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Bert Coules wrote:
Dave Plowman wrote:

How many radio channels do you regularly listen to?

That's a very good point. Certainly no more than three or four
regularly.

Think that's the same with most. Maybe even less.

And FreeView tuners are cheap as chips.

Are you suggesting one Freeview tuner for each radio station?
Yes.
It would be
necessary to split (and perhaps amplify) the incoming aerial signal, but I
imagine that could be done.

Beauty of FreeView tuners is they all have an aerial in and out. Unlike
most FM or DAB receivers. And most will already have a decent TV aerial -
and usually fed to more than one room.

I could feed each tuner to a different input on a central amp, then the
individual room controls would only need to work on the amp in order to
change both channel (ie input) and volume.

It's slightly messy and rather depends on the control system, but it
would surely work. Thanks.

I've distributed all 5 circuits round the house using cheap telephone
cable. Then pick up the wanted one - via a switch - to a local amp and
speakers. Lets you adjust volume and say tone controls for those speakers
easily. Unlike a 100v line system.

It's not going to cost pennies, but once done and done right lasts pretty
well for ever. Same as installing adequate sockets at re-wire time rather
than plodding along with extension leads.

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