Worldspace radio receivers

[philmarks]

Has anyone bought or used any of these? Am currently looking at Joyear and Celeste. I have heardthat the Hitachi has been discontinued.

Any advice appreciated.

Rgds
Phil

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[circumnavigation]

Yes, we have the Hitachi WorldSpace receiver (full version) and very happy with it.

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[Deep_6]

Is the whole range of progammes free or is there a fee?


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[circumnavigation]

The services, like weather etc, is charged a fee, because specialised services come from a different supplier and use the worldspace medium for their diffusion.

You get your normal AM/FM/SW wavelengths like a normal radio, but when you use the satellite system, you are receiving at least 50 different channels from BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, Classic, Jazz, Pop, Rock etc., etc. If you watch CNN, for example, you get the sound only.

There are 3 satellites with their own footprints, which cover the globe. What you get is crystal clear digital radio. You do enter into a different world of listening, but if you visit there website <A target="_blank" HREF=http:// [url]http://www.mpcee.co.uk/katoema.html >http:// http://www.mpcee.co.uk/katoema.html [/url]

 

[Deep_6]

Martin - Do you have to set up the aerial/mini dish in the right direction or is it omni directional and what its like at sea?
I promise no more questions!
D6

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Ah! It depends where you are in the foot print, but there are explicit diagrams to make sure your in the right direction, with nothing in the way.

Secret! you can watch it search for the stations and when you save them, that's it, never lost again.

If more, pm me as I go off on my travels again tomorrow and I set YBW to only log a weeks threads and the rest are deleted.

Martin

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I won a joyear in the RYA competition (many thanks RYA) and it really is incredible what you can listen to. (The news in Arabic, North African pop music, the weather for a fee of around £60/year, and the weather really is useful as it covers a very wide area, in very great detail and regularly and more often than the BBC or Coastguard) but I have found that it is quite sensitive to having the receiver aerial pointing in the right direction and at the right angle, with nothing in the way. (It doesn't like glass windows for example, but seems to ignore GRP).

Hope this helps



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