FáilteDAB: Coverage, Tests and Services

Not to (yet again) speculate, but Tonabrocky is much weaker than it was yesterday here on FM.. Same was observed @ Farmer's Cross before DAB was observed on 7A.

Just putting it out there ;)

Now testing in North Tipperary. Strong test tone.

On the Fàilte DAB website it states April. No date is given or what stations will be on it which i find odd. You would think that now we are halfway's in to April that there would be a list of radio stations that are going g to join the trial. Not off to a great start.

Hi,

It was told to me privately that they were delayed due to weather, so that's why. Hope this helps! 😄 Same happened last year, nothing out of the ordinary. Our climate is against us :)))

No they aren't . Most in the Northern part of the coverage area are not on e.g Kiltimagh and the site near Longford. (also Galway City Tonabrocky)

Anyone remember Total Dab. They are or were located in Waterford. They promised great things regarding DAB and DAB+. They ran a trial in Waterford. I can't rember what stations were on the trial. Either way they disappeared off the radar regarding their ambitious plans for DAB. Please see link to Total Broadcast who ran the DAB trial. http://totalbroadcast.net/DAB.html

Failte DAB received between Blarney and Ballincollig in Cork. Far stronger signal than previous trial.

That is slightly disingenuous, Total made a very good attempt at DAB with a line up including Nova,Talksport and their own station Zenith. There was no buy in from the incumbent and only short term licences were available with little or no interest from the regulatory bodies to progress DAB in Ireland.

A decade later and we are still trialling a service with no guarantee that there will be a licence extension this time next year. That there is little or no advertising of DAB+ , no stations listing for either service, is not encouraging.

And Comreg has since become a member of WorldDAB. I think it's serious this time.

Yes. We are catching up with the rest of Europe. Still a long way to go.

Total wasn't the only trial attempt, there was also the low power one off Donnybrook, and Dusty Rhodes one alongside RTE in 2006/7.

None ever got real buy-in. The DabIreland Mux2 one got the main Dublin stations, Newstalk and Radio Kerry - so just replicating what we already had on FM. Much more of a purpose to that back then because mixed lineups in cars didnt exist; but it gave nothing new to actually make people change

The amount of advertising your proposing would cost millions.

They do not have millions.

It is down to the stations to advertise themselves.

Not sure advertising would be much good as easily 80% of radio listening is in cars. If a cars radio doesn't automatically pick up the dab signal then word of mouth will likely suffice

Midlands tx on today? Strong signal, about -65dBm, on approx 199 Mhz.

I can't be any more accurate than than as only checking an a spectrum analyzer so can't check if audio is present.