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Charles Stuart: I would venture that:
The power requirements for DVB-T2 decoding are greater than for the "simple" COFDM used in DAB.
I'm not convinced you could run a national SFN with DVB-T2.
All of the channels that are in the lower DDR range, including C36, will be required for DTT when the 700MHz band is handed over to 4G in 2019.
I don't think that DVB-T2 was ever designed for high-speed mobile reception.
It's worth remembering that there the only difference between DAB and DAB+ is a "codec". It replaces MP2 with AAC.
In the future when enough people have receivers that can "play" an AAC stream, it's a very simple matter to change the services over.
You can even do it on a station-by-station basis.
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Trevor Harris: TA is a bit of an old fashioned idea anyway. What's the point when you can use Waze or Google Maps Navigation?
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Bob F: Next year the BBC will broadcast all their services in HD, as well as SD.
Sometime between 2019 and 2025, it is expected that all broadcasts will be HD (DVB-T2), but this is "expected to be" rather than "official policy" at the moment.
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PJH: That's because "Northern Ireland" isn't a "local", it is what is called a "Nation".
Technically speaking, "England" and "Scotland" are countries, "Wales" is a principality and "Northern Ireland" is a province.
So BBC Radio Wales, Cymru, Scotland, Nan Gidheal, Ulster and Foyle are "national" service.
On the commercial side, Downtown Radio is "local", as it transmits to Belfast and not the whole of Northern Ireland.
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nickwilcock: Strange to derride community radio as "such rubbish", as there are currently thes:
1 Ummah FM (Reading)
10 Radio (Wiveliscombe)
3TFM Community Radio for Health (Saltcoats & Adrossan, N Ayrshire)
7 Waves 92.1 (Wirral)
AHBS Community Radio (Ashford, Kent)
AIR (Weymouth, Dorset)
ALL FM (South Central Manchester)
Abbey 104 (Sherborne, Dorset)
Academy FM 105.9 (Folkestone, Kent)
Academy FM 107.8 (Ramsgate, Kent)
Access FM (Bridgwater, Somerset)
Aldergrove and Antrim FM (Aldergrove)
Alive Radio (Dumfries)
Amber Sound FM (Ripley, Derbyshire)
Ambur Radio (Walsall)
Angel Radio (Havant)
Angel Radio Isle of Wight (Newport, IoW)
Apple FM (Taunton, Somerset)
Asian Star 101.6 FM (Slough)
Awaaz Radio (High Wycombe)
Awaz FM (Central Glasgow)
BANG Radio (Stonebridge / Harlesden)
BCB 106.6 FM (Bradford)
BFBS (Bulford/Tidworth)
BFBS (Blandford Camp, Dorset)
BFBS (Aldershot)
BFBS (Colchester, Essex)
BFBS (Catterick)
BFBS (Edinburgh)
BFBS Lisburn FM (Lisburn N. Ireland)
BRFM (Brynmawr, Blaenau Gwent)
BRFM 95.6 FM (Sheerness, IoS)
BRO Radio (Barry, Vale of Glamorgan)
Ballykinler FM (Ballykinler)
Bangor Community Radio (Bangor, NI)
Bay FM Radio (Exmouth, Devon)
Betar Bangla Radio (Stratford)
Big City Radio (Aston, Birmingham)
Biggles FM (Biggleswade, Beds)
Bishop FM 105.9 (Bishop Auckland)
Black Diamond FM (Midlothian)
Blast 106 (Belfast)
Blyth Valley Radio (Southwold)
Bolton FM (Bolton)
Branch FM (Dewsbury)
Brick FM (St Boswells, Borders)
Bristol Community FM (Bristol)
Bute FM (Rothesay, Isle of Bute)
CSR (Canterbury)
Calon FM (Wrexham)
Cam FM (Cambridge)
Cambridge 105 FM (Cambridge)
Canalside's The Thread 102.8 FM (Bollington)
Castle FM 98.8 (Leith, Scotland)
Castledown Radio (Tidworth)
Celtic Music Radio (Glasgow)
Chorley FM (Chorley, Lancashire)
Community Voice FM (Middlesbrough)
Corby Radio (Corby)
Crescent Radio (Rochdale)
Cross Rhythms City Radio (Stoke on Trent)
Cross Rhythms Plymouth (Plymouth)
Cross Rhythms Teesside (Stockton-on-Tees)
Demon FM (Leicester)
Desi Radio (Southall, West London)
Diverse FM (Luton)
Down FM (Downpatrick, N. Ireland)
Drive 105 FM (Derry/Londonderry)
Drystone Radio (South Craven, Yorkshire)
Dunoon Community Radio (Dunoon, Argyll)
EAVA FM (Leicester)
East Coast FM (Haddington, East Lothian)
Erewash Sound (Ilkeston, Derbyshire)
Express FM (Portsmouth)
Fantasy Radio (Devizes)
Felixstowe Radio (Felixstowe)
Flame CCR (Wirral)
Forest FM (Verwood, East Dorset)
Frome FM (Frome)
Future Radio (Norwich)
GTFM Pontypridd (Pontypridd)
Gateway 97.8 (Basildon)
Gaydio (Central Manchester)
Glastonbury FM (Glastonbury & Street)
Gloucester FM (City of Gloucester)
Gravity FM (Grantham)
HCR FM (Huntingdon)
Halton Community Radio (Halton)
Harborough FM (Hfm) (Market Harborough)
Hayes FM (Hayes, Middlesex)
Hermitage FM (Coalville, Ibstock & Ashby de la Zouch)
