My Goodmans DAB worked fine in my old house in Cheshire - all stations loud & clear with no external aerial. Not so hot in Telford, where I may need an aerial. Any tips?
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DAB reception
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External vertical dipole.
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Get an FM radio. Better quality now most stations (other than Radio 3) have reduced the bits/channel so much.
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There is a body of opinion that the quality of digital radio transmissions over Freeview or Sky is above that of DAB, too.
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I cannot receive DAB in Shropshire. I'm told the service is not available yet.
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Alt.radio.digital is thataway>>>>>>>>>>>>
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Never mind opinion, it's a fact, the data rate is higher. The only problem is that with most freeview boxes you need a TV attached so you can tell what channel you're on, as they generally don't have displays.
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Which direction is uk.usenet.pedants ?! I was trying to be helpful and was no more off-topic than others. Apologies if I've misunderstood your reply.
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Where you can join in the great bitrate debate;)
Don't take it toooo seriously, this is the madhouse called noosenet after all!......
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Ah I see it's one of *those* issues ! Better or worse than rec.audio.opinion ?
What, you mean I can't believe everything I read here ?
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transmissions
Hmm - a market opening perhaps ? Could kill off DAB once and for all while we're at it.
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Tim Mitchell wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@tega.co.uk:
And an amplifier and speakers even if they have. And even then the delay means that they won't work with radios in other rooms if you move about - I do.
Get a bunch of cheap radios.
mike
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If it's a portable radio, I very much doubt anyone would notice the difference in the ultimate sound quality. But they might well notice the lack of multi-path problems - and the better choice of stations, including those otherwise only on FM.
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That also requires an external aerial. And are their any portable versions available?
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You pretty much require substantial ariels for a large part of the country for DTTV.
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Pipe it round the house on CAT5 or similar then just pick it up off that with an amp and speaker. I did this before CAT5 was thought of...
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Well, most of us have a TV, and a hi-fi in the same room. If portability is important and the DAB signal is poor, the OP is SOL...
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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@davenoise.co.uk:
I did this before CAT5 was thought of...
Wow! ;-)
mike
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True - but this has to change before the analogue switchoff. And if they applied a turbo code across the radio channels which isn't a major overhead, these could be picked up with a much worse S/N ratio.