[access-uk] Re: DAB stations and the MOSDR001 radio
- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 19:58:41 -0000
Andy. Yes indeed. I have been told that the Beeb cocked up in real royal
fashion by not taking space on the other multiplexes when they came on stream,
hence the bandwidth restriction. Mind you, I think DAB has become an almighty
mess. When you consider how many stations are available nationally which are
obviously targeted at local audiences you can see a massive waiste of bandwidth
taking place on this alone. On a more value laiden note, I doubt if some of
the output adds much to real choice. Then again, much of BBC DAB and some
independent stations are duplicated on Freeview. Mind you, you do get to hear
BBC7 in stereo via that option.
Then of course there's the internet, and BBC7 is again available here in stereo
and often at an acceptable quality, at least via broadband. Also, I think you
have the choice of using a WMA stream as well as the hated Real Player if its
the live stream you are going for. So in this crazy scheme of things you do
have choices - and a lot of waisted bandwidth.
Ray
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----- Original Message -----
From: kevin and emma
hi andy, to answer your bbc 7 question, unfortunately that's how it's
supposed to be!! something to do with limited bandwidth. it's really
frustrating to be forced to listen to drama's etc in mono!!
kevin - co-owner/moderator of the blind gamers discussion list.
email/msn: kream@xxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: Andy Collins
Hi Ian and James -
Thanks for this help; I went to that website James and entered my post
code, and it brought up a full list of all the stations I should be able to
receive, and One Word, Virgin, Classic FM and Talk Sport were included, but so
far, no luck in receiving them!
One other thing for now, I've noticed that when listening to BBC 7 on-line,
the reception is in stereo, but when listening on DAB, it is in mono, is this
how it's meant to be? Shouldn't the DAB signal be stereo too?
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: James O'Dell
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 10:15 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: DAB stations and the MOSDR001 radio
Hi Ian
The 'Prune Stations' option might be a useful one to activate because it
removes stations from the station list that the radio can't actually get a
signal for. Sometimes when you do an autotune it stores the names of stations
from multiplexes for which the signal is strong enough for the radio to receive
the station data, but not the actual audio. Doing a 'prune' gets rid of all
that and leaves you with just the real stuff!
Hope this is of some use.
James
----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Macrae
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 8:49 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: DAB stations and the MOSDR001 radio
Hi Andy,
Can[t answer your coverage question. However, if you press the top
button to the right of the joystick navigator, that brings up the menu options.
Selected is station order and if you press the joystick to enter this you're
in a sub menu of options on how stations are displayed. The default is alpha
numerically so there is no need to worry about multiplexes. pressing the
joystick to the right will cycle you through the menu options which are Prune
stations (whatever that is), active stations and fav stations. Basically this
changes the order in which the stations appear as you zip up and down the list.
Next if you press the menu key again and then move the joystick to the right,
the next menu option appears. this is Manual Tune. I've never used this so
don't know what it does. Finally, press the menu button again and move the
joystick to the right twice and your on Autotune. If you press the joystick in
to select this option it automatically scans the DAB frequencies in your area
and stores the stations. It shouldn't take longer than about twenty seconds.
To be honest, it might be useful if it's at all possible to get a pair of eyes
with you on the job here.
Hope this helps.
Cheers now.
Ian
----- Original Message -----
From: Andy Collins
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 7:19 PM
Subject: [access-uk] DAB stations and the MOSDR001 radio
Hi all -
I'm using the Ministry Of Sound DR011 DAB radio here in Devon. I've
only had
it 2 days, and so far, have thanks to Ian Macrae's feedback on this
model,
been able to select and store 10 stations! The only problem I'm
having is,
that I can't seem to find Classic FM, Talk Sport, Virgin and One
Word; I
don't know if that's because these stations aren't available on DAB,
or if
it's because of where I live, DAB is only recently available here, so
I
don't know how much access we have to whatever multiplexes there are!
or if
it's because I'm not using the MOSDR011 correctly! Although I can
access
about 15 stations, I don't know what the menus do, I did think they
might
move me between multiplexes, but this doesn't seem to be the case!
Pressing
the menu button different numbers of times, and trying again to go
through
the stations, doesn't bring up any new ones, and seems a bit
confusing.
I'd appreciate some help here then from anybody that might know if I
aught
to be able to received these stations where I live, or with some
explanation
of the menu system on this particular DAB radio.
Andy
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