Dear Marge.

It's not fair, I never get to hear this bubbling mud on DAB that
everyone raves about.
Perhaps it's my own fault for stupidly using an external DAB dipole to
receive the following ensembles here in NN17 land.

Ensemble Block Transmitter
BBC National 12B Peterborough
Digital One 11D Peterborough
NOW Cambridge 11C Madingley
NOW Leicester 11B Houghton-on-the-Hill
NOW Nottingham 12C Waltham

All are received at full or near full signal strength and an error rate
of 0 with never a bubble to be heard

In a desperate attempt to hear this legendary noise, I also made a coax
dipole on a stick and hung it in the corner, sadly this didn't improve
matters, Peterborough still comes blasting in at full strength with no
bubbles.


What can I do?

--
Ken O'Meara
http://www.btinternet.com/~unsteadyken/

"UnsteadyKen" wrote in message
m...
Dear Marge.

It's not fair, I never get to hear this bubbling mud on DAB that
everyone raves about.
Perhaps it's my own fault for stupidly using an external DAB dipole to
receive the following ensembles here in NN17 land.

Ensemble Block Transmitter
BBC National 12B Peterborough
Digital One 11D Peterborough
NOW Cambridge 11C Madingley
NOW Leicester 11B Houghton-on-the-Hill
NOW Nottingham 12C Waltham

All are received at full or near full signal strength and an error rate
of 0 with never a bubble to be heard

In a desperate attempt to hear this legendary noise, I also made a coax
dipole on a stick and hung it in the corner, sadly this didn't improve
matters, Peterborough still comes blasting in at full strength with no
bubbles.


What can I do?


Crosspost it Ken - it's the only certain way to get a thread started in
ukra, these days....

Keith G said...

Crosspost it Ken - it's the only certain way to get a thread started in
ukra, these days....

What! and get an earful from DABsworth and Philthy Phil?

I was just indulging in a spot of spleen venting at the DAB bashers
trotting out the bubbling mud objections again. I was going to add that
I didn't find the sound quality too objectionable either but I hardly
use it since they took Chill off the Cambridge multiplex and listen to
speech progs mostly anyway so can only judge from casual listening
recently.

In fact the main reason I got one was to listen to Oneword which
vanished soon after.

The tuner is an Acoustic Solutions SP-110
http://goo.gl/b5lx
I believe you have its big brother, I got mine as a managers special
for £25 at the local Curries, no box or instructions, dropped and
dented.
So not too much pocket money wasted. It sounds a bit threadbare through
its own outputs but is given quite a lift if I feed the optical through
my Sony Minidisc.

I mostly listen to tradio on Freeview now, being able to program a
weeks listening/viewing via the EPG is super and the sound on both
radio and TV is more than acceptable, nearly on a par with the sound
I was getting from an Arcam Delta 150 NICAM tuner, if memory serves, as
it has been retired to the cupboard for a couple of years now, and is
up for adoption as I don't want to just bin it. I've tried offering it
for free in the local paper, but no takers.
If anyone wants to collect the poor thing from Corby and have superb TV
sound until the great analogue switch off then email me or I'm in the
BT phonebook.

--
Ken O'Meara
http://www.btinternet.com/~unsteadyken/

Ah, you obviously need one of the new very cheap DAB radios by Crown. I can
absolutely guarantee that if you get one of these creations, bubbling mud,
station loss and weird preset logic shall be yours.. at least until it stops
working altogether.

Brian

--
Brian Gaff -
Note:- In order to reduce spam, any email without 'Brian Gaff'
in the display name may be lost.
Blind user, so no pictures please!
"UnsteadyKen" wrote in message
m...
Dear Marge.

It's not fair, I never get to hear this bubbling mud on DAB that
everyone raves about.
Perhaps it's my own fault for stupidly using an external DAB dipole to
receive the following ensembles here in NN17 land.

Ensemble Block Transmitter
BBC National 12B Peterborough
Digital One 11D Peterborough
NOW Cambridge 11C Madingley
NOW Leicester 11B Houghton-on-the-Hill
NOW Nottingham 12C Waltham

All are received at full or near full signal strength and an error rate
of 0 with never a bubble to be heard

In a desperate attempt to hear this legendary noise, I also made a coax
dipole on a stick and hung it in the corner, sadly this didn't improve
matters, Peterborough still comes blasting in at full strength with no
bubbles.


What can I do?

--
Ken O'Meara
http://www.btinternet.com/~unsteadyken/

Well I am DAB less since my Pure Sonus 1 XT stopped working just before
Christmas. I will have to find out how to contact their repair centre, I
guess they must have one? I don't want a new radio as the new ones don't
speak the modes and such.

If anyone has the number pray tell, their web site is completely useless and
if you try to send them a message you have to be sighted it appears.

