Radio Bargain at Tesco

[Jim@sea]

For those of you who get the Shipping Forecast on the radio on LW, I was suprised at the quality of the sound and reception of the Portable Radio which I bought for £6.95 from Tesco. Has it been made by Roberts and cost £50 I would not have been disappointed.
And dont forget on Long Wave on Radio Atlantic (Irish) you can also get the Irish Shipping Forecast an hour earlier. Although perhaps not a lot of use if your going to Cherbourg however useful if your in the Irish Sea.

 

[theoldplucker]

Lucky to find and analogue radio ! Most outlets now only stock the DAB rubbish. Another technical digital backward step being forced upon us.

 

[paulferris1964]

Which model was it? This one?

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.208-0074.aspx

 

[colvic987]

Lucky to find and analogue radio ! Most outlets now only stock the DAB rubbish. Another technical digital backward step being forced upon us.

£6.95 for five years, cheap enough.

 

[underdog]

I bought one of these a coupleof months back for the new boat, and agree it is excellent.

 

[vyv_cox]

Which model was it? This one?

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.208-0074.aspx

Yes. I bought one this morning but the price was £2 lower than the link says. It's mono only, quite tinny for music but perfectly OK for voice. AM doesn't seem to pick up very much, haven't managed to find either of the 5Live frequencies yet, but good on LW and OK for Radio 2 on FM.

 

[LONG_KEELER]

Brilliant !

Got one today.

All stations seem to work fine.

198LW for shipping and cricket does it for me though. I expect the batteries will cost more than the radio.

As an aside. I found the Roberts radio/record very disappointing. It rusted up after a few seasons. Perhaps leaving it on the boat over winter is not a good idea.

Thanks again for the tip.

 

[saltwater_gypsy]

Yes. I bought one this morning but the price was £2 lower than the link says. It's mono only, quite tinny for music but perfectly OK for voice. AM doesn't seem to pick up very much, haven't managed to find either of the 5Live frequencies yet, but good on LW and OK for Radio 2 on FM.

C'mon Vyv it makes it quite clear that it's a KITCHEN radio!!!!

 

[2nd_apprentice]

Interesting you mention that. Just the other day I was tempted to buy a similar one at BOYES for something around 5 quid. Decided not to since my Sangean's more than adequate for LW reception and how many backups does one really need. Thought it might be rubbish too at that price. Next to it they were selling a tape recorder "ideal for voice recordings or storing computer data". Like manic miner or what?

 

[pugwash60]

I bought a similar but cheaper radio from Tesco last year, it uses D cells and is still on it's second set of batteries. I use it most of the time on the boat, only problem is it's a bit quiet so I have to hold it to my ear if the donkey is on. Apart from that its great, I keep meaning to install a car radio but as this works fine haven't got around to it, also never quite sure if a modern car radio has LW.

 

[DogWatch]

Lucky to find and analogue radio ! Most outlets now only stock the DAB rubbish. Another technical digital backward step being forced upon us.

really, why is that then?

 

[theoldplucker]

really, why is that then?

DAB is poorer sound quality than FM. although FM has been over compressed in last few years.
More reception problems with digital. Analogue fades whereas weak digital signal loses reception totally, no matter how many transmitters they build.

 

[Jim@sea]

Which model was it? This one?

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.208-0074.aspx

Yes thats the one but £6.95. What pleased me is that I have a similar one made by another manufacturer which struggles to give clear reception and I have tuned both to different programmes. Its almost as if it has included the "interference reduction facility"

 

[Jim@sea]

C'mon View it makes it quite clear that it's a KITCHEN radio!!!!

Landlubber. Kitchens on boats are called Galleys.

 

[Ubergeekian]

Which model was it? This one?

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.208-0074.aspx

The recommendations here are very useful - I shall endeavour to lay my hands on one of these.

I bought a previous seven quid Tesco radio for Jumblie, and it's complete and utter rubbish. Even if you can tune it the tuning wanders all over the place. It's not even heavy enough to make a decent paperweight and it's too thick to prop up a wobbly table.

 

[Strathglass]

For those of you who get the Shipping Forecast on the radio on LW, I was suprised at the quality of the sound and reception of the Portable Radio which I bought for £6.95 from Tesco. Has it been made by Roberts and cost £50 I would not have been disappointed.
And dont forget on Long Wave on Radio Atlantic (Irish) you can also get the Irish Shipping Forecast an hour earlier. Although perhaps not a lot of use if your going to Cherbourg however useful if your in the Irish Sea.

I have just bought one at the local Tesco. It gets the long wave 198Khz programme very well and the sound quality is more than adequate but -.

The Image and IF rejection are pretty pathetic.

At both ends of the long wave there is very strong breakthrough.
The front end of the receiver seems not to be very selective and is quite open to out of band signals.
This makes me think that the reception will drop quite dramatically in the presence of a powerful local transmission.

It has obviously been made down to a price.

I may be wrong in my thoughts but time will tell.

I am still quite happy with the performance for the price, but like in most things you get what you pay for.

Iain

 

[DogWatch]

Landlubber. Kitchens on boats are called Galleys.

We call ours the kitchen, nothing bad has happened to us yet for doing that.

We have bedrooms, a toilet and ropes too... Is it important to call things by their correct names?

 

[Pagetslady]

We have left and right as well as cabin floor and deck is upstairs as well as front and back
Mike