Digital radio switchover gets poor reception

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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: In article ,
: Michael Chare wrote:
: Perhaps he is promoting traffic jams, as DAB radios don't
switch to
: traffic info broadcasts which tell people where there are
jams that
: they may be able to avoid.
:
: I've yet to have any of these traffic broadcasts warn me of a
jam - just
: tell me much later I'm in one...

Oh, I've been lucky - once - but had I been one vehicle back it
would have just informed me of why I had just been stopped and
could see for myself through the windscreen!

:
: Might be better in areas of the country less densely populated
than the
: London area.
:

My example was in such an area, I have never heard a single TA
that allowed me top take such action, and I say that as someone
who used to drive the length and berths of the UK.
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Regards, Jerry.

"Zero Tolerance" wrote in message
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: On Mon, 24 May 2010 11:44:58 +0100, "Max Demian"
: wrote:
:
: I've never found that facility much use either - it's all
right having a
: vague traffic report as part of a programme, but it the radio
is going to
: interrupt a programme/tape/CD the report needs to be *very*
specific.
:
: It shouldn't be beyond the realms of current technology for
traffic
: reports (or parts of traffic reports) to be geotagged so as to
enable
: suitably smart radios to only present material of direct and
immediate
: relevance to you.

Isn't it, sort of, built into SatNavs, the SatNav can find out
were there are jams etc., just needs a way of incorporating both
(Navigational and radio TA) technologies into the one unit.
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Regards, Jerry.

On Mon, 24 May 2010 12:15:53 +0100, Adrian wrote:

Max Demian wrote:
"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Michael Chare wrote:
Perhaps he is promoting traffic jams, as DAB radios don't switch to
traffic info broadcasts which tell people where there are jams that
they may be able to avoid.
I've yet to have any of these traffic broadcasts warn me of a jam - just
tell me much later I'm in one...

I've never found that facility much use either - it's all right having a
vague traffic report as part of a programme, but it the radio is going to
interrupt a programme/tape/CD the report needs to be *very* specific.

The last traffic report I heard for somewhere close told me the road I'd
just driven down was closed.

I used to get traffic reports for North Devon while driving along the
Gower Peninsula, in my last car (406 with FM radio), but get no
traffic reports at all from the FM radio in my Merc :-(
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Peter

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"Petert" wrote in message
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: I used to get traffic reports for North Devon while driving
along the
: Gower Peninsula, in my last car (406 with FM radio), but get no
: traffic reports at all from the FM radio in my Merc :-(

Well you would down-grade on the car you own!
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Regards, Jerry.

On Mon, 24 May 2010 16:32:21 +0100, "Jerry"
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"Petert" wrote in message
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: I used to get traffic reports for North Devon while driving
along the
: Gower Peninsula, in my last car (406 with FM radio), but get no
: traffic reports at all from the FM radio in my Merc :-(

Well you would down-grade on the car you own!

It is a cheap Merc!!
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/7753364/Digital-radio-switchover-gets-poor-reception.html

What annoyed me was Stephen Fry promoting DAB on Radio 4.

Perhaps he is promoting traffic jams, as DAB radios don't
switch to
traffic info broadcasts which tell people where there are
jams that
they may be able to avoid.



DAB radios in Land Rovers switch from DAB to VHF/FM stations
when they
carry traffic announcements.

I think my Blaupunkt can too - but I never bother with traffic
news anyway.
Not only is it usually useless but crashes in and out in a most
unprofessional way. A bit like the ads on the minority ITV
channels. ;-)


I think you will find it only happens when the radio is set to
DAB/FM auto switching, i.e. it loses as station on DAB and
switches to the same station (in theory at least) on FM, and goes
back to DAB whnen it recovers.

If the DAB/FM auto switching is off then it does not provide TA
at all when on DAB.


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On 5/24/10 5:26 PM, Petert wrote:
I used to get traffic reports for North Devon while driving along the
Gower Peninsula, in my last car (406 with FM radio), but get no
traffic reports at all from the FM radio in my Merc :-(

Very likely there is a switch to enable it.

gr, hwh

On Mon, 24 May 2010 19:10:26 +0200, hwh
wrote:

On 5/24/10 5:26 PM, Petert wrote:
I used to get traffic reports for North Devon while driving along the
Gower Peninsula, in my last car (406 with FM radio), but get no
traffic reports at all from the FM radio in my Merc :-(

Very likely there is a switch to enable it.

gr, hwh

I think it's TP (Traffic Programme) which is perminantly illuminated
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On Mon, 24 May 2010 19:57:28 +0100, Petert wrote:

I think it's TP (Traffic Programme) which is perminantly illuminated

That just tells you that the station you are tuned to carries tarrif
information if you want to hear other stations Traffic Announcements
you need to have the TA flag on as well.

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Cheers
Dave.

Petert wrote:
On Mon, 24 May 2010 19:10:26 +0200, hwh
wrote:

On 5/24/10 5:26 PM, Petert wrote:
I used to get traffic reports for North Devon while driving along the
Gower Peninsula, in my last car (406 with FM radio), but get no
traffic reports at all from the FM radio in my Merc :-(
Very likely there is a switch to enable it.

gr, hwh

I think it's TP (Traffic Programme) which is perminantly illuminated

That means the station you're tuned to has a travel news facility, however to
activate your radio to give travel news interruptions you normally need to
active a TA function. The 406 radio has a TA button, it might be rather more
cryptic in your Merc !

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