ChatterBank1 min ago
DAB Radio
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.You may be able to pick up UK FM or DAB stations in Europe provided you are reasonably close. Broadcasters won't want to waste power broadcasting to people who aren't going to buy their advertisers products. Short, medium and long wave transmissions will carry much further than FM so you should be able to receive these in mainland Europe although even these transmissions are targetted at a specific audience.
Just for completeness sake, and probably more information than you ever wanted, there is a DAB version of short wave communications being tested worldwide at the moment called Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) which means that you may be able to sit in deepest darkest Africa and listen to Terry Wogan in the morning!
DAB gives lots of new stations and they are a pleasure to listen to as they have fewer adverts than the fm stations. You don't need to dial thru wavelengths, or even know wwhat it is as the station name is displayed. also you get an extra line of information as well as teh station name. Many music stations show the name of the track & artists that they are playing.
I have readthat the compresion routing used means the sound quality is not as good as fm, but I can't tell the difference, plus you don't get the hiss and interference you do on fm.
I started with a portable DAB and upgraded to a CD/fm/DAB hi fi.
Get a cheap portable and see if the stations available in your area suit you. I'm getting about 30 stations - not listened to them all - I listen mostly to adult rock stations 'The Arrow', 'Planet Rock' and 'Storm'