I was amused to see in a recent Maplin flyer, a wind-up DAB and FM radio.

I was amused because it tells you "1 hour FM for 60 seconds of winding" - 
but doesn't mention how much DAB. (I'd also be surprised if the hour is 
true, but that's by the by.)
-- 
J. P. Gilliver                  |  Tel. +44 1634 203298

Essex home SOLD, I hope! (See http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/home/)

"J. P. Gilliver"  wrote in message 
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>I was amused to see in a recent Maplin flyer, a wind-up DAB and FM 
>radio.
>
> I was amused because it tells you "1 hour FM for 60 seconds of 
> winding" - but doesn't mention how much DAB. (I'd also be surprised 
> if the hour is true, but that's by the by.)

How about marketing a nice 'green', 'eco' kit to couple this wind up 
radio to an exercise bike wheel, so that the user can listen to DAB 
radio whilst they exercise - or would that put to much strain on the 
average person?!.... :~)

:Jerry: wrote:
> 
> How about marketing a nice 'green', 'eco' kit to couple this wind up 
> radio to an exercise bike wheel, so that the user can listen to DAB 
> radio whilst they exercise - or would that put to much strain on the 
> average person?!.... :~)

Why do you need people?

Maplin now sell mouse traps. Trap some live feral mice (lots available 
free, I have plenty in this street), buy a ferris wheel (Maplin may do 
that as well), release them into that and make them run, hook up a 
generator (Maplin might not do that, try Lidl/Aldi/CPC). Power the 
radio. Sorted.

-- 
Adrian C

"Adrian C" <email@here.invalid> wrote in message 
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<snip>

> Trap some live feral mice

Shhhh, don't let the ALF (most defiantly not the ALF, less you want 
your house rebuilt...) or the RSPCA hear you say that...

In article <4846d480$1_1@glkas0286.greenlnk.net>, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
> I was amused to see in a recent Maplin flyer, a wind-up DAB and FM radio.
> 
> I was amused because it tells you "1 hour FM for 60 seconds of winding" - 
> but doesn't mention how much DAB. (I'd also be surprised if the hour is 
> true, but that's by the by.)

The very notion of running a DAB radio from clockwork sounds like a proper 
wind-up to me.

Rod.

":Jerry:" <INVALID@INVALID.INVALID> wrote in message 
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>
> "J. P. Gilliver"  wrote in message 
> news:4846d480$1_1@glkas0286.greenlnk.net...
>>I was amused to see in a recent Maplin flyer, a wind-up DAB and FM radio.
>>
>> I was amused because it tells you "1 hour FM for 60 seconds of winding" - 
>> but doesn't mention how much DAB. (I'd also be surprised if the hour is 
>> true, but that's by the by.)
>
> How about marketing a nice 'green', 'eco' kit to couple this wind up radio 
> to an exercise bike wheel, so that the user can listen to DAB radio whilst 
> they exercise - or would that put to much strain on the average 
> person?!.... :~)


Seems very complicated to me, I used to have a set powered by
a single cat's whisker.
-- 
Graham

%Profound_observation%

"Roderick Stewart"  wrote in 
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<snip>
>
> The very notion of running a DAB radio from clockwork sounds like a 
> proper
> wind-up to me.
>

<FX>Groan</FX> Were did you say you left your coat?...

Graham. wrote:

> 
> Seems very complicated to me, I used to have a set powered by
> a single cat's whisker.

My tennis racket was strung with cat gut...

-- 
Adrian C

"J. P. Gilliver"  wrote in message
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> I was amused to see in a recent Maplin flyer, a wind-up DAB and FM 
> radio.
>
> I was amused because it tells you "1 hour FM for 60 seconds of 
> winding" -
> but doesn't mention how much DAB. (I'd also be surprised if the hour 
> is
> true, but that's by the by.)


3 minutes of playback on DAB!



-- 
Steve - www.digitalradiotech.co.uk - Digital Radio News & Info

The adoption of DAB was the most incompetent technical
decision ever made in the history of UK broadcasting:
http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/dab/incompetent_adoption_of_dab.htm