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Ever Wonder How To Tune In A DAB Station? Welcome To The "Block"
I came across this BBC story about how to tune in their Digital Audio Broadcast stations. I honestly thought it was easy. But without having ever experienced this technology, now I'm not so sure. It seems many of them involve something called "blocks," a term I've never heard of before. Does anyone know how this works?
"To listen to DAB radio, you need to tune to the correct frequency to receive the service you want, just as you do with AM or FM. However, as the frequencies allocated to DAB are not particularly easy to remember, they have been allocated a code, known as a frequency block."
DAB tuning information
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I wish Canada stuck with DAB and made it work.
And with the media infristructure in the usa, I wish they were smart and adopted dab instead of hd radio.
If dab were in canada, I can guess the formats we will have now, The uk has heart 2000s, we would have move 00s and kiss 00s, The uk has smooth relax, we would have a simular CHFI spinoff, the uk has lbc nationaly, we would have the iheart talk radio network.
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RadioActive wrote:
I came across this BBC story about how to tune in their Digital Audio Broadcast stations. I honestly thought it was easy. But without having ever experienced this technology, now I'm not so sure. It seems many of them involve something called "blocks," a term I've never heard of before. Does anyone know how this works?
"To listen to DAB radio, you need to tune to the correct frequency to receive the service you want, just as you do with AM or FM. However, as the frequencies allocated to DAB are not particularly easy to remember, they have been allocated a code, known as a frequency block."
DAB tuning information
It's really no different than receiving HD OTA. You don't need to know the frequencies or blocks. And many radios auto-scan in the background.
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I came across this BBC story about how to tune in their Digital Audio Broadcast stations. I honestly thought it was easy. But without having ever experienced this technology, now I'm not so sure. It seems many of them involve something called "blocks," a term I've never heard of before. Does anyone know how this works?
"To listen to DAB radio, you need to tune to the correct frequency to receive the service you want, just as you do with AM or FM. However, as the frequencies allocated to DAB are not particularly easy to remember, they have been allocated a code, known as a frequency block."
DAB tuning informationIt's really no different than receiving HD OTA. You don't need to know the frequencies or blocks. And many radios auto-scan in the background.
I admit to total ignorance on this, but if there's no FM signal (like on HD) to piggyback on and there are far more stations on air because of the added spectrum space, how do you find the specific outlet you're looking for?
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Re: Ever Wonder How To Tune In A DAB Station? Welcome To The "Block"
I came across this BBC story about how to tune in their Digital Audio Broadcast stations. I honestly thought it was easy. But without having ever experienced this technology, now I'm not so sure. It seems many of them involve something called "blocks," a term I've never heard of before. Does anyone know how this works?
"To listen to DAB radio, you need to tune to the correct frequency to receive the service you want, just as you do with AM or FM. However, as the frequencies allocated to DAB are not particularly easy to remember, they have been allocated a code, known as a frequency block."
DAB tuning informationIt's really no different than receiving HD OTA. You don't need to know the frequencies or blocks. And many radios auto-scan in the background.
I admit to total ignorance on this, but if there's no FM signal (like on HD) to piggyback on and there are far more stations on air because of the added spectrum space, how do you find the specific outlet you're looking for?
They all appear by name. Some radios let you sort by genre.
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Love to try this, but I'm not planning any European trips in the future.
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It's great. What I really love about it over HD is that the new stations are on an even playing field with the original FMs. No complicated station-within-a-station like here.