FáilteDAB: Coverage, Tests and Services

Nova is a great editor to mux 1

It’s going to challenge my q102 listening

Mux 1 dies just north of Gorey on the M11

As of today how many and what channels are on mux 2 for my drive to Cork and Kerry later in the week?

Digital is like that

You either have it or you don’t

No fade it just drops out completely below a threshold

So it’s signal strength resilience that’s winning really ie once there’s enough to decode you get the same quality as if you were beside the tx

Analog on the other hand,hiss,volume drop and gradually gone as you drop signal strength due to terrain or distance

You can get a perfect digital decode on a much weaker signal that if it were analog would just be hissy

Same applies to tv signals

was Keeper Hill helping reception in pockets around there? In areas where 7A may have been poor

Location of CUs changed last night from the looks of it. We can then speculate at least 1 more Onic station will be on.

Anyones guess.

Picking up 13 stations in Sligo now. Love Nova and GHR, very my taste in music!

More stations added today - logos not yet working in my car anyway. Kinsale Road Roundabout, Cork

Logos are a luxury those of us with Android Automotive cars will never get!

Stations can pay to go on JNLR. I don't believe any of the DAB stations have.

How they handle surveys showing listeners to existing JNLR member FM stations available beyond their FM licence range, I don't know.

It's completely pointless for them to be, though. I have always assumed they were placeholders on mux1, awaiting some other Bauer service to get spun up.

This isn't 1997, DAB does not replace FM.

Nice one

Looks like they’re adding everything gradually that’s on mux1

Keep us posted

They used to say the same about FM.....it was Nova specifically who proved that wrong. Relevant as Nova was unregulated.

If the regulators meddle to much in DAB we will end up with a copy of the FM nationals. It didnt work in the past ,it wont work now.

If you put something on DAB that the listeners want they will tune in, with lower operating costs it allows eg Lazer,8Radio,Freedom to operate and in time with proper promotion of DAB these can be long term fuĺl time services.

Lower population also means lower costs, and fewer niches , but let the market decide that.

A FM station planning a long term strategy must take account of the potential of DAB ,for that reason alone DAB in Ireland has a future.

DAB also has an ace card - legally required receivers in cars.

Only CnaM can derail DAB in Ireland.

I'm a big RTE Gold fan but I am really getting tired of the same long ad being played every time I connect (or even worse after a drop out). If there are momentary DAB+ drop outs in the car, there was one last night, the signal comes back with no ad. Major plus against wi-fi streaming. Liking the extra choice in the car and the ease of just scrolling through a list of channels.