All the commercial stations plus there extra channels, Buckle Country, Radar, Koffee, ABC Grandstand, all the SBS channels which include delayed feeds as well as a service broadcasting the BBC World Service 24/7 at the moment etc.
On 17/03/2010, at 8:13 PM, hank smith wrote: > hello > what would we get on one of these sets if i was going to buy one of these > units? > Hank > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dane Trethowan" <grtd...@internode.on.net> > To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 8:39 PM > Subject: So I bought a Digital radio.. > > >> Hi everyone! >> >> I bought myself a Digital radio today and thought I'd tell you of my >> experiences with the set thus far. >> >> I chose the Roberts Ecologic 4 DAB/DAB+ portable digital radio as I know >> people who are using it and I wouldn't be surprised if some of those people >> are on this list so hello to you and I hope you're enjoying the rich >> listening experience which Digital Radio in the capital cities of Mainland >> Australia offers. >> >> Now I have to warn you of a couple of things here, when you initially turn >> the set on it will do a scan of the DAB+ bands in Australia and DAB bands if >> you're in the U.K., so far so good. The next challenge you have is finding >> what you want and I've found ways to scroll through or "seek" stations, once >> you've found what you want you can put that station into the preset memory >> by holding down the button you want the station to be associated with, say >> button 1 or if you want to use the presets above 5 hold down the shift key >> and then old down preset 1 for preset 6, you can just press the preset then >> of the desired station you want so others may find it easier to have someone >> sighted go through the stations and that way you can nominate the one's you >> want in the preset channels. >> >> I live about 24 miles away from the centre of Melbourne so signal is >> probably fairly week and I'll talk more about that in a few moments. >> >> I've noticed that in Melbourne stations are sorted in alphabetical order >> which may make things easier when you're setting the presets, for example >> suppose you know you're listening to ABC Local Radio 774, turn the selector >> knob once clockwise and press the select button, you'll then be on 3mp+, >> turn it 2 clicks and you're on 3MP etc so perhaps a few notes taken will be >> handy here. >> >> Digital radios are a bit of a pest in that you have to be careful of >> placement and the Roberts Ecologic 4 in my experience thus far is no >> exception, I'd like to have it in the back room but the radio and my >> computers just don't get on so the radio is on the top of my fridge in my >> kitchen and even then! I had to adjust the aerial to exactly the right >> angle, you know if you don't get a signal on the Ecologic 4 as the sound >> drops out totally so I wouldn't recommend you walk around the house with one >> of these things even though the set is a good tough portable. >> >> the radio runs on both AC mains and battery power, its claimed in the manual >> that the Roberts Ecologic 4 radio will last up to 150 hours on a set of >> alkaline batteries. >> >> Sound quality exceeded my expectations for such a small set, the radio has >> both headphones and line output. >> >> Last but not least, the radio has a FM band for those times when you can't >> receive a digital signal and why this radio doesn't have a standard AM >> broadcast band I'll never know, do the manufacturers of digital radio sets >> think we just live with a FM band even though top rating radio stations in >> Melbourne and Sydney for instance are on the AM band? >> >> >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
