|
 | | 
22-04-2006, 06:10 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sunny Doncaster
Posts: 4,351
| | | DAB Digital Radio
Normal radio in the Welsh mountains is a bit ropey, if you can get it at all.
Does DAB work from satelites and if so has anyone tried it in areas where normal reception is poor?
Cheers |
18-05-2006, 08:08 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Little village called Chedworth
Posts: 5,047
| | | Re: DAB Digital Radio
Quote: |
Originally Posted by Boddie Normal radio in the Welsh mountains is a bit ropey, if you can get it at all.
Does DAB work from satelites and if so has anyone tried it in areas where normal reception is poor?
Cheers | When I was working in Suffolk - despite al that flat land I couldn't get a decent fm signal at all where I worked and I bought a DAB thing - still no signal  Don't think it's satallites but I could be wrong think it's terrestrial transmitters.
It had a CD player though!  |
18-05-2006, 08:17 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: N.E.SOMERSET
Posts: 6,816
| | | Re: DAB Digital Radio
Hi Boddie sorry it is terrestrial for now,satellite may come though!
__________________
You cannot maintain an ecology, if you lose any of the pieces. |
18-05-2006, 08:20 PM
| | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Little village called Chedworth
Posts: 5,047
| | | Re: DAB Digital Radio
Quote: |
Originally Posted by nightshade Hi Boddie sorry it is terrestrial for now,satellite may come though! | Can't wait I love all the choice, I'd love to be able to listen to it more easily in my car. |
18-05-2006, 09:14 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sunny Doncaster
Posts: 4,351
| | | Re: DAB Digital Radio
Yep its ropey in the car and on trains. Shame really as some of the choices are great. Have to admit I bought it just for the cricket and to listen to sporting events on but even in the woods here its not the best. Some of the music channels are fantastic, real specialist stuff. Guess thats why I like it as have never been into anything commercial. I'm not really into conforming socially, preferring to do something a little special and leftfield |
18-05-2006, 09:20 PM
| | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Little village called Chedworth
Posts: 5,047
| | | Re: DAB Digital Radio
Quote: |
Originally Posted by Boddie Yep its ropey in the car and on trains. Shame really as some of the choices are great. Have to admit I bought it just for the cricket and to listen to sporting events on but even in the woods here its not the best. Some of the music channels are fantastic, real specialist stuff. Guess thats why I like it as have never been into anything commercial. I'm not really into conforming socially, preferring to do something a little special and leftfield | well even just BBC six music opens my eyes up to new stuff and new old stuff (if you know what I mean!) all the time and i really like the presenters. I'm slightly allergic to conforming - but I totally know what you mean. I do like some commercial stuff and decided years ago that I was just going to like what I like no matter what people think if I want to listen to goldfrapp or Britney I will if I want to listen to Jim Noir or mettafix (and plase do they're brill) I will dammit..... |
18-05-2006, 09:37 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sunny Doncaster
Posts: 4,351
| | | Re: DAB Digital Radio
I will get involved on limewire later and let you know, marks out of ten. At the moment I am listening to Portishead, again, (its the messages) but am usually involved in anything from harry connick to grooverider. Had a fantastic summer last year getting a few warehouse parties in in London, then some, in darkened pubs on Columbia Road, East End. A really good vibe. Shoreditch is a very good place to be this time of year and its going to get abused this summer. My favoutrite album right now is pop chop. It is strange and hard to get of so no-one plays it, then sunday I like to kick back and slide with Eva Cassidy, or maybe some champagne lounge music but sure bbc seem to be getting their act together with some of the newer channels. Might even start paying my license again. |
18-05-2006, 09:40 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Cornwall..
Posts: 1,476
| | | Re: DAB Digital Radio
I would like to find a radio station who plays tangerine dream. I bought a goodmans dab radio and it is rubbish, keeps on going wrong, finds about 50 stations and then says nothing available ???.................Jon |
18-05-2006, 09:49 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sunny Doncaster
Posts: 4,351
| | | Re: DAB Digital Radio
Thats no good. Mine is a walkman. I bought it when they first came out about three of four years back and have to say I have always got on fine with it but would like better coverage. I thought maybe that digital tv gives me most of the channels you can get from DAB so never bought for home. I like when I am outside, on my own, taking a walk. Yup |
18-05-2006, 09:51 PM
| | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Little village called Chedworth
Posts: 5,047
| | | Re: DAB Digital Radio
I have a little Panasonic (other makes are available) DAB + CD player thing (it does a very flash slidy thing with the cd door thing too - which is always a good thing) which I listen to at work a lot and I've never had any trouble with it apart from when I was in Suffolk but then there was no signal at all where I was! |
18-05-2006, 10:12 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sunny Doncaster
Posts: 4,351
| | | Re: DAB Digital Radio
I never saw this model. I never knew you could get combined with other technologies, just thought a few companies were concentrating purely on DAB. Mine is by Pure, which is a brand I never heard of previously. I also like the information that comes up on the screen, as I quite like to keep up with the news. Tonight my laptop is boiling hot. I think it is going to die soon. Better back everything up. |
18-05-2006, 10:17 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Cornwall..
