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How common is DAB hardware IBOC-capable? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz to c/dabradio

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As I was looking into DAB gear, I found out the US only supports DAB players if they are in-band on-channel (IBOC) capable.

That complicates things a bit if I want to take the hardware to the US. Is IBOC typical or rare in DAB+ hardware sold in the EU?

This article lists the vendors but then got truncated.

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[–] i_am_not_a_robot 2 points 1 year ago

I didn't think the US had DAB, but something else incompatible. That article suggests that is the case - it's just a digital stream in the spare bandwidth of FM. Their digital TV is similar, they don't really have the concept of multiplexes, everybody just gets to broadcast one channel exactly as they did under analogue.

Wohnort appears to agree that the two aren't compatible http://www.wohnort.org/dab/usa.html

I think you'll be lucky to find a radio which supports this system as well as DAB+.