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Description:
One very important item is still missing from almost each appearance of automotive computing. Especially in the field of car entertainment configurations, often the available head-unit is used only for the tuner facility and it's amplifiers.

The latter feature, the amplifier, is not a complicated item to get rid of as a large selection of automotive amplifiers can be found in any decent car-hifi shop.

This other feature, the tuner, is a lot harder to replace. Only very few computer based tuners are available and most of those don't offer the AM band reception nor do they offer RDS decoding. For a lot of people AM can still be important because quite a few radio stations are not eglible for an FM band frequency.

A good implementation of the Radio Data System (RDS) is even more favorable. Using the Traffic Announcement (TA) feature of RDS enables automatic interruption of the MP3 or CD/DVD player function of the computer and switch to traffic announcements when those are broadcast.

Specifications:
   ·   FM Band: 87.5 - 108.0MHz,
   ·   AM/MW Band: 531 - 1602kHz,
   ·   AM/LW Band: 153 - 281kHz,
   ·   Mono/stereo support,
   ·   RDS Decoder,
   ·   TMC Support (optional in software),
   ·   USB Audio 10 - 48kHz,
   ·   Line-out header "CD-ROM style" (optional),
   ·   F antenna connector or
   ·   Fakra-SMB antenna connector,
   ·   USB B-type connector,
   ·   Dimensions (h·w·d): 100x50x25mm,
   ·   Power: USB 5V, 500mA,
   ·   Temperature: -30 to +80 degrees.


Any questions regarding this product?
Please don't hesitate asking at info@whitebream.nl
or use the feedback form.

Availability:
Project cancelled.
Computer systems CARGO, UNIGO and MERGO have similar tuner functionality integrated.