DIGITAL SWITCHOVER

TheQ said:

No it's not selfish if you read what I said it was ban FM only radios and sell those with dab as well.
So it won't stop you getting FM it just makes you have dab available.
You get digital TV ? Then you get digital radio, you will get dab when they convert all the old radio transmitters to it.
I'll point out I live on the coast of Norfolk i get terrestrial TV only by having an amplifier in the roof, some parts of Norfolk only got Yorkshire tv until the advent of digital.
We get mobile phone signal by standing up stairs in the bath room near the window, And I have yet to get dab at home it appears on the way to Norwich.

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I'm with @derwendolly here. I know I sound like a proponent of DAB, but I'm not really, I'm a proponent of reasonable radio coverage in the first place while at the same time appreciating efficient use of the available radio spectrum.
East Anglia is generally so pan flat (a pile of builder's rubble can often be classified as a mountain) that a single transmitter mast can have a coverage of a fifty mile radius or more around it.
Where I live, the local flat garden society are still looking for their first member, and it's the same sort of thing where dd lives in as I can say "deepest, darkest West Wales".
The television signal in the valley here has to be transmitted by little repeater stations on the tops of the mountains, in some places they appear every three to five miles, just to get the basic coverage. The only way is to get a TV signal from a satellite; Sky or FreeSat. Repeater stations cost money.

this is all very well.............but will we still get the Shipping Forecast and TMS !!!! ??

saxavordian said:

Have you notice with the pickup for DAB radio Flares and Sideburns styles have dropped. Currently I still use my in built radio with the cassette model in the Freelander 1. I still have hundreds of tape cassettes lying dormant as are my LP EPs. Yet I have tried DAB in the car and frankly gave this up as with either having to store away when not using to prevent crime also losing favourite channels to DAB. So now I am growing my sideburns and looking for flares trousers and tank tops and accept listening my local radio station Revolution 96.2

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DAB down this way is pointless. We've had DAB/FM radios in the last 3 of the wife's cars. Those radio's have only ever been tuned into FM stations, as the DAB signal is too patchy to actually listen to it. For me, mobile and DAB don't work together. Static DAB in the home is a different story however.

On the face of it, moving over to DAB makes sense, as the higher the frequency, the more information can be sent in a narrower bandwidth. From the authorities point of view this is great, because it means it frees up radio spectrum that they can then sell the licence for. But the downside in this application is that the higher the frequency, the more 'line of sight' it gets, hence the problems that Derwendolly and Brian47 are having. I don't see it working for moving vehicles, unless somebody invests in more transmitters to cover the blind spots. The Govt aren't going to use the lolly they just made from flogging the licence to put up more antennas, and commercial radio won't either as it will kill their profits. We don't do 'joined up' here anymore.....

What's the crack with stations randomly changing over to their sister stations on their own? Capital does it between Yorkshire and north east and Viking/tfm does it too.im in north yorks so can tune into both but please,one at a time yeah? Can be at the end of a song and then suddenly it starts again.Get that Groundhog Day feeling lol