DAB car radio that works with BBC radio 1

dario28

Can anyone recommend a DAB car radio that will work with BBC Radio 1 on the East Coast Dublin Area ?

Anan1

I have the impression that DAB is in the process of being withdrawn in this country - the last few times i've driven my mother's car reception has been very patchy.

djimi

I was told in a shop (Peats possibly or a similar electrical store) that DAB would not work correctly in a car radio as the signal can be lost too easily.

I was also of the impression that we cannot pick up BBC radio on DAB in Ireland; was I mistaken on that? I would love to be able to get 5 Live Sports Extra on a DAB radio...

Anan1

I've never seen any of the BBC stations on DAB, just RTE and the commercial stations. Signal isn't great, although i'd always put that down to poor infrastructure.

coylemj

You haven't a hope of receiving BBC DAB in a car around Dublin. I have a kitchen DAB radio (Pure One) with a long aerial and I live at a reasonably high altitude on the southside, a lot of my neighbours have UHF TV aerials on their chinmney stacks pointing north to pick up Divis in NI but I cannot get BBC DAB radio even though I can often get BBC R2 from Divis on FM at 90.1 MHz.

When I do an 'autotune' on my DAB radio it often picks up the BBC MUX but when the autotune has finished and I look at the individual BBC stations they all have a '?' against them and I can't receive them.

Even if you did manage to pick up BBC on DAB, you would be driven demented by the gurgling sound that DAB radios make when the reception quality drops which would be very often in a car as you drive up hills and down dales so my advice would be to see if you can pick up BBC Radio 1 from Divis on FM, it's at 99.7 Mhz.

MB Lacey

6 years on since the last reply on this thread, is there any change?
I would love to listen to BBC 6music in my car, is the only option to get a cassette adapter to go from iphone to car cassette port?


Thanks

Eric Cartman

I have DAB in the car, coverage is pretty good around dublin / north kildare. But there are only the RTE and a few other stations available.

None of the commercial operators here have really branched out to it, let alone BBC.

For some reason I could pick up BBC radio 2 on DAB up by the golden ball pub one day , but aside from that no, there has been almost no change in DAB in Ireland.

Charles Babbage

I don't see how it is likely that you can receive BBC in Dublin on DAB. TV can only be received with a sophisticated aerial on a rooftop. A car aerial is a much simpler thing and moving as well. You might be able to get a 4G subscription and get foreign stations that way or perhaps mount a satellite dish on the roof of your car or listen to shortwave.

MB Lacey

Thanks, I just bought a €16 cassette adapter from Halfords and play it through the car speakers via my phone.