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Old 01-08-2017, 05:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Colly0410 View Post
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High band is now used for digital radio using DAB & DAB+ systems...
Last week I picked up at a Goodwill thrift shop a Colourstream Internet, DAB and analog FM receiver. Took a while to convince it to use the wired ethernet connection for Internet access, but it works well now for Internet streaming and analog FM reception. Of course, here in New Jersey, USA it doesn't hear anything on DAB mode. According to the specs, this DAB band runs from 174 to around 230MHz, which is mostly our channels 7 thru 13 and then a little more. I suppose it is possible to have a few DAB transmitters using empty TV channels here, but I doubt that would ever happen.

This receiver requires 230VAC but we do have 250VAC (a pair of 120VAC's) here in the USA, though at 60Hz. This radio is happy on 60Hz, even though it states 50Hz. Aside from record players and clocks, transformers are very happy on 60Hz even though they are rated for 50Hz.
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