The radio in my truck is pants, the offering on FM is crap during the night and I need to be able to listen to test match special when I'm not in
the house.
Q? Are these portable Pure/Roberts/Whoever DAB radios any good inside a car/truck?
Was looking at that Highway thing but it still needs a permanent ariel attached to the vehicle. What's the point of that?
Any experiences/advise?
Steve
i bought a 20£ dab radio from currys the other day. was easy to tune. sounds a bit tinny, but med end dab radios are around 50£- 60£. thing with dab is you either have signal or not. i think 80% of the population has coverage now.
Don't think they work very well in a vehicle. I have both models you mention and the Roberts is streets ahead on sound quality.
I think the issue is locking on to the digital signal whilst on the move.
Arn't the manufacturers havind difficulty with specifying DAB radios in cars?
Well I have a Sony Dab unit in the tintop and its fantastic. I haven't got round to mounting the aerial properly yet, its just jammed between the
head rests in the back seats.
I'm just after a little set to use for 10 hours a day in the truck at work. I cant get any FM stations up the M6 and across the A66 at night
apart from a very noisy 603 or 198 on medium wave.
Does it need a different aerial?
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Originally posted by v8kid
Don't think they work very well in a vehicle. I have both models you mention and the Roberts is streets ahead on sound quality.
I think the issue is locking on to the digital signal whilst on the move.
Arn't the manufacturers havind difficulty with specifying DAB radios in cars?
Yup I stand corrected apologies for misunderstanding.
I have one fitted in my car and its virtually useless, I do live a bit rural but I have never seemed to get great coverage anywhere, I am using a
aerial signal spitter/booster thingy which i supposed to give a DAB signal and FM through the original aerial but could never find a signal for DAB,
but I made myself a slightly bigger/longer aerial and that seems to be better but still not really good enough to listen to while on the move. MAybe
I just need to buy a proper DAB aerial but they seem to be alot of money and I wont really know if it works or not until I have forked out for one.
Maybe I should'nt be such a tight arse!
My mate's got a dab radio which he keeps in the cabin in his boat, think it's a relatively high end one. It's good quality but it's not going to win over the noise in the boat when motoring and I suspect it'd be the same in the car. You could buy a portable one, ie one for use with headphones only, and then pipe the output through the truck's speakers via an aux in? Only potential issue is these things tend to use the headphones as an antenna and I've no idea if the aux cable to your truck would serve the same function as well.
I've got a Pure Highway:
http://www.pure.com/products/product.asp?Product=VL-60905
It's a touch fiddly to set up but once sorted with what you want stored on presets it's fine.
It does struggle at times for reception but I think a proper roof mounted aerial rather than the glued to the screen effort it comes with would help a
lot.
If you've got a line in on your truck radio it saves the bother of retransmitting on FM.
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I have one fitted in my car and its virtually useless