richsdv6
Member Since: 15 May 2015
Location: Berks
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Over the past couple of weeks my DAB reception has started to cut out a lot - driving all over the midlands and South
when the car was originally delivered DAB was awesome and never cut out - anyone else experienced this ?? Rich
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 5th Jul 2015 8:16 am |
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sacimiddx
Member Since: 09 Mar 2007
Location: hants
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Notable deterioration past 3 days
Weather ?? Illegitimi Non Carborundum
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| 5th Jul 2015 8:21 am |
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NJSS
Member Since: 06 May 2009
Location: Catherington, Hampshire.
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Paul I think you are correct..
I have a note, but I am not sure of the source, but taken when I was comparing FM, DAB & internet radio for home:-
Quote:"During spells of hot weather particularly when the pressure is high, reception in some parts of the UK and particularly southern and eastern England is prone to interference & degradation"
my conclusion was to go with internet radio..
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| 5th Jul 2015 8:43 am |
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Captain Slog
Member Since: 02 Feb 2014
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Yes all down to atmosphere/sun activity etc but FM also affected I've found - difference is DAB cuts out intermittently whereas FM is interference. Price we pay for scorchio!  2010 D4 HSE Ipanema Sand on GY DTs (was on GG ATs)
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| 6th Jul 2015 7:07 am |
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DG
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I agree that the DAB reception has been quite poor at times recently  21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
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| 6th Jul 2015 7:17 am |
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fisherman
Member Since: 16 Jan 2007
Location: Hornchurch Essex
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I can get about 6 stations on my DAB radio and it often just says no reception. It's been like that as long as I've owned it, to the point I don't bother any more.
Am I doing something wrong?
I auto tune and it find the 6 of which most I wouldn't listen to anyway. I tune up and down and find nothing more than the Auto tune found.
I'm told it's excellent but I find it a total waste of space. Could be me I suppose.
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| 6th Jul 2015 8:29 am |
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adam
Member Since: 20 Sep 2005
Location: Home and Happy
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No difference for me - all good all over UK TBH
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| 6th Jul 2015 9:43 am |
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Guy
Member Since: 05 Jul 2005
Location: Sitting Down, Facing Front
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There's been a long period of atmospheric lift caused by the recent hot weather. All sorts of European stations have been coming in on the FM band. DAB suffers because of the way it's transmitted as a Single Frequency Network (SFN) where all transmitters in a regional group transmit on one frequency, locked together by GPS timing signals. The lift allows other networks that are normally out-of-range to interfere with this causing the drop-outs we have been experiencing.
In the good old days of analogue TV co-channel interference could be seen as banding on the picture as a normally-too-distant transmitter on an adjacent channel was received more strongly during atmospheric conditions. In the improved (ahem) world of digital it's all or nothing in terms of picture: too much adjacent signal and all you get is a lot of pretty coloured blocks stuttering around 
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| 7th Jul 2015 11:00 am |
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adam
Member Since: 20 Sep 2005
Location: Home and Happy
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Lost my Sky signal for a few minutes on Thursday night - was most  off as was in middle of a particularly gripping episode of 'Love Island'
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| 7th Jul 2015 11:06 am |
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