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- Achieve better and more consistant reception from your Pure in car DAB radio
- Magnetic attachment to your car roof
- Thin but strong cabling
- Simple to set-up
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Product Description
Designed for the Pure Highway In-Car DAB Tuner, this aerial magnetically attaches to your car's roof, dramatically improving DAB reception. Especially useful in areas with poor DAB reception.
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
I reckon I was one of the early adopters as I've had my Highway since July 2008. I expected to be disappointed with the Highway as most technology invariably never lives up to the promise. However, from the minute it was installed the Highway has been a 'must have' addition to any journey, even the tiny ones to the local shop. The only downside of the product was the one time use aerial, which meant that any new windscreen would require a new aerial to be bought. It also meant that if you shared 2 cars you'd need a second aerial/car kit in order to share the Highway between cars. Minor irritations really because the product is a 4.5 star one and these details are really just niggles, as are the perennial complaints about trailing wires etc.
I regularly travel 46 miles to work each day and back (yep that's 92 miles a day) and the journey takes me through rural countryside, towns and along major highways. Throughout this journey the Highway performs well apart from 2 areas where the poor signal meant a complete drop out on any radio station. Each of these drop outs is about 30 seconds but invariably always clashed with a critical or interesting news article, or a great tune from Planet Rock. Even over this journey through the FM frequency never needs changing. On other journeys to London though the DAB signal can vary in strength and so I plumped for this add-on magnetic external aerial.
And it's brilliant, absolutely brilliant. Not a single drop out in the village where I live (I drove around to test it out knowing where the old screen aerial would fail) and on every journey so far I have had uninterrupted DAB coverage. Where the signal strength bars would disappear before they now drop back to 2 bars at worst on the Highway signal indicator. It's easy to fit, and easy to remove from the vehicle, and at speeds of up to 80 it stays on the roof, even during rain, with no apparent issue. Having said that there was a little more wind whistle at the higher speeds which may because of the aerial or the small breach the cable causes in the door seal. A small price to pay because you can always drown the additional noise out with some decent Planet Rock tracks!!!!
Hopefully Pure will see the advantage of this over the rather fragile screen aerial (can be ruined by someone clearing the screen or interfered with by windscreen wipers motion) and will offer this as a choice or as the default. If offered as a choice or as the default then this would make the Highway a 5 star product.
I regularly travel 46 miles to work each day and back (yep that's 92 miles a day) and the journey takes me through rural countryside, towns and along major highways. Throughout this journey the Highway performs well apart from 2 areas where the poor signal meant a complete drop out on any radio station. Each of these drop outs is about 30 seconds but invariably always clashed with a critical or interesting news article, or a great tune from Planet Rock. Even over this journey through the FM frequency never needs changing. On other journeys to London though the DAB signal can vary in strength and so I plumped for this add-on magnetic external aerial.
And it's brilliant, absolutely brilliant. Not a single drop out in the village where I live (I drove around to test it out knowing where the old screen aerial would fail) and on every journey so far I have had uninterrupted DAB coverage. Where the signal strength bars would disappear before they now drop back to 2 bars at worst on the Highway signal indicator. It's easy to fit, and easy to remove from the vehicle, and at speeds of up to 80 it stays on the roof, even during rain, with no apparent issue. Having said that there was a little more wind whistle at the higher speeds which may because of the aerial or the small breach the cable causes in the door seal. A small price to pay because you can always drown the additional noise out with some decent Planet Rock tracks!!!!
Hopefully Pure will see the advantage of this over the rather fragile screen aerial (can be ruined by someone clearing the screen or interfered with by windscreen wipers motion) and will offer this as a choice or as the default. If offered as a choice or as the default then this would make the Highway a 5 star product.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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It arrived, I plonked it on the roof, plugged it in and it worked. I've never seen the signal go all the way up the scale before with the old stick-on aerial. With this it hardly drops below the top spot. The old one stopped working when I changed car and tried to re-affix it. If you're thinking of buying another stick-on one for that purpose, don't bother, this is better - though I haven't tried it at speed yet to see how reliable it is at remaining in place. It would be good to have a slightly longer cable but not as much as the 4 metre alternative - another 2ft would suffice.
32 of 33 people found the following review helpful
Having tried the Pure Highway extensively across a supposedly good area of reception, I concluded it was rubbish. I had the supplied windscreen aerial mounted on a motorcycle windscreen so it wasn't a heated windscreen or anything getting in the way. The stick on aerial is just rubbish. I bought this aerial and suddenly the Highway makes sense. The difference is amazing. The signal now only rarely drops out (under bridges for example) and the aerial magnet keeps hold right the way up to the top of the legal speed range. This aerial has 2m of cable which I found OK on a bike, but I can see if you had certain cars you might want to choose the alternative one from eBay which is cheaper and has a longer cable.
Bottom line - the Pure Highway is a waste of time without this aerial.
Bottom line - the Pure Highway is a waste of time without this aerial.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Aerial Falls off when the base get rusty!
The product works great when new. However after a couple of months (4 it was a Christmas present with the radio) the base gets rusty and then the aerial falls over at speeds... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Graham
Worth the money
An internal aerial didn't work - some stations were unlistenable. This put it right. The product itself may be a recon, but you'd never know!
Published 1 month ago by MW9
Doesn't work for all cars
Much improved reception which is definitely a bonus BUT......the lead isn't long enough to reach the set (Pure please tell me you sell an extension) and, although it works fine in... Read more
Published 1 month ago by skier54
DAB Ariel
I bought the Pure Highway DAB unit and installed in my car. The unit works perfectly after a new power cable was installed as the original was faulty. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Doug
Essential Upgrade
Bought one of these for my Pure Highway receiver.
This aerial provides a huge improvement in reception over the stick-on device they supply as standard. Read more
This aerial provides a huge improvement in reception over the stick-on device they supply as standard. Read more
Published 2 months ago by H. Dellow
External aerial
If you have purchased a Pure DAB for your car,. you will need this aerial to receive all the stations it can offer, without it your lost, the base has A GOOD MAGNET TO SECURE IT TO... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Anthony W. Harmer
easy fit arial
Comes ready to plug in and magnetises to the roof, wing or any metal surface - it certainly boosted reception on my Pure in car digi radio but still not enough for me to get... Read more
Published 4 months ago by idlee
ESSENTIAL
Dont bother with the stick on ariel, even in a good reception area, its rubbish.
I use the ariel, and use it inside the car, not outside, it works a treat. Read more
I use the ariel, and use it inside the car, not outside, it works a treat. Read more
Published 5 months ago by garyash872
Pure Highway aerial
This had to be returned, because i had bought the wrong equipment, but I am sure it would have done a good job, judging by my Pure DAB radio.
Published 6 months ago by Mrs. S. A. Charlewood
Great aerial, ridiculously short lead
Bought this after having my Pure Highway radio sitting around the house for two years because I had given up on using it as the signal was so poor. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Neil Russell-Bates
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