DAB signal quality poor since retune - anyone else?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by rickyrooo1, Mar 8, 2016.

  1. rickyrooo1

    rickyrooo1 Hanging round like a bad smell

    last monday planet rock advised a retune due to moving frequencies, many other stations did too but i only listen to that station, i followed the guide and retuned but since then i've had terrible signal and drop outs a plenty, anyone else suffering? it was perfect before then.
     
  2. Mine keeps cutting out on six music... switching stations and coming back seems to fix it. Possibly unrelated.
     
  3. dog

    dog Tea Boy

    Not retuned yet buddy as I've not got a clue how to to be honest. I'm still on the old one and that's dropping out like a goodun
     
  4. MorkC68

    MorkC68 Administrator

    Yeah its nowhere near as good tbh, but its been cloudy here for the past day or so and on the old channel it was in & out.

    On a plus side, I now get coverage as I drop down into Matlock going to/from work :D
     
  5. dog

    dog Tea Boy

    Ive been past that London place today though and it was dropping out there too. Boris reckons London is perfect doesn't he???
     
  6. Analogue tv pic was perfect at my house. Digital has all sorts of issues. Fm radio was good, as was medium wave. Digital comes and goes. Who exactly was it that decided we needed to pay for all the gizmos to make our lives worse. Or is it all about interwebbyness conectivity and were all sposed to do everyting via tinterweb someventually they can control what we see, hear, do and have all the info they want about our choices.
     
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  7. Tuesday wildchild

    Tuesday wildchild I'm a circle!

    What's dab?
     
  8. matty

    matty Supporter

    no problem hear
    it might be worth re tuning as it is regional
     
  9. rickyrooo1

    rickyrooo1 Hanging round like a bad smell

    i only drive local i even did a master reset on the dab and wiped and restarted as a factory reset - annoying really, i only got a dab 'cos planet rock went off the fm band and digital only a few months ago.....
     
  10. dog

    dog Tea Boy

    I love dab when it works as where I am it's radio 1. Radio Norfolk or Kings Lynn fm. All the good rock stations are based in the Midlands. I can get talk sport. Absolute and planet rock now so I'm well happy!
     
  11. rickyrooo1

    rickyrooo1 Hanging round like a bad smell

    actually all them moved to london - golden square all part of the bauer network. we don't even have kerrang in the midlands now. most of the "poppy" stations are all getting swallowed up by heart and capital.
     
  12. dog

    dog Tea Boy

    I suppose they were afraid of all their gear getting nicked up your way ;)
     
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  13. rickyrooo1

    rickyrooo1 Hanging round like a bad smell

    yep we're all theives round here lol - the main midlands channel for rock has always been 105.2 - kerrang had it and they gave it to planet rock now bloody absolute have it.... i hate that christian o'connell bloke......
     
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  14. dog

    dog Tea Boy

    Haven't listened to absolute for ages. Only listened as they played pearl Jam a lot!
     
  15. Razzyh

    Razzyh Supporter

    How do you do a 'master reset'
     
  16. we have a roberts radio :D
     
  17. It's about selling advertising space.
     
  18. Zed

    Zed Gradually getting grumpier

    The higher the frequency and shorter the wavelength, the more affected by of all things, the wind. My mobile internet dongle thing barely worked indoors under steel roof behind steel door. The windier the weather the worse it was.
     
  19. It's like TCP, but doesn't sting as much.
     
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  20. Planet Rock urge to retune, then you find out the Planet Rock branded radio can' t receive the station anymore as it is now on Dab + well done PlanetRock
     

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