What Radio Stations are Available?
The number of available radio stations is rather variable from place to place due to the regional nature of transmitter sites, and the fact that any given transmission actually contains several radio stations as part of the multiplex. Let’s seek an answer in general terms, then. To start with, all the national BBC stations are there. The BBC have also started up a digital-only station called Radio 6. It’s a rock station which appears to be breaking the fairly stale mold of the widely-syndicated commercial stations. Another station you can get is Virgin Radio. In most UK locations, this is only available over a chain of AM Medium Wave transmitters, giving it limited audio bandwidth and lots of fading and interference at night. It’s all clear on DAB. A couple of other digital-only stations I found are Planet Rock and Arrow. These seem to concentrate on Classic Rock and again are a welcome change from most of the other commercial stations on FM or AM. Psion Wavefinder I had seen demos of
