Pure BUG User Manual

Bug Keeping

A practical guide for new owners

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.
PURE Digital supports the music industry and the right of musicians to benefit from their copyrighted material.

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
into any human or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, manual or otherwise, or disclosed to third parties without the express written permission of
Imagination Technologies Limited.

Disclaimer

Imagination Technologies Limited makes no representation or warranties with respect to the content of this document and specifically disclaims any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness
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, PURE, the PURE logo, PURE Digital, the PURE Digital logo, Imagination Technologies, and the Imagination Technologies logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Imagination Technologies Limited. 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 2 April 2004

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Contents

Bug Keeping............................................................................................................................1

Evolution...................................................................................................................................5

The Bug........................................................................................................................................................6

A Concise History of Radio....................................................................................................................6

DAB................................................................................................................................................................7

Meet The Bug.........................................................................................................................9

Full Frontal.................................................................................................................................................10

Rear end....................................................................................................................................................11

Turn on, tune in, bug out.....................................................................................................................12

Bug Behaviour......................................................................................................................13

Listening to DAB.....................................................................................................................................14

Setting alarms and timers....................................................................................................................21

Using an SD card....................................................................................................................................24

Changing audio settings.......................................................................................................................27

Display backlight options....................................................................................................................28

General setup options..........................................................................................................................28

Looking after your Bug.....................................................................................................29

Solving problems....................................................................................................................................30

Warranty information............................................................................................................................31

Providing for your Bug........................................................................................................................31

Vital Statistics.........................................................................................................................33

Specifi cations............................................................................................................................................34

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Evolution

The story behind The Bug and DAB digital radio

by Wayne Hemingway

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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 Digital - 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

The Bug... ooooh, aaah

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 existing

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

Mr Marconi - this radio’ll never take off

But then came DAB - Digital Audio Broadcasting.

on Radio 1 making a daft record about CB’ers.

EVOKE-1... boxy but good

Caroline goe

s 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.

Fish...useless for music, news and sports results

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

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

I love a party

knob twiddling but take it from us, scrolling is the new knob twiddling.

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Meet The Bug

Introducing your Bug and getting started

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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. Press
the centre to
select or switch on
and hold down to
switch to standby

Cool blue

LCD display

Record

Records
radio to
SD card

Twin

speakers

ReVu/Snooze

Press to pause
radio, hold to
enter ReVu
mode or press
to snooze when
alarm is going off

Volume
level

Station
name

Autotune

Finds all DAB
stations in
your area

Alarm
set

Timer
set

Clock

Eq

setting

07:45

1Xtra! - ! BBC

log! on! for! more

Scrolling text

or other info

Signal

strength

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Rear end

Flexible

neck

9V DC power

socket

SD card
slot

USB port

Digital
out

Telescopic

DAB

aerial

3.5mm

analogue

out

3.5mm

headphone

socket

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