Brian

--
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Note:- In order to reduce spam, any email without 'Brian Gaff'
in the display name may be lost.
Blind user, so no pictures please!
"UnsteadyKen" wrote in message
m...
Keith G said...

Crosspost it Ken - it's the only certain way to get a thread started in
ukra, these days....

What! and get an earful from DABsworth and Philthy Phil?

I was just indulging in a spot of spleen venting at the DAB bashers
trotting out the bubbling mud objections again. I was going to add that
I didn't find the sound quality too objectionable either but I hardly
use it since they took Chill off the Cambridge multiplex and listen to
speech progs mostly anyway so can only judge from casual listening
recently.

In fact the main reason I got one was to listen to Oneword which
vanished soon after.

The tuner is an Acoustic Solutions SP-110
http://goo.gl/b5lx
I believe you have its big brother, I got mine as a managers special
for £25 at the local Curries, no box or instructions, dropped and
dented.
So not too much pocket money wasted. It sounds a bit threadbare through
its own outputs but is given quite a lift if I feed the optical through
my Sony Minidisc.

I mostly listen to tradio on Freeview now, being able to program a
weeks listening/viewing via the EPG is super and the sound on both
radio and TV is more than acceptable, nearly on a par with the sound
I was getting from an Arcam Delta 150 NICAM tuner, if memory serves, as
it has been retired to the cupboard for a couple of years now, and is
up for adoption as I don't want to just bin it. I've tried offering it
for free in the local paper, but no takers.
If anyone wants to collect the poor thing from Corby and have superb TV
sound until the great analogue switch off then email me or I'm in the
BT phonebook.

--
Ken O'Meara
http://www.btinternet.com/~unsteadyken/

On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:27:59 GMT, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

Well I am DAB less since my Pure Sonus 1 XT stopped working just before
Christmas. I will have to find out how to contact their repair centre, I
guess they must have one? I don't want a new radio as the new ones don't
speak the modes and such.

If anyone has the number pray tell, their web site is completely useless and
if you try to send them a message you have to be sighted it appears.

Brian

No number, but their out-of-warranty repair service is handled at
www.radiofix.co.uk/Portable.html

They have a fixed price repair for your radio at £51.80. If you have a
free postage label from Articles for the Blind, it is reduced to
£44.00

d

UnsteadyKen wrote:
Dear Marge.

It's not fair, I never get to hear this bubbling mud on DAB that
everyone raves about.

Just got it on Radio 4 after I forgot to extend the aerial.
Perhaps you could put your radio in a biscuit tin.

--
Eiron.

On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:18:35 +0000, Eiron wrote:

UnsteadyKen wrote:
Dear Marge.

It's not fair, I never get to hear this bubbling mud on DAB that
everyone raves about.

Just got it on Radio 4 after I forgot to extend the aerial.
Perhaps you could put your radio in a biscuit tin.

Are you sure that wasn't just Sandi Toksvig talking?

d

More likely he was tuned to Talk Sport by mistake.

Brian

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"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:18:35 +0000, Eiron wrote:

UnsteadyKen wrote:
Dear Marge.

It's not fair, I never get to hear this bubbling mud on DAB that
everyone raves about.

Just got it on Radio 4 after I forgot to extend the aerial.
Perhaps you could put your radio in a biscuit tin.

Are you sure that wasn't just Sandi Toksvig talking?

d

"UnsteadyKen" wrote in message
m...
Keith G said...

Crosspost it Ken - it's the only certain way to get a thread started in
ukra, these days....

What! and get an earful from DABsworth and Philthy Phil?



Ignore 'em....


The tuner is an Acoustic Solutions SP-110
http://goo.gl/b5lx
I believe you have its big brother,


Looks the same as mine, so I don't know about it being its 'big brother -
perhaps they take the SP111s and hit them with a stick?


I got mine as a managers special
for £25 at the local Curries, no box or instructions, dropped and
dented.


There you are then!! :-)



So not too much pocket money wasted. It sounds a bit threadbare through
its own outputs but is given quite a lift if I feed the optical through
my Sony Minidisc.


My DAB is on all day and every day as 'sonic wallpaper' and it feeds into a
Denon amp on a pair of the utterly remarkable 'Cyburg's Needles':

http://www.greenie512.net/greenie512/html/needles.html

....which I think help no end, but I would say it sounds absolutely
'digital' - fine, mostly troublefree and possibly a little bland on CFM
during the day, but it can sound very nice at low volume, late at night and
R3 is always better if you can catch them actually playing a bit of
music....

Yesterday I was listening to some very nice Duparc (Chanson Triste) and
needed to shift camp, so moved onto my FM setup and was a little dismayed at
the hiss for a few moments until I was able to 'tune it out'....