<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I guess it’s obvious that the last car stereo I bought was back in the 90s.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">
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<font size="-1" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Hello Max,<br class="">
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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 !!!<br class="">
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IME, when you kill power to a digitally-tuned radio, you lose any
station presets. But maybe newer units have resolved that issue.
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via Mgs <<a href="mailto:mgs@autox.team.net" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">mgs@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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This is just comments on putting a radio in an MGB.<br class="">
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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 <i class="">thought </i>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.<br class="">
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