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Hi I have just dug out my Joyear DAR-WS2000 radio, I bought it ages ago and when they started charging I seem to have hidden it away, now I fancy giving it a try, but I can't seem to find a satellite, is it broken, has world space been folded up or am I looking in the wrong place I am in Jersey uk at the moment. Ideas please.
Mike
 
Tragic Worldspace still worked in 2010

I also read they went bust, but we enjoyed listening to my Hitachi Worldspace receiver all last year. There was only a very small handful of stations, but gloriously BBC World Service was among them.

The boat's in Turkey right now, but I'll be heading over in a few weeks. I'll try it then and let you know.

I have a great debt of gratitude towards Worldspace. Clear stereo signals from the mother country all over the world. When I lived alone I listened in the whole time.

I've absolutely no concept of how much it costs to run this constellation, but it's always puzzled me that it appears to have largely failed. Maybe it will revive one day like Iridium did. Imagine if we could persuade BBC to retransmit BBC radio 4, and 2. My happiness would be complete. I would stump up a significant annual fee for this, and I imagine I'm not alone.

Internet users look baffled when I get excited about Worldspace, but they don't appreciate that cruising boats don't have "free" and constant access to WiFi. (And yes, there's much to be said on that topic alone.) It's also not beyond the realms of physics to use the Worldspace constellation for one leg of on-board internet. At one time I think Raymarine might have been looking in that direction - before they fell victim to the crash. I doubt their new American owners will stump up for r & d on this scale.

So, we all lose out. Back to scratchy HF - until the totally idiotic changes to BBC World Service funding kill that off too.

Lucky I've still got my guitar.......
 
One way around this is to subscribe to R4 (and other BBC radio station ) podcasts. Then when you have wifi access, it will automatically download dozens of programmes automatically, which you can then listen to when you don't have internet access
 
Podcasts

Yes that's an excellent suggestion Brendon, and I think I'll do that this year. There's no substutute though for a small portable radio that you can haul around the deck to where you're chilling / working. Maybe I'll get a portable radio that plays from a data stick.

Especially when you're alone though, "live" radio is a great comfort.

I'm starting to think I'm in a tiny minority. (No pun intended!)
 
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