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i live in crawley and have a good loft AERIAL for fm. i was led to believe it would be ok for dab as i have good dab on a small portable radio and the checker says excellent for most stations including dab plus.
however my loft aerial doesn't work on my hi fi DAB tuner is this correct just FM
thanks
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Hi friends
i wonder if someone can explain why my FM reception is a little on the low side with a Labgear
Omni-Directional Radio Aerial in the loft. i used to get a DB reading of 70 in Crawley with just a telescopic aerial, and since moving into a newer property it's down to 42 DB for radio 1234
my aerial installer who is coincided to be the best like me is stumped at this point. i live just 12 miles from the Reigate transmitter and 4 miles from the dab transmitter LITTLE PRESTWOOD FARM
i've always preferred FM for sound quality. Would an FM Half Wave Dipole work better, do you think?
Did they turn down the power over the past few years from Reigate?
many thanks. :)
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nick: many thanks. I will give all of your advice to my aerial installer and hope we get a solution to this.
when i moved into the house, i had a dab aerial fitted and that worked fine at 60 DB and thought no more of it, so I guess we could go down that route once again. The reason for this saga is that i have a high line range of tuners and swap out the models now and again, of which some have a lower acceptance rate to work properly under 50DB
it could be only the cheaper tuners I have will work, those get 70 DB in the house while the top of the range tuners i have need 50 DB, of which i am just under.
it does make a difference i find on FM as the vocals are so life like in the room with you
long live FM. failure to get the spec right means the tuners kick in with the BLN lighting up, which takes away the treble
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Friday 1 April 2022 1:11PM
i live in crawley and have a good loft AERIAL for fm. i was led to believe it would be ok for dab as i have good dab on a small portable radio and the checker says excellent for most stations including dab plus.
however my loft aerial doesn't work on my hi fi DAB tuner is this correct just FM
thanks