Hi Billy
Not Mo, but around £35. There are various sellers to choose from on Amazon.
It sounds reasonable for the money, but I will report back once I receive
mine.
Kind Regards,
Jackie Brown
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
billy inglis
Sent: 01 April 2016 09:25
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Goodmans DAB Radio with speaker, an excellent radio
at an excellent price!
what is the cost of the radio Mo?
On 31/03/2016 21:59, Mobeen Iqbal wrote:
Hello Everyone.unit turns off.
The following are my observations and notes on the digital radio I
recently purchased. It is not an exhaustive review and should only be
used as a rough guide. Some of you may have seen the link posted by
Jackie a few days ago to a DAB radio which I bought from Amazon. I
have to say I am rarely as impressed as this by gadgets. I was always
a fan of radios with built in speakers that you could slip in to your
pocket, but I never thought I'd find a DAB radio below £40 with
replaceable battery that I could carry around. The radio measures just
9CM long, by 5CM wide by 3 CM deep. It has 4 buttons on the front,
left to right they are P which stands for preset, volume down, volume
up and the one on the very right is power and mode. on the top edge,
you have the aerial (top
left) and a headphone socket. on the right hand side, there is a
rocker wheel at the top which can also be pressed in to make a
selection, a sliding hold switch and a Micro USB port for charging.
when slid downwards, the radio is unlocked.
Its powered by a BL5C Nokia phone battery, so buying replacements is
not a problem. Goodmans state battery life is up to 13 hours on
headphone mode, less on speaker mode. If yours does not come with
battery inserted, gently prize the back cover off from the bottom edge
and insert your battery. Make sure you charge the radio for a minimum
of 2 hours using the included USB cable before use. Any USB charger
should do the job, though if your charger outputs anything less than 2
Amps charging may take longer than 2 hours. Its worth noting that
goodmans do not provide a mains charger, but at this price its not
surprising at all and its 1 less charger to worry about. You could
probably also use the radio while its charging.
Press and hold power in for 3 to 5 seconds to power the radio on. When
you first turn the radio on, make sure you have the aerial fully
extended. be careful with the aerial, at this price it could break
easily though only time will tell. it seems to be made of a pretty
flexible durable material. the bottom part is also hinged to allow you
to angle the aerial. The radio should auto scan for DAB stations. if
it doesn't, press and hold the wheel in for 2 to 5 seconds and this
should launch the auto scan. after a minute or so, it should start
playing DAB stations.
the wheel is used to cycle up and down between stations. you turn the
wheel up and down. its spring loaded so will always spring back to the
middle. press the wheel in to switch to a station. once you've
memorized the order of stations as with any DAB device, you should
have no problem switching to different stations. you can also press
the power button once to switch to FM mode and again to switch back to
DAB. to power off, press and hold power for 3 seconds or more until the
video chat.
to store your stations as presets, you need to navigate to the station
you want to store. press and hold the preset button for 2 seconds. the
screen should flash. arrow to the preset you'd like to store the
station in using the wheel and press the wheel in to store. to switch
to a preset, press the preset button once to display the list of
presets, arrow up or down to your preset and press the wheel in to
select and switch. by default, the preset that you're listening too
will be highlighted. it will not return you to the top of the list of
presets when switching between them. but again once you memorize the
order, you're fine. I have managed to obtain an accessible version of
the manual, i'm including a link below.
The radio is quite loud, I am frankly amazed because of the size how
much power output the speaker has. i'd say that even someone who was
hard of hearing could listen to the device. I would've liked a belt
clip to be included, but goodmans have provided a loop at the back of
the radio on the top edge to attach a lanyard. at this price you can't
expect too much. I am thinking of buying another one. You may also be
able to use the radio without extending the aerial if you live in a
really good DAB reception area, though its recommended when you do
your initial scan to have the aerial extended fully. If anyone would
like assistance setting your radio up at a small cost and no sighted
help is available, please don't hesitate to drop me a note off list
and I am sure we can arrange a convenient time to hook up on skype via
The radio is available from the following link via Amazon:
*http://tinyurl.com/gtxktm9
The manual is not especially formatted or adapted, but most people
should be able to make sense of it. If you can't make sense of it, i'd
be happy to provide hints off list. The manual can be found at:
https://vits.org.uk/Downloads/goodmans-gdprdab.html
thanks for reading,
Mo.
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