Radio in a Coaster Ideas

Murraman · Senior Member

Radio in a Coaster Ideas

kiwijims · Guru

Howdy Alan,

when I had a Coaster ( 77 mod ) I had two large speakers mounted high up in the over-head rear shelf, also another two on each side of the front passenger compartment above the doors, there was a new radio/C.D./ mp3 player fitted into the dash, in easy reach of the driver and passenger,

Our 1977 Toyota Coaster 105 (Medium).jpg

Our 1977 Toyota Coaster 104 (Medium).jpg

K.J.

WAssa41 · Senior Member

You can get an App for your phone which allows you to connect to the almost any station in Aus and have it come through your radio. You will also need a connecting cable from your phone to the radio about $6.50 at Jaycar. As long as you have phone reception you have perfect radio.

Wassa

george57 · Senior Member

G'day Wassa

Sounds like the way to go, whats the name of the app.

Thanks

SnowT · Guru

might be an issue as I'm pretty sure it is a streaming radio. which is DATA usage...

It's good if your not being charged for it...

juergen

patrolst · Senior Member

Try alpine single din radio has bluetooth connectivity / ipod/cd player/usb input and headphone jack, try the new radio with the existing speakers and see what the sound is like, the blue tooth also has phone book search. The phone book search facility will depend on the type of phone you have.

WAssa41 · Senior Member

Its called Radio Australia. I use Aldi Mobile which uses Telstra G3 and is VERY cheap.

Wassa

Cruising Cruze · Guru

I use internet radio all the time ( but that is easy as I have unlimited download )

http://www.sunshinefm.com.au/listen-live.html

http://www.smoothfm.com.au/station/smooth915

Here is a link to how much data you will use while listening to internet radio on a PHONE

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/winphone/forum/wp8-wpnetwork/how-much-data-does-internet-radio-uses/9a864217-53af-479f-8944-e8fcc2685a89

Cheers John

-- Edited by Cruising Cruze on Friday 26th of December 2014 10:51:04 AM

Cruising Cruze · Guru

Here is a other good explanation

http://hypebot.com/hypebot/2013/08/how-much-of-your-broadband-allowance-does-internet-radio-consume.html

Murraman · Senior Member

Patrolst I'll look into that Alpine unit as it has what I want/need Cheers Allan

-- Edited by Murraman on Sunday 28th of December 2014 08:15:06 PM

Murraman · Senior Member

Nice fitout, Looks neat. Speakers on ours will probably have to go in the drivers door, Passenger panel. Thanks for the photos. Cheers Allan

kiwijims wrote:
Howdy Alan,
when I had a Coaster ( 77 mod ) I had two large speakers mounted high up in the over-head rear shelf, also another two on each side of the front passenger compartment above the doors, there was a new radio/C.D./ mp3 player fitted into the dash, in easy reach of the driver and passenger,

K.J.

in transit · Senior Member

If you are going for the conventional in-dash radio, and you intend to buy a quality unit (as you should), then make sure you have a quality antenna too. Some of the original equipment antennas are pretty ordinary. Both the radio and the antenna need to be good. Unfortunately that also means that you will probably have to pay more.
Good luck.

Santa · Guru

Morning Allan,

Have just been down the same path, over the past couple of years have gone from the Transit (Ford) radio, rubbish reception, tried two portables, some improvement, however lousy sound quality.

Just before Christmas I bit the bullet and had a Kenwood KDC X700BT http://www.ryda.com.au/Kenwood-KDC-X700BT-CD-USB-Player-with-Bluetooth-p/kdcx700bt.htm radio installed with an exterior antenna, a very good unit with excellent AM and FM reception, have been using it in the bush with good results.

Also a CD player, has a remote and a USB port so you can play music from a USB memory stick.

The only down side is like all modern radio's, it's not as simple to tune as the older dial type tuners, however a little time reading the manual takes care of that.

I'm sure there are others equally as good, however this does everything we need. smile

-- Edited by Santa on Tuesday 30th of December 2014 07:46:45 AM