digital radio is an own world, 2 transmitters are broadcasting the 28
stations, but only in the area coast to midland & leda/kwinana to
clarkson/bullsbrook
the broadcast frequencies are in the 206mhz range (close to the old
tv ch 10), the encoding is aac 80kbp/s or for talk stations like 6pr
it's 64kb/s (europe is using mp3)
all station (old fm & old am) are in very good stereo & the radios
can be connected to a stereo system to enjoy the full quality
if you are receiving tv directly from the city transmitters, you may
use the same antenna (& booster amp) to connect to the digital
receiver, the radio must carry the marking DAB+ for to be a digital
radio
cheers James
On 11/09/2009, at 13:46, Severin Crisp wrote:
Thanks for that clarification, Neil. We only ever listen to ABC
Radio National or ABC Classic FM so I have never even gone further
than noting that those "digital" stations are there.
Regards
Severin
On 11/09/2009, at 11:21 AM, Neil Houghton wrote:
Hi Severin,
My understanding is that the radio stations you get on our settop
box are
just another channel multiplexed from the TV transmitter - whilst
they are
certainly "digital" you could think of it as digital TV without
pictures ;)
The recent rollout of digital radio is quite different.
The new digital radios that are being sold wouldn't pick up the radio
channels that your settop box does and viceversa.
As far as I know, if you have one of the new digital radios in
Albany you
would pick up nothing! - unless you had one of the models that
also includes
FM.
Cheers
Neil
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on 11/9/09 10:14 AM, Severin Crisp at sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote:
Neil, with my settop box I also get several ABC and SBS digital
radio
channels
Severin
On 11/09/2009, at 9:51 AM, Neil Houghton wrote:
Well, there will probably be several more iPod models before we see
digital
radio down here in Albany - there is still no sign of commercial
digital TV
yet!! (Though with ABC1, ABC2, SBS1 & now SBS2 I'm not really
missing GWN &
WIN!)
Cheers
Neil
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on 11/9/09 5:48 AM, Paul Weaver at pwea...@westnet.com.au wrote:
I see Apple are trumpeting "The new built-in FM tuner" in their
latest iPod
nano. Maybe someone could tell them that FM has become old
fashioned in
Australia and digital radio is all the go.
Paul.
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