CPCRadio module

[Neurox66]

Hi,
I found this item on Ebay:

https://www.ebay.it/itm/256484367992?itmmeta=01HWJTR9146THRGFS0Q3K074ER&hash=item3bb7a8de78:g:Y1YAAOSwodlmHrIm&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAAwB%2BcVgvEvyAS81wirEV3KuRgYHhMiUO06kPhksF2NM9eTs4YDz4g%2FEoXpbZqujazVgf--bO6XKnD0mE1DyAW0AH74ZCXoHWr0i9P9dcSreS10ciluEYhxEAeS0d3WOzJp%2BdnPTiL5WkrotU8%2FTGfPGfVlM5DFcW9RZqXh6YIZy2s7a1%2B9u94K1L2Smt0bfAD4JtTByYTGJOnkELbT4C9G%2FkmqLjaG8zUEUUTwjXz%2FW1EMTikmm3amNIWjlWd9BAKDQ%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR9iQ4drkYw

Does anyone know this Radio module for the CPC?

[Gryzor]

Whaaaat? What's this?!

[dodogildo]

Seller seems to be the same one whom I recently encountered on Amibay forums:
(Similar gadget, but on Amiga)
https://www.amibay.com/threads/amigaradio-fm-am-radio-receiver-module.2445292/

[Gryzor]

Pretty awesome... Anyone going to try it?

[eto]

Whaaaat? What's this?!

nothing spectacular. It's a FM module that is controlled by the CPC. I would expect a simple address decoding logic activates the FM IC which gets the data from the data bus. The IC does all the radio logic including sound output. 

In short: your CPC controls a radio IC but you won't listen to a radio with your CPC. 

[Gryzor]

Yes, that much is clear, nobody said it's revolutionary in a technical way, but still .

[McArti0]

If the audio output is connected to the sound line on the expansion port, the radio would be heard in the CPC speaker.

[Bryce]

I suppose it's cool because it hasn't been done before. There are lots of single chip Radio IC's around with digital tuning etc to do this. Unfortunately he doesn't show the other side of the PCB to give it away. I think I would have made a DAB radio though. With an AM/FM antenna that close to a CPC and monitor, you are mainly going to receive the noise coming from the computer.

Bryce. 

[Gryzor]

Depending on the cost why not both?