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Old 10th Apr 2004, 10:21 pm   #1
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Default a disturbing thought on DAB........

Hi everyone............
heres a disturbing thought...............................; with a good valve radio you can tune round Europe in the day, and around the World at night........................my Saba Frieburg 125, with a VERY careful positioning of 10 ft of wire, will recieve, at the back of my house, Saga 105.7fm from the west midlands at good strength,and I am in Hayes, west London! 100 miles!!---

With DAB, you only recieve what they WANT you to recieve........................think about it.......what is the future for radio as the most important form of communication? Worrying, isnt it?
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Old 11th Apr 2004, 1:19 pm   #2
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Default Re: a disturbing thought on DAB........

You raise a very good point here. With DAB and indeed all digital tv you only get what " they " want to give you.
But saying that if you live in a good coverage area you get a choice of up to 40 different stations.
I remember this same concern being raised in a letter to the Radio Times back in the early 1970's about everyone being equiped with vhf and uhf tv and radios with many people not being able to receive anything from the next county yet alone the next country.
I think it is a very healthy state of affairs that we can listen to other countries directly via the AM bands and I hope this point of freedom is never denied to any of us who want to seek an alternative point of view to the one that is fed to us by our own news organisations.
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Old 11th Apr 2004, 1:44 pm   #3
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Default Re: a disturbing thought on DAB........

Although the quality is low, there is always internet radio. With a broadband connection the sound isn't too bad if the station has a higher bitrate feed. Probably better for speach than music though.

There's a wide range available, around the world. See http://www.live-radio.net/info.shtml (try to ignore all the advertising...).
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Old 11th Apr 2004, 4:46 pm   #4
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Default Re: a disturbing thought on DAB........

DRM (Digital Radio Mondial) should become a standard for digital AM broadcasting soon. It claims to offer stereo and near FM quality on LW/MW/SW. I suppose the actual quality will depend on how low they push the bit rate.

http://www.drm.org/
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Old 11th Apr 2004, 9:40 pm   #5
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Default Re: a disturbing thought on DAB........

I don't think it is so bad with DAB. It gives us something else to listen to (40 or so stations here) and we can always fall back on other types of radio broadcasting - although I find I am using broadband more and more rather than shortwave. :
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