Practical Caravan

Fitting antennas & DAB radio

HAVING FITTED A DAB radio in our previous caravan, one of my projects was now to fit it into the new van.

Both Kay and I like listening to the radio (Classic FM/Radio 3 for me, Radio 2/Radio 4 for her – I have to be quiet on Sunday mornings while The Archers Omnibus is on!), and we really like the clarity that DAB brings, provided the signal is strong enough.

If there’s nothing on the radio, we do stream music from our phones; but we’re not really into Spotify and similar services, so we tend to make do with what we have on our music apps.

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