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Pure Highway In-Car DAB Radio With FM Transmitter - Black | 
 enlarge | Brand: Pure
Category: CE
Buy New: £58.67
New (12) from £58.67
Rating:  51 reviews
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 8.7 x 4.7
MPN: VL-60905
Model: VL-60905
UPC: 759454809058
EAN: 0759454809058
ASIN: B0012GLXMU
Release Date: January 14, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Superb piece of kit! January 29, 2008
M. J. Cleaver (Warwickshire)
41 out of 42 found this review helpful
Hock your grandmothers mobility scooter to get one of these! At last DAB is finding it's way into cars where it is needed. Now you can listen to a football match without Alan Green croaking to death. You can also listen to Virgin in quality and use the unit as a portable DAB in the house and garden. Be aware it uses a (fairly discreet) aerial sticking to the windscreen and if they had made the aerial cable 9 inches longer I could have had the aerial on the passenger side and the holder on the right of my steering wheel. Save one of the cable stickers for to cover the superbright red led on the cigarette lighter plug. But I'm being picky! Buy one now and find a reason to go for a drive when a match is on!
 Pure Highway - Pure Magic February 5, 2008
David Murray (Galston)
29 out of 29 found this review helpful
Fantastic piece of kit, really well designed, superb full sound. Planet Rock and the Arrow fill the car, even mono stations like Talksport are well presented. I've been a fan of DAB for ages and to get it in the car where I spend a lot of time is a great leap forward. I've yet to experience any drop off of signal when travelling. Brilliant!!!
 Excellent. February 16, 2008
Chris Barker (Somerset, England)
26 out of 28 found this review helpful
I agree with all the good things written about set-up, ease of use and the very simple FM link. I thought when I first tried it that the reception in my area (South Somerset) was not going to be good enough, but now I have the antenna fixed to the screen at the position recommended, it's very good. I should have given it 4 or 5 stars. Pity that Planet Rock has only 5 weeks to live.....
Another Flawed Solution to In Car DAB February 6, 2008
M. Trott (UK)
19 out of 32 found this review helpful
Here's the cheap (Heath Robinson) way to get DAB in your car and on the move - Buy a Pure TalkSport or similar portable DAB radio, add a cassette adapter or an FM tuner and stick the portable DAB above the sunvisor - works a treat. And NO external aerial needed. The drawback is cables hanging down, and if you use an FM transmitter you've used the cigar lighter socket.
On paper the Pure Highway 'appears' to overcome these problems. The only snag is that the in-built FM transmitter ONLY works if you take power from the car's cigar lighter - If you try to run the Highway on batteries it CUTS OUT THE FM TRANSMITTER - have PURE not been watching SatNav sales? Don't they know that many drivers already have to chose between charging the mobile or using their SatNav.
When I asked Pure about this they said "that batteries were used in 'walk mode' and that automatically turned off the FM - obvious isn't it" err, no.
I can see the sense in cutting the FM transmitter if you use the Highway away from the car but the most sensible switch for turning off the FM transmitter would be plugging in headphones, not inserting batteries. Many people are gointg to be confused by this because nowhere in the documenation could I find a reference to this. A lot of people will want to store their AA batteries in the Highway even if they are going to use 12v power. The only way they will find out why the FM transmitter doesn't work with the batteries inserted is by accident or by phoning PURE.
So, I still have no ideal solution to in car DAB. The OPURE Highway joins the Revo and a few other expensive partial solutions in the 'seemed like a good idea bin'. We have 3 vehicles, I will use the Highway in the car that has 2 cigar sockets but needless to say I won't be buying 2 more Highways. I'll stick with my Heath Robinson solution.
Finally a cheap DAB in car option February 11, 2008
Alan (Swindon, England)
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
What I love about this...
Its really easy to set up. Once you get the aerial sorted you literally just plug it in and away you go
Its really cheap. Cheaper than most equivalent quality portable DAB radios and definitely cheaper than getting a DAB radio fitted in the car
Its easy to use, same as usual with Pure products
The sound quality is great. I've had no probs with DAB reception so far, although I've not been out of town with it yet
Its easy to find a interference free FM channel for it to transmit on as it hunts for a free one rather than you having to do it yourself. It also transmits using RDS so I'm hoping I won't have to get it to find another if I move into another area (not sure about this though)
You can pause rewind live radio which is a bonus as well
There is one minor annoyance though. As a reviewer has said before, you have to have the Highway pluged into the cigarette lighter to get it to transmit on FM (although I think it will work whilst plugged into my PC as well) this means you have to have the trailing wire between the unit and the lighter which is a bit irritating.
All in all however its a great unit and I am really pleased that I can finally get DAB in my car without having to spend a fortune.
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