Aerial for DAB / FM reception

[mickeycomms]

Hi,

Is there a good indoor aerial for DAB and FM reception on the market? I have seen many advertised which work for FM / DAB and TV / FREEVIEW , but I only need it for my tuner. Are the mains / boosted ones worthwhile ? Has anybody tried them ? Or is it best to just get a professional aerial fitter to do their worst ? If so what sort of price should I expect to pay for a FM aerial and a DAB aerial then the box to join them as my tuner only has one aerial input.....?

I live in a reasonable signal area.

Thanks.

 

[8009514]

You could try this, assuming you have an external TV aerial. Put a splitter in and run one leg to the tuner. My dab reception is pretty good using that and the FM not bad either, even though its well out of the freq. spec. of the aerial.

Rich

 

[fayeanddavid]

mickeycomms:
Hi,

Is there a good indoor aerial for DAB and FM reception on the market? I have seen many advertised which work for FM / DAB and TV / FREEVIEW , but I only need it for my tuner. Are the mains / boosted ones worthwhile ? Has anybody tried them ? Or is it best to just get a professional aerial fitter to do their worst ? If so what sort of price should I expect to pay for a FM aerial and a DAB aerial then the box to join them as my tuner only has one aerial input.....?

I live in a reasonable signal area.

Thanks.

I have the same issue, have a look at the thread in DAB forum

I also live in a reasonable (what ever that is) signal area but cannot get National DAB on the flag ship service of Radio 5 live extra, it really isn't good enough

And it is wrong to expect people to be fooled into using DAB (nay, forced into from 2014) when clearly the portable devices/rigid telescopic aerials are not up to par when wanting the full benefit of DAB even with it's low bit rate transmissions (even Radio 3 is only 192kbps)

So the thinking seems to be let's get consumers to buy DAB for all it's digital glory................and then let's not tell them it will cost another £250.00 to £500.00 to have an appropriate aerial installed so that said consumer can actually listen to the many available boradcasts.

Bizarrely my DAB unit (Cambridge One) tells me I have 47 stations available.....................but some have NO signal, so how can they be available?

Not a happy bunny...................just another technology driven consumer scam!!