Thread: anyone in Europe get one of these?

I´m from Portugal, Europe, and ordered one boomzbox. HD Radio is not supported here. DAB is what is used for digital. The reception is good, much better than for example the Silabs radio. Even with only one wire as antenna works good.

The main disavantage, like I previous posted, is that it only tunes in 0.2 steps (odd frequencies). So in teory I can only tune 50% of the available radio statios... With import duties and shippment becomes a very expensive unit for european users and it´s even worse because it cannot tune all frequencies. Even though, reception wise is for the moment the best solution for me.

did you try a direct tune?
if you using RideRunner, do allowallfreq
and try direct tune to say 98.0, 98.1...

I'm from Singapore also facing the same problem.
I using CF2 I direct key in the frequency to what I want.
Example the radio station is 95.0 , the tuner show 94.9.
Anyone have any solution how to solve this problem.
Thank you

Yes, I´ve tried a direct tune with the bundled software and with the .NET project that is available in the mp3car forum, both didn´t work. I´ve tried also with centrafuse. If I try for example 98.2, it corrects to 98.3 or simply doesn´t leave the currently tuned frequency. I haven´t tried with roadrunner, but I supose it will have the same behaviour.

Its a pity because the tunner hardware chip is capable of tunning all frequencies. The firmware must be locked to only odd frequencies to be FCC (US) aproved, I think.

It would be great if the manufacter released some kind of update to unlock the tuner.

Vitor Chixaro

i can direct tune fine with the Directed HD radio.. the only restriction really is the tuneup and tunedown functions..ither than that it works OK in RR

Originally Posted by Nomader

i can direct tune fine with the Directed HD radio.. the only restriction really is the tuneup and tunedown functions..ither than that it works OK in RR

Yes, directed HD radio is able to tune all frequencies.
I´ve tested today the boomzbox with roadrunner and even with the "all frequencies" option on, it simply doesn´t accept even frequencies.

ok, sorry i didnt dp this before

i confirmed the BoomzBox HD Radio WILL NOT TUNE EVEN FREQUENCIES
PEROID

yes, its controlled by firmware...

that is too bad for us Europeans..