hello
what would we get on one of these sets if i was going to buy one of these
units?
Hank
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dane Trethowan" <grtd...@internode.on.net>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 8:39 PM
Subject: So I bought a Digital radio..
Hi everyone!
I bought myself a Digital radio today and thought I'd tell you of my
experiences with the set thus far.
I chose the Roberts Ecologic 4 DAB/DAB+ portable digital radio as I know
people who are using it and I wouldn't be surprised if some of those
people are on this list so hello to you and I hope you're enjoying the
rich listening experience which Digital Radio in the capital cities of
Mainland Australia offers.
Now I have to warn you of a couple of things here, when you initially turn
the set on it will do a scan of the DAB+ bands in Australia and DAB bands
if you're in the U.K., so far so good. The next challenge you have is
finding what you want and I've found ways to scroll through or "seek"
stations, once you've found what you want you can put that station into
the preset memory by holding down the button you want the station to be
associated with, say button 1 or if you want to use the presets above 5
hold down the shift key and then old down preset 1 for preset 6, you can
just press the preset then of the desired station you want so others may
find it easier to have someone sighted go through the stations and that
way you can nominate the one's you want in the preset channels.
I live about 24 miles away from the centre of Melbourne so signal is
probably fairly week and I'll talk more about that in a few moments.
I've noticed that in Melbourne stations are sorted in alphabetical order
which may make things easier when you're setting the presets, for example
suppose you know you're listening to ABC Local Radio 774, turn the
selector knob once clockwise and press the select button, you'll then be
on 3mp+, turn it 2 clicks and you're on 3MP etc so perhaps a few notes
taken will be handy here.
Digital radios are a bit of a pest in that you have to be careful of
placement and the Roberts Ecologic 4 in my experience thus far is no
exception, I'd like to have it in the back room but the radio and my
computers just don't get on so the radio is on the top of my fridge in my
kitchen and even then! I had to adjust the aerial to exactly the right
angle, you know if you don't get a signal on the Ecologic 4 as the sound
drops out totally so I wouldn't recommend you walk around the house with
one of these things even though the set is a good tough portable.
the radio runs on both AC mains and battery power, its claimed in the
manual that the Roberts Ecologic 4 radio will last up to 150 hours on a
set of alkaline batteries.
Sound quality exceeded my expectations for such a small set, the radio has
both headphones and line output.
Last but not least, the radio has a FM band for those times when you can't
receive a digital signal and why this radio doesn't have a standard AM
broadcast band I'll never know, do the manufacturers of digital radio sets
think we just live with a FM band even though top rating radio stations in
Melbourne and Sydney for instance are on the AM band?
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