Can anyone recommend a decent RDS module?

[MiXiN]

I'm looking for a reasonably decent RDS module, preferably off eBay or from some UK outlet.

Can anyone suggest anything for a maximum budget of around £40?

[Maximus]

I think the pcbwizard boards on eBay are meant to be alright.




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[UKNECKS]

http://www.hf-electronics.nl/Webwinkel- ... t-RDS.html

[NOYB]

I don't have direct experience, but I've been advised by someone I trust that the Pira ones are fine (priced from £23)

http://www.pira.cz/shop/

[s2000]

There has been some bad reports of the wizard rds stuff on here, personally I would try the enigma rds...

http://enigma-shop.com/index.php?option ... der-module

[sharky]

I don't have direct experience, but I've been advised by someone I trust that the Pira ones are fine (priced from £23)

http://www.pira.cz/shop/

I think the small ones are out of stock at the moment for about 2 months...
The other one is going for about 96 Euros. Ebay might be your best bet.
Although the PCB is available.... You could always have ago at building it yourself?!

[NOYB]

Whatever you buy I strongly advise you to buy one that locks to your pilot. Some are just free-running 57khz oscillators - although they may display station name in ideal situation they don't play nicely with all radios.

[shuffy]

Agreed. Get one with Pira's PIC in it. Never had a problem, and it locks to your pilot fine.

[pjeva]

It is best practice to regenerate / lock 57kHz to pilot tone of stereo coder. That way, both will be in phase and will cause less (or none) choped audio. Also, i don't feel good about this 100€ DSP solutions. Good and well filtered DSP will cost more than that. And for that money, you can build very nice analog encoder.


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[shorty]

I'd go for this one from ebay that you can sync to your stereo encoder pilot tone.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ADVANCED-RDS- ... SwEgVWTgxQ

[Maximus]

I'd go for this one from ebay that you can sync to your stereo encoder pilot tone.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ADVANCED-RDS- ... SwEgVWTgxQ

That was the one I was thinking of with the mrds IC.


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[RF-Head]

Go for this one

http://enigma-shop.com/index.php?option ... der-module

[Analyser]

Go for this one

http://enigma-shop.com/index.php?option ... der-module

Agreed. About the nicest you can get for the money.

[MiXiN]

Nice one necks..

I've bought from Enigma shop before, and as he's an helpful and honest guy I'll buy that RDS module from him.

On a different note - RFHead, are you ready to sell me one of those Driver boards yet? I've been waiting for about a Month now. Lol.

[KatRuud]

I also have a few RDS boards with the Pira32 or Pira MRDS1322 chip for sale.
http://www.katruud.nl/katruud_site/pric ... d_pcb.html

[rigmo]

https://www.ebay.com/usr/pcbwizard

[rigmo]

http://www.hf-electronics.nl/Webwinkel- ... t-RDS.html

Do anyone have project of this ? dsp with RDS?

[LeeCavanagh]

Why does it say on the enigma RDS page that it’s not for sale in the UK?

[TGillies]

Airomate 2 has always worked wonders for me. no hardware required, runs through your soundcard

[reverend]

Or try using Stereotool (https://www.stereotool.com/) which will do compressing, stereocoding and RDS in one go. Recently got this working with a fairly cheap Terratec sound card (https://amzn.to/3h6AIvP) which for £70 does 192 kHz sampling and seems to have a reasonably flat frequency response.

Apparently you can get this running on a Raspberry Pi, though I've not had a go at this and I guess some of the more processor intensive functions might not work properly.

Rev