Digital Audio Broadcasting is shortly known as ‘DAB’, through which listeners can get numerous advantages. The unique feature of this unit is broadcasting audio signals with the help of digital radio transmission. This DAB radio has come to the UK market with various advantages over AM and FM. Some of the advantages of this DAB unit are listed as:
1. Easy handling
DAB radio is designed to be handled easily. Anyone can tune DAB stations easily without mentioning frequencies and instead of that you may use name of the radio station or format. It will automatically list all the station names.
2. Availability of more stations
Unlike FM or AM, DAB radio offers more radio stations. It is capable of offering more bandwidth than other traditional radio stations. Though you are in a rural area in the UK, you can listen to broadcasting of more radio stations.
3. Service cost
DAB radio broadcasting is offered free of cost to the UK people. You have to pay some amount for buying a DAB receiver to get DAB access. That’s it. Apart from that actual cost, no need to pay anything extra for getting DAB broadcasting.
4. Quality of broadcasting
The listeners can experience unique quality in receiving signals. You can enjoy programs without hassles such as multi-path fading or interference or noises. You will never get a hissing experience, if the signal is weak.
5. Additional Data
Apart from the name of the radio station, you can know some more details like:
• Song titles
• Music type
• News
• Traffic updates
• Advance program guides
• Pause facility in even live broadcasts
Be aware of the drawbacks too
The DAB radio is criticised on certain grounds. The original quality of the sound may change when the analogue signal is converted into digital signal. Most of the music radio stations broadcast programs only in mono format instead of stereo format. When you are away from the limited coverage, you may not be able to receive signals properly. This may lead to poor broadcasting. The DAB coverage area has to be expanded which is a major drawback. The cost of transmitting analogue to digital is higher than FM in DAB. You have to utilise more power for accessing DAB.
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