Re: DAB quality (or not)

Paul Martin (pm@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote (25 Jul 2005 22:52:45 GMT):
> In article <42e53eea$1_1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> John Gilliver wrote:
> > excellent quality will ever come back - unfortunately, that will have to be
> > lived with; in much the same way as turning off the pilot tone on FM
> > broadcast,

> Not done since about 1989, IIRC.
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Yes, I remember the time when radio 4, for example, only turned it on when it
was broadcasting stereo material - thus giving better reception to many the
rest of the time! (Especially since many stereo radios don't have a "mono"
switch.) I genuinely don't know why they stopped doing it: I can only assume
the reason was financial (including technical-financial, i. e. catering for
the control signal, and the time of the person whose 1/100 of a job it was to
monitor and control it, was exceeding the cost of the extra power used), added
to a small contribution from the thought that some people would think there
was something wrong with their set if the red light wasn't on.

I was intrigued to read in this thread that some pirates are indeed switching
to mono.
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