Pure Highway Magmount Antenna
Posted by Notcot on May 19, 2010 in In-Car Technology |
Product Description
Magnetic aerial for Pure Highway
- Upgrade you DAB reception
- Magnetic mount
- Easy to install
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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.
Rating: 4 / 5
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.
Rating: 5 / 5
I got this because the windscreen aerial that came with my radio will soon disappear when the cracked windscreen is replaced. I found it worked perfectly and performed exactly as specified.
Rating: 5 / 5
… but whatever you call it, the, er, device is very neat and does its job perfectly: so much so, that it sat on the passenger seat on a trip from West Yorkshire to Brum and gave perfect reception all the way home. Well, yes, it did have to be connected to the radio, for heaven’s sake, but come on… Well worth having – particularly in view of some of the reviews that have been posted about the “sticky” antenna/ aerial provided with the radio. I took careful note of these, and we have just used the Magmount. Excellent. Highly recommended.
Rating: 5 / 5
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.
Rating: 5 / 5