Summary
DISCONTINUED AND REPLACED BY FM RADCAP PCI
The Radcap FM is a radio capture card designed for simultaneous recording of multiple radio stations. The frequency of each individual station may be set in software and its audio appears as a standard Windows audio input device.
The card uses four 6-channel digital-down-converter chips, each incorporating an on-chip A/D converter that digitises the entire FM band and digital filtering to extract each channel. A lower cost 6-channel version of the card, using only a single digital-down-converter is also available.
A WDM driver for Windows 2000, Windows XP, Server 2003, Vista, Server 2008, Windows 7, Server 2008-R2, Windows 8 and Server 2012 is supplied as well as software for setting the tuner frequencies and monitoring the received audio. The advanced driver software uses the processor’s SSE multimedia instruction set to demodulate each channel and perform the stereo decoding.
RDS decoding is supported in the latest driver and API.
Application
Technical Specification
Technical Specification
System Requirments
Paltform:
Windows 2000, Windows XP, Server 2003, Vista, Server 2008, Windows 7, Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, Server 2012 (32-bit and 64-bit versions)
Processor:
2.5GHz Pentium 4 or better
Memory:
256 MB minimum
Other:
Sound card or motherboard sound port for monitoring
Specifications
Tuning range:
87.5MHz to 108.5MHz in 50kHz steps
Sensitivity:
10uV for 40dB S/N
RF input impedance:
75ohms
De-emphasis:
Configurable as 50us or 75us
Audio distortion:
<0.01%
Audio sampling rate:
48kHz (all other rates automatically supported via Windows sampling rate converter)
Number of stations:
24 Stereo stations
RDS decoding:
Optionally enabled in driver configuration
Dimensions:
175mm length, 100mm height
Voltages:
3.3V and 5V systems