Hi,
Looking for a DAB radio to leave in the bathroom! Main problem is
reception - it seems to be a weak signal - so sensitivity is an issue. Also
must run on batteries so battery life is a consideration. Does not need any
fancy features - radios 3 and 4!

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Gordon

"Gordon MacPherson" wrote in message
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Hi,
Looking for a DAB radio to leave in the bathroom! Main problem is
reception - it seems to be a weak signal - so sensitivity is an issue.
Also must run on batteries so battery life is a consideration. Does not
need any fancy features - radios 3 and 4!

Any ideas?

If you only want R3 and R4 does it need to be DAB? It'll be a lot easier to
find an FM radio to suit your requirement.

David.

In article , Gordon MacPherson gordon.macph
scribeth thus
Hi,
Looking for a DAB radio to leave in the bathroom! Main problem is
reception - it seems to be a weak signal - so sensitivity is an issue. Also
must run on batteries so battery life is a consideration. Does not need any
fancy features - radios 3 and 4!

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Gordon



If thats all you need and the claimed perfick DAB reception isn't up to
it then why bother with DAB?. If you follow most any DAB forum apart
from poor audio quality, OK not that much of a problem for a bathroom
radio, the biggest gripe is power consumption and hence battery life!..

Interesting that your posting from an ox.ac.uk mail addy and if you are
in Oxford there is a main TX at Beckley radiating 10 kW on DAB just to
the North of the town;!...

Get an FM one, will be around for quite sometime as yet!....
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In article ,
Gordon MacPherson wrote:
Hi, Looking for a DAB radio to leave in the bathroom! Main problem is
reception - it seems to be a weak signal - so sensitivity is an issue.
Also must run on batteries so battery life is a consideration. Does not
need any fancy features - radios 3 and 4!

Any ideas?

DAB tends to be much heavier on batteries than analogue due to the
processing involved. If battery life is important FM would be a better
choice. If you're worried about it being switched off I'm willing to bet
this simply won't happen in the foreseeable future. Too many cars without
it - and no signs of it being fitted to new ones.

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In article ,
tony sayer wrote:
If thats all you need and the claimed perfick DAB reception isn't up to
it then why bother with DAB?. If you follow most any DAB forum apart
from poor audio quality, OK not that much of a problem for a bathroom
radio, the biggest gripe is power consumption and hence battery life!..

R3 uses a higher data rate than any other and is likely to sound just
fine. As will R4 being mainly speech.
I also wonder just how many would notice the other stations low data rate
on a portable. My guess is very, very few. Especially in a blind test. ;-)

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Dave Plowman London SW
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Gordon MacPherson wrote:

Looking for a DAB radio to leave in the bathroom! Main problem is
reception - it seems to be a weak signal - so sensitivity is an
issue. Also must run on batteries so battery life is a
consideration. Does not need any fancy features - radios 3 and 4!

Pure Oasis. Cracking piece of kit: showerproof, damn loud (important
in a shower) and decent battery life. There's a new version, the
Oasis Flow, that has analogue radio too. I find the reception
execellent, but I'm in Cambridge which has middling DAB signal
strength.

Andrew.

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote

If you're worried about it being switched off I'm willing to bet
this simply won't happen in the foreseeable future. Too many cars without
it - and no signs of it being fitted to new ones.


Agreed. The new government has abandoned the 2015 date for analogue
switch-off that the previous one had set, and is now simply talking about
switching off analogue when the majority of listeners have switched to
digital. That won't be in 2015, probably not by 2025.

It seems to me that DAB has simply failed to make the grade. I wouldn't mind
betting that FM will outlast DAB!

David.

"Andrew Haley" wrote in message
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Pure Oasis. Cracking piece of kit: showerproof, damn loud (important
in a shower)

I cannot for the life of me image why anyone needs a radio in a shower!

Nor can I see why anyone needs to use DAB for R3 or R4, esp if they need to
run it off batteries.

David.

David Looser wrote:


It seems to me that DAB has simply failed to make the grade. I wouldn't
mind betting that FM will outlast DAB!

I recall that the specs for FM are better than the specs for DAB, assuming
you have a good FM signal.

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In article , Peter Chant
wrote:
David Looser wrote:


It seems to me that DAB has simply failed to make the grade. I
wouldn't mind betting that FM will outlast DAB!

I recall that the specs for FM are better than the specs for DAB,
assuming you have a good FM signal.

Which 'specs' are you referring to?

For an 'in the shower' portable you may also have trouble using a 3 element
yagi as the FM antenna to get the "good FM signal". :-)

That said, like others I'd expect a decent FM portable to also do the job
fine if the RF signal is adequate. So I'd have only recommended DAB if
either the local RF situation made it preferrable or the user wanted other
stations like BBC Radio 7 that aren't on FM.

Slainte,

Jim

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