DAB Portable Radio

[dan1981]

Dad the postie wants a portable / walkman style DAB radio for xmas

Anyone got any reccomendations? How much shoudl i expect to pay?

Cheers

Dan

[Silverbullet767]

DAB's eat batteries, so if he gets one, remember to get a set of at least 2500mA+ rechargeable batteries.

[telecat]

And find one that's DAB + compatible or else it will be useless after 2012.

[pmanson]

How about a Roberts Radio?

[Sheepy]

http://www.pure.com/Products/Product.asp?Product=V...

[Ledaig]

pmanson said:

How about a Roberts Radio?

Got one of those for my Dad's birthday given Roberts is a good make and he rates them highly (he already has a normal Roberts radio). I may have beem unlucky, but it was crap quality. It was a sod to turn on took 15-20 presses of the button, and then when it was on there was no sound - disapointing given the brand.

Got a refund and replaced it with a Pure PocketDAB 1500, great item good sound and reception, plus it has a Li-Ion battery for a decent life.

look around for price

[Puggit]

Richer Sounds apparently have some Philips DABs for £29.99...

[dan1981]

thanks for the info guys - lots cheaper than i thought they would be.

Have to admit to not having heard of either Roberts or Pure... they pretty good?

Edited by dan1981 on Tuesday 11th December 13:42

[Zad]

Pure were one of the original DAB radio makers. Nobody wanted to touch DAB with a bargepole and Pure were just about the only main market producers. Roberts have been making radios since the days when Wireless was something you listened to, not something you connect your PC to.

Extracting a reliable DAB signal needs a stupid amount of processing power even now, which still takes a hefty amount of current. The other week on the C5 Gadget Show they compared 'portable' DAB radios and the ones running on C cells only lasted 30 hours or so.

[smilerbaker]

I have a portable dab radio, its rubbish, eats the batteries and loses the signal if you move it.
So its sat in a draw never to be used again

[whatever]

smilerbaker said:

I have a portable dab radio, its rubbish, eats the batteries and loses the signal if you move it.
So its sat in a draw never to be used again

I had a loan of a friends as a trial and found it to be poor. I particularly wanted it for R5, which it singularly failed to pick up in Reading. In-building reception was poor, too, when compared with FM in the same spot.

[V8mate]

What did you get in the end?

[dan1981]

Blimey! Thread resurrection!

I bought him the Pure one - not sure of hte model number it as the talk sport branded one i seem to remeber.

He's still using it, no problems and gets a decent signal on it as he wanders around his postround!