I’m looking to purchase one of these radios and it looks as though I’m going to have to import the product.
The radio is available from Universal Radio in the US so clearly the radio is marketed to the US market. Universal Radio won’t export the radio so either of 2 things will happen from my end. I will find another seller from the US who is willing to ship to Australia or I’ll get my trusty broker in the US to buy the radio for me and ship the radio to me on my behalf, nice chap! <smile>. As for making a Radio that talks for DAB? A point that people seem to miss which is made clear in the information about the radio itself. The Radio is equipped with “Voice Prompts” and not a full talking radio with full speech synthesis. From: d.griff...@btinternet.com <d.griff...@btinternet.com> Sent: Sunday, 18 August 2019 12:04 AM To: techno-chat@techno-chat.net Subject: RE: [Techno-Chat]: Sangean PR-D17 AM/FM Radio for the Visually Impaired Mileage may vary in different countries but I am baffled why so much effort has gone into producing a set which excludes DAB. For me, and I suspect a lot of other VIP people in the UK the majority of my listening now in the UK is on DAB stations that simply do not exist on FM or Am. For example, Radio 4 Extra on the BBC is the go to station for people wanting broader access to Drama and comedy content. This is not available on AM and FM. Even stranger this radio seems to assume that VIP people in the UK have no interest in sport. If you wanted to listen to the Cricket World Cup your only option in the UK was Five Live Sports Extra, an exclusively digital station. A few England matches were broadcast on Long Wave Radio 4 but this radio does not apparently support that either. Ditto for the current Cricket Ashes series of England v Australia. All the County Cricket competitions from Championship, List A Australian Big Bash, Indian Premier League and English T20 Blast are all exclusively digital. If you want to listen to Rugby either league or Union at domestic level the only real options now are digital. If you want to have the best experience of Tennis and Wimbledon you need digital. I don’t follow it myself but formula 1 is also exclusively digital. This is especially baffling as sport is not by any means the minority market. The reality is that sports is a massive market. I remember an interview on BBC Feedback where people not interested in cricket were complaining about cricket being hosted on Radio 4 Long Wave. The BBC spokesperson explained that this would not change as the reality was that audiences went up by something like 500% when the cricket was on Long Wave during the Ashes. This is why BBC and TalkSport pay so much money for the broadcasting rights. Incidentally TalkSport2 in the UK is also an exclusively digital station. If you want to listen to Championship football matches then again this is your only real option unless you happen to come across a match on local radio. If you want to listen to Premiership football commentary involving Norwich and Newcastle today you need digital to follow this on Talksport2. People argue about whether the appropriate digital platform is DAB or Internet but to produce a crippled radio which has no access to either platform seems like going back into a time warp to the 70s for me. Sorry to be so harsh but I genuinely find it baffling why a radio aimed at VIP people should explicitly carve itself out of so much important and valuable free content. David Griffith From: Dane Trethowan <grtd...@internode.on.net <mailto:grtd...@internode.on.net> > Sent: 16 August 2019 22:11 To: Techno-Chat ... Technology Enthusiasm! <techno-chat@techno-chat.net <mailto:techno-chat@techno-chat.net> > Subject: Re: [Techno-Chat]: Sangean PR-D17 AM/FM Radio for the Visually Impaired Interestingly Sangean have been making radio sets for Robers in the UK for at least the last 30 years. Its quite possible that the Sangean PD-r17 may very well use static speech too. On 17 Aug 2019, at 6:35 am, Gordon Smith <gor...@mac-access.net <mailto:gor...@mac-access.net> > wrote: This puts me in mind of the Pure Digital (as they were known then), PX1 – released in the late 1990s. However, that radio used static speech, rather than synthetic. So not quite the same. On a similar topic, the Roberts Concerto 2, (UK version) is also designed for the vision impaired. That device has a number of strengths, but a number of glaring weaknesses as well. I meant to review it for the group on our Blog, so I’ll do that over the weekend. I’ll post a link to the article on the list. On 13 Aug 2019, at 21:58, grtd...@internode.on.net <mailto:grtd...@internode.on.net> wrote: Now this radio may be well worthwhile grabbing. <https://radiojayallen.com/sangean-pr-d7-am-fm-radio-for-the-visually-impaired/> https://radiojayallen.com/sangean-pr-d7-am-fm-radio-for-the-visually-impaired/
