Dab radio question

steamjetjoe

Hello all,

Living in Co Westmeath. ****ty radio is hard to tune in most of the time. I Would like to recieve RTE 1, 98, fm 104, Spin 103 & newstalk, the main stations really. Would a DAB radio sort out my problem.

watty

Moved to Terrestrial. See Dead Dab Donkey thread.

A roof aerial such as a 45 Eur Discone (NOT a Halo / UK FM aerial) would help and usually allows perfect reception of Kerry, Clare and Tipp local stations in Limerick. Older UK is horizontal polarised. All Modern radio is Slant or circular polarised so a vertical whip, vertical dipole or discone are best cheap solutions.


Satellite is good for radio, but not local.

L1011

iRadio drown's FM104 and Spin1038 in the midlands so theres no chance of getting them no matter what FM aerial is used Watty

steamjoe - I think you're too far out for even a high gain DAB aerial to work.
http://digitalradio.ie/coverage.htm gives coverage maps for the the RTE mux, the north eastern coverage is also accurate for Spin/104/98/etc on the commercial mux.

The other problem is the commercial stations could be going off-air on DAB very shortly.

steamjetjoe

Thanks for info guys. I think ill stick with the radio I have for the mo.

stylers

FM104 and spin on analogue are easy enough near mullingar anyway.. but you should use a decent tuner with an external FM antenna connection and of course an external antenna, even one in the attic would be better than nothing..