Exactly, Dab and Dab+ are different than HD Radio, I think even down to the
frequencies used. Around my area, HD isn't taking off anyways, only
Wisconsin Public Radio has it, and I think that was because NPR got money to
get stations upgraded. I listen to a podcast about radio stuff and they say
a lot of stations that are upgrading studios are ready with all the gear for
HD but can't flip the switch because of licensing costs for them. I still
think for FM anyways, that analog is the best sound you could get because
they would probably multicast and squeeze the bit rate to the point we could
tell it's not as good.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Grady" <[email protected]>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:42 AM
Subject: Re: So I bought a Digital radio..
Nothing.
On Mar 17, 2010, at 5:13 AM, hank smith wrote:
hello
what would we get on one of these sets if i was going to buy one of these
units?
Hank
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dane Trethowan"
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To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 8:39 PM
Subject: So I bought a Digital radio..
Hi everyone!
I bought myself a Digital radio today and thought I'd tell you of my
experiences with the set thus far.
I chose the Roberts Ecologic 4 DAB/DAB+ portable digital radio as I
know people who are using it and I wouldn't be surprised if some of
those people are on this list so hello to you and I hope you're enjoying
the rich listening experience which Digital Radio in the capital cities
of Mainland Australia offers.
Now I have to warn you of a couple of things here, when you initially
turn the set on it will do a scan of the DAB+ bands in Australia and DAB
bands if you're in the U.K., so far so good. The next challenge you
have is finding what you want and I've found ways to scroll through or
"seek" stations, once you've found what you want you can put that
station into the preset memory by holding down the button you want the
station to be associated with, say button 1 or if you want to use the
presets above 5 hold down the shift key and then old down preset 1 for
preset 6, you can just press the preset then of the desired station you
want so others may find it easier to have someone sighted go through the
stations and that way you can nominate the one's you want in the preset
channels.
I live about 24 miles away from the centre of Melbourne so signal is
probably fairly week and I'll talk more about that in a few moments.
I've noticed that in Melbourne stations are sorted in alphabetical order
which may make things easier when you're setting the presets, for
example suppose you know you're listening to ABC Local Radio 774, turn
the selector knob once clockwise and press the select button, you'll
then be on 3mp+, turn it 2 clicks and you're on 3MP etc so perhaps a
few notes taken will be handy here.
Digital radios are a bit of a pest in that you have to be careful of
placement and the Roberts Ecologic 4 in my experience thus far is no
exception, I'd like to have it in the back room but the radio and my
computers just don't get on so the radio is on the top of my fridge in
my kitchen and even then! I had to adjust the aerial to exactly the
right angle, you know if you don't get a signal on the Ecologic 4 as the
sound drops out totally so I wouldn't recommend you walk around the
house with one of these things even though the set is a good tough
portable.
the radio runs on both AC mains and battery power, its claimed in the
manual that the Roberts Ecologic 4 radio will last up to 150 hours on a
set of alkaline batteries.
Sound quality exceeded my expectations for such a small set, the radio
has both headphones and line output.
Last but not least, the radio has a FM band for those times when you
can't receive a digital signal and why this radio doesn't have a
standard AM broadcast band I'll never know, do the manufacturers of
digital radio sets think we just live with a FM band even though top
rating radio stations in Melbourne and Sydney for instance are on the AM
band?
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