DalmoreSteve
Free Member
I've just installed a £24.95 DAB Radio Adapter on our van and I'm massively impressed.
We recently bought a new car fitted with a DAB radio and came to realise that normal FM radios are akin to steam power in this day and age; the number of radio stations and variety is a revelation. We're Rock fans and struggle to find much on FM channels to suit us, no problem with a DAB radio, and for nearly everyone, whatever your taste in music, I think you'll find a DAB station to suit.
The unit I bought works by being a DAB tuner (with its own ariel), that decodes the DAB signals and then re-transmits them as an FM signal that you tune your existing radio into...effectively the DAB tuner becomes an FM station (but only in your car).
I bought our unit on eBay, as I mentioned for £24.95. I did a search using "DAB car radio adapter", plenty were on the list, but not knowing much about them I went for the cheapest. I expected a unit from China in about 2 months time, wrapped in bubble wrap and with undecipherable instructions...No. It arrived by Royal Mail three days later, in a well designed, high quality box. All accessories were included, the windscreen mounted ariel, 12V adapter, USB cable, dashboard/screen mount for the unit and instructions in good English (and Norwegian). The make is "POP Your Car 3.0", but this doesn't help on eBay; I'm fairly confident that it's a Norwegian company that is responsible for our unit.
I had it fitted in our van within an hour.
I cannot yet comment on the quality of reception, i.e. when we are on the move; we have had lots of problems with our existing FM reception, trying different ariels and pre-amps, but little seems to work...so confident this DAB unit will either be as bad or much better, it cannot be worse.
We recently bought a new car fitted with a DAB radio and came to realise that normal FM radios are akin to steam power in this day and age; the number of radio stations and variety is a revelation. We're Rock fans and struggle to find much on FM channels to suit us, no problem with a DAB radio, and for nearly everyone, whatever your taste in music, I think you'll find a DAB station to suit.
The unit I bought works by being a DAB tuner (with its own ariel), that decodes the DAB signals and then re-transmits them as an FM signal that you tune your existing radio into...effectively the DAB tuner becomes an FM station (but only in your car).
I bought our unit on eBay, as I mentioned for £24.95. I did a search using "DAB car radio adapter", plenty were on the list, but not knowing much about them I went for the cheapest. I expected a unit from China in about 2 months time, wrapped in bubble wrap and with undecipherable instructions...No. It arrived by Royal Mail three days later, in a well designed, high quality box. All accessories were included, the windscreen mounted ariel, 12V adapter, USB cable, dashboard/screen mount for the unit and instructions in good English (and Norwegian). The make is "POP Your Car 3.0", but this doesn't help on eBay; I'm fairly confident that it's a Norwegian company that is responsible for our unit.
I had it fitted in our van within an hour.
I cannot yet comment on the quality of reception, i.e. when we are on the move; we have had lots of problems with our existing FM reception, trying different ariels and pre-amps, but little seems to work...so confident this DAB unit will either be as bad or much better, it cannot be worse.
