Due to technical reconfiguration of the digital radio services, on 1st March you may have to do a "retune" on your DAB receiver to continue listing to your local Capital, Heart, Choice, XFM, LBC and Kiss stations.

^{Brian Butterworth published on UK Free TV 1st March 2012 at 07:05}

Here are the instructions for DAB retuning from the guide at Re-tuning your Digital Radio:

Most digital radios can be re-tuned by pressing the Auto-Tune or Auto Scan button on your digital radio. It may take a couple of minutes for your radio to update the station list.

However, not all digital radios re-tune in the same way. The instructions below cover some other options.

OPTION 1

Press the Auto Tune or Auto Scan button on your digital radio
The display screen will show 'Autotune Quick scan' / 'Fast Scanning'
As new stations are found the station counter on the right hand side of the display will increase and new stations will be added to the list
This should only take a couple of minutes
Scroll through the display to find the stations available to you

OPTION 2

Press Menu button on your digital radio
Rotate the Tune button until you see 'Autotune' in the display
Select 'Autotune'
As new stations are found the station counter on the right hand side of the display will increase and new stations will be added to the list
This should only take a couple of minutes
Scroll through the display to find the stations available to you

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Comments

Thursday, 1 March 2012

andy
9:40 AM
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hi andyboy can you tel why i have return for thanks

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M.Le Mesurier
9:43 AM

I have a Visual Innovations small TV which comes from the and I cannot retune this. Can you please. I bought it from Richer Sounds less than two years ago, and as they have discontiued this line cannot help me.

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Aerialman

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12:13 PM

Have these moved frequencies?,as they appear to be duplicated at the moment

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james
11:27 PM

be new radio on in

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Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Ash

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10:25 AM

The retune event is to enable the service following for car radios.

It's been done before for individual stations, but never on this scale.

In a nutshell, each and every DAB service has something called a SId (Service Identifier). These are being changed. If Arqiva, the transmission provider, just changed the SIds in one go then the old SIds would fall silent and listeners would be left with two with the same name, one working and one not.

But what is actually happening is that there is a period of services running with dual SIds which means when the old one is turned off listeners will have a meaningless label in their service list, and one good label in their list.

This was something I kicked off a few years ago to mitigate against listener confusion and I have to say works very well in doing so. Digital Radio UK's advice to retune radios is a bit draconian as most won't need to be retuned. Many DAB radios just take note of whatever is on a regardless of what is listened to, and some will for new stations when in standby periodically.

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Briantist

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11:57 PM

Ash: Thanks for that, a very helpful explanation.

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Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Scott
8:22 PM

Hi,

I have a sonichi car radio and it told me xfm had 'moved' and was told to retune.

I have done both a local and full several times but now even though still having a duplicate xfm neither can pick up any sound. The seems fine for xfm and there is no problem with any other like capital, heart etc. which also needed a retune and non related stations like radio 1 bbc 6 music etc are fine. Both xfm stations do not make any noise at all.

Any helpful suggestions or people having a similar problem?.. wish I had waited to retune.

Thanks

Scott

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Friday, 30 March 2012

Lisa
1:39 AM

My radio in house cant get LBC radio in anymore; its infuriating.

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Lisa
1:49 AM

I meant, the , from Coventry, where I am.

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Saturday, 7 April 2012