USB FM RDS Solution with sofware - Page 13

SUNAJ · 02-19-2007, 12:49 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Frankino

how's the reception while moving?

Not installed in car yed, but movind arround indside it,s working fine

Frankino · 02-19-2007, 01:21 PM

it makes an HUGE differency while driving, it has to compensate for small frequency change and so on.. I'll wait to buy as soon as someone gives us a good WHILE MOOVING review.. by the way, any place to buy it in europe? thanks

portreathbeach · 02-19-2007, 03:18 PM

SmoL, you asked if I had tried to manually set the frequency. When I do this, the radio station doesn't sound clear. The radio is definately 0.1Mhz different from any other radio, eg. Car, house, friends etc.

Frankino, you asked where in Europe to buy this Radio, as posted earlier:

http://www.azzurri.com/store/product...fmradio-rd.htm

They are £17 and £6 postage. Oh.....Then bloody VAT at 17.5%

Ends up £27.03

Madmac · 02-19-2007, 04:08 PM

Also having problem with other USB devices causing the audio to break up. As I have the radio stick next to the PC card I have hardwired the audio to the aux in connector.

Remove R2 and R3 (this stops audio being sent down the USB link until I lose the
USB audio driver) and connect two 100nF caps to the resistor pads that connect to pins 1 and 7 on U4. By using surface mount caps stood on end it is fairly easy to solder to. I also replaced R4 and R10 with 22k to get a
larger signal.

With external aerial reception is good when signal is average to good but does
not perform as well as a good quality HU when signal is weak. Still seems to be the best solution for the moment.

Silabs have new device out doing AM as well ..... only info is a press release on their site.

MadMac

Frankino · 02-19-2007, 06:38 PM

no european shops has it in stock? to avoid VAT..

SmoL · 02-20-2007, 04:44 AM

u can find the silabs program on the silabs web site, just search in good silabs usb fm radio and click the silabs link

SmoL · 02-20-2007, 04:45 AM

hey franko, 0.1 mhz is normal here in australia, did you set your region correctly??

Iceman_jkh · 02-20-2007, 05:11 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by crispyrabbi

I thought maybe the fault is in my carpc setup so I tried to launch radiator in a stationary computer but it wouldnt even start. I get som Eaccess error so I cant even start radiator.
The silabs original program works fine. I figure radiator must be some extremely buggy program. Or am I missing some crucial install? Some codecs that have to be installed or something else?
I thought the only installs where the radiator package and the dll file.

Are there any alternatives to radiator if I want to use silab in RR?

I have a similar issue with radiator. It hangs when using the usbradio.dll file. I dont think its radiator or RR - because they work for other people. Additionally, radiator + USB radio.dll work on my home PC with this USB device.

I am running TinyXP Rev5 on the CarPC - perhaps thats to blame - and normal XP on the home machine.. I dont honestly know. But yes, its *****ing me off too.

I'll see what happens when I reformat later in the year.

dalemurphy · 02-26-2007, 12:51 AM

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/skusearch...=done&nextloc=

can someone direct me to what is wrong with a card like this. There are many others that are pci as well. Are they all crap?
If this is answere somewhere please refere me
thanks

crispyrabbi · 03-03-2007, 08:03 AM

After hours of hard work the Radiator now works on both my stationary and carpc but I can still just use it once. On the stationary I had to unplug another usbsoundcard.
As soon as I start changing frequency and turns of the program on any other frequency then 87.00 it wont work again.
Then I have to delete the radiator.ini or change the saved last frequency to 87.00 to make it work again.
The original silabprogram works perferctly and has far faster tuning so if I just could make that integrated in the freedomskin I would abandon the radiator in a split second.

SmoL · 03-03-2007, 07:04 PM

you should be able to integraate it easily as the source is provided for the silabs software so you already know exactly what needs to be passed to the pic to get things working

jjnit · 03-06-2007, 01:25 PM

Well after seeing some posts in here I finally went to mouser and got one - they've got plenty (44) in stock.

Am planning to solder directly to the stock antenna as described by others and will post back with results in my (moving) truck

lostreception · 03-06-2007, 02:27 PM

i got one lke a week ago a tried it stock no antennae and it wasnt very good ill have to try an ext antennae just for the hell of it
also has anyone tried those old school antennae bosters they make for gm cars that ground the entire car as an antenae they usually plug into the cig lighter and claim to amplify the signal

gianler · 03-08-2007, 10:09 AM

Dears

any news on RDS functionality with Radiator?

Thank you

crispyrabbi · 03-08-2007, 02:54 PM

Now radiator works!

Had to copywrite the radiator.ini so that the program cannot save the last frequency and trie to start on that one. Now it only starts on 87.00 and works everytime.
Next problem is to make it work with RR and CDrskulls freedomskin.