bilkob
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Sept 25, 2021 18:18:38 GMT
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As per the title, I’ve bought a Blaupunkt Skagen Dab radio for my CX GTI T2 project and I can’t find 6 Music (which was the whole point!) anywhere. Am I being daft?
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Sept 25, 2021 20:53:46 GMT
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I'm sure my radio had 2 (or maybe 3!) Dab band variants and I can only get radio 6 on one of them.
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60six
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Sept 25, 2021 22:08:32 GMT
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In the instructions you need to set the right DAB region ...  |
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longman
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Sept 25, 2021 22:41:07 GMT
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I cant get 6(or most DAB) on my Blaupunkt Toronto which is why I didn't recommend it in your previous inquiry..
Fist thing , what aerial are you using? the one supplied with mine was useless , you need a powered one.
As my car is a convertible I had no-where that I found suitable to fit another aerial so tried an adapter that powers the FM aerial,it gets talk sport and lots of foreign language stations but that's not my cup o tea , hence me saying I stream 6 over bluetooth via BBC sounds.
Good luck
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Paul
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Sept 26, 2021 8:55:40 GMT
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Can you get 6 music locally on a portable transistor style dab radio? I've found that reception varies enormously even within the same county.
I listen to planet rock, from my home near the Cambs border reception is fine, if I head to Norwich I loose the station and then it comes back about 15 miles later!
Can't be valleys in Norfolk!
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bilkob
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Sept 26, 2021 9:55:40 GMT
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I’ve got a powered ariel yes, a proper one, not the dopey stick on one supplied. Yes, I can get 6 Music on the radio in my workshop…..
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mk2cossie
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Sept 26, 2021 9:59:37 GMT
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I had similar issues getting Radio1 on my Kenwood DAB addon module. It turns out there are different multiplexes with various stations, and not all of them the same lot grouped together  Can you search for stations on a different DAB network on the Blaupunkt radio? |
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Sept 26, 2021 12:17:05 GMT
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I threw a pure dab kit into my MK3 escort cabrio, with its Kenwood head unit, and dumped the aerial (magmount) on the osr wing top
It easily receives as well as my built on Kenwood in my rrc
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squonk
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Sept 26, 2021 16:52:41 GMT
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I've got DAB radios in three of my cars and have pretty much given up with them. Instead I stream from the BBC Sounds app into either the bluetooth input or aux input depending on which set it is. It seems far more consistent for reception than DAB is.
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Sept 28, 2021 9:38:02 GMT
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Just thought- you're not trying to use the stupid stick-on aerial inside the screen are you? They're rubbish at the best of times, and if you add heated screen elements they do the square root of f- all!
I get better reception with either a magmount ot a bolt in powered aerial
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longman
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Just remembered today that you have to turn on the power to the DAB aerial in the menu on mine , have you done this?
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Paul
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bilkob
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In reply to both of the above, I’m not running the stick on aerial no, and I’m pretty sure the aerial takes its power from the radio anyway, but I’ll double check.
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i did my furthest ever drive in my modern DAB equipped honda hrv from Glasgow down to Wales last week and was devistated that i constantly had to retune the DAB multiple times. who wouldve guessed that RDS was the pinnacle of radio?
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@ CRX_IN_SCOTLAND
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bilkob
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So the consensus is DAB is wibblepoo?
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I listen to DAB( planet Rock) in my modern Ford and rarely have a problem, I suspect if you spend a million or 2 on developing the system like OEM's do it's ok!
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