Modified Lobby Headphones.

[Press-E-Dent]

Hi,



Dunno if anyone is interested but I now have DAB Radio plus ANY selection of music that i choose BLASTING out of my home stereo.



Finally got round to cutting off the ear buds from the supplied headset and replacing them with Phono plugs. Now I can plug Lobby into anything.



I, incidentally, was lucky enough to get a really worn set of headphones with my lobby and complained to Virgin & got a spare set. :)

[sipart]

It's a 5 pole plug so I presume one of them is the DAB aerial, when you stripped cable was their 5 wires?

Does your cable now work fine as a aerial (I presume so)? If so how did you break that out?

Do you live in a area that has a good DAB signal.

Any pics of cable?

Cheers - sorry for all the questions!

[Press-E-Dent]

Hi.

I simply nipped the two ear buds off leaving all the connections in place on the plug so the arial didn't get disturbed.

when you carefully strip the cable you need to separate the sets of wires. they are NOT plastic sleeved, but they separate quite easily. Then set fire to the ends of them and let them burn back for 40mm or so. this will expose the copper ready for soldering. Note the common colour goes to the earth and the other colour goes to the centre of phono plug.

I have no idea which is left or right but someone on here will know I'm sure.
(I just guessed)

My area isnt good for Dab anything.

gave up on the TV bit ages ago.

[gameon]

If you look at the back of phone there is a removable plug for an external antenna which leaves the front socket for phono lead.

[g_attrill]

If you look at the back of phone there is a removable plug for an external antenna which leaves the front socket for phono lead.

As far as I know this is the GSM antenna socket, not the DAB radio antenna.

[gameon]

Typical, I will stop looking for a connector then!