I remembered that my wife had a Pure Move 1500 and tried it placed down inside the door bin on my Sedona...and the reception was perfect although I had forgotten that it uses the headphone wires as an aerial. The idea is to just stick inside the armrest and plug it into the car radio via the aux input and out from the Pure's headphone socket. The battery in the 1500 is rechargeable but lasts for more than 21 hours continuous use.

There is now a better solution in the Pure Move 2500....slightly smaller rechargeable battery but comes with USB charge (and update) connection so could be plugged in in the car using a USB charge adapter. I was pleased to find this review on Amazon, written by someone using it for exactly this purpose...and finding that the 3.5 mm cord he's using to link to the radio works just as well as the headphone wires...look for review by 'MATT748;

http://www.amazon.co...29060566&sr=8-1

Hopefully however, Skoda will drag thenselves into the current century in the not too distant future.

Jim

Jim, you are a star! I was looking for a quick and easy way of getting some DAB in there and hadn't even thought of using a unit which used the line out as the aerial! I ran out and got a Pure Move 2500 yesterday and tried it out today - works a treat! Saved me so much time and hassle and hides nicely in the armrest!

Nice one!

Stu

Glad it worked for you Stu. My older PocketDAB 1500 still waits for its car....

My Superb has a provisional build date of week 13/8 but just got back from holiday to find an email from the dealer that my Yeti has been built and is on it's way! just hope it's a simple case of confused ID!

Jim

Glad it worked for you Stu. My older PocketDAB 1500 still waits for its car....

My Superb has a provisional build date of week 13/8 but just got back from holiday to find an email from the dealer that my Yeti has been built and is on it's way! just hope it's a simple case of confused ID!

Jim

Maybe it is the new "cross over"

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It is no wonder DAB is having a slow uptake generally within the UK. Although DAB initially promised to deliver a higher fidelity experience, it has instead used the bandwidth to deliver more channels of tolerable quality (in the areas that can actually receive it), so one of the major appeals of DAB has been diminished. The UK was an early adopter of DAB, but has seen DAB+ overtake it on several technical grounds, and is now caught between a rock and a hard place: it cannot drop DAB without upsetting the keenest souls who have invested in it, and it is reluctant to invest in DAB+ alongside DAB as the less enthusiastic listeners will point out that their FM sets are still giving better fidelity than DAB, are now wary of a second promise to deliver higher fidelity having seen what played out on DAB, and that their equipment hasn't gone obsolete in less than a decade.

Car manufacturers have understandably been reluctant to get embroiled in adopting one standard (DAB) which is not supported across Europe, where some countries appear to have gone with DAB+ as the starting point, never mind the wider world, particularly as the merits of high audio fidelity are often lost in car environments. As for a DAB receiver that retransmits on FM, well, the BBC evaluation confirms my expectations. Amid all this, although the Digital Britain Report of 2009 mentioned above suggests all DAB radios should be compatible with DAB+ since 2009, that was only a "want" in 2009, so I'd look very carefully into any unit I was buying, because many DAB receivers on the UK market don't seem to handle DAB+. Maybe the in-car units are doing better at addressing this, as they are arguably more likely to get used abroad.

The car manufacturers are inevitably wary of seeing the same evolution of technology as has been witnessed with Sat Navs, seeing in-car units looking feature-poor after a couple of years, compared to after market products, and updates to such units generally being so expensive as for customers to not bother. Give them time, and I'm sure we will continue to be nudged towards a more digital audio age.

Having tried Satellite Radio in the USA, I'm definitely a supporter of digital radio, but I would like to see an integrated solution, rather than a patchy one.

Andy

Just installed a DAB receiver in my car.

It's a stand alone unit from Denmark & sits hidden in the boot.

I need to find a permanent way to power the unit, but for now it's plugged in to the 12v supply in the boot.

Small aerial on the roof - may consider a glass mount, but we'll see.

Broadcast a signal on 87.6 mhz to the Columbus unit so it's just a case of selecting that preset.

Small remote enables me to tune the unit or simply swap stations.

My 08 superb has the option for DAB in the setup menu (hold setup button for 5 secs) but says there is no aerial installed. does this mean that my head unit has been replaced with a similar model, or am I just clutching at straws!

Would be nice to be able to mount a DAB antenna and get the thing fired up.