"john d hamilton" wrote in message

The reason i wanted a small DAB radio is mainly for news and world
service
whilst walking around. In north london my other small FM radios
keep
breaking up at almost every other corner.

I rang phillips and they are now saying something different. that
the
*wiping off* of all the presets after a 'local' scan is normal for
this
Phillips pocket DAB radio DA1103/05.

I emailed the 'Pure' radio people and they have advised: Ofcom has
explicitly not licensed DAB+ services, and key figures in the UK
broadcast
industry have indicated that it will be years before the new
standard
starts to be used and many years after that before there is expected
to
be any change to existing DAB services.


Pure is hardly going to say "yeah, DAB+ is just around the corner, so
don't buy a DAB radio at the moment, wait until everything supports
DAB+", are they?



--
Steve - www.digitalradiotech.co.uk - Digital Radio News & Info

The adoption of DAB was the most incompetent technical
decision ever made in the history of UK broadcasting:
http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/da...ion_of_dab.htm