Cisco Systems Elgar EVOKE-1 Owner's Manual

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 Guide to digital radio
Your EVOKE-1 Elgar enables you to receive and listen to DAB radio programmes. Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) uses digital signals rather than 
traditional analogue signals enabling near CD-quality audio with virtually interference-free reception. DAB also enables broadcasters to transmit 
additional data along with the audio including other audio channels, text and in the future, perhaps computer data and images.
Digital radio is broadcast as groups of data called ensembles or multiplexes. Each multiplex can contain a number of stations (services) and 
each station contains a primary service and can contain  secondary services as illustrated in the following diagram. 
Each multiplex is transmitted in a set frequency range and 
received by your EVOKE-1 Elgar for decoding. Your EVOKE-1 
Elgar enables you to receive multiplexes broadcast in 
 frequency band III (174-240 MHz) and store the services in 
each multiplex for you to access.  The  number of multiplexes 
you receive will vary depending on your location. Band III 
is divided into 41  channels identified as 5A to 13F. Each 
channel can contain one multiplex. Channels allocated to the 
UK are in the range 11B to 12D.
 Multiplexes and stations have labels (names) which are used 
to identify them. Instead of needing to know a particular 
frequency to listen to your favourite broadcast you can simply 
select the station name. Secondary services and additional 
data such as text containing programme or multiplex 
information are also easily accessed using your EVOKE-1 
Elgar.