Does anyone have knowledge of what’s the best type of radio for when your in remote places. Am, fm , short wave or dab. Not quite sure what is still broadcast, weekend gone I was out of tv & phone signal which doesn’t bother me too much but occasionally it’s handy for news etc with all the going’s on. At home I have a portable dab radio & from years ago a very expensive Sony ultra compact radio which does all the old am mw fm and short wave but haven’t used the old old Sony in years.

WE are like Colin and use a Pure DAB radio in our Troll and have found reception really good in most places we have visited.

Although I have to say we failed to get Radio Lancashire in West Ayton near Scarborough. I think the Yorkies were deliberately jamming the signal...............

MikeT

I think I'm going to take my Philips DAB radio next time, its just i was a little sceptical about signal as we had no mobile or tv signal where we were but I've nothing to loose

I have small Roberts radio Classic buletune which has DAB and FM, it also has Bluetooth so I can play tunes from my phone.

DAB has worked in almost every site I have visited, a few years ago it was a bit sketchy, FM is always the fall back.

I find the best place to put the radio is on top of the wardrobe (there is also convenient socket on top of the wardrobe) near the canvas poptop, the signal doesn't have to fight its way through the aluminium skin.

One small addition to this discussion is I believe that there is no digital radio transmission in France (for example) so reliance on FM etc, might be the safest option if travelling abroad...

If you have a VPN you can listen to and watch UK TV and Radio in Europe without any problems on your Ipad / laptop. You can't always rely on getting a free wifi signal, we have a booster for this designed for Motorhomes, but you can usually pay for a good signal. Wifi is one of my requirements when booking as i have customers who never think that I may be away on holiday!!

I tend to go particularly at the moment to cl sites which don't usually have Wi-Fi, i want to try and find out what i can install with a view to a router & aerial but with out a large contract for a sim. Like i said earlier i don't watch a lot of tv at least in summer months but winter remains to be seen on how much i can get away with covid & work. If i could make it work at a price and of course link my mobile phone, tv,& radio

We're like Poptop and find the best place for our Pure Radio is on top of the wardrobe - we seem to pick up a good signal from there.

MikeT

I have the Avtex aerial & tv but on the two sites in question i couldn't get anything, first one, if i was allocated a pitch at one site of the site i could just get a signal with my homemade satellite setup but the other site had trees in the way and both sites are out in the sticks! and bothering on a one or two night stay to set up satellite compared to if i could have a say 6" compact aerial as a semi permanent fixation where you possibly just screw the aerial into a base plate? not sure but at that size compared to the size of the aerial in my 5 year old iPhone!

I've just been to Chichester C&CC site for a few days and couldn't get a very good fm signal without interference. I settled on my phone using Radio UK and a bluetooth speaker. Great sound and no interference.

unfortunately when i was away at one of the sites in question there wasn't even phone signal! I had my iPad for a little music but i would like to be able to get the news & sometimes just general info on local area on google. I think the way forward is as i said earlier a small possibly 6" aerial that would screw on to a fixed baseplate or something on suckers & wired into a router. The hard bit is doing it without a large monthly bill & choosing which model of aerial & router. No more crappy site Wi-Fi! (no Wi-Fi at all on the last cl sites) tablet, phone, maybe even firestick on tv if the signal was good enough? on your vpn