Unidentified usb FM tuner

**Djole501** · 08-04-2009, 07:36 AM

Can somebody help me identify thisd FM tuner. I would like to know if somebody uses this tuner and if it's compatible with RR. Maybe it's SiLabs based ?

**Madboy** · 08-04-2009, 08:24 AM

Its PCear
yeh its based on silabs and works with rr

**Djole501** · 08-04-2009, 08:29 AM

Great news, i will get one right away. Very friendly price

Any experience with this tuner, does it work ok, any problems ?

**Madboy** · 08-04-2009, 08:36 AM

works ok in house but not in car ( like silabs )
i messed mine up trying to solder the car aerial
now im messing with brando's one - getting the same reception
hoping to get it as good as possible soon ( trying some different stuff like grounding etc.. )

don't get your hopes up reception wise..

**Djole501** · 08-04-2009, 08:40 AM

I will solder a antenna connector and connect a car arial, soldering isn't a problem.

@Madboy
Where are you from ? Maybe i can fix your broken SiLabs i am an electronics engeneer and I have been using a soldering ironf from my early youth

**Madboy** · 08-04-2009, 10:30 AM

im from israel , sending it back and forth would cost probably as much as buying a new one

soldering isn't a problem for me either
the problem was that after my soldering the ground hole and signal point was bridged
and in my attempts to unbridge it , it probably ruined the pcb
now i get almost no signal , and no effect when connecting an antenna
the funny thing that its still good for home use

from what i gathered using this and the brando one
signal is not the problem
in my house i get perfect recption even when its on 20 ( at the silabstest program )
in the car even at 40 i can't recieve something usable

the problem is grounding
i need to try connecting the grounding to different places ( some use the outer usb connector but it did no effect for me )

if it will work for you it would be great if you would contact me or something , cuz i really like to have reasonable fm reception without spending on hqct / hd

thanks

**Djole501** · 08-04-2009, 10:33 AM

I will get one this week and test it in the car, i will post my results here when ready.

**Djole501** · 08-10-2009, 04:11 AM

Got the receiver and tested with original antenna and an external one and the reception is not very good. Maybe it's my antenna. For now i will stick with AverTV usb wich has very good reception with included antenna.

**2k1Toaster** · 08-10-2009, 05:31 AM

Just a guess, but could it be the PLL is having problems locking because of all the noise in the car's power lines? Perhaps a power filter or just a battery would be able to get it more reasonable? Not too hard to try I suppose.

**sviyer** · 08-10-2009, 05:37 AM

Hi Djole501,

With which application ( I mean radio e.g. radiator ect.) are you using your avermedia stick, i got the same one, but radiator does not recognize it !