Petition to stop FM being switched off

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from Adrian C contains these words:

Johnny B Good wrote:

Forgive me if this seems a daft question, but how does DRM (Digital
Rights Management) create greater bandwidth?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Radio_Mondiale

Thanks Adrian and Steve. That's cleared up the confusion. It's just a
pity that it shares the same acronym as those misbegotten and deprecated
software schemes to protect the commercial interests of the "Corporate
Entertainment Industries".

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In article , DAB sounds worse than
FM writes

There's a 10 Downing St petition to stop FM/AM being switched off:

I've not been following this, but if FM is switched off, what happens to
the millions of car radios fitted? What about those that are built into
the console and can't be swapped out?

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In article , Eeyore rabbitsfriendsan
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More diversity is what's required

That worked REALLY well with Freeview, didn't it?

Dave, Dave+1, Dave +1+1, C4, More4. E4... endless repeats of the same
stuff. Yeah, diversity.

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"Alan" wrote in message
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Why would anyone want to sign something that may prevent us getting
hundreds of radio stations on DAB?

Well, I already have 4 FM radios as well as one in each of our families
cars.

We don't have a DAB radio.

Is that a good enough reason???


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In message , Kráftéé
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Jimbo GM4DHJ .... wrote:
| "DAB sounds worse than FM" wrote in message
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|| There's a 10 Downing St petition to stop FM/AM being switched off:
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|| http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/AM-FM-Radio/
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|| Please sign. Thanks.
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| cool thanks ......

Maybe some more bandwidth to play with.......Naah I doubt it (it'll be
sold to the highest bidder)

Who IS going to buy that part of the spectrum? There's not a lot of
activity between (say) 30 and 87MHz at the moment, so I don't think that
there will be as great a demand for the FM radio spectrum as some people
think.
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Ian

Mike Tomlinson wrote:
In article , DAB sounds worse than
FM writes

There's a 10 Downing St petition to stop FM/AM being switched off:

I've not been following this, but if FM is switched off, what happens
to the millions of car radios fitted? What about those that are
built into the console and can't be swapped out?

The government will offer us an extra £1000 plus to crush them and the cars
they're in on enviromental grounds :-)

In message , DAB sounds worse than
FM writes



* DAB uses frequencies of around 200 MHz, whereas FM uses frequencies
of around 100 MHz - i.e. DAB couldn't be transmitted in the FM band
anyway

Surely there's no technical reason why DAB cannot be transmitted at the
present 'FM' frequencies? It is arguable that propagation and RF
penetration is better than at 200MHz. All you will need is a new radio.
This will be no great hardship as, the way things are going, if they
change DAB to DAB+ I'm going to have to change my DAB/FM radio anyway in
order to receive anything at all.

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Ian

In article ,
Mike Tomlinson wrote:
I've not been following this, but if FM is switched off, what happens to
the millions of car radios fitted? What about those that are built into
the console and can't be swapped out?

You can often get adaptor plates to allow a 'standard' size radio to be
fitted. Plenty want to upgrade the unit fitted as standard. Or use a DAB
to FM convertor - just like plugging a FreeView box into the TV aerial
input.

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"Mike Tomlinson" wrote in message
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In article , DAB sounds worse than
FM writes

There's a 10 Downing St petition to stop FM/AM being switched off:

I've not been following this, but if FM is switched off, what happens to
the millions of car radios fitted? What about those that are built into
the console and can't be swapped out?


as I have said before..."new technology...squandering the worlds
resources".......

In article , Ian Jackson ianREMOVET
scribeth thus
In message , Kráftéé
writes
Jimbo GM4DHJ .... wrote:
| "DAB sounds worse than FM" wrote in message
| ...
|| There's a 10 Downing St petition to stop FM/AM being switched off:
||
|| http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/AM-FM-Radio/
||
|| Please sign. Thanks.
||
||
| cool thanks ......

Maybe some more bandwidth to play with.......Naah I doubt it (it'll be
sold to the highest bidder)

Who IS going to buy that part of the spectrum? There's not a lot of
activity between (say) 30 and 87MHz at the moment, so I don't think that
there will be as great a demand for the FM radio spectrum as some people
think.

There are tracts of spectrum from around 30 to 87 MHz that are hardly
used as no one wants them;!...
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Tony Sayer