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Reviewed by UK Guest, 17th Feb 2006. |
| Review Summary: Hopes satisfied, fears unfounded |
Overall Score: 5/5
 
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Review: The Intempo PG-01 is nice to look at, quite chunky, heavy and sturdy, smaller than it looks in the picture (10 inches across by 6.5 inches tall and 4 inches deep) but most important: it's very easy to set up and use and the sound output is clear and loud. I live in an area with really rotten reception. Anyone wishing to use a mobile phone in my house, has to go outside to get a signal. My old radios only get a few stations and are permanently tuned to BBC Radio 4 on FM because if you ever change the station it's a devil of a job to find it again. And what you hear from my old radios is a lot of crackle and hiss that makes it hard to hear the programme. In the meantime I've become addicted to BBC digital Radio 7 that I get through my Sky digibox. However, this signal is frequently lost, replaced by a message telling me that no signal is being received. I've had Sky for years. I'm on my 4th digibox and my 2nd dish. It's always been the same coming-and-going signal. My neighbours have similar problems. So I was trembling with hope and fear when I ordered this radio. When it was delivered I tried to take a relaxed attitude to the prospect of failure, read and followed the brief and simple instructions and .... IT WORKED! I can get all the BBC digital radio stations I enjoy listening to on my telly, and loads more. You just plug it in, switch it on, press a button and it goes off and finds a large collection of radio stations and stores them in its memory. You can choose four of your favourites to select at the touch of a button. The rest can be scrolled through with the up and down buttons and selected with the select button. It's so easy. There's only one problem and it's not much of a problem at that. I can't get anything but crackle and hum on the FM option - but that's probably because of where I live. Who needs it though? BBC Radio 4 is now available as a DAB digital station, so now that I have all these DAB digital stations, I'd never bother with FM anyway. The price of the Intempo PG-0 DAB radio is very reasonable and it comes with an unusually generous 2 year guarantee. Brilliant! |
Ratings
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5 |
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5 |
| Recommended? | |
Yes |
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Audio HiFi