"Ralph A. Schmid, DK5RAS" wrote in message
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tony sayer wrote:

proven and costs less, but hey!, its got to be digital like that
pox
known as DAB which sounds worse than FM;((....

Then you or the broadcaster does something wrong - DAB ist just
great
here in germany.



regards - Ralph

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There is a simple reason for it. I believe in Germany the data rate
used is 256Kb/s? In the UK the regulatory body, Ofcom (or it may have
been its predecessor the Radiocommunications Agency) issued an advice
to broadcasters that the lowest acceptable data rate should be
128Kb/s, so what happened? Correct, they all moved to 128Kb/s (or less
in mono.) Before this many were at 160Kb and several were at 192Kb.
Now there is only one, BBC R3 (the classical station) that transmits
at 192Kb (or 160Kb during busy periods) and Classic FM (the commercial
classical station) that uses 160Kb at all times.

There are rumours around that Ofcom are to change their guidance to
'not lower than 112Kb/s' sometime soon. Heaven helps us if they do! In
the UK it's all about quantity - quality doesn't even get a look in.


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"harrogate2" wrote:

There is a simple reason for it. I believe in Germany the data rate
used is 256Kb/s? In the UK the regulatory body, Ofcom (or it may have
been its predecessor the Radiocommunications Agency) issued an advice
to broadcasters that the lowest acceptable data rate should be
128Kb/s, so what happened? Correct, they all moved to 128Kb/s (or less

We have here 160 or more, just the traffic announcement program uses
64 kbit/sec, sounding like AM.

There are rumours around that Ofcom are to change their guidance to
'not lower than 112Kb/s' sometime soon. Heaven helps us if they do! In
the UK it's all about quantity - quality doesn't even get a look in.

This is bad, really bad




regards - Ralph

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In article , Ralph A.
Schmid, DK5RAS writes
"harrogate2" wrote:

There is a simple reason for it. I believe in Germany the data rate
used is 256Kb/s? In the UK the regulatory body, Ofcom (or it may have
been its predecessor the Radiocommunications Agency) issued an advice
to broadcasters that the lowest acceptable data rate should be
128Kb/s, so what happened? Correct, they all moved to 128Kb/s (or less

We have here 160 or more, just the traffic announcement program uses
64 kbit/sec, sounding like AM.

There are rumours around that Ofcom are to change their guidance to
'not lower than 112Kb/s' sometime soon. Heaven helps us if they do! In
the UK it's all about quantity - quality doesn't even get a look in.

This is bad, really bad



It'll happen over there. Just give it time:!.

Plus the joys of tandem coding etc..

BTW is Bayern Klassik 4 still transmitting at 256 K on DAB it sounds
super on satellite)....

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Tony Sayer