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Could Navigator work with a Tivoli tabletop radio?... for receiving HD radio

The plug on that tuner would be the same gender as your amp/box. I was wondering the same thing, but these little tuners from Radio Shack need an iPhone or iPad to plug into.
 
thezak said:
Could Navigator work with a http://tivoliaudio.com Tivoli tabletop radio?... for receiving hybrid digital HD radio
http://www.bottlerocketapps.com/apps/hdradio
http://www.google.com/search?q=navigator+hd+radio
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Assuming the Tivoli has external input jacks, and you have an iPhone, you would plug the bottlerocket thing into the iPhone, then use the handsfree / headphone connector on the iPhone to patch into your Tivoli.

HD radios are getting harder and harder to find these days --- it looks like HD fans will have to do the same hardware hacking AM stereo fans had to do. At least this is a reasonable plug in solution. Reception, however, may be a problem since the HD system is so prone to dropouts.
 
Big difference is that Motorola actually gave me an MC13020P chip and data sheets so that I could build my own CQUAM AM stereo decoder (which I did do and it works quite well still on CFCO) BUT, iBiquity has the dark cloak of secrecy, and that discourages any would be HD-fans to even try to build their own HD deocoding hardware/software equipment. These HD dongles only work with Apple hardware, so those few of us that refuse to sign-on with the Apple "i world" are SOL.
 
JohnnyElectron said:
Big difference is that Motorola actually gave me an MC13020P chip and data sheets so that I could build my own CQUAM AM stereo decoder (which I did do and it works quite well still on CFCO) BUT, iBiquity has the dark cloak of secrecy, and that discourages any would be HD-fans to even try to build their own HD deocoding hardware/software equipment. These HD dongles only work with Apple hardware, so those few of us that refuse to sign-on with the Apple "i world" are SOL.
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Its iBiquity's choice to dig their own grave. I do not have to assist them. HD hacking will no doubt involve macro hacking - taking a car HD radio and jumpering it into a home stereo, etc. Once you have a board with the HD chipset on it, it is probably only a matter of time before you figure out how to get signals in and audio out. I've often wondered if I could cross couple the IF of an FM radio with an HD decoder board and get HD out. The only reason why I never did it was because Sangean and Sony made some of the most sensitive FM tuners ever made so I didn't have to.

Since any format I could conceivably want is on satellite, probably multiple channels of it, and there is only a single HD-2 left that won't be over the air, it would be pointless to hack my car radio just to get one HD-2.
 
"Assuming the Tivoli has external input jacks, and you have a Phone, you would plug the bottlerocket thing into the Phone, then use the handsfree / headphone connector on the Phone to patch into your Tivoli."
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What's a "bottlerocket thing"? You mean a TRS plug?
 
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