[Mgs] Modern radio in old MGB car

[Max Heim]

What I was saying is that you used to lose your presets every time you disconnected the battery. It was a problem. But I suppose they can use flash memory now.

I guess it’s obvious that the last car stereo I bought was back in the 90s.

I recently won one in a raffle at a car show, though. But I had no intention of having a radio in the B, and it won’t fit my other two vintage cars (and it’s inferior to the unit in my wife’s car). I haven’t got around to advertising it yet.

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Max Heim
'66 MGB

> On Sep 5, 2019, at 4:08 PM, Barrie Robinson <barrob at bell.net> wrote:
> 
> Hello Max,
> 
> Losing presets would not be a feature as that would cause too many problems with punters.  Change of battery, disconnect of battery for repair, etc etc would cause chaos !!!
> 
> On 9/5/2019 1:48 PM, Max Heim wrote:
>> IME, when you kill power to a digitally-tuned radio, you lose any station presets. But maybe newer units have resolved that issue.
>> 
>> --
>> Max Heim
>> '66 MGB
>> 
>>> On Sep 5, 2019, at 8:08 AM, Barrie Robinson via Mgs <mgs at autox.team.net <mailto:mgs at autox.team.net>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello folks,
>>> 
>>> This is just comments on putting a radio in an MGB.
>>> 
>>> When I built my MGB GT V8 many years ago I did not put in a radio - so recently I decided to put one in.  I wanted a remote USB a facility and one Pioneer model offered this so I got my local car radio shop to put it in.   Now, I hate adverts and only listen to two stations.   The installed radio was great BUT could not pick up the two (weak) stations despite a "new all singing, all dancing" windscreen antenna.  Disaster.  Not only this but my battery went flat after not using the car for a few days.  A nasty problem as electrical leaks are hard to diagnose.  For the weak stations problem the Radio shop advised a powered antenna - so I bought one from Retro Manufacturing - the lasts small one they had that would fit in the rear of the MGB - lucky.   Mounting the powered antenna was awkward especially as the install instructions were WRONG.  After installation it worked fine - weak stations no problem.   But battery flattening continued !!!!   Then radio man thought that modern radios had facilities that connected them to "modern" car computers and thus the drain as the radio would keep "on" and chatting even when it was turned off.    So being an electrical genius I had a kill switch installed.    Thus no matter what, the radio would get no power allowing it to chat to the car computer and drain the battery.  It works fine.  So for those installing a "modern" radio make sure it is not one that "talks" to a car computer.  As to the powered antenna, a windshield one will do you unless you want to pick up weak stations.
>>> 
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