Holywood FM (Holywood)
Hope FM (Bournemouth)
Hot Radio 102.8 (Poole)
In2beats FM (Bedford)
Indigo 106.6 FM (Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria)
Insanity Radio (Egham)
Insight Radio (West Glasgow)
Inspiration FM (Northampton)
Inspire FM (Luton)
Ipswich Community Radio (Ipswich)
Irvine Beat FM (Irvine, North Ayrshire)
IR FM (Newry, N. Ireland)
KCC Live (Knowsley, Merseyside)
Kane FM (Guildford)
Kemet Radio (Nottingham)
Kohinoor FM (Leicester)
Leisure FM (Braintree East)
Lincoln City Radio (Lincoln)
Lionheart Radio (Alnwick)
Lisburn City Radio (Lisburn)
Marlow FM (Marlow, Buckinghamshire)
Mearns FM (Stonehaven & the Mearns)
Meridian FM (East Grinstead)
Moorlands Radio (Biddulph, Staffordshire)
NE1 FM 102.5 (Newcastle upon Tyne)
Nevis Radio (Fort William)
New Style Radio 98.7 FM (Birmingham)
North Manchester FM (Manchester)
Nu Sound Radio (Newham)
OX105 FM (Oxford)
Oldham Community Radio (Oldham)
Peace FM (Manchester)
Pendle Community Radio (Nelson)
Penistone FM (Penistone, South Yorkshire)
Phoenix FM (Brentwood)
Phoenix FM (Halifax)
Phonic FM (Exeter)
Point FM (Rhyl, North Wales)
Preston FM (Preston, Lancashire)
Pulse (Cheddar Valley, Somerset)
Pulse Community Radio (Barrhead)
Pure 107.8 FM (Stockport)
RWS FM 103.3 (Bury St Edmunds)
Raaj FM (Sandwell)
Radio Asian Fever (Leeds, Yorkshire)
Radio BGWS (Farnborough/Aldershot/Camberley/Fleet)
Radio Cardiff (Cardiff)
Radio Dawn (Nottingham)
Radio Faza 97.1 FM (Nottingham)
Radio Hartlepool (Hartlepool)
Radio Ikhlas (Derby)
Radio Jcom (Leeds)
Radio LaB (Luton)
Radio Plus (Coventry)
Radio Reverb (Brighton W. Sussex)
Radio Scilly (Scilly Isles)
Radio St Austell Bay (St Austell Bay)
Radio Sunlight (Gillingham, Kent)
Radio Teesdale (Teesdale)
Radio Tircoed (Tircoed Forest Village, Swansea)
Radio Verulam (St Albans)
Radio Winchcombe (Winchcombe, Glos)
Raidi Filte (Belfast)
Redroad FM (Harthill, South Yorkshire)
Reprezent 107.3 FM (South London)
Resonance FM (Central London)
Revival FM (Cumbernauld)
Rinse FM (Inner London)
SFM (Sittingbourne)
Saint FM (Burnham on Crouch)
Salford City Radio (Salford, Manchester)
Seahaven FM (Newhaven, Seaford and Peacehaven, East Sussex)
Seaside FM 105.3 (Withernsea, Holderness)
Sheffield Live! 93.2 FM (Sheffield)
Shine FM (Banbridge N. Ireland)
Shmu FM (Aberdeen)
Sine FM (Doncaster, South Yorkshire)
Siren FM (Lincoln)
Skyline Gold 102.5 (Hedge End, Southampton)
Somer Valley FM (Midsomer Norton, Somerset)
Soundart Radio (Dartington/Totnes)
Spark FM (Sunderland)
Speysound Radio (Badenoch & Strathspey)
Spice FM (Newcastle upon Tyne)
Stroud FM (Stroud)
Sunny Govan Radio (Govan)
Susy Radio (Reigate & Redhill)
Swindon 105.5 (Swindon)
Switch Radio 107.5 (Castle Vale, Birmingham)
TCR FM (Tamworth)
TMCR (Thorne & Moorends, South Yorkshire)
Takeover Radio (Leicester)
Takeover Radio 106.9 (Sutton in Ashfield)
Tameside Radio (Tameside, Cheshire)
Tempo 107.4 FM (Wetherby, Yorkshire)
The 'Bridge (Stourbridge)
The Eye (Vale of Belvoir)
The Hillz FM (Hillfields, Coventry)
The Source (Falmouth & Penryn)
The Super Station (Orkney)
Tone FM (Taunton, Somerset)
Tudno FM (Llandudno, North Wales)
Tulip Radio (Spalding, South Holland)
Uckfield FM (Uckfield, East Sussex)
Ujima Radio (St Paul's & Easton, Bristol)
Unity 101 (Southampton)
Unity FM (Birmingham)
Unity Radio (Manchester)
Vibe 107.6 FM (Watford)
Vixen 101 (Market Weighton & Pocklington)
Voice FM (Southampton)
Voice of Africa Radio (Newham, East London)
WCR (Warminster)
WCR FM (Wolverhampton)
West Hull Community Radio (West Hull)
Westside 89.6 FM (Southall, W. London)
Wythenshawe FM (Wythenshawe, Manchester)
Youthcomm Radio (Worcester)
Zack FM 105.3 (Forest Heath, West Suffolk)
...running at the moment.
Ofcom | Community Radio Stations for the details of each.
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nickwilcock: Just one Google it takes me to £30 converter that requires no fitting ...
In-Car DAB Adaptor with FM Transmitter : Maplin Electronics
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Elizabeth Campbell: It says "From 26th June 2014" at the top of the page.
Not sure about an address...
Local TV - Get closer. Coming soon on Freeview does not list one.
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Thursday 29 August 2013 11:52PM
Terry: I just checked and it was two and a half years ago - 27 Feb 2011 and I locked a thread because there was a single contributor who was "trolling".
Some comments that had replied were locked too.
Sometimes i have to made decision to ensure that readers and contributors are not driven away.