Bug Keeping A practical guide for new owners by PURE Digital
Safety instructions Keep the radio away from heat sources. Do not use the radio near water. Avoid objects or liquids getting into the radio. Do not remove screws from or open the radio casing. Recording music PURE Digital does not endorse piracy. The record features on the Bug are provided to allow you to listen to radio at a time convenient to you and are not intended to enable proliferation of illegal copies of copyrighted music.
Contents Bug Keeping............................................................................................................................ 1 Evolution ................................................................................................................................... 5 The Bug........................................................................................................................................................ 6 A Concise History of Radio.................................
Evolution The story behind The Bug and DAB digital radio by Wayne Hemingway 5
The Bug The Bug is one seriously cool collaboration between hEMINGWAYdESIGN - the founders of award winning label Red or Dead and acclaimed designers of all things affordable from wallpapers through to housing estates, and PURE Digital - the pioneers of DAB Digital Radio behind the successful EVOKE-1. EVOK E-1...
DAB To a fisherman a Dab is a flounder lts rts for ess sel si mu u res To you, the purchaser of this fine piece of design technology DAB is Digital Audio Broadcasting. Listening to the radio whilst holding your rod and eating fried potato will never be the same again. po ds n sa ew c, n To a lover of northern British chip shops a Dab is a large slice of potato dipped in batter and deep fried.
Meet The Bug Introducing your Bug and getting started 9
Full Frontal 6 shortcut buttons Quick access to presets or for making selections Menu Enters and exits option menus Info Changes info shown on screen Navigator Rock left and right for volume, up and down for navigation.
Rear end Flexible neck 9V DC power socket SD card slot 3.5mm headphone 3.
Turn on, tune in, bug out OK, so you know what all the bits are but you are just itching to get The Bug fired up right? Here’s how... Fully extend the aerial. Push the power cable into the power socket and the adapter into the mains. Select where you live, either UK or Rest of World, to start a search for all the digital radio stations available in your area. Once the search is complete you will hear the first station on the list now stored in the memory of your Bug.
Bug Behaviour Understanding your Bug and making it do what you want 13
Listening to DAB Born to be DAB. Listening to DAB is what your Bug was made for. This bit tells you how your Bug works when listening to DAB and what you can do with it. Changing stations Finding stations is much easier with DAB than with your old FM/AM set. When you first switch on your Bug it quickly finds all the DAB stations available in your area and puts them in a handy station list.
Changing what’s shown on screen Scrolling text Multiplex Clock Presets Show and Tell time. The Bug has 5 DAB info modes so you can change what you see on screen. Press the Info button and repeat to choose between the 5 info modes. Some of the modes have more than one option, shown by an arrow at the bottom right of the screen. Push the shortcut button next to the arrow to choose between the options for that mode (shown below with arrows). 1 Scrolling text Scrolling text broadcast by some stations.
Pausing and rewinding radio (ReVu mode) Hold it there, I want that track! The Bug includes a handy ReVu mode which lets you pause and rewind live radio. It works like this: The Bug constantly stores audio and text from the station you are tuned to in its memory. The amount stored depends on how long you have been listening to that station and the data rate of the broadcast.
Push the ReVu button again to start replaying the stored audio and text from the where you left off. The clock stops counting, showing that you are now listening that many minutes/second behind real time. You can listen in this way for as long as you like, or press the shortcut button next to fast forward to catch up to real time. To rewind radio I love that song!! I’ll just rewind back to the start and groove on down again.
Recording radio to a memory card That’s a keeper. Capture that special track and take it with you on a little bit of plastic. You can record radio* to an SD (Secure Digital) card which you put into the SD card slot in the rear of your Bug. The amount you can record depends on the size of your card and the quality of the audio being broadcast. See Using an SD card, on page 24, for more details of card types and how to play back recordings. Recording to SD card 1.
Active station Displays active stations at the top of the station list and inactive ones at the bottom, in alphanumeric order. Inactive stations are those on your station list but not currently available, marked with a ’?’. Multiplex Lists stations in groups according to their multiplex. Multiplexes are groups of stations owned and broadcast by a multiplex operator. Remove inactive stations Removes inactive stations from the station list.
Auto-select station Change the way you select stations using this option. This option is set to Off by default meaning when you scroll to a new station you have to press the navigation button to confirm the selection. If you set this option On, your Bug will automatically tune to the station you stop at rather than waiting for confirmation. DAB region Change the frequencies scanned when you press the Autotune button using this option. United Kingdom - the default setting - scans all UK frequencies.
