I current live in Dorset and enjoy writing (songs, reviews, random things)
I play in a band (guit...
I current live in Dorset and enjoy writing (songs, reviews, random things)
I play in a band (guitar and sing) also play drums - not in a band for that at the moment.
I'm really bad at writing About Me things - as you can see...so yeah...
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Originally I am from London, but I have been living in Bournemouth now since 2001.
I get home-sick every so often - you know being surrounded by the beach, grass and the sea makes me miss all the pollution ridden dirty grey concrete streets of home. Odd I know.
One thing that keeps me going is that I can quite happily recieve my favourite London radio station, Absolute (previously Virgin) on MW - but it's not great quality I'll admit.
So, when I first heard about these - it was actually through Absolute radio who were running competitions to win them, and after failing to win one myself, I thought - OK, I'll buy one.
Now, it is pretty easy to use, and it has functions similar to the digital channels on TV now where you can pause and rewind live radio - which I haven't used except through boredom when waiting for the kid to finish school.
Like I say, easy to use. Much like a Sat Nav you can take it in and out of the car and you stick it your window like a Sat Nav. However if you do have Sat Nav, this can also be a con - if you think about it, another thing to remember in the morning and another thing stuck to your window.
Another draw back to it is that you may find the cable gets in the way, dependent on where you have it. It is supplied with a in car power supply which you plug into your ciggerrate lighter - which can also be another downside if your Sat Nav starts to lose it's battery life. You can use standard batteries, but it's not as good - the signal seems weaker and it's definately not as loud. As a drummer, I am going deaf so I need things as loud as possible!
Tuning it in is very simple, you select the DAB radio 'wave/address' (whichever you prefer!) and it sends it directly to your car steroe via the FM transmitter - you just need to tune your car stereo into the same 'frequency'. One word of advice though, if your car stereo has an 'aux in' it is much better to use this, I have tried it both ways and found out that it sounds a lot better using this way.
All in all, I have found this a brilliant product to own as I can now listen to my favourtie radio stations in a lot better quality than I am able to - to be honest, it even pips FM frequency a bit.
Downsides though like I have saidf is it is another thing clogging up your windscreen if you already have Sat Nav and another thing you have to remember to take out of the car so it doesn't get stolen! On the bright side, when you do take it out - it does remember your settings so you dont have to start again every time!
It's a good, cheape improvement to your current car radio that you can take from car to car with you - and I heard recently that it is planned, like to TV's, that radio will be switched to Digital from 2012 - so maybe a good idea to get one before the prices are hiked!
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