Imagination Technologies The Bug User manual
Apracticalguidefornewowners
Bug Keeping
Apracticalguidefornewowners
by PURE
Copyright
Copyright 2004 by Imagination Technologies Limited. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be copied or distributed, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated
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Imagination Technologies Limited.
Disclaimer
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for any particular purpose. Further, Imagination Technologies Limited reserves the right to revise this publication and to make changes in it from time to time without obligation of Imagination
Technologies Limited to notify any person or organization of such revisions or changes.
Trademarks
The Bug, The Bug logo, ReVu, the ReVu logo, PURE, the PURE logo, PURE Digital, Imagination Technologies, and the Imagination Technologies logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Imagination Technologies Limited. SD logo is a trademark. All other product names are trademarks of their respective companies.
Credits
This manual was written by Bruce Murray. It is a product of PURE Digital, Imagination Technologies Ltd., Imagination House, Home Park Estate, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire WD4 8LZ, UK.
Kind thanks to The Cradle of Aviation Museum, Garden City, N.Y. for permission to use the image of Mr Marconi flying his kite.
Issue 4 August 2004
Safety instructions
Keep the Bug away from heat sources.
Do not use the Bug near water.
Avoid objects or liquids getting into the Bug.
Do not remove screws from or open the Bug casing.
Unplug the power adapter from the wall if the Bug will not be used for a long period.
Recording music
PURE Digital does not endorse music 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. PURE Digital supports the music industry and the right of musicians to benefit from their copyrighted
material.
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Contents
Evolution...................................................................................................................................3
The Bug........................................................................................................................................................4
A Concise History of Radio....................................................................................................................4
DAB................................................................................................................................................................5
Meet The Bug..........................................................................................................................7
Full Frontal...................................................................................................................................................8
Rear end......................................................................................................................................................9
Turn on, tune in, bug out.....................................................................................................................10
Bug Behaviour......................................................................................................................11
Listening to DAB.....................................................................................................................................12
Setting alarms and timers....................................................................................................................19
Using an SD card....................................................................................................................................22
Changing audio settings.......................................................................................................................25
Display backlight options....................................................................................................................26
General setup options..........................................................................................................................26
Looking after your Bug.....................................................................................................27
Solving problems....................................................................................................................................28
Providing for your Bug........................................................................................................................29
Vital Statistics.........................................................................................................................31
Specifications............................................................................................................................................32
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Evolution
ThestorybehindTheBugand DABdigitalradio
byWayneHemingway
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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 - the pioneers
of DAB Digital Radio behind the successful EVOKE-1.
The Bug may look cool on your coffee table but it also performs (as you would
expect from men in white coats who have stroked their pointy beards over this ‘til their chins
were sore) and gives radio clarity and a choice of stations that will make you want to take your old FM/AM
units down to your local Cats Protection League charity shop.
A Concise History of Radio
Michael Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction in 1831, then his mate Alexander G Bell
came up with the telephone a year later. In the vintage year 1877, Thomas A Edison recorded the
first sound... it was “Mary had a little lamb” and it was a lot more pleasing to the ears than the
entire output of Pop Idol and Fame Academy.
In 1900 a bloke called Reginald Fessenden used his trusty spark
generator to send the human voice a mile, in 1901 Marconi flew his
kite and topped that with the first transatlantic radio transmission.
Morse code followed then not much happened apart from Radio
Caroline sinking in 1980 and someone called The Hairy Cornflake
on Radio 1 making a daft record about CB’ers.
But then came DAB - Digital Audio Broadcasting.
The Bug... ooooh, aaah
EVOKE-1...boxybutgood
Mr Marconi - this radio’ll never take off
Caroline goes down
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DAB
To a fisherman a Dab is a flounder
To a lover of northern British chip shops a Dab is a
large slice of potato dipped in batter and deep fried.
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.
FM and AM are analogue radio signals and it doesn’t take much to interfere with the signal, just
little things like mountains, bad weather and high rise buildings can ruin that moment when England win
the world cup. However, if you are sat listening to your Bug in South Shields and someone suddenly builds a
skyscraper, a tornado comes in off the North Sea and a volcano creates a mountain the size of Everest near the village
of Cleadon then listening to DJ TranceMaster mixing a Fat One in a dancehall stylee will be just like you are there
strutting your stuff in the disco.
Reception on your Bug remains crystal clear because DAB uses obstacles, i.e. the South Shields Erotic Gherkin Tower,
the Twister and the newly formed Geordie Alps as reflectors creating multipath reception conditions to optimise
receiver sensitivity. DAB automatically selects the strongest regional transmitter and gives you digital quality without
hiss, crackle and pop.
Furthermore DAB radios can carry text and soon pictures and even video on their displays. Imagine
lyrics being shown on the screen so you can sing along to all your favourite hits like Atmosphere by
Russ Abbot. All together now “Atmosphere, I love a party with...”
As well as music having digital quality, the spoken word comes over as clear as a bell. The huge
variety of radio stations available on your DAB set are identified by the station’s name. You don’t
have to remember any big numbers with a decimal point. The name of the station appears on the
knob twiddling but take it from us, scrolling is the new knob twiddling.
Fish...useless for music, news and sports results
I loveaparty
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Meet The Bug
IntroducingyourBugandgettingstarted
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1Xtra-BBC
logonformore
07:45
Full Frontal
Cool blue
LCD display
Twin
speakers
Menu
Enters and
exits option
menus
ReVu/Snooze
Press to pause
radio, hold to
enter ReVu
mode or press
to snooze when
alarm is going off
Navigator
Rock left and
right for volume,
up and down for
navigation. Press
the centre to
select or switch on
and hold down to
switch to standby
6 shortcut buttons
Quick access to
presets or controls Volume
level
Alarm
set
Timer
set
Clock Eq
setting Signal
strength
Station
name Scrolling text
or other info
Info
Changes info
shown on
screen
Autotune
Finds all DAB
stations in
your area
Record
Records
radio to
SD card
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