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Just picked up one of these for allotment. Looks like a nice little job for the money!
Edit: In store @ Asda.
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Next get 2 sets of rechargeable eneloops and a fast charger and you're set up.
I do the same with my tesco portable and its the first tool I pack. Works in the car too.
Thats cheap. May invest in one for the office since i currently move my 30 quid bush one from garage to car to office.....
How ever i may not because team rock is going internet radio only which is shite,
nice one our DAB radio has popped and we didn't want to spend too much on its replacement... cheers OP
Aye, whilst spouting some rubbish about how it'll let them reach a larger audience. Surely they'd reach a larger audience doing both...
Update: Sounds surprisingly good!
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I find that the latest dirt cheap DAB radios work better (better reception, less breakup) than older expensive ones. I don't know if there has been some sort of 2nd generation change, but my £15 Tesco Technika can plug into the aux socket of my car and provides perfect reception and good sound driving all the way from South Wales to Leeds.
I think you might have something there.
I've got a 4 year old (but current model in same iteration) £90 Roberts in house, on mains and now this £18 pound job is home, it's picking up more stations and whilst the Roberts has the edge on sound, hardly £70's worth. I'm going to buy another tomorrow for spare!
Polaroid have fallen a long way 🙁
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[i]Enduro [/i]green.
I like it bn. 🙂
Is it my radio, or are there less stations available in the SW now than a few years ago? I know XFM went off DAB over here a while back, but I seem to be able to get only BBC, one or two of the Absolute and a few planet cock type things these days. 😕
I'm pretty sure I saw pure one minis in sainsburys today for 25 quid or so
More for curiosity & info, just done a test with both in exactly the same spot with aerial down. (they swapped positions for test EDIT: Also the one not being tested was turned off/unplugged)
Roberts on mains - 53 channels
Whoever made it with a licensed polaroid sticker, on 4xAA duracell - 61 channels.
I'll mention it again, and I'm not an audiophile, but the tone from the green fella is really very nice - not adjustable but well balanced, very clear and can take a fair volume. Far more than you'd want from a radio.
Easy to bash cheap stuff, but I struggle to see how a single speaker Roberts for £60-£70 would be any better.
More top consumer advice from STW 😉
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I went for a White one... but very impressed for £20..
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bought one of these a few years ago ..still going strong gvfm
Was gonna get one.
Then remembered we don't get DAB. Oh well, back to the stone age...
Has it got an aux socket please OP?
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Was gonna get one.Then remembered we don't get DAB. Oh well, back to the stone age...
Even if you did get it you probably can't get all the stations. At home I use Internet radio. A few Squeezebox devices around the house. Just need a wifi signal. One of mine is hooked up to the AV amp also. It streams music from my server as well as the radio stuff.
Only place I'd be interested in DAB is in the car but all my stuff is well integrated into the dash and I'm not fitting any ugly after market 3rd party kit. I've got no aux in other than a iPod option (I don't do Apple, and besides I need a special connector from Honda costing a couple hundred quid!), and I'd rather I could control it all from the dash and steering controls. Plus I lose FM enough as it is driving around the country, I can't see DAB being reliable.
No aux I'm afraid, only headphone out.
Thanks for the PSA 🙂
"Even if you did get it you probably can't get all the stations. At home I use Internet radio. A few Squeezebox devices around the house. Just need a wifi signal. One of mine is hooked up to the AV amp also. It streams music from my server as well as the radio stuff."
My internet isnt up to internet radio reliably so thats out.
How ever as im in sight of the transmitter - its about 25 miles away but i can see the lights on it at night , so i get the full regional dab spectrum.
How ever i used to listen to absolute classic rock /planet rock and team rock - looks like im left with only planet rock now in this region looking at what the masts transmitting.
Ah the Honda AUX kit. Do Connects2 not make one for yours, I have one in mine that takes a phono connection and sends it into the AUX socket behind the radio, cost an eye-watering total of £35. I just stashed the adaptor inside the dash, flung on my iRiver and have been happy since.
Stone age is moving on; we're getting FTTC fitted out here, about time too as 5 freeview channels get old (not that 20meg broadband wasn't capable but it's nice to get [i]something[/i] at last).
Connect2 kit seconded for the Honda. Another option is I think Parrot do a handsfree kit that links your phone etc into the radio the same was as it does calls.
Bad FM reception, seems to be really common that 12v chargers for mobiles/laptops etc deteriorate the reception.
In my wife's Civic we can't charge phones and listen to the radio at the same time, and my Ford Transit is pretty poor and drops out regularly so seeing as the phone is charging I just stream iPlayer radio or Spotify instead.
P.S Think I might get a green DAB for work as my old Roberts FM has fallen on the floor of the van so many times it constantly turns off.
Bought one last night, has what I can only describe as very scratchy tone at the top end of the speaker range. Must have got a duff 'un.
Loads of channels though.
Even if you did get it you probably can't get all the stations. At home I use Internet radio. A few Squeezebox devices around the house. Just need a wifi signal. One of mine is hooked up to the AV amp also. It streams music from my server as well as the radio stuff.
Fine until you want to listen to most live sport (well, football really) - I had to supplement my Sonos with a DAB - though it depends on where you get the feed from (Sonos use Tunein a.k.a. Don't Bother, maybe squeezebox has a UK local feed?)
Nice find OP, will pick one up this evening for the garage. Have about 10 old school Roberts MW/LW radios, buy them at car boots just because I like them, but I'd rather actually listen to a new DAB box!
Popped in this evening and picked up a greenie. Sounds much better than anything that costs £17 from a supermarket should do. Don't care about how many channels it'll pick up, I can get Radio 6, Radio 2 and the local station so I know if work is shut because of snow. 🙂
Bonus for me is that the last cheapy I bought from Currys didn't have the second line of text for the artist/track and this does. 
Cheers to the OP.
No aux I'm afraid, only headphone out.
Anyone tried lashing this up in their car/T5? Missing Radcliffe & Maconie when out over lunchtime.
whats to lash up ?
tape adaptor in the tape player and plug it into the headphone socket ?
thats what i do on any long journey with my cheapo bush version.
- depends if your still stuck in the 1990s of fitting CD players to cars 😀
If you have a posh stereo with AUX in then its just a case of RCA componant to 3.5mm jack cable - which is how i have the same bush stereo plugged into my old 80s technics amp in the garage.
I've just bought one of these from ASDA for using at work as the current one struggles with reception as we seem to be a dead spot. The new one has managed to pick up all the stations I was previously missing. The sound is OK though it's not a patch on the Roberts we have at home.
For £18 it's a bargain.
OK - more a question of whether the aerial works within the vehicle and the effect of positioning (duct-taped to dash / dumped in front passenger footwell /wedged between front seats).
Picked one up last night. That's the wife's Christmas present from last year sorted.
I got a green one a few weeks ago.
Just use it when brewing up in the back of the van after a ride so I'm not flattening the vans battery. For £18 it's worth it.
At home I've had a pure DAB for years and the Bush is not a patch on the sound of the pure but the pure wasn't only £18.
Bought one of these a couple of weeks ago, spot on for the money.
Picked up 59 channels, sounds well enough for in the kitchen when making breakfast etc. Bonus is I can listen to away games on the local station that I could never pick up before on FM.