DAB in Bath

[Gordon]

Posters may like to see this:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/206694/130607_-_Go_Digital_Report__Final.docx_1_.pdf

[french frank]

Is it all right to post this link? Is the website document in the public domain?

[teamsaint]

a Kenneth Wolstenhome moment....

[mangerton]

Is it all right to post this link? Is the website document in the public domain?

Yes, and yes. I've just found it on the gov.uk site.

A very quick reading of the "Executive Summary" (aka the "Janet and John" page) appears to suggest that everyone thinks that DAB is the greatest thing since sliced bread. This of course is exactly what the govt wants to hear so I imagine they'll be very keen for the report to be widely publicised.

[ardcarp]

Gordon,

You wouldn't be able to summarise the document I suppose? When I see acres of small print I just lose the will to live. Has something special happened in Bath? Have they been deprived of FM ? Sorry to be so thick.

[LeMartinPecheur]

On 3 seconds' reading I like this report a lot. It says (well, hints) that I'm vulnerable because I have a radio in my sitting room! Can I now retire early please?

"I told you I was ill!" (pace Spike Milligan)

Are all of us vulnerable on this here MB??

[french frank]

Yes, and yes. I've just found it on the gov.uk site.

Thanks for taking the time, mangers. It seemed to be so stressing the copyright &c &c, I thought it might be inaccessible to the public. I did grab a table marked: Radio switchover - good or bad for the UK. Interestingly, the before and after the trial figures for both the main group and the vulnerable group indicate an increase in the 'Bad thing' score ...

[teamsaint]

It is mostly made up conclusions, from a very small survey, taken in a rather unrepresentative town.
Anybody who think that people encounter very few problems listening to DAB, has either been very lucky, or is in the pay of the BBC.

Basically, the questions seem to have been set to give a low initial expectation, and to give a big "Improvement" factor, based on folks getting free gear, and Bath (no doubt) being particularly good for reception.

[teamsaint]

Thanks for taking the time, mangers. It seemed to be so stressing the copyright &c &c, I thought it might be inaccessible to the public. I did grab a table marked: Radio switchover - good or bad for the UK. Interestingly, the before and after the trial figures for both the main group and the vulnerable group indicate an increase in the 'Bad thing' score ...

around 80/ 90% increase I made it !! (was it 14 to 25?)

[french frank]

around 80/ 90% increase I made it !! (was it 14 to 25?)

Work it out fer yersel:

[LeMartinPecheur]

Work it out fer yersel:

Well, clearly it appeals to the vulnerable much more after the trial so I'm happy

[Where's me copy of How to Lie with Sadistics???]

[Gordon]

Is it all right to post this link? Is the website document in the public domain?

Sorry FF I should have said that it was published last Thursday and is in the public domain courtesy DCMS who own it. Good thing however to worry about copyright these days!!

The BBC had little to do with it, the report was commissioned and published by DCMS.

[Gordon]

Gordon,

You wouldn't be able to summarise the document I suppose? When I see acres of small print I just lose the will to live. Has something special happened in Bath? Have they been deprived of FM ? Sorry to be so thick.

YES - in theory they were deprived of FM [they had to put their own radios away] but I guess that some of the DAB radios distributed had FM as well!!! I don't think that the local FM transmitter was switched off!!

The Go Digital trial was an attempt by government to see how a small representative [yes, yes I know] proportion of the population dealt with having to rely on DAB for their radio reception. The top line results are as suggested in #4: The Bathers loved it and had few problems adapting!! However the devil is in the detail and although the results are largely positive there are some issues to be resolved as is shown in the table that FF posted.

[french frank]

Thanks, Gordon. Must admit from the thread title I thought it was about how well your DAB radio functioned in a steamy atmosphere... (all that talk about swimming baths on another thread).

[amateur51]

Thanks, Gordon. Must admit from the thread title I thought it was about how well your DAB radio functioned in a steamy atmosphere... (all that talk about swimming baths on another thread).