On 12/04/2021 21:02, newshound wrote:
On 12/04/2021 18:24, Clive Arthur wrote:
I sometimes repair and refurbish Roberts DAB radios as a sort of
hobby. I do a few minutes a day while waiting for simulations to
finish, or just thinking.Â* There are a few fairly common faults and I
have the gear.

These are covered in a sort of leatherette, I suppose.Â* This is of
appalling quality and is usually very badly worn and torn, even after
a couple of years of just sitting on a shelf.Â* This is good, it makes
them inexpensive.

My "real" analogue Roberts from the 60's still looked good after 30 years.

Yes, I have a pre-DAB FM one and an old MW/LW RT1 from Harrods both of
which are good. The problem was with the RD-50 and RD-60 models. This
one is typical...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Roberts-R...53.m1438.l2649

....some are much worse. I had one which was an expensive gift, and
after a couple or three years it looked like that, though it had hardly
been touched. Roberts deny it's a manufacturing fault, but they're
clearly lying. Even some of the circuitry looks like it's been designed
by someone on work experience.

They lost their way, I don't know if they're any good nowadays.

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Cheers
Clive