Posts: 1,476
| | | Re: DAB Digital Radio
Quote: |
Originally Posted by Boddie I never saw this model. I never knew you could get combined with other technologies, just thought a few companies were concentrating purely on DAB. Mine is by Pure, which is a brand I never heard of previously. I also like the information that comes up on the screen, as I quite like to keep up with the news. Tonight my laptop is boiling hot. I think it is going to die soon. Better back everything up. | Check the fan is not full of dust Boddie, thats what happened to mine................Jon |
18-05-2006, 10:18 PM
| | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Little village called Chedworth
Posts: 5,047
| | | Re: DAB Digital Radio
Quote: |
Originally Posted by Boddie I never saw this model. I never knew you could get combined with other technologies, just thought a few companies were concentrating purely on DAB. Mine is by Pure, which is a brand I never heard of previously. I also like the information that comes up on the screen, as I quite like to keep up with the news. Tonight my laptop is boiling hot. I think it is going to die soon. Better back everything up. |
The panasonic thing was one of the first I think when I loked around the big store there wee only a couple of others and only in the mini system sections the big stereos were lightyears behind in comparison!!!
OOooohhhh yeah Pure have just brought out a brilliant little combined stereo thing that has a slot in the front for a memory card that you can records radio shows onto and then obviously you can take the favoured shows with you to work or in your phone (if it takes memory cards) in your PDA etc.........
Dammit I need a rich husband.....
If you manage to find that rich wife you were talking about Boddie can you see if there's a rich - wildlife loving- husband on the same shelf for me?
I bought a laptop off ebay last week for £133 not sure how long that will last either!!  |
18-05-2006, 10:22 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sunny Doncaster
Posts: 4,351
| | | Re: DAB Digital Radio
Quote: |
Originally Posted by Jonny Check the fan is not full of dust Boddie, thats what happened to mine................Jon | I know. I have been blowing dust into it from off'f my shelf. Want a new one  |
18-05-2006, 10:28 PM
| | Active Member | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Exmouth Devon
Posts: 3,021
| | | Re: DAB Digital Radio
It sounds really wild, Is the sound really wild? |
18-05-2006, 10:29 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sunny Doncaster
Posts: 4,351
| | | Re: DAB Digital Radio
Quote: |
Originally Posted by Gill Catton Dammit I need a rich husband.....
If you manage to find that rich wife you were talking about Boddie can you see if there's a rich - wildlife loving- husband on the same shelf for me? | Yes you should get over to Lechlade and partake in some garden parties. I would not mind finding a lovely lady in Gloucestershire in one of the big houses and have garden parties with a plethora of halfwitt mates of mine. |
18-05-2006, 10:31 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sunny Doncaster
Posts: 4,351
| | | Re: DAB Digital Radio
Quote: |
Originally Posted by Beryl It sounds really wild, Is the sound really wild? | Oh yes, its wild, wild, wild, wild in the country, where snakes in the grass... and the sound is quality |
18-05-2006, 10:33 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Crawley,Sussex
Posts: 943
| | | Re: DAB Digital Radio
Is it this one Boddie http://www.pure-digital.com/Products...PageType=Intro
Has great reviews and supposed to be the best one out there at the moment. |
18-05-2006, 10:34 PM
| | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Little village called Chedworth
Posts: 5,047
| | | Re: DAB Digital Radio
Quote: |
Originally Posted by Boddie Yes you should get over to Lechlade and partake in some garden parties. I would not mind finding a lovely lady in Gloucestershire in one of the big houses and have garden parties with a plethora of halfwitt mates of mine. | My best friend lives in Lechlade (-on-Thames don't you know!!) hee hee!
All the people in big houses are generally skint though all the money's tied up in the land and the houses are falling apart and cost three arms and three legs and half a torso to maintain - you want nouveau riche (SP?) outskirts of Oxfordshire I reckon - Woodstock or something.... |
18-05-2006, 10:42 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sunny Doncaster
Posts: 4,351
| | | Re: DAB Digital Radio
I went to a fantastic party in Lechlade. 30,000 of us in a field. Absolutely wonderful. Years ago.
Here is my model of DAB. It is an old model, with software version 1.0 on it, so may be limited but seems fine. I will check next time I am in the stereo store to see if there is a new version and if it is better I will, by slight of hand, swap it with mine. |
18-05-2006, 10:48 PM
| | Active Member | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Exmouth Devon
Posts: 3,021
| | | Re: DAB Digital Radio
Quote: |
Originally Posted by Boddie Oh yes, its wild, wild, wild, wild in the country, where snakes in the grass... and the sound is quality | Oh your a real wild child |
18-05-2006, 10:50 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Cornwall..
Posts: 1,476
| | | Re: DAB Digital Radio
Quote: |
Originally Posted by Gill Catton The panasonic thing was one of the first I think when I loked around the big store there wee only a couple of others and only in the mini system sections the big stereos were lightyears behind in comparison!!!
OOooohhhh yeah Pure have just brought out a brilliant little combined stereo thing that has a slot in the front for a memory card that you can records radio shows onto and then obviously you can take the favoured shows with you to work or in your phone (if it takes memory cards) in your PDA etc.........
Dammit I need a rich husband.....
If you manage to find that rich wife you were talking about Boddie can you see if there's a rich - wildlife loving- husband on the same shelf for me?
I bought a laptop off ebay last week for £133 not sure how long that will last either!! | I just sold a laptop for £130. Dell p3 700megs 6.5gig 128 ram, good machine............Jon |
18-05-2006, 10:51 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Cornwall..
Posts: 1,476
| | | Re: DAB Digital Radio
Quote: |
Originally Posted by Boddie I know. I have been blowing dust into it from off'f my shelf. Want a new one | And I thought it was just me that did that................Jon  |
18-05-2006, 10:58 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sunny Doncaster
Posts: 4,351
| | | Re: DAB Digital Radio
It is very hot tonight. I think it might combust. |
18-05-2006, 11:14 PM
| | Active Member | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Exmouth Devon
Posts: 3,021
| | | Re: DAB Digital Radio
Quote: |
Originally Posted by Boddie It is very hot tonight. I think it might combust. | Spontaniously? | | | |
|
