Digital radio
Ok.
Having just moved to the UK (not only just - more than a year ago now) I miss the Norwegian radio stations (Radio Ein, P4 and most of all P3).
Now, If I get a DAB digital Radio that is so often advertised on those (primitive!) analog stations, can I receive foreign local stations?
Having just moved to the UK (not only just - more than a year ago now) I miss the Norwegian radio stations (Radio Ein, P4 and most of all P3).
Now, If I get a DAB digital Radio that is so often advertised on those (primitive!) analog stations, can I receive foreign local stations?
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What you've just moved to the UK and you're an expert in gaelic.
I love Sweden's Rix FM and listen to it via the net. Cant answer the DAB question though.
Anyway Sweden is better than Norway, so there.
By the way, the word you repeatedly hear at the end which sounds like "sh*t" is not swearing in Swedish. It has the same meaning as in English but it's not swearing in Swedish.
And I wouldn't say I'm an expert in Gaelic... I just randomly picked up a book and started learn the language. Just because I thoght it would be interesting (and it is). I signed up to savegaelic.org which has been an immense help.
I, too, often listen to radio on the internet. Because there aren't any decent stations in Derbyshire. I've always wanted to hear BBC R?idio nan nGaidheil, but it's never "ann an aidhear" ("on air") when I want it to be :)
Has anyone tried DAB?
It should read Radio Penistone
I hope.
Thank god he didn't miss some letters off Radio Scunthorpe.
Short answer, no.
Digital Radio cannot travel nearly as far as analogue for some bizarre reason, and there are no foreign stations being broadcast in the UK as of yet (not including BBC Radio Asian).
I thought it was like a satelite thing, same as those television digiboxes you get...
I thought they were using transmitters like the old analogue system - which was why covgerage in some areas can be poor / non-existant.
Excuse my ignorance, but I am english u know.
I'll get me coat.
Mycket R?lligt. Skitkul!
Only Satellite TV is broadcast via satellite obviously.
Freeview and DAB radio is still via the existing ground-based transmitters.
You're probably right, actually: I remember my late Granfather splashed out on a digital radio for his kitchen, and couldn't hear anything. Then my mother gave him an analogue radio same as hers, and the reception was perfect... Tut-tut. I don't see why they are so eagre to convert to digital myself.
It is quite possible that there was no digital signal being sent. No signal = no reception.
Digital conversion is basically being done so that analogue space can be sold off by the looks of it - if you're a cynic that is. Otherwise you basically have a more efficient use of the data transfer capabilities of the channel - i.e. you get more stuff through due to compression.
Ofcom can't flog off the radio frequencies, or the tv ones, because they would be incompatible with radio and tv elswhere. there was a load of nonsense about mobiles using those frequencies, but who want's a mobile that only works in (certain parts of) England.
The real reason is because some dopey polititian set a target. So now they're going all out to destroy analogue TV.
They have proven that analogue and Digital TV can work side by side with (*next to) no interference. so why insist on turning off analogue by twenty twentywhenever.
* In the last few months I have noticed diagonal lines drifting down my TV. Dont know if its related
As I said it's compressed.
Analogue uses approximately 5 times the bandwidth of digital for a single channel. Plus analogue is preventing digital from working in certain areas due to RF channel conflicts caused by transmitter borders - basically there's no room to place digital broadcasts because they'd interfere with the analogue. This also restricts the signal strength in areas where there is the availble RF space.
Simply put it is not reasonable to have the two systems existing side by side - it certainly doesn't make sense to replicate the broadcasts sent on one in another. Hence the need for a switchoff.
That is not a compression artifact of MPEG2 so it is not directly related to digital. It sounds more like RF interference from another device is causing that. There may be other reasons - how you connect, what type of TV you have etc...
Just a thought.