Name me a good new radio for tractor

[Tomr10]

Blaufukked are good , DAB is surprisingly shite , except when the cricket is on

I'm a radio 5 fan for football why it's not on fm I dont know

 

[JDJ]

I have Blaupunkt Barcelona radio's in both my 6939, 7530 and 7920 they are fitted with a long flexible microphone.
Work well both, hands free phone, radio and Bluetooth streaming music.

Better than most i had previously.

 

[Ormond]

Alpine ute-92bt......£100.....put one in the tractor....bluetooth works very well...separate mic....good rotary volume control... would buy again

 

[holywell farmer]

Most modern tractor terminals have radio in them I think

 

[Richard Smyth]

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I assume they are available over there too. Very good unit. Bluetooth is excellent on it, the noise cancellation works perfect even on noisy old tractors and land cruiser Utes.

 

[shumungus]

ALPINE CDE-205DAB
Got rid of the Sonys, power hungry troublesome little things. Fitted a JVC, good radio but could never get to the DAB Station I wanted so it went too. Alpine seem to have a good tuner and easily navigated menu and are robust, Blue tooth handsfree comes with separate microphone. Currently have 6 of these fitted and none gave any bother. If you Google it or look on the website there is a version without the CD player, think it only takes up half the room too.

 

[Qman]

Thought that Blaupunkt made some good radios back then, what about the new ones ?

Blaupunkt are the ones to get for a tractor as they are more robust than other makes. I'm getting myself this one for Christmas for my Defender...https://www.autosound.co.uk/blaupunkt/single-din-radios/skagen-370-dab-bt-car-radio/

I've got Blaupunkts in my combine and in one tractor, the other tractor has got an Alpine and it is far too fiddly when you are on the move.

Skagen 370 DAB BT

BLAUPUNKT

www.blaupunkt.com

 

[ollie989898]

Get a bluetooth one, connect it to your phone with Amazon Music on it.

Forget radio, it's pants.

 

[Lazy Sod]

I'm a radio 5 fan for football why it's not on fm I dont know

Not everybody is interested in football. Radio 5 would be good without the sport. Radio 2 would be better without the music.

 

[Tomr10]

Obviously but why be on a bandwidth that is so poor to get reception on

 

[Chae1]

Get a bluetooth one, connect it to your phone with Amazon Music on it.

Forget radio, it's pants.

Does it not burn a lot of data streaming music through your phone?

 

[Richard98]

+1 for blaupunkt, got 3 here and soon to be 4. They’re nice and simple, no stupid multi coloured displays and just work well. They Also keep their memory if you disconnect the battery or have an isolator without a live feed to the radio which is handy. New tractor last year came with a Sony and it’s utterly hopeless

 

[Farmer Fin]

Does it not burn a lot of data streaming music through your phone?

You can download it to your phone and then use it in offline mode. Works well, I do it a lot.

 

[bobk]

Does it not burn a lot of data streaming music through your phone?

Streaming music uses very little data compared to video . I listen to local radio on my laptop in france , uses about 3 gb a week

 

[ollie989898]

Does it not burn a lot of data streaming music through your phone?

It would if you did it all through 3G but the beauty is you can download music to your phone via wifi at home.

 

[vantage]

Radio 2 would be better without Jeremy Whine!

 

[ColinV6]

Remember the radio is only half the battle, you’ll need decent speakers for any noticeable difference.

Have to say, the set-up that came in our New Holland is excellent, brilliant sound quality and the Bluetooth hands free is better than most cars I’ve heard.

 

[Cowabunga]

I think they stopped doing that in the late 90s

No they didn't. I fitted a new one in my then new tractor in 2009 and it does an amusing bleeping when the ignition is switched off.
Very good radio actually. No DAB or optical disk [CD, remember those?] but has got USB SD and a great remote control which is stuck conveniently by the spool valve levers. It was bought from Halfords at one of their genuine bank holiday sales. Not sure whether I paid more than £35 for it actually. The best radio in any of my tractors by a long shot and I paid over £100 for one of them that turned out to be nothing special and way inferior to the Sony.

 

[fermerboy]

We've kind of ended up with mostly Pioneer here nowadays. Cant really fault them for the money, good sound and hold signal well. No experience of the handsfree phone ones.
Buy a Mech Free one which has no moving parts eg CD, usually they are shorter so more room in the dash for wires behind the unit.
USB port is a must for me, stick in a pen drive with music on it, phones bluetoothing music to a unit usually sound tinny and thin.
Round here Dab is hit and miss but factor in a good few quid for a good quality Dab antenna, tried the cheap one that sticks on the window and bloody useless.

 

[Farmer_Joe]

https://www.halfords.com/technology/car-audio/car-stereos/pioneer-mvh-s110ub-car-stereo

got one of these in field dihatsu works well and does all i need happy for the price you cant go wrong for £35