Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) is a digital method of delivering radio services from base station to the receiver. The main aim of this paper is to get better reliability of DAB reception in mobile (moving) environment. DAB is very forceful in mobile environment, but in some situations, reception fails in certain spots due to undesired audio interruptions. Antenna diversity systems are considered to improve the diversity reception in DAB. The diversity gain depends on the two characters a) correlation of the signals from the different antennas which is influenced by antenna separation, b) parameters of transmitted signals. In this paper, theoretical evaluations of DAB are to be considered. Different parameters of DAB transmitted signals are evaluated by using suitable simulation package.

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