{"id":1159,"date":"2009-11-16T23:10:37","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T23:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2009-11-16T23:10:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T23:10:37","slug":"dab-and-loft-conversions-or-maybe-general-dab-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/?p=1159","title":{"rendered":"DAB and loft conversions (or maybe general DAB quality)&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.not the best idea.   My old DAB set was a fairly happy bunny, often getting signal strength in the high 90&#8217;s.  However the time came to move upwards.  Into my nice new (and almost complete) loft.  Big problem is the foil insulation around the all the walls.  This reduced my quality a bit&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/blogpics\/dab_1.jpg\" alt=\"Very Poor\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was prepared, so I borrowed Dad&#8217;s DAB&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/blogpics\/dab_2.jpg\" alt=\"Quite Poor\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Better, but still a bit of Dr Who alien warbling appeared.   Aerials on these devices are a bit hit and miss,  you extend them and signal gets worse.  extend to an angle that hits you in the face and it improves.  On my Evoke-1 I used an external aerial for a while, but that progressively got worse.  So in the end found the built in extension aerial was better.   So where now?  I like my old set but really hate the garbled\/warbling mess it produces on occasion.<\/p>\n<p>I could look to source a better external aerial, which may be the next logical step.  I was intending to update my DAB set, but frankly it&#8217;s a no brainer as my Dad&#8217;s DAB is fairly new and the signal is poor still.   I do fine it strange my DAB clock radio actually sounds o.k. though.<\/p>\n<p>Next option would be Internet Radio.   But the big problem here is bandwidth.  How much will streaming take up, plus most devices seem to wireless which can be a pain with regards to signal strength.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.not the best idea. My old DAB set was a fairly happy bunny, often getting signal strength in the high 90&#8217;s. However the time came to move upwards. Into my nice new (and almost complete) loft. Big problem is the foil insulation around the all the walls. This reduced my quality a bit&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; I was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/?p=1159\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DAB and loft conversions (or maybe general DAB quality)&#8230;..&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[97,355,98,100,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1160,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions\/1160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}