AM is like watching a movie in black & white on film. Yes its “worse” in the sense that there’s no colours but its still satisfying, it’s just a different way of doing things.
DAB is like watching a heavily pixellated movie on YouTube in 240p over an unstable connection
If you refer to the Melbourne RA1 licence area map, you’ll note the red outline.
We all know radio waves don’t travel as discretely.
Drawing a sweeping arc around the boundary, it becomes clear that by design, much of Geelong will receive signal, albeit ‘fortuitously’ due to the shape of the licence area.
Often a bargain to be had in regional areas, they don’t have DAB+ so less incentive to buy. It didn’t sell out, was available on their website for weeks after.
I’d say warehoused until they think they can move it.
In my Seal no, I do sometimes get the Commercial Multiplex in my work car and on my portable receiver when there is even a slight bump in VHF enhancement, but it is not reliable reception
I brought another one for the bedroom, but the sound seems to be borked - very quiet, even at full charge, and in decent reception, across all modes. Might need to use that one for spare partsn, even though I ordered two new aerials from Ali Express last night.
Considering how our radio market is structured you have to wonder if we would have been better served by adopting HD radio instead of the European DAB system.