Setting alarms and timers Set a sleep timer to lull you to sleep, alarms to wake you up and record timers for when you’re asleep. 24 hour radio. The Bug gets the date and time from the DAB signal. The clock is normally shown on the top line of the display but you can also set it to fill the whole screen, see page 15. The clock is set automatically for you the first time you switch your Bug on and receive DAB and is updated regularly to keep it accurate.
Cancelling alarms Alarm snoozed Alarm going off - options When an alarm goes off you have four options - turn over and ignore it or one of the following more sensible options: Snooze Push the Snooze button and you will snooze the alarm for the period set (the default is 8 minutes). The radio or tone will go quiet and you see ‘Snoozed’ on the screen if the backlight is on. The alarm will repeat when the snooze period has elapsed.
Setting a timed recording Your Mother’s in town but obviously you don’t want to miss ‘Thrash metal hour’. Set a timer and record* to SD card or your MiniDisc recorder and she need never know that you really don’t like the TV themes in Brass CD she got you last Christmas. You can set up to nine different timers. To set up a timed recording: 1. Press the Menu button, select the Alarm/timer option and choose Timed recording. 2.
Using an SD card Plastic fantastic - have postage-stamp-sized fun saving music to one of these little beauties. Stick an SD (Secure Digital) card in your Bug and you can use it for recording* and playing back digital radio or playing MP3/MP2 files recorded elsewhere. SD cards are available from PURE Digital and many other electronics retailers and are used in all sorts of devices, from digital cameras to mobile phones, and come in lots of different capacities.
Rock the navigator button up and down to flick through the list of tracks available on the SD card and push to select and start playing one.
Transferring files to your PC Want to expand your Bug’s music tastes or backup those golden soundbites? You can transfer files to and from the SD card using your PC. There are two main methods possible: Connecting the USB port on your Bug to a USB port on your PC On later versions of Windows when you connect your Bug to your PC using a suitable cable your PC should detect the Bug and install it as an external storage device giving it a drive letter (e.g.
Changing audio settings Whether you like banging bass, ear-splitting treble or something in between your Bug’s Audio options let you set it up to sound just how you like it. Push the Menu button, select Audio settings and choose from the following options. Equalisation To match your mood or your music apply one of six equalisation settings to the sound from your Bug.
Display backlight options Choose whether you want non-existent or Blackpool-illumination-style backlighting using these options. Push the Menu button, select Display options and choose from the following options. If you set these options to Off, any button press will switch on the backlight on for a few seconds to allow you to view what is on screen. Brightness Select the backlight brightness you want for when your Bug is switched on. Use the navigator to choose between the options.
Looking after your Bug Solving problems and providing for your Bug 29
Solving problems Your Bug should behave properly at all times, if it doesn’t do quite what you want check this list of common ailments and cures. If you still have problems with your Bug, either visit the support section of our website at www.thebug.com or contact us using the details on the back cover of this manual. My Bug’s not making any noise Make sure your Bug is plugged in and is switched on as explained on page 12. Check that the volume level is not set too low, see page 14.
Resetting your Bug If you want to remove all presets, stored stations and favourite station settings and reset all options to the defaults use this option. 1. Press and hold the Menu button for three seconds. You’ll see ‘Do you want to reset?’ on screen. 2. Press the ‘Yes’ shortcut button to confirm the reset or press ‘No’ or wait around ten seconds to cancel the reset. Warranty information Imagination Technologies Ltd.
Vital Statistics Techie facts and figures to impress your friends 33
Specifications Description Stereo digital radio with full Band III reception capability, for reception of all UK DAB broadcasts. Compliant with ETS 300 401 and capable of decoding all DAB transmission modes 1-4 up to and including 384 kbps Speakers Two 3 inch X 1.5 inch oval, 4 ohm impedance Frequency Range Band III (174 - 240 MHz), with fast autotune feature 34 Connectors RF F-connector 75 ohm for DAB aerial connection (telescopic aerial supplied). 9V DC power adapter socket. 3.
Please return your registration card to the following address or register online at www.thebug.com to validate your warranty. PURE Digital Imagination Technologies Ltd., Imagination House, Home Park Estate, Kings Langley, Herts., WD4 8LZ, UK sales@pure-digital.com support@pure-digital.com www.pure-digital.com www.thebug.
