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"Andy Dingley" wrote in message
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On 14 Jan, 12:18, "dennis@home" wrote:

One of the disadvantages of DAB and DAB+ is that portable receivers
require a great deal more power to operate than analogue ones.


This is untrue of course.


More Dennis.

There is less chippery in a modern digital set so they use less power.


Except for DAB and its additional codec, which has a long track-record
of being power-hungry to a point that made battery operation
impractical.

Only very recently, such that "old stock" radios are still on the
shelves, have low-power DAB chipsets appeared.


So you agree that DAB doesn't use more power.