Bush TR 82 DAB

I got this as a present for christmas. It is goon in that it is portable and recieved DAB radio. However the battery life while using DAB is not very long. Id say 10 - 20 hours at most.

There is a mains connection, but it was bourght for me to use in the garage where there is no mains electric and rechargable batteries in the size it takes are very expensive, around half the price of the radio.

When the batteries go ...
...works if you switch over to that for several more hours, but that isnt what it was intended for!

Maybe all battery DAB radios eat batteries like this one, but if i were you id stick to mains power or use a smaller headphone portable radio.

A few more details: there is a back lit LCD screen which shows the station name and time. The analogue radio is tuned in using the large front dial, the DAB radio using buttons on ... more

I got this as a present for christmas. It is goon in that it is portable and recieved DAB radio. However the battery life while using DAB is not very long. Id say 10 - 20 hours at most.

There is a mains connection, but it was bourght for me to use in the garage where there is no mains electric and rechargable batteries in the size it takes are very expensive, around half the price of the radio.

When the batteries go to a point where DAB stops working, analogue radio still works if you switch over to that for several more hours, but that isnt what it was intended for!

Maybe all battery DAB radios eat batteries like this one, but if i were you id stick to mains power or use a smaller headphone portable radio.

A few more details: there is a back lit LCD screen which shows the station name and time. The analogue radio is tuned in using the large front dial, the DAB radio using buttons on the top of the radio. Even though it is DAB radio, the sound you get is only as good as the speakers you have, and it seems that this radio only has one speaker, and so comes out with mono sound - which isnt perfect. 

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