UK DAB is indeed on 220 MHz (ish). I bought a DAB tuner, was appalled at the dreadful sound quality compared with FM, and gave it away.
They've tried to compress too much stuff into too little bandwidth, and ruined the ship. Something to do with Government revenue raising, I think.
I would be surprised if a pocket-portable DAB radio would work well in the UK, outside the fairly immediate area of the transmitting aerial.
FM will be a better on a pocket radio - but I notice the FM signal strength is dropping: I wonder if they're turning down the power as a prelude to telling us all we have to to to DAB whether we like it or not.
[Edited for typo in frequency!]
Last edited by Keef; 23rd Nov 2008 at 20:25.