On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 6/23/25 7:10 AM, Dan Purgert wrote:
On Jun 23, 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm old enough to remember pocket radios of the fifties/sixties.
I looking for a USB device to plug into my laptop running Debian 12 so
I can listen to a local station while working. I'd also want to record
as MP3 for listening at a more convenient time.
RTL2832U dongle and RTL-SDR should cover that. RECORDING the station
might be a little more interesting, but I don't see why it wouldn't be
doable.
Note that most of the things sold with this chipset are going to be
marketed as TV Tuners; but the chip itself is capable of receiving
anything between the 630 meter and 23 centimeter bands (approx 475 KHz
to 1.2 GHz).
That explains the irrelevant hits I got to my web search.
That chip can do TOO much.
I was looking for a device aimed at 88-108 MHz band with builtin antenna.
[https://www.adafruit.com/product/1497 approaches my goal]
That adafruit one is OK. I'm not a big fan of the MCX connector, since
you're a bit tied to that antenna then -- similar to older TVs that only
had the 300-ohm twin-lead connection instead of an F-connector.