The goal of the Forum is to convert a brilliant piece of engineering achievement into a worldwide commercial marketing success, to the lasting economic and social benefit of all concerned.
It is dedicated to encouraging international co-operation and co-ordination between sound and data broadcasters, network providers, manufacturers, governments and official bodies, thus gaining consensus for the smooth introduction of DAB. The Forum represents more than one hundred companies and organisations from all sections of the broadcasting industry and from 30 countries. They include public and private broadcasters, DAB receiver and other electronic equipment manufacturers; transmission providers; regulators and governmental bodies.
There are now more than 150 different DAB receivers commercially available. A receiver archive is available on this site, which exhibits the DAB car radios, hi-fi’s, portable receivers, PC cards, and other DAB equipment that have been developed. Furthermore, as well as all European countries, other non-European countries including Canada, Singapore, Taiwan and Australia have launched operational or pilot services. Countries like China and India have begun experimental services and Mexico and Paraguay among other countries have expressed their advanced interest in DAB. DAB, however, uses these effects as reflectors creating multipath reception conditions to optimise receiver sensitivity. Since DAB always selects the strongest regional transmitter automatically, you`ll always be at the focal point of incoming radio signals. DAB is broadcast on terrestrial networks, and you are able to receive it using solely a tiny non-directional stub antenna.