How to listen to test match special in the car?

molerat

molerat wrote: »

Just had my first day of DAB in the car. What a pile of poo. Probably OK for you city dwellers but absolute pants in our rural area. Music keeps skipping just like it did in the old days when they played discs on the radio. Back to FM for me.

Been playing with the DAB again. The skipping is due to losing the DAB signal as I drive round our town and reverting to FM and back. According to the map we are not in a digital reception area. I was sitting in another town waiting for MrsM and found another 2 multiplexes which now seem to stay tuned most of the time. Once I drive out of the town it seems to be reasonable but not as reliable as FM. In my old car you could see the FM frequency changing as you drove around the town, we are served by 3 transmitters.

scragend

ElefantEd wrote: »

Radio 198 kHz as I recall. Occasionally interrupted for a shipping forecast but you'll likely only miss 2 or 3 English wickets falling.

What a difference three weeks make!

The Australians were all out last Thursday in less than the time it takes to tune a radio :rotfl:

I like the shipping forecast. Particularly one Saturday recently when the announcer had to split the area South East Iceland into two separate forecasts - so we had "South East South East Iceland" followed by "North West South East Iceland"

tony6403

scragend wrote: »

I like the shipping forecast. Particularly one Saturday recently when the announcer had to split the area South East Iceland into two separate forecasts - so we had "South East South East Iceland" followed by "North West South East Iceland"

You driving one of these ?

ilikewatch

littlerock wrote: »

OH tells me he is unable to listen to test match special in his five year old car because it does not have digital radio? Is this true?

If you're questioning your partners honesty when he tells you which radio stations he can receive I think your relationship might have some bigger issues...

bazster

ilikewatch wrote: »

If you're questioning your partners honesty when he tells you which radio stations he can receive I think your relationship might have some bigger issues...

She's not questioning his honesty, she's questioning his intelligence!