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DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:
The DAB spec was finalised long before 1997. Same as anything else like
that.


Yes, so all the more time to realise that DAB wasn't up to the job. Do
you not even realise that 100 - 120 smaller UK local stations can't
even get on DAB either due to there being no capacity left in their
area or they simply can't afford to transmit on DAB?

And those stations either existed or were planned when DAB was in the
planning stage?

You could say *exactly* the same about analogue UHF TV - why didn't they
plan properly for CH5?

WHICH IMBECILES thought it was a good idea to launch a system that
couldn't even carry all the stations? AND this is after they've
decimated the bit rates. If they broadcast at good audio quality levels
the DAB system would probably only be able to carry 50% of all UK radio
stations.

It's a ****ing joke, and how anybody can stick up for it is beyond me.

Some have an idea about the timescale and difficulties in setting up
something new like this.

Plenty like you can give magic fixes with the benefit of hindsight. Or
perhaps you could give details of correspondence you had with the BBC when
DAB was first mooted pointing out all the 'obvious' flaws? Could have been
a great help to them as some very fine engineers indeed didn't see them
coming.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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