Pure Highway In-Car DAB Radio With FM Transmitter - Black

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Product Features:

• 1 X HEAPHONES SOCKETS
• BLACK AND GREY
• CLOCK
• DAB AND FM RADIO

Customer Reviews:

• 
  2008-08-26
  By Dr. D. E. Goldwater, Bushey, Herts, UK
  I love by gadgets. It drives my wife mad and I usually pick very carefully after pondering for months and boring everyone.
  
  the reviews were generally good and I was looking for an FM transmitter and love DAB so this seemed the logical solution.
  
  Big mistake!! It is sitting in my glovebox unloved and unused. I will never buy a PURE again.
  
  First of all, this can only be used in one car as it comes with a stick on antenna which once it's on, is on!
  
  The reception for DAB is not great but the tranmission to the radio is awful awful awful. I kept having to change the channel over and over about every 5 minutes and the reception was significantly worse than listening to the FM radio. I could not enjoy wimbledon on this so went back to the AM radio for radio 5 live.
  
  The transmission for the MP3 player is 1000 times better through the cassette adapter that I bought in Poundland (for £1!!) so this has gone onto the scrap heap of poor experience.
  
  Whenever I open the glove box to get something else out it makes me want to weap.
  
  DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY!!!!
  
  
• 
  2008-08-26
  By Dave,
  Excellent bit of kit, simple to install and set up. From box to fully installed and working should take no more than five minutes.
  
  Most of the negative reports on the "Highway" seem to be related to DAB coverage issues, which can't really be blamed on the "Highway". Unfortunately significant areas and some major roads in the UK still do not have DAB coverage at the time of writing. A useful website for "Highway" users giving coverage maps (although the map detail isn't too fantastic) is http://frequencyfinder.org.uk/digital.html (usual disclaimers). However read carefully the planned on-air dates for the multiplexes as some are not yet operational.
  
  Now if you're a Techie and want to improve reception read on:
  
  I brought the "Highway" so I could listen to a particular station during my daily commute to and from work. The supplied adhesive screen mounted antenna works in areas with good signal coverage. However my journey is through a rural area and is on the edge of one of the signal contours. To compound matters, the route also take me along a river valley which is screened on either side by hills and with the supplied antenna I was getting some fairly bad and prolonged signal drop-outs.
  
  So in an attempt to improve matters, I tried an old quarter-wave Band 3 Trunked-Radio mag-mount antenna placed on the middle of the car roof. WOW - the difference is phenomenal - no drop-outs whatsoever - solid signal for the whole of my journey - and I haven't even trimmed the antenna for the DAB frequencies.
  
  The mag-mount approach may not be to many people's liking but if you want to listen to DAB in the car and if you travel in an area with mediocre reception an external antenna really does significantly improve reception.
  
  
  
• 
  2008-08-29
  By Mr. L. Foster,
  hi i,m not a "ham"fisted person,but managed to break fixing bracket in minutes, brilliant!!! finding it difficult to detect a lot of stations but this may be my area(cleveland)? maybe if i buy some glue and drive around to detect more stations things may improve, time will tell???
  
  
• 
  2008-09-03
  By Mrs. Nicole Cunliffe,
  I had been looking for a way to get DAB in my car for a while. I saw this on amazon, noted the warnings about reception in the reviews and went ahead. I wasn't too worried about reception because the portable DAB radio I have in the house has very good reception and the what-stations-can-my-postcode-receive websites all suggested my locality (I live in suburban Leeds) had strong coverage.
  
  The unit proved very easy to setup - my car radio has an aux input so I didn't need to use the FM transmitter. I installed the aerial exactly as described in the manual. It found plenty of stations when sat on my drive.
  
  However, the problems began when I started to move. The unit is unable to consistently and clearly receive the stations I'm interested in. The stations cut out frequently on my 20 minute commute to work and even more often if I venture further afield. Even a couple of the BBC stations, which, according to the unit, had consistently good signal strength and quality, had annoying clicks most of the time.
  
  Buyers beware!
  
  
• 
  2008-09-03
  By A. Glover, Portsmouth
  I bought this little gadget in July this year for my birthday in August (prezzie from daughters) and having read the reviews thought I had a 50-50 chance of it being worthwhile. This is as much down to my own jaded cycnicism on new gadgets, such as my iPOD Classic which is barely audible due to some apparent but unlisted EU legislation on volume controls! Secondly getting decent DAB coverage in my house is also a major challenge with very sporadic pockets of average coverage and huge rafts of no coverage at all.
  
  So I was delighted on a number of points in regard to this device. First, it was as easy to fit as they stated, taking around 5 minutes and being very easy to tuck away the aerial cable - Pure even supply some little sticky cable clips to help! Then the set up took less than 30 seconds. Simply press Quick-scan and tune to the displayed FM frequency and away you go. What's more I drive from Petersfield to Newbury daily on a very rural cross country route and the signal drops for about 30 seconds in a low lying village and that's it! I get decent broadcast even with one signal bar displayed and for a 47 mile journey no need to change the FM frequency. That in itself seems unusually good.
  
  I agree about the single use aerial, but spent another £24.99 on a car kit to allow it to be used in both cars, with equally good results. Setting the presets is also a doodle, the manual being clear and written in plain easy to follow English.
  
  All in all, very easy to install and use with , for me, astoundingly good results. Highly recommended gadget and hats off to Pure for continuing to produce gtreat DAB receivers. Planet Rock all the way. As another reviewer said...what are the other presets for :-)