19/10/2024, 08:02 PM
While on holiday in Majorca I passed the time in the evening checking what DAB and FM radio stations I could pick up from the apartment I stayed at. I have a Reka DAB+ radio that I originally bought at Aldi that is surprisingly sensitive on both FM and DAB, picking up weak DAB muxes with clear audio that many other DAB radios cannot even tune.
DAB Radio Stations
I could not pick any DAB stations inside the apartment. Out on the balcony manually tuning through the band, I picked up the following muxes:
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From quickly checking over some DAB stations, they appear to be around 56Kbps AAC (DAB+). The stations ending in HD appear to be all 128Kbps.
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The following is the a list of the DAB stations it tuned at the time, 13th October 2024:
FM Radio Stations
Personally I prefer scanning FM radio stations more interesting as these do not have the digital cliff issue of DAB and clear FM radio stations generally sound a lot better than low bitrate DAB stations.
Unlike DAB, the majority of the FM stations came in clear inside the apartment. The stations marked "Weak" had significant stereo FM hiss inside. Some stations were too weak to retrieve the RDS name / genre even when tuned out on the balcony. The genre in brackets is what was shown on the LCD display. Stations marked (Silent) had no audio, i.e. just a silent carrier.
DAB Radio Stations
I could not pick any DAB stations inside the apartment. Out on the balcony manually tuning through the band, I picked up the following muxes:
- 6B - ibizadab.es - Very weak, audio breaking up
- 7A - Teltower 7A - Mid strength, no issue with positioning radio outside to listen
- 8C - 3 dots on signal meter, too weak to tune
- 8D - Teltower 8D - Barely tunable
- 9D - 2 dots on signal meter, too weak to tune
- 11A - Das IR - Weak, clear audio out at the edge of the balcony
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From quickly checking over some DAB stations, they appear to be around 56Kbps AAC (DAB+). The stations ending in HD appear to be all 128Kbps.
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The following is the a list of the DAB stations it tuned at the time, 13th October 2024:
- Activa FM
- Bikini FM
- COMBOI
- FIESTA FM
- La Flamenca
- FranFM
- GLXY Radio
- Gold FM
- GrabaRadio IBIZA
- INSELRADIO HD
- INSELRADIO CLASS
- JFKIbiza
- MASTERFM
- MuyBuena
- NPO RADIO 2
- Ibiza Organica
- Tomorrowland OWR
- Radio Hallo
- RNN Network
- RockStar
- RRN DAB+
- SamIbiza
- SUNSHINE CLASSIC
- SUNSHINE HD
- SOL Latino
FM Radio Stations
Personally I prefer scanning FM radio stations more interesting as these do not have the digital cliff issue of DAB and clear FM radio stations generally sound a lot better than low bitrate DAB stations.
Unlike DAB, the majority of the FM stations came in clear inside the apartment. The stations marked "Weak" had significant stereo FM hiss inside. Some stations were too weak to retrieve the RDS name / genre even when tuned out on the balcony. The genre in brackets is what was shown on the LCD display. Stations marked (Silent) had no audio, i.e. just a silent carrier.
- 97.6 - (Weak)
- 87.9 - RNE-CLAS (Classical Music)
- 88.1 - LOCAURBN (Silent) (None)
- 88.4 - R.MURTA (None)
- 88.6 - Mallorca (Silent) (Pop Music)
- 88.8 - (Very Weak)
- 89.0 - RADIO (None) (Weak)
- 89.2 - IB3RADIO (Talk) (Weak)
- 89.5 - KISS FM (Pop Music)
- 89.8 - (Weak)
- 90.1 - RNE 1 (Information)
- 90.7 - RNENETWORK (Jazz and Blues) (Weak)
- 91.2 - EUROPAFM (Pop Music)
- 91.6 - R.MARCA (News)
- 91.8 - MuyBuena (Pop Music) (Weak)
- 92.0 - The Club (Travel)
- 92.3 - Radio 3 (Pop Music)
- 92.7 - IB2RAdIO (Talk)
- 93.1 - (Weak)
- 93.3 - CATRADIO
- 93.5 - (Silent)
- 93.8 - ONE O_ (Pop Music)
- 94.1 - LOS40 (Pop Music)
- 94.5 - (Very Weak)
- 95.1 - ONDACERO (Information)
- 95.4 - INFORMA (News) (Weak)
- 95.6 - esRadio (News)
- 96.1 - SER+ (Current Affairs)
- 96.6 - HIT FM (Pop Music)
- 97.1 - esRadio (Information)
- 97.3 - RCN (Pop Music) (Weak)
- 97.6 - CAD-100 (Pop Music)
- 97.9 - The Best (None)
- 98.2 - #HITS 1 (Talk)
- 98.4 - MALLORAL (Rock Music)
- 98.8 - SUNSHINE (Pop Music)
- 99.1 - The Best (Oldies Music)
- 99.4 - COPE (News)
- 99.6 - (No Name) (Religion) (Weak)
- 99.9 - R Naria (Arts)
- 100.1 - (Test Tone)
- 100.6 - INSEL (Pop Music) (Weak)
- 101.0 - MELODIA (Pop Music)
- 101.4 - fibei (Phone In)
- 101.6 - (Very Weak)
- 102.0 - RADIOONE (Pop Music)
- 102.3 - LOS40 CL (Pop Music)
- 102.8 - ROCK FM (Rock Music)
- 103.0 - mallrca1 (Talk)
- 103.2 - SER (Information)
- 103.6 - COPE+PMA (News)
- 103.9 - (Very Weak)
- 104.5 - RNE 5-IB
- 105.2 - (Weak)
- 105.4 - SPUTNIK (Rock Music) (Weak)
- 105.6 - (Very Weak)
- 105.8 - DARIA RADIO SOLI (Weak)
- 106.1 - INSEL (Pop Music) (Weak)
- 106.4 - BN MCA RADIO CULTURA MUSICAL (Talk)
- 106.8 - IB3RADIO (Talk)
- 107.1 - (Very Weak)
- 107.4 - (No Name)
- 107.7 - (Weak)