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?

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




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

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/

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

NOYB wrote: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?!

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.

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

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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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

shorty wrote: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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Go for this one

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

RF-Head wrote:Go for this one

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

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

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.

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

UKNECKS wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2016 12:14 pm http://www.hf-electronics.nl/Webwinkel- ... t-RDS.html

Do anyone have project of this ? dsp with RDS?

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

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

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