World Space radio

[davidbains]

Who's tried it?
Especially now there is alleged to be a continuous weather channel !

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[Gunfleet]

I have one. Top quality sound of course. It's very good, if you don't mind your version of BBC world service being the African one. As a mate said, I now know all I'll ever need to know about the sports scene in Chad. The weather service is brilliant and the marine version includes a 'mechanical Mike' reading out the weather forecasts. But that's just gone subscription at about £60 a year. I prefer the charts from Northwood or (just been able to receive, thanks to advice on here) the German weather service on the HF radio.
John

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[pegasos]

We have been living aboard for 18 months and have had a Hitachi Worldspace for most of the time. It is brilliant and one of the best bits of kit we have. We cruise in the Med and have used the radio on our last passage from Malta to Spain (in February) with crystal clear reception throughout. You can tune in up to 40 stations and make preferences according to language and type of station. We have World Service, CNN. National Public Radio (USA), Radio Caroline, Maestro (classical) and the weather channel. The weather channel is no too brilliant (in our opinion) and is a 24 hour computerised voice (rather like VHF Ch 67 in Italy). Also, it is a subscription channel - as is NPR and Caroline - for which you have to set up a direct debit of about £50 per year. We feel that the radio was extremely good value (approx £150) but would not buy it just for the weather channel - you are probably better of with Navtex, an SSB receiver or just picking up standard forecasts.

We show our radio to everyone who comes on board and they are extremely impressed. Buy one today!

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[davidbains]

Thanks, I was wondering how easy it is to keep the aerial pointed at the
satellite whilst actually sailing? Presumably you have to move it when you change course
and how does the boat's movement affect it?

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