Analogue to Digital TV in 2002 S8

[HPsauce]

Mission accomplished.

Good job that I test thoroughly at every stage though. Just before I was ready to put the knee panel back I found that the reversing camera wasn't working.
A bit of logic and observation led me to suspect the power supply to the radio link receiver and indeed there was a poor connection there in the 12v lead. Easy to fix at that stage but not soon after as the wiring was about to be certoflexed and buried!

Then I found one of my TV aerials had been dislodged, messing up reception. The hot weather had softened the adhesive holding it to the window glass. I can live with that problem for now.

DVB-T works fine, radio and TV and the reversing camera is fine too. Video-in-motion controlled by an OEM-style switch in the blanking plate position on the lower right dash. XCarlink fully functional including Bluetooth to my iPhone for calls and music and the CD changer is still operational too. Microphone for phone calls installed in what I think is the OEM position near the reading light switches. XCarlink unit is in the drivers knee cubby so that I can swap SD cards and plug in USB storage and mini-jack audio inputs if necessary.

Magic eye for the TV remote is at the bottom left of the instrument cluster, on top of the rectangular blanking panel that covers one of the fixing screws. See attached picture which also shows the TV working with BoJo on the BBC news!
(Also shows my radio controlled clock is working well and a piece of Velcro that is now superfluous and needs removing )

[HPsauce]

I still need to sort out the drivers cubby a bit, some wiring isn't secured adequately.

On the plus side I incredibly got Channel 4 TV reception while driving down the A413 near Whitchurch (North of Aylesbury) while tuned to Crystal Palace 60 miles away! Lost it as I dropped into Aylesbury Vale with the Chiltern Hills in the way.

And having VIM on doesn't seem to affect the SatNav operation in the slightest, apart from video input overriding the SatNav display on the RNS-D.

[HPsauce]

Excellent reception (after retuning) sitting at ADI in Castle Combe, watched a fair bit of F1 coverage from Singapore - Practice 3 was on in the morning.

Even got Neil's approval (almost) for the unobtrusive location of my twin diversity aerials in the rear quarter light windows.

For reference this is (or is very similar to) the unit and aerials I bought: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/180857925423

[HPsauce]

Originally Posted by HPsauce

Excellent reception

Today I was working inside the car (on the lumbar pads, but that's another story) and put the radio on. I did switch between DAB and FM and one thing that was then very noticeable was the total lack of background hiss on DAB. I was listening to Radio 4 on both.

I guess when you're driving you wouldn't notice it on FM due to assorted background noises, but with the ignition off the difference was quite surprising.