DABbing it here, DABbing it there

Not strictly motoring related, though it will affect car owners and so is just cause for grumpiness. The government is to switch off analogue radio and force everyone on to DAB by 2015. The FM frequencies being sold off for "ultra local" stations.

This seems to be an incredibly wasteful idea. A quick survey of the Grumpy Old Motorist's household revealed three analogue radios, plus the car stereo - all of which would need to be replaced. Multiply this across the country and you have a vast mountain of surplus kit to be expensively recycled, or worse thrown into landfill. then you've got to import replacements - which won't do the economy much good.

And why? So the treasury can raise a few bob by selling off frequencies - that will then be used for content hardly anyone will listen to.

There's a petition against the analogue switch off on the Downing Street website. I urge you to sign it.

GOM