DAB Digital Radio

[Boddie]

Normal radio in the Welsh mountains is a bit ropey, if you can get it at all.

Does DAB work from satelites and if so has anyone tried it in areas where normal reception is poor?

Cheers

[Gill Catton]

Originally Posted by Boddie

Normal radio in the Welsh mountains is a bit ropey, if you can get it at all.

Does DAB work from satelites and if so has anyone tried it in areas where normal reception is poor?

Cheers

When I was working in Suffolk - despite al that flat land I couldn't get a decent fm signal at all where I worked and I bought a DAB thing - still no signal Don't think it's satallites but I could be wrong think it's terrestrial transmitters.
It had a CD player though!

[nightshade]

Hi Boddie sorry it is terrestrial for now,satellite may come though!

[Gill Catton]

Originally Posted by nightshade

Hi Boddie sorry it is terrestrial for now,satellite may come though!

Can't wait I love all the choice, I'd love to be able to listen to it more easily in my car.

[Boddie]

Yep its ropey in the car and on trains. Shame really as some of the choices are great. Have to admit I bought it just for the cricket and to listen to sporting events on but even in the woods here its not the best. Some of the music channels are fantastic, real specialist stuff. Guess thats why I like it as have never been into anything commercial. I'm not really into conforming socially, preferring to do something a little special and leftfield

[Gill Catton]

Originally Posted by Boddie

Yep its ropey in the car and on trains. Shame really as some of the choices are great. Have to admit I bought it just for the cricket and to listen to sporting events on but even in the woods here its not the best. Some of the music channels are fantastic, real specialist stuff. Guess thats why I like it as have never been into anything commercial. I'm not really into conforming socially, preferring to do something a little special and leftfield

well even just BBC six music opens my eyes up to new stuff and new old stuff (if you know what I mean!) all the time and i really like the presenters. I'm slightly allergic to conforming - but I totally know what you mean. I do like some commercial stuff and decided years ago that I was just going to like what I like no matter what people think if I want to listen to goldfrapp or Britney I will if I want to listen to Jim Noir or mettafix (and plase do they're brill) I will dammit.....

[Boddie]

I will get involved on limewire later and let you know, marks out of ten. At the moment I am listening to Portishead, again, (its the messages) but am usually involved in anything from harry connick to grooverider. Had a fantastic summer last year getting a few warehouse parties in in London, then some, in darkened pubs on Columbia Road, East End. A really good vibe. Shoreditch is a very good place to be this time of year and its going to get abused this summer. My favoutrite album right now is pop chop. It is strange and hard to get of so no-one plays it, then sunday I like to kick back and slide with Eva Cassidy, or maybe some champagne lounge music but sure bbc seem to be getting their act together with some of the newer channels. Might even start paying my license again.

[Jonny]

I would like to find a radio station who plays tangerine dream. I bought a goodmans dab radio and it is rubbish, keeps on going wrong, finds about 50 stations and then says nothing available ???.................Jon

[Boddie]

Thats no good. Mine is a walkman. I bought it when they first came out about three of four years back and have to say I have always got on fine with it but would like better coverage. I thought maybe that digital tv gives me most of the channels you can get from DAB so never bought for home. I like when I am outside, on my own, taking a walk. Yup

[Gill Catton]

I have a little Panasonic (other makes are available) DAB + CD player thing (it does a very flash slidy thing with the cd door thing too - which is always a good thing) which I listen to at work a lot and I've never had any trouble with it apart from when I was in Suffolk but then there was no signal at all where I was!