Hi everyone. Just a general enquiry to see if anyone has tried and found a DAB car radio. I stay in east scotland and have made inquiries into the availability of a decent signal and found it to be patchy. In a more built up area then it seems to be Ok. If you have one how do you find the coverage and signal in different areas. Any comments?

Hi everyone. Just a general enquiry to see if anyone has tried and found a DAB car radio. I stay in east scotland and have made inquiries into the availability of a decent signal and found it to be patchy. In a more built up area then it seems to be Ok. If you have one how do you find the coverage and signal in different areas. Any comments?

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If you've not tried it already, see http://www.ukdigitalradio.com/coverage/search/default.asp

Hi everyone. Just a general enquiry to see if anyone has tried and found a DAB car radio. I stay in east scotland and have made inquiries into the availability of a decent signal and found it to be patchy. In a more built up area then it seems to be Ok. If you have one how do you find the coverage and signal in different areas. Any comments?

I've got a DAB tuner for my Pioneer unit, driven by a Blaupunkt roof aerial. I'm well pleased with the reception, though in fringe areas you get a bit of mushiness in the signal, particularly if the atmopheric pressure is high. There's no substitute for a decent aerial.

Switching between transmitters is automatic and inaudible, provided there is a better DAB signal available. The tuner can switch to the equivalent FM station when the DAB signal drops too low, but in my experience when this happens the FM signal is also poor. I now use DAB for everything, and leave the head unit's AM/FM tuner set to R4 long wave for situations where nothing else works (e.g. highland Scotland).

I would suspect that a window-mounted aerial such as on the Revo tuner would be less sensitive than a roof aerial.

I'm near Leicester, and coverage is good. I got good DAB reception all the way up to Glasgow on the motorways except for a sunken piece of the M6 near Shap.

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Thanks I gave it a look and it seems fine. My only problem was, I spoke to the BBC and they told me that their coverage wasn't ready yet on the East of Scotland. It was OK for city driving but not outside. I'll give it a try and see how it go's. Cheers

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Switching between transmitters is automatic and inaudible, provided there is a better DAB signal available. The tuner can switch to the equivalent FM station when the DAB signal drops too low, but in my experience when this happens the FM signal is also poor. I now use DAB for everything, and leave the head unit's AM/FM tuner set to R4 long wave for situations where nothing else works (e.g. highland Scotland).

I would suspect that a window-mounted aerial such as on the Revo tuner would be less sensitive than a roof aerial.

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Thanks for getting back. Have a look at the reply I put to sdenny, but I'll give it a try and see how it goes, cheers