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