All posts by RichardH
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According to the channel allocation chart above, Salisbury is going to lose the SDN multiplex next year. with all this chopping and changing how are the public meant to keep up? Or is it jsut a cunning plan to encourage people to use Freesat? Then we could turn off all our terrestrial tv transmitters.
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Sunday 22 July 2012 10:55PM
I think DAB is a big disappointment. My car (2008 vintage) has as 'standard equipment' a DAB radio, I live 11 miles from the Salisbury transmitter and 14 from the Crockerton transmitter both of which transmit the BBC and National 1 multiplexes. Driving along the village high street DAB reception is non-existent yet I can still listen to Wave 105 on FM (43 miles). Going further afield its the same story (try driving between Plymouth and Exeter and listen to the BBC on DAB). If FM is shut down there is going to be a lot of very irritated people who suddenly find themselves needing an external aerial for their radio. There is also the issue of providing a reliable service in times of emergency; in the storm of '87 (my power having gone off) I was able to pick up an out-of-area local radio station on my portable radio to find out what was happening, if DAB had been the only option I would not have had any idea what the true situation was.