Comments on: DAB Worldwide http://www.digitalradioltd.com/dab-worldwide/ News from the Cutting Edge of Irish DAB Radio Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:30:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dusty http://www.digitalradioltd.com/dab-worldwide/#comment-8 Dusty Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:37:45 +0000 http://www.digitalradioltd.com/content/dab-worldwide/#comment-8 Thanks for the update. We knew that even though the DAB transmission power was low, there was coverage of the major population centres. Sad to hear there is a set-back with the KEF however I feel it will be temporary. Once they consider what is happening in the rest of Europe things will swing back. Probably should be expected after 10 years of low powered pointless simulcasts. Hearing you guys are planning Germanys <em>first ever</em> national network on DAB+ is a huge step. Best of luck with it when it happens - because it will! Thanks for the update. We knew that even though the DAB transmission power was low, there was coverage of the major population centres.

Sad to hear there is a set-back with the KEF however I feel it will be temporary. Once they consider what is happening in the rest of Europe things will swing back. Probably should be expected after 10 years of low powered pointless simulcasts. Hearing you guys are planning Germanys first ever national network on DAB+ is a huge step. Best of luck with it when it happens – because it will!

]]> By: GerhardtS http://www.digitalradioltd.com/dab-worldwide/#comment-7 GerhardtS Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:59:50 +0000 http://www.digitalradioltd.com/content/dab-worldwide/#comment-7 The situation in Germany is not quite so clear as you say. But you also forget Switzerland in your roundup who has DAB and DAB+ and the radios are selling faster than cookoo clocks!!! All Switzerland did was switch off one national AM station and that was all the good Swiss people needed to buy lots of digital radios. Let me explain the situation in Germany. Our first DAB network in 1997 was a mistake. All the transmitters were too low power (1KW max) and so no one could receive in houses well. There was hardly any new program different from FM and guess what, no reason to buy digital radio. Not rocket science. Now we have all agreed to use DAB+ and for the first time the 16 states agreed to have a new national digital radio network using DAB+. ARD radios, the radio set manufacturers and the automotive industry all support this rebirth of digital radio and DAB+ and we had agreed to have transmitters up to 12kW for perfect in house receiving. A few private radios were pretending to be against DAB+ but they are also very busy worrying about the economic crisis. The situation was just about to be better until Kommission zur Ermittlung des Finanzbedarfes (KEF)who controls all money for ARD public radio decided - to everyones surprise - not to pay money essential for DAB+ to the ARD. Even more they said all future radio might work better only on the internet!! Even a blind man can see this does not make good sense. There are lots of clever people as members of KEF but one person who is a technical expert is the enemy of DAB and always has been against it. Perhaps this is because he is the senior man behind D ... [Editor: Rest of paragraph removed for legal reasons]. If you think this smells of Hundescheiße, well my friends, we in Germany agree. I think you name this situation a "conflict of interests" and it would be ilegal in most countries but not in Germany. The situation in Germany is not quite so clear as you say.

But you also forget Switzerland in your roundup who has DAB and DAB+ and the radios are selling faster than cookoo clocks!!! All Switzerland did was switch off one national AM station and that was all the good Swiss people needed to buy lots of digital radios.

Let me explain the situation in Germany. Our first DAB network in 1997 was a mistake. All the transmitters were too low power (1KW max) and so no one could receive in houses well. There was hardly any new program different from FM and guess what, no reason to buy digital radio. Not rocket science. Now we have all agreed to use DAB+ and for the first time the 16 states agreed to have a new national digital radio network using DAB+. ARD radios, the radio set manufacturers and the automotive industry all support this rebirth of digital radio and DAB+ and we had agreed to have transmitters up to 12kW for perfect in house receiving. A few private radios were pretending to be against DAB+ but they are also very busy worrying about the economic crisis.

The situation was just about to be better until Kommission zur Ermittlung des Finanzbedarfes (KEF)who controls all money for ARD public radio decided – to everyones surprise – not to pay money essential for DAB+ to the ARD. Even more they said all future radio might work better only on the internet!! Even a blind man can see this does not make good sense.

There are lots of clever people as members of KEF but one person who is a technical expert is the enemy of DAB and always has been against it. Perhaps this is because he is the senior man behind D … [Editor: Rest of paragraph removed for legal reasons].

If you think this smells of Hundescheiße, well my friends, we in Germany agree. I think you name this situation a “conflict of interests” and it would be ilegal in most countries but not in Germany.

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