How to listen to test match special in the car?

littlerock

OH tells me he is unable to listen to test match special in his five year old car because it does not have digital radio? Is this true?

Iceweasel

littlerock wrote: »

OH tells me he is unable to listen to test match special in his five year old car because it does not have digital radio? Is this true?

That is perfectly true if he wants to listen to it on Radio 5 live Sports Extra which is a DAB transmission.

Why doesn't he listen to it on Radio 4 long wave instead?

neilmcl

littlerock wrote: »

OH tells me he is unable to listen to test match special in his five year old car because it does not have digital radio? Is this true?

I probably wouldn't bother, unless your OH is from down under.

ElefantEd

Radio 198 kHz as I recall. Occasionally interrupted for a shipping forecast but you'll likely only miss 2 or 3 English wickets falling.

IamNotAllowedToUseMyName

Not all radios have long wave so he may not be able to get it.

chrisw

He could always get a small portable DAB radio to listen to at home or in the car.

poppasmurf_bewdley

I recently bought one of these, and haven't used FM/LW/MW since.

http://www.halfords.com/technology/car-audio/dab-radios-car-stereos/sonichi-s100-digital-radio-adaptor

It's a great piece of kit that works very well and I have never yet lost a signal.

IamNotAllowedToUseMyName

poppasmurf_bewdley wrote: »

It's a great piece of kit that works very well and I have never yet lost a signal.

THe only thing to beware of with those FM transmitter devices is that as you travel round the country you can end up in a place where local transmissions conflict, so I'd say they are great as long as you don't travel very widely - trying to retune to an empty channel is not something to do on the move.

poppasmurf_bewdley

IanMSpencer wrote: »

THe only thing to beware of with those FM transmitter devices is that as you travel round the country you can end up in a place where local transmissions conflict, so I'd say they are great as long as you don't travel very widely - trying to retune to an empty channel is not something to do on the move.

I don't use that facility. I have a Mondeo Mk4 and plug the device directly into the Aux socket in the glovebox and use the Aux setting on the radio - just as if I was playing an iPod or other device through the radio - and so do not suffer the problem you mentioned.

I do travel quite extensively both to the North West and South West and have not yet met a problem.

molerat

Just had my first day of DAB in the car. What a pile of poo. Probably OK for you city dwellers but absolute pants in our rural area. Music keeps skipping just like it did in the old days when they played discs on the radio. Back to FM for me.

agrinnall

molerat wrote: »

Just had my first day of DAB in the car. What a pile of poo. Probably OK for you city dwellers but absolute pants in our rural area. Music keeps skipping just like it did in the old days when they played discs on the radio. Back to FM for me.

It is pretty hit and miss in the frozen north, probably more miss than hit unless you are lucky in your journeys. Other people say that they get a good signal on the A9 but mine always stopped at the House of Bruar heading north and was intermittent from then until past Slochd, and heading west from the A9 you'd be lucky to get anything.