Digital Radio Australia
Digital Radio has finally launched in Australia’s major Capital Cities. After many years of planning and technical trials, the dabplus or DAB+ system was chosen for it’s ability to jam a whole lot more stations into the infrastructure available – albeit at a reduced audio quality. Hopefully you won’t be able to notice this audio degradation however, and the federal government may prove a savior for the service in a few years when more RF spectrum is freed up (by the analogue TV switchoff which will free up the TV channels for Digital Radio and Mobile Broadband use), which will allow for the audio quality to be improved. In the meantime – enjoy the site and our many news articles and related video’s we have collected about Digital Radio in Australia.
I’m promoting a book I’ve just self published on the incredible history of my band The Lime Spiders. Perhaps we can arrange an interview to discuss it ? We also have a new album out there somewhere.
I live in Leopold, Postcode 3224, and have just bought a Rotel Digital Radio Tuner. It finds FM stations fine, but can’t see ANY DAB STATIONS WHATSOEVER. It looks like we don’t have coverage here. Any ideas?
I agree about poor reception with DAB+. It does seem to have been a dog, spruiked highly but in the end failing to deliver. If you have a bedside DAB+ radio you get very poor reception, frequent dropouts such as to make the radio useless unless you add on a thunking big aerial, which rather defeats the purpose of having a bedside radio. At least with AM radio you never lost signal altogether for minutes on end.