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- Page 1 PC-FM6-32 FM PCle Radio Capture Card (6 to 32 Channels) Manufacturers of audio & video products for radio & TV broadcasters...
- Page 2 Information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of the vendor. Sonifex Ltd shall not be liable for any loss or damage whatsoever arising from the use of information or any error contained in this manual.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Contents Contents Figures Product Warranty - 2 Year Extended Fig 1-1: FM Spectrum Screen Sonifex Warranty & Liability Terms & Conditions Fig 1-2: FM Radcap 3 Properties Screen 1. Definitions Fig 1-3: FM Radcap Monitor Screen 2. Warranty Unpacking Your Product Repairs &... - Page 4 To register your product, please go online to www.sonifex.co.uk/register Sonifex Limited — 61 Station Road — Irthlingborough — Northamptonshire — NN9 5QE — United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1933 650 700 — Fax: +44 (0)1933 650 726 — Email: technical.support@sonifex.co.uk — Internet: www.sonifex.co.uk...
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Page 5: Sonifex Warranty & Liability Terms & Conditions
‘the Contract’ means the quotation, these Conditions of Sale and any other document incorporated in a contract between the Company and the As standard, Sonifex products are supplied with a 1 year back to base Purchaser. warranty. In order to register the date of purchase and so that we can keep... - Page 6 Warranty the defect has not arisen from a design made, furnished or At the request and expense of the Purchaser the Company will test specified by the Purchaser; the Goods to ascertain performance levels and provide a report of the results of that test. The report will be accurate at the time of the vii.
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Page 7: Repairs & Returns
Please note that all products are either switchable between 115V and 230V, or have a universal power supply. Repairs & Returns Please contact Sonifex or your supplier if you have any problems with your Fuse Rating Sonifex product. Email technical.support@sonifex.co.uk for the repair/ The product is supplied with a single fuse in the live conducting path of the upgrade/returns procedure, or for support &... -
Page 8: Weee Directive
All products manufactured by Sonifex Ltd have the WEEE directive label Connect the equipment in accordance with the connection details and placed on the case. Sonifex Ltd will be happy to give you information about before applying power to the unit, check that the machine has the correct local organisations that can reprocess the product when it reaches its “end... -
Page 9: Introduction
Introduction Introduction greatest flexibility in catering for future baseband technologies while minimising the CPU overhead of the card. A WDM driver for Windows XP (SP2 or later), Server 2003, Vista, Server 2008, Windows 7, Server 2008 R2, Windows 8 and Server 2012 is supplied as well as software for setting the tuner frequencies and monitoring the received audio. -
Page 10: Specifications
Installation Specifications Windows XP, Server 2003, Vista, Server 2008 - Windows will report that new hardware has been found and the New Hardware wizard will start. Insert No. of stations: 6, 12, 18, 24 or 32 (factory-configured but needs licensing on your PC hardware. End-user the driver CD supplied with the card and proceed through the wizard. -
Page 11: Configuration
Configuration as performance will be severely degraded. The minimum gain needed to front-end 256-point FFT, and may be useful in selecting the best location provide good reception on the weakest station being monitored should be for the antenna or resolving interference problems. The scales are 10dB per used, and in some applications one or more directional antennas may be division vertically and 2MHz per division horizontally. -
Page 12: Increasing The Number Of Stations
Windows will provide only the left channel rather than the key on this page. Contact Sonifex to obtain an expansion key, quoting the expected left-plus-right mix. To circumvent this, set any stations to mono card’s Hardware ID and the number of stations you require. -
Page 13: Radcap Connect
Configuration The Tuner application also provides relative signal strength indicator bars rerun Tuner or to leave it running once the frequencies are set. on each station, which may be useful when orientating antennas. Note Alternatively, if you write your own software, there is a DLL supplied on however that due to hardware limitations, this function is not available with the driver disc that can be used for setting and retrieving the station the older 2-channel FM Radcap cards. -
Page 14: Recording
Support Any application that records from standard wave input devices can be used For all support matters, go to www.sonifex.co.uk and click on Technical to record the audio streams from the FM Radcap PCIe. Support, then Software Downloads. Software and driver updates will be made available from time to time and will be placed on this website. -
Page 15: Technical Specification For Pc-Fm6-32
Memory: 256 MB minimum (1GB for Vista Windows 7 PC-FMUP6 Radcap FM 6 Channel Upgrade Server 2008, 2GB for Windows 8/Server 2012) PC-FMUP8 Radcap FM 8 Channel Upgrade Bus: Single lane PCI Express v1.1 Other: Sound card or motherboard sound port... -
Page 16: Appendix A - Programming The Pc-Fm6-32
Appendix A – Programming the PC-FM6-32 Appendix A – Programming the PC-FM6-32 On the driver CD under \AM & FM Radcap\lib you will find Radcap.dll, Pointer to int variable to receive the returned Tuner ID number pPaired Radcap.exp, Radcap.lib and Radcap.h, which can be used to read and set the frequency of each station and to read the received signal strength Pointer to BOOL variable to receive the returned tuner indicator, stereo indicator, FM deviation, pilot level and RDS transmissions... - Page 17 Appendix A – Programming the PC-FM6-32 BOOL __stdcall RadcapSetFrequency Return values enum RadcapTunerType Mode, If the function succeeds the return value is the received signal strength int TunerID, indicator. UINT Kilohertz); If the function fails, the return value is zero. To get extended error Parameters information, call GetLastError ().
- Page 18 Appendix A – Programming the PC-FM6-32 UINT __stdcall RadcapGetDeviation Comments enum RadcapTunerType Mode, The pilot level is only available on the FM Radcap cards, and then only int TunerID); if the card is configured for stereo reception. This function will fail if the monitor program (Tuner.exe) is running.
- Page 19 Appendix A – Programming the PC-FM6-32 Level Comments This parameter can take the following values: RDS decoding is only available on the FM Radcap cards, and only when 0 : no override action RDS is enabled in the driver configuration. 1 : the specified channel is forced to mono reception BOOL __stdcall RadcapRDSGetProgramInformation 2 : the specified channel is forced to mono reception with narrow...
- Page 20 Appendix A – Programming the PC-FM6-32 char ProgramServiceName[9]; writes the Radiotext as a null-terminated string. } RDSProgramInformation; BufferSize Size in bytes of Buffer. ProgramIdentificationCode : See RDS specification NRSC-4-A Annex D. ProgramTypeCode : See RDS specification NRSC-4-A Annex F. Return value Music : 0 = Speech, 1 = Music The return value TRUE if the function succeeds, otherwise it is FALSE.
- Page 21 Appendix A – Programming the PC-FM6-32 BOOL __stdcall RadcapRDSGetUtcDateTime Parameters enum RadcapTunerType Mode, Mode int TunerID, Specifies AM or FM tuner. TunerID SYSTEMTIME *pLocalTime ); Index of the station to be read, beginning at zero for the first Parameters station. Mode pCallback Specifies AM or FM tuner.
- Page 22 Appendix A – Programming the PC-FM6-32 void __stdcall RadcapRDSCloseRawStreaming RDSStreamingHandle hStreaming ); Parameters hStreaming The handle returned by RadcapRDSOpenRawStreaming. Comments This function must only be called from within the same thread that called RadcapRDSOpenRawStreaming (). In particular, this function must never be called from within the streaming callback function, otherwise a deadlock will occur.
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