Poor reception on my Ruark R1 digital radio

[jg7890]

My Ruark R1 digital tabletop radio has performed brilliantly when it was attached to my 16 year old TV antennaI. I have just had a new digital tv antenna installed with the result that the Ruark digital radio reception is now very poor and consistently cuts in and out .

I have resorted to attaching the extendable antenna that came with the radio, but with the same poor reception results.

Any suggestions from readers as to improve the reception would be greatly appreciated.

Jeff

 

 

 

[GaryT]

do you have a dedicated outlet for the radio? it may be plugged into an FM filtered output on the antenna amplifier, which cuts all of the DAB frequencies.

[surprisetech]

4 hours ago, jg7890 said:

My Ruark R1 digital tabletop radio has performed brilliantly when it was attached to my 16 year old TV antennaI. I have just had a new digital tv antenna installed with the result that the Ruark digital radio reception is now very poor and consistently cuts in and out .

I have resorted to attaching the extendable antenna that came with the radio, but with the same poor reception results.

Any suggestions from readers as to improve the reception would be greatly appreciated.

Jeff

 

Assuming the splitter and everything else is still the same as it was, I would only expect a new TV antenna to be a problem for DAB+ reception if it was a UHF-only antenna.

i.e. One that only has those tiny little UHF elements and no VHF High (Ch 5A - 13) or VHF Low (Ch 2 - 5) elements.

 

In most places Digital TV channels are on the 'VHF High' band and in some locations the UHF band is also used.  A so-called "digital TV" antenna should cover both bands.  e.g.  A standard VHF-UHF combo antenna with decent gain.

 

DAB+ Radio is broadcast on three frequencies within the old Channel 9 TV allocation.  So any TV antenna that provides VHF High band reception should work OK for DAB+.

If there is a new splitter with a 'TV' output and an 'FM' output, then using the FM output for DAB+ would be a problem as that output would most likely be filtered to block the TV frequencies.

 

BTW.  There is no such thing as a 'digital' TV antenna.  TV antennae are defined by which frequency band/s they support and how much gain they provide.  Were you having trouble with your TV reception prior to having the new antenna installed?

 

 

 

[georgehifi]

On 01/07/2022 at 3:57 PM, surprisetech said:

I have resorted to attaching the extendable antenna that came with the radio, but with the same poor reception results.

https://www.stereonet.com/forums/topic/571610-antenna-for-your-dab-tuner/#comment-6141313

 

Cheers George