hearing those words "president obama"
@joermnyc4 жыл бұрын
I’ll be happy to hear the words “FORMER President Trump” sooner rather than later... next year’s election cannot come quickly enough (sadly I do not think our spineless Senate will kick him out).