DAB Antenna

[Ian Bosman]

Has anyone any advice to offer for the best antenna for a DAB radio in a coachbuilt
motorhome? I do not want to have a windscreen mounted one as they are not very good in my experience albeit short. I would prefer a roof top antenna and capable of having a longish cable.

 

[Jake vE]

Well we have an A class so difficult to get good grounding with any others but have had good results with an external glass mount aerial which came with a fairly long lead and not had any signal issues yet. The below link is the one we bought but the website itself gives some good information on the different types and capabilities

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[Jaws]

Has anyone any advice to offer for the best antenna for a DAB radio in a coachbuilt
motorhome? I do not want to have a windscreen mounted one as they are not very good in my experience albeit short. I would prefer a roof top antenna and capable of having a longish cable.

Until I can be bothered to make one, I am using a mag mount I got from Halfords
All the commercial ones are a poor compromise.
The centre frequency of DAB transmitters is about 200 megs
A quarter wave at 200 megs is roughly 35cms.. but you try and find one that long !!
All the ones I have seen are far shorter and are more suitable for use as a quarter wave at 600 megs !

 

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Sorry bit of technophobe but fitted one of these on fibre glass / resin area of bessacarr and worked a treat bit of a fiddle running cables but well worth it. Comes in both plug systems for dab to suit whatever your head unit is.

 

[Sid52]

Am I right in thinking that dab radios consume a lot of power? I know our kitchen on gets quite warm when turned on. Also, I get a battery discharge warning when trying to run the car radio with the engine off.

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[Sandancers]

Has anyone any advice to offer for the best antenna for a DAB radio in a coachbuilt
motorhome? I do not want to have a windscreen mounted one as they are not very good in my experience albeit short. I would prefer a roof top antenna and capable of having a longish cable.

Strangely, today I have just finished fitting an active Shark fin aerial to our Coachbuilt. Not saying it's good, but I was picking up the playlist from the International Space Station.

If you search DAB aerial on our username you should find several posts I have done above DAB reception.

 

[Sandancers]

Am I right in thinking that dab radios consume a lot of power? I know our kitchen on gets quite warm when turned on. Also, I get a battery discharge warning when trying to run the car radio with the engine off.

The power cables to our Pioneer DAB radio are very thin, not measured it accurately, but I'd guess at about 1 or 2A

 

[68c]

Am I right in thinking that dab radios consume a lot of power? I know our kitchen on gets quite warm when turned on. Also, I get a battery discharge warning when trying to run the car radio with the engine off.

I remember the survivalists getting upset when DAB looked like being the only radio transmitted in the UK. A DAB radio is basically a computer and consumes more power than a simple LW, MW or FM radio, they were worried about all those folk hiding under a mattress propped up on a door while waiting for the bomb to drop. The DAB radios would quickly run out of battery so we would not be able to listen to the Civil Defence broadcasts.

 

[Sid52]

I remember the survivalists getting upset when DAB looked like being the only radio transmitted in the UK. A DAB radio is basically a computer and consumes more power than a simple LW, MW or FM radio, they were worried about all those folk hiding under a mattress propped up on a door while waiting for the bomb to drop. The DAB radios would quickly run out of battery so we would not be able to listen to the Civil Defence broadcasts.

I remember those! Doing a bit of research it seems it's on average about 7w.