DAB Aerial, which one?

[g8jka]

I think I'll just leave it then, I can use an app on the phone which will pick up most stations anyway and it will play though Bluetooth or USB. Thanks for the replies

 

[DelGue]

This is what I had when I bought my Z3...

 

[DelGue]

It looks like the spring in a ball point pen on steroids. Absolutely useless, as I only get two Spanish stations...

 

[Devon Z]

I’ve listened to Planet Rock since they started and put a Dab unit in my other car with a window fix aerial like mobile phones use, all worked very well then 18 months later they stopped transmission in the southwest! complained to Planet Rock and they just said you can listen on the internet?!
So both my Pure home and car units are scrap, as has been said all the other stations are c**p

 

[Redline]

I’ve listened to Planet Rock since they started and put a Dab unit in my other car with a window fix aerial like mobile phones use, all worked very well then 18 months later they stopped transmission in the southwest! complained to Planet Rock and they just said you can listen on the internet?!
So both my Pure home and car units are scrap, as has been said all the other stations are c**p

Planet Rock is mono on DAB and stereo on download.

 

[t-tony]

I regularly listen to a Country station from Fredericton, Canada via the internet on my phone. Can also listen in my car.

Tony.

 

[Jack Ratt]

My cars are stuck on Talksport

 

[Chaz Ricorn]

I fitted a screen mount DAB antenna, fitted on the passenger side and I never even notice it now.
The reception is excellent and I get less drop out round here than I get with the DAB on my Mercedes C200 with a sharks fin antenna.
I also fitted a sharks fin from Dabonwheels on my MGB and the screen mount is at least as good reception.
I think the important thing is to make sure you have a really good earth as long as you do that the reception superb.

 

[Redline]

I fitted a screen mount DAB antenna, fitted on the passenger side and I never even notice it now.
The reception is excellent and I get less drop out round here than I get with the DAB on my Mercedes C200 with a sharks fin antenna.
I also fitted a sharks fin from Dabonwheels on my MGB and the screen mount is at least as good reception.
I think the important thing is to make sure you have a really good earth as long as you do that the reception superb.

The sharks fin is probably doing phone and gps too. So many active devices in a small area is never a good idea. Unless extremely well designed to improve rejection of other frequencies they’re never going to perform brilliantly. A separate antenna of the correct wavelength will always work better.
Many cars now have the DAB antenna behind the bumpers.
Some use the rear heated screen (often just for fm). Many land rovers use a heated screen type antenna on the side rear windows. One for fm the other for DAB.
The one thing you can’t change is the physics of wavelength/frequency. DAB is broadcast above the standard FM band, but, the wavelength and hence antenna length is still quite long. Amplified antennas help but you’re soon fighting signal to noise ratios. DAB will work to a point because of in-built error correction in the encoding, but, at the limit, it goes straight from working to not working. It doesn’t fail gracefully like FM

 

[Chaz Ricorn]

Neither the Merc or the B have GPS or Phone going thru the sharks fin, the Merc one is particularly bad around here (we live in a very hilly area) but as I say the screen antenna is at least as good as the 'B one and if I have to do it again I'd have no hesitation about using the same unit again.
This is the one I bought http://caraudiosecurity.com/kae-12da-interior-windscreen-mount-12v-dab-antenna