Great DAB Radio Hunt

cormicanshack

My Bayliss wind up radio has just died - does anyone know if it is possible to get a windup DAB radio?

jojofrog

Hi Abbykid,

Quote:
Help with DAB
"Hi i dont really now anything about DAB but can anybody help. i want to buy radio for my father in law who is blind so will need big buttons and not to many gadgets. Around £100 is my budget.
thanks in advance"

The above link might be of help to you, my Husband is also blind and has a 'wireless for the blind radio'...They are great! Easy to use (they even come complete with an explaination of use, on audio cassette)

http://www.blind.org.uk/newsletter1.html

Hope this is of some use!

jojofrog

Hi abbykid, again....http://www.blind.org.uk/newsletter1.html
I know this radio is dearer than you really wanted to pay, but did you know, you might be able to arrange for your father-in-law to get one free...By speaking to the Organization/ local authority, in your father-in-laws area that is responsible for services/ aids for blind people.

balt

My Bayliss wind up radio has just died - does anyone know if it is possible to get a windup DAB radio?


John Lewis sell one Jlewis £99 though.

madmumatuk

Just so you know, SKY doesn't let you have all the free channels if you aren't paying for SKY, all the BBC ones and ITV, but not the channel four ones which drives me crazy, but I can't recieve normal digital TV in my area.

madmumatuk

Mike-C wrote:

If by "Boom Box" you mean something like the Ministry of Sound MOSRC023 - Portable Boombox - With CD & DAB Radio, £60, it does not have an alarm and I very much doubt that you will get an alarm on a portable.

However M of S also do a Cube Micro System with DAB, FM, MW, CD/MP3 player, 2 speakers plus sub woofer, and remote, for £95 which includes delivery. Great sound but comes in one colour only, white.

If you check out the spec you will find no mention of an "alarm", nor is it mentioned in the User manual. However it has the next best thing, a "Daily Timer" feature which will switch the set on and off at preset times of day, so with the volume suitably set it should be capable of waking you up. However, unlike a full featured "alarm" system, there is no Snooze button, or gentle fade-in of volume. There is also a sleep timer function.

The sound is really pretty good although we have never pushed it to the volume limit - no need - and it has had mainly good reviews on Amazon. Particular praise for the clarity of DAB.

More info at
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001RBVFK/ref=pd_ecc_rvi_1/202-7690698-2323004

When it launched (c 2004) it was closer to £300 so it is in my view a steal at £95, providing of course that you like white.

MOS cd player and DAB radio is on http://shop.directelectronics.co.uk/ for £72 with free postage to most places

madmumatuk

cormicanshack wrote:

My Bayliss wind up radio has just died - does anyone know if it is possible to get a windup DAB radio?

I saw it recently on an inflight magazine. Can't recall the price, but keep looking because they exist.

FlowerBob

Delay ...

Although we have a freeview box we're not big television viewerse and mostly use it to listen to the radio. We get excellent reception on all stations (including MW Radio 5) on a very basic box (£40 at Argos). HOWEVER we are real 'radio people' and often have the same program on all over the house ... and when you do this you realise that there is a delay to digital radio, so it lags behind 'normal' radio. It's the same with my Mum's DAB stand-alone radio and when we listen on the Internet. Sounds really wierd on Saturday morning when I'm doing the housework and trying to listen to the same show in every room, and in two rooms the digital broadcast is lagging a bit behind (about 30 seconds)
Apparently they are trying to sort this out, and it's not a big deal, but it's a bit bizarre. (Of course to be proper money savers we should not run up our electricity bill in such an extravagant way)
I noticed too that if we watch (for example) a football match on digital TV and try to listen to the commentry on Radio 5, the analog radio is slightly ahead of the digital TV picture.
Robin

Irishorangutan

noticed a tesco unit instore that has DAB and CD player and normal radio, nice looking thing for 39.99

boots_babe

Yes a new wind up DAB radio was launced in October 2005 - the Devo Freeplay. Was considering getting this ourselves as really liked the idea, but after having looked into it we have changed our minds as it seems little more than a gimmick.

A 1 minute wind will give 3 minutes of DAB radio. So if you want to listed for 30 mins you have to wind for 10!!! Of course it takes batteries as well but you may as well just buy a normal DAB radio