DAB workshop reception

[John HaineParticipant @johnhaine32865]

You think fm isn't a single chip these days? There have been combos doing fm, Bluetooth, wifi, nfc, and other functions for 10 years or so for mobile phones. Given the high complexity of dab compared to fm the chips will be bigger and more expensive made in the same quantity, but the main reason the receivers for DAB are much more expensive than fm is they are made in 1% of the volume, globally.

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Posted by Roger Provins 2 on 11/01/2016 16:24:45:

I used to listen to the Test matches, all day long, on the LW. Do they still do that?

Absolutely, and all you need is a coat hanger aerial – oh blow, coat hangers are all plastic nowadays.

[Frances IoMParticipant @francesiom58905]

there is also the minor problem that the UK fixed on an old and relatively poor system – the newer DAB+ system that may eventually be adopted by other countries that only dabbled with DAB, offers considerable improvements in coding quality and thus can squeeze more stations into same bandwidth but is incompatible with the old standard which means that any switch over from Dab to Dab+ obsoletes all the older sets – newer sets should be marked DAB/DAB+

The real reason for pushing DAB is that the VHF band is sought by other users once the great British public can be convinced that DAB with its often poor reception can replace the generally always useful VHF/FM service

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