I woke up this morning, my radio sounded bad, oh yea! It’s true. Radio4 DAB sounded very crackly. I switched to FM and it was OK. I tweeted about it.
By return of tweet I found out that others had the same problem. I’ve just slotted in the tweets below. They aren’t necessarily in the correct chronological order because different people were responding to different tweets at different times but it certainly shows that there would appear to be a problem. Radio4 FM was also noisy in the car on the way in to work.
We periodically have problems with DAB which on reflection I would never swap in preference to FM. It’s only benefit is that you can get more channels. If anyone can explain what is going on in the airwaves then please feel free to comment.
Large amount of radio disruption in West Norfolk this morning. Woke to a German radio station rather than the local one! #Funkstörungen
@RuralBroadband_ DAB rubbish here in lincoln. Wonder what’s occurin
@tref @RuralBroadband_ Oxfordshire also – Radio 4 & 5 impossible to listen to in the car
@RuralBroadband_ @tref Except I’m now on a train with no wifi and very limited 3g but the FM in my phone still works
@tref @Arable_Farmer @JRainy @clive_parker @GarethBarlow DAB is periodically unreliable, definitely not as good as FM! I agree.. #unreliable
@Arable_Farmer @tref @JRainy @clive_parker only discussing with my Dad yesterday about adapting the aerial to it lengthen for better signal.
@tref @JRainy @clive_parker @GarethBarlow just tried the radio.. no reception on FM for Lincs FM 102.2 &DAB Real Radio XS is working v well
2 replies on “Atmospheric problems with radio this am – DAB & FM noise”
I was listening to Radio 4 on 96.1 FM in Suffolk this morning and there was a lot of interference also!
Atmospherics should kill a digital signal surely, whereas FM can be distorted or hear “other things” ? Given recent audio quality issues with the BBC it wouldn’t surprise me if it was in the transmitter feed system.
DAB is double the frequency of FM so it’s highly likely that factors affecting one won’t affect the other :-
FM 88 – 108 MHz
DAB Muliplexes, MHz :-
11B 218.640
11C 220.352
11D 222.064
12A 223.936
12B 225.648
12C 227.360
12D 229.072