Plenty of ways of getting an adequately accurate domestic clock other than relying on the GTS from the radio to set one, I'd say.
And if you did want to, you can get R4 LW in most of the country - DAB has far more limited coverage.
These days yes although getting the time signal out of consumer kit isn't so easy. You can buy expensive dedicated receivers for the job.
DAB coverage is lousy outside of major cities.
Where I live in North Yorkshire the DAB signal quickly degrades in a rainstorm to burbling mud and that is with a dedicated dipole aerial. On a whip aerial it barely decodes at all. R4 sounds like it is being read by the subterraneans off Stingray (or a bad ventriloquist who hasn't mastered drinking a glass of water and talking at the same time).
Fairly often the decoder crashes completely and emits silence. I have given up on DAB as the broadcast quality was never very good and has got worse. Internet Radio3 320kbps or off satellite leaves it for dust.
Weren't they called the aquaphibians? Remember them because in the style of 10 year olds we nicknamed a local old fella the aquaphibian because he looked a bit like one, though judging by his hygiene he never went near water.
G.Harman
ITYM analogue switchoff, or digital switchover
Their clocks used "Marine minutes". I could never fathom them out.
You are right. I particularly like the subtitles on this one:
"Teach yourself aquaphibian" now available on DAB radio!
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