FM Radio Set (car stereo)

Boreades said:
Was that the kind with Long Wave and Medium Wave, and a funny rotary turny-thing on the front, to find the station you wanted?

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He He ! That one looks positively modern to me. If I can fight my way to the back of the shed I will post a pic and a sound recording from a REAL radio with 4-pin valves. MW/LW only of course, so remaining life severely limited! Uses a bit too much power though for use on a boat. :D

More to the point I have a 25 year old Realistic (Radio-Shack) mains/battery portable still in daily use which has a fully synthesized tuner and, as I said, retains numerous station settings with no power at all. (I assume it uses flash memory).
 
the car stereo i had last year from new died due to damp i believe. so replaced with a fusion RA50. very happy with it and can plug my phone in with the aux connector
 
jimmcgee said:
what you are looking for is an Aldi deckless unit ,

BLUE TOOTH HANDS FREE
AM/FM RADIO WITH RDS
NO CD DECK MECHANISM
USB IMPUT.SD CARD READER.FRONT AUX-IN
MP3/WMA PLAYBACK WITH IDG TAG DISPLAY
4X25 WATTS
REMOTE CONTROL AND AUX CABLE

usual price under 40 quid
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I'm listening to one of these as I type. It's been on the boat for a few months and has never lost any station. It works fine via Bluetooth with my phone.
Allan
 
Car Radio/Stereo. They don't make them like they once did. In 1980 Hitachi sold a car radio with Long/AM/FM and a cassette RECORDER/Player
Which meant that I could record the Shipping Forecast.
This is a feature I am looking for now
 
Jim@sea said:
Car Radio/Stereo. They don't make them like they once did. In 1980 Hitachi sold a car radio with Long/AM/FM and a cassette RECORDER/Player
Which meant that I could record the Shipping Forecast.
This is a feature I am looking for now
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I'm pretty sure my Blaupunkt DAB car radio has this facility, it records onto an SD card.
 
We have a Phillips radio from a Renault Clio on board our Sabre 27.

When in the Clio, stations were kept by a permanent feed but when we put it in the boat I had to change the settings to allow it to not need a Pin No and this also kept the stations. The information was in the handbook that came with it.
 
It is quite interesting to note all the effort that was put into making life difficult for car radio thieves. (PIN numbers; removable fascias; alarms). Obviously even factory fit standard ones were considered really valuable in their time (and certainly up to 2000 ish)

Can you imagine a thief having even the slightest inclination to steal a bog-standard car radio today?
 
VicMallows said:
It is quite interesting to note all the effort that was put into making life difficult for car radio thieves. (PIN numbers; removable fascias; alarms). Obviously even factory fit standard ones were considered really valuable in their time (and certainly up to 2000 ish)
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I did a tour round Halewood in its Jaguar incarnation, and the guide - who had been there since Ford days - told us that Ford radios were kept under lock and keys and fitted only as the very last stage before cars drove out of the factory door. The tour was fascinating. Robots everywhere, except for the two most stereotypical Scousers you could imagine (perms and 'taches) morosely working a machine pressing front valances. I like to think that they were actually actors from the Liverpool Playhouse, employed to give a bit of local colour while the tours went by.
 
I use a standard long (extending) car aerial. It lives horizontally in an enclosed space behind a panel above the quarter berth. Seems to work well despite being horizontal.
 
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