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Message: <blockquote data-quote="2cvbloke" data-source="post: 865485" data-attributes="member: 199791">I won't be buying into DAB, we have a stereo with a DAB radio built in, and it does work well round here, mostly cos we're right next door to the Pontop pike and Burnhope transmitters, back in Lancashire though, it was a bit patchy, despite still being relatively close to the Pendle Forest transmitter, and any electrical interference (light switches usually) and it just wasn't useable... <img src="http://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll Eyes    :rolleyes:" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" />Before that stereo appeared, the only way we got DAB was via a portable radio, and it was (well, still is, it's somewhere in the house) a complete pile of poo compared to even the cheapo FM tuner in my Nokia phones at the time, move about and it garbled up, popped and squeaked in the usual digital cliff fashion, ironically, the best way to use it was as a relay for the analogue stereo with a mini FM transmitter to tune the radio into (as the DAB toy had to be high up to receive something less garbled!!), so ultimately, FM was still needed to make the DABPOS work... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite13" alt=":-rofl2" title="roll on floor    :-rofl2" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":-rofl2" />These days though with the advent of mobile broadband and infinite numbers of streaming radio stations on the internet, DAB is no longer a contender for listening to the radio in my book, heck, most mobile phones come with FM tuners, not DAB tuners, so for something modern like a smartphone to have something invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong in the 1930s fitted just shows how reliable it is... <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" data-shortname=":)" />Still, the last time I intentionally listened to the radio myself (as in not because someone else had it on) was last winter when the snow was getting a bit heavy to check on bus services and road closures on Radio Newcastle, using my mobile phone's FM tuner of course... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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