DAB for Cars?
 

I don't have to, just listen to a minicab driver trying to listen to
TalkSport on it in Kingston Upon Thames where it seems to vary between very
good to bubbling gurgling and nothing at all at random.
Brian

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"UK Traveller" wrote in message
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Oh dear! DAB doesn't seem to get much support among the motoring classes
either....

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-new...rce=newsletter

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Correct of course but its far more complicated, I believe the Germans have
some dab in UHf.
Brian

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UK Traveller wrote...

DAB doesn't seem to get much support among the motoring classes
either....

Clods who post about radio in a TV group are not flavour of the month
either.

DAB is a TV system too, they've been doing it since 2006:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09..._broadcast_tv/

Also, DAB uses TV channels, namely the 7 MHz channels of the long
established European System B, divided into quarters. So BBC National DAB
Block 12B for example, is actually the second quarter of TV Channel E12.

DAB for Cars?
 

In article ,
Brian Gaff wrote:
I don't have to, just listen to a minicab driver trying to listen to
TalkSport on it in Kingston Upon Thames where it seems to vary between
very good to bubbling gurgling and nothing at all at random.

DAB requires a decent aerial in a car. Those window ones which come with
some are useless. Snag is a decent aerial can cost as much as the radio.
I've no experience of factory fit ones.

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DAB for Cars?
 

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

DAB requires a decent aerial in a car. Those window ones which come with
some are useless. Snag is a decent aerial can cost as much as the radio.
I've no experience of factory fit ones.


I've made several DAB car aerials for me and Paul. I use a cheap car
aerial mount from CPC and fit a bit of steel wire cut to length. I have
almost unlimited supplies of the single strand stainless wires that were
intended to make up the ropes for the Severn Bridge.

The aerials work very well, except that they pick up a lot of Welsh
stations.

Bill

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On 18/12/2013 11:18, Brian Gaff wrote:
Correct of course but its far more complicated, I believe the Germans have
some dab in UHf.

No, just Band III, they might have dabbled about with L Band (1.4GHz)
in the past, some early DAB receivers were equipped for it, and there
were tests here and in France. Canada had a service on L Band but tat
ceased in 2011


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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

DAB requires a decent aerial in a car. Those window ones which come with
some are useless. Snag is a decent aerial can cost as much as the radio.
I've no experience of factory fit ones.


I've made several DAB car aerials for me and Paul. I use a cheap car
aerial mount from CPC and fit a bit of steel wire cut to length. I have
almost unlimited supplies of the single strand stainless wires that were
intended to make up the ropes for the Severn Bridge.

The aerials work very well, except that they pick up a lot of Welsh
stations.

You must have used wires from the Welsh side of the bridge instead of the
English side!

DAB for Cars?
 

In article , Mark Carver
scribeth thus
On 18/12/2013 11:18, Brian Gaff wrote:
Correct of course but its far more complicated, I believe the Germans have
some dab in UHf.

No, just Band III, they might have dabbled about with L Band (1.4GHz)
in the past, some early DAB receivers were equipped for it, and there
were tests here and in France. Canada had a service on L Band but tat
ceased in 2011



As well it might .. better frequencies for mobile phone use than
broadcast...
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DAB for Cars?
 

On 18/12/2013 12:18, tony sayer wrote:
In article , Mark Carver

No, just Band III, they might have dabbled about with L Band (1.4GHz)
in the past, some early DAB receivers were equipped for it, and there
were tests here and in France. Canada had a service on L Band but tat
ceased in 2011



As well it might .. better frequencies for mobile phone use than
broadcast...

Yes, possibly, though I walked around Paris about ten years ago
listening to their L Band DAB, and it was as good/bad as the Band III
reception, (but the Eiffel tower Tx was rarely out of sight !)

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DAB for Cars?
 

In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:
DAB requires a decent aerial in a car. Those window ones which come
with some are useless. Snag is a decent aerial can cost as much as the
radio. I've no experience of factory fit ones.


I've made several DAB car aerials for me and Paul. I use a cheap car
aerial mount from CPC and fit a bit of steel wire cut to length. I have
almost unlimited supplies of the single strand stainless wires that were
intended to make up the ropes for the Severn Bridge.

The one I've got is active. Actually got two amps. The DAB one is line
powered - the other a separate +12v feed. And of course two downleads -
one for DAB, one for everything else. It does work very well though on
everything. FM reception is much better than on the factory setup with
rear window aerial on my other car too.

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DAB for Cars?
 

On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:24:35 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Brian Gaff wrote:
I don't have to, just listen to a minicab driver trying to listen to
TalkSport on it in Kingston Upon Thames where it seems to vary between
very good to bubbling gurgling and nothing at all at random.

DAB requires a decent aerial in a car. Those window ones which come with
some are useless. Snag is a decent aerial can cost as much as the radio.
I've no experience of factory fit ones.

My 59 reg Focus came with a Sony DAB radio fitted. Works well 99% of
the time. Occasional drop-outs when in some parts of Kent - the A249
between the M20 and the M2 in particular.
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Pete