A decent radio station?

[darrsi]

The fairly easy to solution to poor reception (assuming you have some reception) – an aerial!


This simple Half wave FM dipole did it for me.  Picks up FM and DAB nicely.  FM is still the sweetest if you can pick up a strong signal.

An aerial, wow, i never thought of that?  :think


I think in my scenario, it's more to do with having a huge amount of ducting in the roof above where i work, the fact that i live in London where i'm surprised radio frequencies haven't caused major hair loss or illness, and also that my job involves testing video transmitters every day which probably doesn't really help matters.
But, at the same time, i have a DAB radio alarm clock in my bedroom with a big fuck off aerial aiming in the correct direction, and again if the weather is iffy in any way it tends to spark into life 5 or 10 minutes after it's supposed to wake me up, making me nearly jump out of my bed in the process.


There are still well known issues with DAB signals, probably easier explained here, albeit talking about vehicle radios:


http://www.techradar.com/news/car-tech/w...it-1217586