FM in Denmark

Hi All,

Someone in Denmark is interested in buying my Peugeot OEM Head Unit.

Leaving aside that the manufacturers might have crippled it so that only VIN numbers of UK vehicles can be programmed into it (a necessary procedure, or it would constantly beep).

Would a UK radio?s FM section and AM section work with the radio station signals in Denmark (I have a distant memory that I was able to listen to French Radio via a car radio in the 70s, but that may have been AM only)?

TIA

Chris

Usually it simply takes 'a code' and you can put someone elses code in if it is their radio.

Yes*. With slight variations the MW LW and FM bands are the same** across Europe.

Not sure about DAB.

• I spent 2 years of my life designing an AM/FM receiver for the German market back in the day. Driven to Denmark too. Radio works

**IIRC the FM goes a little lower and MW a little more at each end on the continent

Why did it take as long as 2 years?

Why would the Germans employ some unknown from the UK to design anything FM?

Given they made FM car radios well before anyone in the UK. Well remember the first one I saw. A all valve design in a 50s 6 volt Opel. Which actually worked pretty well in the London area.

Yes FM in Denmark is the same as here. I think the states use a different pre and de emphasis, and nowadays also embed a digital signal as well, but Most of Europe uses the same band and systems as we do. Some of the Eastern European countries use another band as well though. Brian

Red tape. Brian

So it's not 2 years work but 2 years elapsed. That's not the same as 2 years' experience.

Me neither. It is the only way I can listen to Radio 4 around here. My ten year old car has a factory-fitted long wave radio.

Oh dear. You still like your daily dose of woke propaganda do you?

I have never failed to get any main BBC station on FM

Says a great deal more about your ears than the medium.

Try getting a decent aerial. I thought the likes of you would realise this.

Try mid Wales. They give most of the channels to BBC Wales, apart from all signals being marginal half the time.

I have just got a new car. The radio is FM, DAB and AM - but MW only, and no LW. This is a pity, as I too liked the occasional listen to RTE1 in 252kHz. However, it's otherwise a really good radio - extremely sensitive (even on the MW, despite the aerial being a tiny little thing, only about 8" long). When the DAB signal level struggles, the audio doesn't become 'boiling mud', but instead it gracefully fades out (and in again).

Yes - many modern cars have the radio built into their structure (or nearly so). Presumably, when they eventually go to the scrapyard, most of these perfectly-working radios get scrapped too.

And also how noisy his car is too :-)

That'll be your ears then !

In the English-Scottish borders, 198kHz is in the 'mush area' between Droitwich and the Scottish transmitters (Burghead and Westerglen). It sounds terrible, especially with a non-directional aerial (as a car would have). At night, 252kHz gets clobbered with the French-speaking Algerian station.

Assuming a reasonably common car, there will be aftermarket alternatives.

Or fit a used unit.

I've just acquired a Phillips cassette/radio boom box from the BHF charity shop to play cassettes. It has FM/MW/LW, so I will see what I can pick up during the day and after dark on AM here in Southern England.