Dab and unlimited data

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Dab and unlimited data

Post by famefm » Sun May 23, 2021 3:00 pm

With the good deals nowadays for loads of data and unlimited data isn't going to help with people going dab , and phone connected to tunein est and no need to rescan and just about any radio station anywhere where I have moved to now I can't hear any London stations now on dab and the sound quality is very good online just one station I can get from London one fm up here 105 miles north of London is the 106.2 heart still and it is the London signal

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Re: Dab and unlimited data

Post by teckniqs » Sun May 23, 2021 5:11 pm

I used to live in Trowbridge, West Wilts in the early 2000s and could pick up Heart 106.2 crystal clear, had a dipole in the loft into a sensitive car radio.

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Re: Dab and unlimited data

Post by famefm » Sun May 23, 2021 8:11 pm

One of the worst stations in the country and the most power typical

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Re: Dab and unlimited data

Post by teckniqs » Sun May 23, 2021 10:49 pm

famefm wrote: Sun May 23, 2021 8:11 pm One of the worst stations in the country
Indeed.

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famefm wrote: Sun May 23, 2021 8:11 pm the most power typical
it's only 2kW Vertical + 2kW Horizontal and not one of those high power 250kW bastards....

http://a-bc.co.uk/MCA/AL000174-TQ33236961.html

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Re: Dab and unlimited data

Post by famefm » Mon May 24, 2021 12:14 am

It used to be 2k It was raised to 4k a few years ago

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Re: Dab and unlimited data

Post by famefm » Mon May 24, 2021 12:17 am

Sorry I just realised that I have the wrong information you are right amazing that it's only 2k it probably goes so far because 106.2 isn't used again for miles away

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Re: Dab and unlimited data

Post by fmuser877 » Mon May 24, 2021 9:35 am

I get around 38GB for £10 a month its 20 gb but goes over but should be plenty for streaming s10 with id but signal is much worse than DAB radio and drops out more.

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Re: Dab and unlimited data

Post by Albert H » Tue May 25, 2021 3:30 am

I have a Samsung S10, and it works very well in my car. I have no problem listening to streams whilst mobile in most places in the UK, Netherlands, Germany and parts of Belgium. My handy contract has (virtually) unlimited streaming, and I don't think that I've ever managed to achieve "overage" charges in the last few years. It's on "EE" in the UK ("Nothing Anywhere"), and the contract (SIM only) costs £12 / month. The only issue I have is the problem that EE seem to have with VPNs - they don't seem to like them much, and use "DNS poisoning" to prevent the use of several widely advertised services.
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Re: Dab and unlimited data

Post by famefm » Fri May 28, 2021 3:46 am

I have unlimited data and the Samsung S20 that also works well and that has sealed it for me missing dab and either listening on fm or straight online

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