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Wednesday, 10 August 2011
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michael9:40 AM
Government is already struggling to persuade listeners to switch to DAB. It is not likely to risk politically disaffecting those who followed advice to invest in DAB by now demanding replacement with DAB+. In order to offer comparable station choice, for the forseeable future using both DAB and FM would be a pragmatic compromise. (In the much longer term DRM might be introduced to maximise utilisation of the propagation advantages and available spectrum of MF. At that stage introduction of DAB+ or DRM+ might also become publicly acceptable. For many years to come, DXers will keep or build their AM receivers, with DSP, synchrodyne enhancement!).
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michael9:45 AM
PS : Neither DAB+ nor DAB allows reception of distant stations, UK or foreign, on a portable
or in-vehicle receiver. So one will definitely not "have it all".
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Saturday, 13 August 2011
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Steve4:19 PM
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In reply to the older post about DAB in car requiring holes to be cut for an aerial, I'd just like to refute this. I've had DAB for years in car, first with a glass mount aerial and now using a new Philips unit from Halfords with a mag mount aerial. The cable is routed out of the tailgate with the aerial in the rear corner of the roof. Reception is brilliant, I've travelled fairly widely throughout the UK and only had reception problems in the Lake District, when good old FM was ropey too.
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Sunday, 14 August 2011
Sunday, 21 August 2011
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Alvin Pritchard3:08 AM
michael: And FM is not without limitations?
I am pulling in 27 active stations on standard DAB from my location on the North Wales coast and 16 on FM,and 5 of them are registering as "weak signal" i certainly Can not pick up any foreign stations on neither FM or DAB.
All DAB National radio stations are indeed "long distance" services.
So on balance DAB wins.
DAB+ would further improve this platform.
Each to their own i guess.
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michael10:01 AM
DAB is local, FM is local. AM allows reception of distant stations, eg UK regional and European radio. (I receive all the national DAB muxes, but local BBC only on AM.) We will not be able to adopt DAB+ in the foreseeable future; however, for the interim DAB and FM together offer comparable bandwidth. On DAB and FM, many competing stations are sound-alike. Should supply and demand lead to a reduction of the number of stations available, DAB only might eventually be sufficient for listening needs. Genuine coverage, take-up and commercial viability will decide!
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michael10:06 AM
PS: a more elegant version of the Pure Highway DAB adapter would do a lot to increase DAB
take-up until all new cars include a DAB/FM radio.
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Monday, 22 August 2011
michael: To be honest, if you want "distant signals" there are 50,000 of them on things like "TuneIn Radio". TuneIn Radio - Android Market - much more choice than AM, perfect sound quality.
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Ian10:03 PM
I'm right underneath the Mendip transmitter but my DAB radio recently started failing to tune - is there a problem in this area or is my radio broken?
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