Analogue radio in the UK given 10-year stay of execution

Re:Analogue radio in the UK given 10-year stay of execution by mdiesel on Sunday July 05, 2020 @09:02AM (#23738364)

In my limited experience, driving across the UK on FM is a pain due to regional differences. A couple of hours driving and I'll need to retune a few times, and my saved stations won't be applicable. DAB solves that minor issue at least.

I don't know the details of the spectrum usage, but there are more niche nationwide stations on DAB (Planet Rock is hardly niche anymore tbh, and is great). So maybe it's more accurate to say the FM spectrum isn't cluttered for barrier to entry reasons.

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Re:Analogue radio in the UK given 10-year stay of execution by blattimwind on Sunday July 05, 2020 @12:52PM (#23740055)

> DAB solves that minor issue at least.

Enter Germany, where it was decided DAB is not a federal matter and basically you have 16 small states with entirely different stations available on DAB. The one real advantage DAB could have had, and they threw it away just to auction off the same frequency band a couple more times.

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Re:Analogue radio in the UK given 10-year stay of execution by switch007 on Sunday July 05, 2020 @10:41AM (#23739021)

Exactly the same experience. I try DAB every few years while driving and the experience is just the same.

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