D.A.B Alarms

[slimysime]

Hi all im off to france this year in may but my question is will my xmas present from mrs slimy work in france, it's a roberts solar powered dab radio, cheers for any advise all

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My parents live for most of the year in the mid Pyrenees in France surrounded by mountains. My old man has been on a quest to be able to hear "this is London calling" coming out of some sort of radio. To this end he tried various radios, including DAB ones with no luck, this may be due to remoteness and ruddy great mountains.

 

I expect that the radio itself would pick up something in French as I believe that DAB is an international thing but I doubt you would get any English stations due to, well being in France

 

If you are somewhere flattish you should be able to get BBC world service on a SW/AMtravel radio

 

Just to add there are 2 systems in place in Europe DAB and DRM ( think VHS v Betamax ) , you may want to check which covers your area as I THINK that a Dab radio will not receive drm and vica versa.

[Guest makka]

DAB will work in some European countries but not others.

 

Have a look at this page to see how you can receive the BBC around the world on a variety of formats (Shortwave, longwave, DAB, etc)

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmeguide/waystolisten.shtml

 

and this one which shows you where in the world you can use DAB

 

http://www.worlddab.org/country_information_

[slimysime]

Thanks for the advise lads, sorry for my late replys i can't get on here as often now as i'd like family problems at the minute but thanks anyway, ive just noticed ive started my thread titled dab alarms and my question is about radios i dont know if im coming or going at the minute, cheers all.

 

sime