{"id":35606,"date":"2019-01-16T07:58:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T11:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=35606"},"modified":"2019-01-16T07:58:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T11:58:36","slug":"silicon-chip-building-a-am-fm-dab-tuner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/silicon-chip-building-a-am-fm-dab-tuner\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Chip: Building a AM\/FM DAB+ tuner"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor,\u00a0Mangosman, who writes:<\/p>\n

[The January 2019 issue of the Australian Silicon Chip magazine<\/a>] commences a series of construction articles on building your own DAB+\/AM\/FM receiver. Australia was the first country to start permanent high powered DAB+ broadcasting which was in Aug 2009.<\/p>\n

It is now extensively used in Europe but in the UK there are only 4 program streams in DAB+ the rest are in DAB which uses a less efficient audio compression and poorer error correction for noise and reflected signals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to check out a preview of this article at Silicon Chip Online.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks for the tip! Readers, please note that Silicon Chip<\/em> requires a subscription or you must purchase the issue in order to read the full article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Mangosman, who writes: [The January 2019 issue of the Australian Silicon Chip magazine] commences a series of construction articles on building your own DAB+\/AM\/FM receiver. Australia was the first country to start permanent high powered DAB+ broadcasting which was in Aug 2009. It is now extensively used in Europe but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[373,5517,3781,3],"tags":[2478,4070,7539,7540],"class_list":["post-35606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-digital-audio-broadcasting","category-fm","category-news","tag-dab","tag-digital-audio-broadcasting","tag-mangosman","tag-silicon-chip-magazine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9gi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":56495,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/guest-post-review-of-an-affordable-compact-dab-portable-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":35606,"position":0},"title":"Guest Post: Review of an affordable, compact DAB+ portable radio","author":"Thomas","date":"May 3, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mangosman, who shares the following review: DAB+ digital audio\/FM receiver and Bluetooth Audio Player with 2.4 inch LCD Display\u00a0 by Mangosman Digital Audio Broadcasting with improved audio compression and error correction is called DAB+. 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