I don't know if technically it was the same DAB+ system you're discussing here. But when I rented a car in Spain's Canary Islands (off the coast of Africa) in 2019, the radio worked similar to what I've experienced in the UK. You can dial in a particular station, and see a read-out of its name etc. But as you drive around curvy roads hugging the picturesque steep slopes of the island, the radio would quickly re-tune to whatever other frequencies and transmitter sites that particular radio station used, whenever the signal strength came in clearer - even if only for a minute.
The tuner automatically switched frequencies several times on a short stretch of the highway on the northeast coast of La Palma, picking up frequencies from an adjacent island that would briefly be a better match. Very little delay between sites, too.
Brilliant system, and certainly helps avoid the distraction of manually having to retune while driving on narrow roads with lots of blind curves on a steep mountainside above the Atlantic ocean!
Only issue I had with the option of engaging DAB in Britain was finding that the signals indeed did not carry as far as their analog counterparts. Couldn't pick up the BBC services a little east of Dundee, Scotland on the main motorway from Aberdeen until I got quite close to the city. It left a digital dead zone not far from a population center. That car, a Skoda, did have an easy way to switch between DAB and standard FM, however.
Sure would have been a superior system to the garble and signal fighting we have now listening in the car. Which is the only place a lot of people even bother trying to listen to radio anymore. But that would have required an FCC that made some rules, that congress backed up, and that the NAB understood it was to everyone's advantage to not fight them at every turn, in their attempt to game such a system to their own apparent advantage.
The tuner automatically switched frequencies several times on a short stretch of the highway on the northeast coast of La Palma, picking up frequencies from an adjacent island that would briefly be a better match. Very little delay between sites, too.
Brilliant system, and certainly helps avoid the distraction of manually having to retune while driving on narrow roads with lots of blind curves on a steep mountainside above the Atlantic ocean!
Only issue I had with the option of engaging DAB in Britain was finding that the signals indeed did not carry as far as their analog counterparts. Couldn't pick up the BBC services a little east of Dundee, Scotland on the main motorway from Aberdeen until I got quite close to the city. It left a digital dead zone not far from a population center. That car, a Skoda, did have an easy way to switch between DAB and standard FM, however.
Sure would have been a superior system to the garble and signal fighting we have now listening in the car. Which is the only place a lot of people even bother trying to listen to radio anymore. But that would have required an FCC that made some rules, that congress backed up, and that the NAB understood it was to everyone's advantage to not fight them at every turn, in their attempt to game such a system to their own apparent advantage.