19-10-2023, 09:51 AM
The stock radio in my Yaris was useless for MW & LW and had no line socket. I realised the the plastic panel could be cut for a standard set and the mounting bracket turned out to be perfect. I had some adaptors that fitted the old Kenwood and another two sets which someone gave me. The Lidl model had no LW, but MW at night was OK. The JVC was far better than the stock model but the Kenwood gives perfect noise-free R4 on LW during the day and much MW after dusk. The VHF-FM is better too and the 3.5mm jack socket works. Not tried the CD player!
I think a TV is legal in a car here as long as the driver can't see it and you have a TV licence. A mains powered TV at an alternate location needs a separate licence, but not one on batteries.
There are DVB-T car radios sold here (don't know if they work as H.264 is needed even for SD, no DVB-T2) and some of the entertainment systems (either pop-out screen or double IEC/ISO height) work with a USB DVB-T stick (under €12) of the kind that also make a bad 42MHz to 1GHz SDR (only 8 bits ADC).
I now have a space not wide enough for a radio, about radio height above the radio. The old radio knob holes covered with black Duck tape under the outer silverish clip on panels which needed cut out a bit for the radio width.
I found Yaris radio connections and standard connections and cut off the old plugs (with enough wire to reuse) and used screw terminal blocks to join-up.
The only downside is that the display seems to be in "Demo mode" and you have to hit the middle button of nav pad to go back to Frequency.
The only car I ever had with a decent stock radio was one of the small Peugeots. I guess 3rd part radios since radios were standard in a car need to be good.
I could get someone to try the laptop or Android tablet (both do DVB-T via the same USB DVB-T stick) with TV, but though the signal levels generally in Ireland are not designed for portable TV use, the DVB-T is designed to work with doppler shift and multipath.
I think a TV is legal in a car here as long as the driver can't see it and you have a TV licence. A mains powered TV at an alternate location needs a separate licence, but not one on batteries.
There are DVB-T car radios sold here (don't know if they work as H.264 is needed even for SD, no DVB-T2) and some of the entertainment systems (either pop-out screen or double IEC/ISO height) work with a USB DVB-T stick (under €12) of the kind that also make a bad 42MHz to 1GHz SDR (only 8 bits ADC).
I now have a space not wide enough for a radio, about radio height above the radio. The old radio knob holes covered with black Duck tape under the outer silverish clip on panels which needed cut out a bit for the radio width.
I found Yaris radio connections and standard connections and cut off the old plugs (with enough wire to reuse) and used screw terminal blocks to join-up.
The only downside is that the display seems to be in "Demo mode" and you have to hit the middle button of nav pad to go back to Frequency.
The only car I ever had with a decent stock radio was one of the small Peugeots. I guess 3rd part radios since radios were standard in a car need to be good.
I could get someone to try the laptop or Android tablet (both do DVB-T via the same USB DVB-T stick) with TV, but though the signal levels generally in Ireland are not designed for portable TV use, the DVB-T is designed to work with doppler shift and multipath.
