Does anyone know of a place where I can buy this?
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AM/FM Radio with Recording Feature and RDS
- Thread starter TheTVExplorer
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It doesn't exist. There aren't many portable receivers with RDS but even less with recording mostly cheap Chinese ones like these.
Your best bet would be to get a higher quality receiver like this and pair it with an external line-out recorder.
Your best bet would be to get a higher quality receiver like this and pair it with an external line-out recorder.
The HDR-14 is great, I recommend it. Are you looking for digital recording or analog?
Yes, I also recommend the HDR-14, it is a good quality radio. Another option is a FLeX Radio, or a SDR would allow you to do this by computer, if that is what you are looking for.
I'll make a pitch for the Qodosen DX-286 here. I use it in combination with a Tascam DR-05X recorder. The combination will cost around $160-$170 total, half for the radio, half for the recorder. The FM performance of the DX-286 is phenomenal.
The best built-in recorder I've found recently has been in the Tecsun M-601, but it's FM only, uses a wrist-strap antenna which somewhat limits its reception performance, has no RDS, and rolls off recording frequency response at about 11.5 kHz.
All the above are available via Amazon.
The best built-in recorder I've found recently has been in the Tecsun M-601, but it's FM only, uses a wrist-strap antenna which somewhat limits its reception performance, has no RDS, and rolls off recording frequency response at about 11.5 kHz.
All the above are available via Amazon.
I already have the HDR 14, and I’m looking for something that has a digital recorder.
Isn't the so-called "Real" Don Steele actually someone else masquerading as such?
The Real Real Don Steele is dead, I think?
I don't know....
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Trying to keep this on-topic, I don't know of any integrated radio/recorder that supports RD(B)S.
There's also the ICR-110, which is larger and includes AM. My own opinion is that the ICR-100 speaker sounds a little better than the ICR-110 speaker. However, recall that the OP wanted something that supported RDBS, and the ICR series doesn't do that. Moreover, the sampling rate of the recordings from these units is 32 kHz - which, to be fair, is adequate for broadcast use. What's not so adequate is the brickwall low-pass filter that's applied, limiting upper frequency response to about 10 kHz. That's OK for AM but not OK for FM in my opinion. The earphone jack of the ICR units also won't function with a TRRS plug such as that found on earbuds that have a microphone attached.
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