"DAB sounds worse than FM" wrote in message ...
I've tried an FM indoor aerial and a rooftop TV aerial with DAB and both
worked fine, so maybe they're just chancing their luck?

If it works...

That is shockingly slow. The channelspotters/channelhoppers will get a bit
frustrated with this stereo.


So, DAB not content with sounding attrocious actually causes road traffic
accidents! It's not got much going for it has it...

Think of it as evolution in action...

snip section about audio quality in cars

What's the coverage like for the national multiplexes? Does it correlate
well with the coverage maps?

The maps are actually pretty good, IME. The BBC tends to be a *bit*
pessimistic.

The Goodmans set seems to pull in the national multiplexes very well -
in some cases well beyond the reception area on the map. However,
Band III doesn't go round hills as well as Band II, so if you get on
the wrong side of some local geography, you're going to lose the
signal unless there's another transmitter illuminating the far side.
There is no audible sign of moving from one to the other (as there is
with RDS for instance).

I haven't really tested the limits with Digital One, as I spend most
of my time well within their service area with a (reasonably) dense
network of transmitters. I've not seen it drop out at all, except in
places like tunnels and underground car parks.

The MXR maps(I think they've withdrawn them from their website, which
if true is a pity) for the Severn Estuary and West Midlands are
awesomely accurate, even down to little patches of outlying reception
on the side of hills.

NOW are pretty accurate as well. CE don't publish maps, but since
their transmission arrangements are deeply crap (at least they are in
Birmingham and Cardiff), it hardly matters.

Phil