Dab Radios Get a Poor Reception From Reader ; Letters

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You report (August 5) that Moss in Bath are supporting the attempt by the BBC to encourage us all to switch to DAB radio by offering an "amnesty" to the 75 per cent of the population who aren't interested. Coming on top of the arrogant - and vindictive - declaration by Tim Davie, the BBC's Director of Audio, that he wants non-DAB users to "feel a bit of pain", calling the exchange scheme an "amnesty" is an insult to the intelligence. It's a none-too- subtle attempt to imply that those who continue to receive FM/AM radio are somehow doing something illegal, or at least are failing in their civic duty. Well, we aren't.

For both the UK as a whole, and for the individual user, there are few, if any, advantages to DAB, and many serious disadvantages. The present FM/AM technology is perfectly adequate for most listeners, and given the number of receivers in existence in the UK, the whole exercise of replacing FM/AM with DAB receivers would cost the public, at an estimate, Pounds 2,000 million - Pounds 4,000 million.

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Dab Radios Get a Poor Reception From Reader ; Letters

There are more important things to spend our money on.

DAB receivers use about four tim...

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