Thanks again to this forum I have persevered and now I wish to take back my earlier comments. The DAB radio is excellent.

It just needed setting up. For those still having problems – Menu – DAB settings – Advanced – Country UK and Band III.

Now have about 30 to choose from but stuck on Smooth 70s  A Land Rover owner since 1988

From a 1974 series III to a 12MY XS FL2 with help of a 1995 D1, 1996 D1, 2005 D3, 2007 D3 and a 2009 FL2.

DAB had me confused as well, thanks everyone, just followed the tips here and got it all working now


Mkm

This was really helpful. I was missing a truck load of stations but one I had changed it to Band L and III from just Band L it worked a treat!  11 SD4 HSE Stornoway Grey / Black Windsor Leather

EYorkshire wrote:

I travel to Cornwall a few times a year to see family and DAB has never missed a beat I'm spoilt for choice when it comes to stations and the clarity is obvious over FM but still below CD quality.

Of course my hearing is not what it use to be so my opinion could be worthless

You may be right EY
Never listened to DAB in the car, but at home hooked up to my Hi-Fi, it's dreadful. Best bit rates come from R3, but it still doesn't hack it compared to FM.
Some stations are even in mono.
Radio stations received via Freeview are better quality than DAB as the bitrate is higher.
I'm afraid DAB is going to get worse as bandwidths/bit rates narrow/decrease as more sations are added.

It's good old FM for me, nowt to match it. Why the government want to switch it off is beyond me. No moving parts to wear out while transmitting; it should go on for years.

Except the government can get a revenue from DAB  Another member of the failed FL2 clutch/DMF club, twice.

Pegleg wrote:

............. Why the government want to switch it off is beyond me. No moving parts to wear out while transmitting; it should go on for years...............

Government needs to recover as much of the radio spectrum as possible to re-sell more licenses to the mobile operators so they, in turn, can deliver high speed broadband.

It's the only way the government will meet its "Broadband Britain" commitments.

IMHO garioch43

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