Personel DAP radios

[nedflanders]

Anyone any experience with DAP as I want a radio on the bike and don't want to have to keep retuning it, do DAP radios work on the move and if so whats the best and smallest out there.

 

[ELIMINATOR]

DAB?

Question I myself have pondered before.

http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php?t=127760&highlight=RADIO

 

[Deleted account 231211001]

DAB

I have a passion for Radio and listen rather than watch TV. I have 2 personal DAB units, the Sony Walkman version and the PURE DAB Highway.
The Sony cost me £150 about 2 years ago. The Pure was about £65 in April, and I use it every day during the commute to work in the car, auto-tuned to the FM tuner.
The Sony is about the size of a fag packet. THe PURE is about twice that size. Both use the headphone lead as the aerial, with variable results. The Sony is a true personal unit, whereas the PURE is generally for use in the car, running off the fag lighter, with the option of shoving 4 AA batteries in it and adding your own headphones which, as stated, then become the aerial as well.
The benefits: Beautiful, no-hiss crystal clear sound (when reception is good), Radio 5 live in stereo for the footie (ruby...insert own preferred sport), and Rick Wakeman's live show on Planet Rock on Saturday mornings.

The main problems with DAB: Reception varies tremendously and fades out without warning. The units EAT batteries as the gubbins that runs DAB is very power hungry.

 

[nedflanders]

Thanks, when you say the headphones act as the aerial, would any headphones work as mine would be plugged into the intercom via a 3.5mm lead?

 

[STUBBS]

they either receive a signal and work or fade out to nothing there is no in between not to sure about european coverage
the future of dab was in dout a few months ago have a look how many new car stereos are dab

 

[Deleted account 231211001]

Thanks, when you say the headphones act as the aerial, would any headphones work as mine would be plugged into the intercom via a 3.5mm lead?

Yep, I shove the PURE Highway DAB in my pocket and use the 3.5mm lead to the Autocom unit where I'd otherwise have the iPod.

 

[ebbo]

DAB maybe something we never really needed, there hasn't been much take up for all the time its been available, and what’s so wrong with FM, works well enough for most people (just like DVD does!)

 

[nedflanders]

DAB maybe something we never really needed, there hasn't been much take up for all the time its been available, and what’s so wrong with FM, works well enough for most people (just like DVD does!)

Yep agree, bring back betamax and 8tracks, big in Canada but I suppose thats more to the vast distances , but if I can get good coverage with a DAB radio it might be better than the mp3 which gets abit boring after awhile.