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Pure Highway In-Car DAB Radio With FM Transmitter - Black | 
 enlarge | Brand: Pure
Category: CE
Buy New: £54.94
New (10) Used (1) from £49.99
Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 111
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 8.6 x 4.7
MPN: VL-60905
Model: VL-60905
UPC: 759454809058
EAN: 0759454809058
ASIN: B0012GLXMU
Release Date: January 14, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | DAB AND FM RADIO | | • | CLOCK | | • | BLACK AND GREY | | • | 1 X HEAPHONES SOCKETS |
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Product Description
Highway is a unique, easy to fit in-car DAB digital radio that also enables you to listen to your iPod/MP3 player. Powered from the in-car power socket and easily attached to your windscreen with a removable flexible mount (just like sat nav) Highway receives DAB stations and transmits them to your car radio on a free FM frequency. Simply tune your car radio to the FM frequency shown on Highway?s display to listen to DAB or your iPod/MP3 player. DAB digital radio brings you more stations including BBC 7, BBC Five Live Sports Extra, Planet Rock and theJazz. National AM stations such as talkSPORT, Virgin and BBC Five Live are also broadcast in crisp, clear digital-quality DAB. Highway is packed with great, easy-to-use features such as ReVu? to pause and skip back through live DAB radio, quickSCAN to find free FM transmission frequencies, and 4 FM transmission presets (synchronize these with your car radio?s FM presets to make avoiding interference a breeze). You can even take Highway from the car when your journey?s over and carry on listening using headphones*. * Headphones not included. Whether you want to enjoy the digital stations in-car that you do at home, listen to your iPod/MP3 player on the move, or just discover DAB, Highway brings a lot more entertainment to your journey.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 28 more reviews...
 Check before you buy August 20, 2008
This is a great unit, but there is one major drawback. Unless you drive in an area where the signal is strong, you should forget it. The antenna sticks to the inside of the windscreen. The instructions say that it doesn't work well with silvered glass, but there's more to it than that. The problem is that the antenna is short. It simply can't pick up enough signal for the radio to make sense of unless there is lots of signal to pick up. The answer is to use an external antenna, which Pure are working on (magnetic base type). However, they will not say when it will be available - not even if it will be this year. Since the radio is expecting to have an antenna with built in amplifier connected to it, don't think you can just connect any antenna to get it working. Until all areas of the country get the same level of signal that a few people currently enjoy, I'd advise not buying - or you could be very disappointed. A great shame, as low signal strength is not Pure's fault.
 Sounds good! August 19, 2008
H. Dellow (UK)
The reason for purchasing was simple - the need for access to stations such as Planet Rock to ease the 2hrs a day in the car! To this end, the Pure Highway has been a completely successful solution to the problem, as well as solving the Shipping Forecast problem during TMS!
Installation was a sinch and all tuned up in under 5 mins with great sound quality. Coverage is excellent across the UK Midlands for the main stations such as PR, Arrow, Virgin, BBC, Classic FM, etc. Good lcd information panel; option for MP3/Ipod input is sensible; we like the 'Pure DAB' that comes up on the car radio display. Very impressed with the handheld operation too - haven't been able to measure battery life yet.
Small gripes?
- the rotary tuning/volume wheel seems a strange design choice. Personally I'd have preferred a simple three button setup (Up/Down/Select).
- the unit 'wobbles' on the end of the screen stalk under normal driving. Distracting.
- Orientation of USB power cable from plug. Not ideal for car installation i.e. forces the cable routing to be backwards (towards windscreen rather than straight down to power socket).
- tuning on presets 4-20 a bit of a fiddly process.
 great little unit August 17, 2008
D. R. Stockton (Leeds)
Living in an area where my home DAB radio will sometimes not pick up a station I was a bit worried that I may be wasting my money. The day after it arrived I connected it up and couldn't get it to work, I thought I had wasted 60. I arrived at my destination and tried again this time it did exactly what it was meant to scanned and told me what station to put my FM radio on, it worked. I thought it may lose the signal on the way home but the only hiccup was a bridge, it lost the signal for a couple of seconds like it says it can in the manual. I can only find one problem and it is not with the unit itself but the accessories mainly the Ariel and that is that if you replace your car you are going to have to buy a new complete car kit for 24.99. I now have planet rock in the car can anybody tell me what the other 19 pre-sets Pure Highway In-Car DAB Radio With FM Transmitter - Black are for?
Decent DAB in the car August 3, 2008
Simplywhite (London, UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I got this for my birthday in April, and its first outing was my journey home from the Lake District to London. I had the aerial bluetacked to the dashboard as I didn't know where I wanted it and the reception was great all the way home apart fom a short section near Birmingham. I didn't bother with the windscreen holder, I bought a cheap USB lead to power it and use velcro to stick it on the dashboard where I can easily reach it to change channels. The sound is great, I'd really recommend it.
almost really good July 28, 2008
Ian (Manchester UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've had the highway for a couple of weeks and have suffered the magnet dropping off- on a sunny day when it got hot but surely for something designed to be in a car windscreen should be able to stand a bit of heat. Other than that the reception is good even with the aerial in the glove box rather than stuck to the windscreen. I do have some problems finding a clear fm frequency in towns, but that will be solved by new car with an aux socket!
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