Who knows what I could pull in if I had an even longer one! If it’s been a while since you used an FM radio then you might have forgotten how finicky they can sometimes be depending on where they are placed and what direction the aerial is pointing in etc. However I replaced the supplied aerial with a 2m long aux cable I had lying around and was then able to pull in a few more channels. I was only able to pull in a couple of local radio stations initially with the supplied telescopic aerial but I do have a lot of electronic equipment in my man cave that could well be affecting reception. The bass boost works quite well too, at least with my Bose speaker anyway. Of course you can also alter the volume level, add Bass Boost or mute the audio all from your C64. I found tuning to be mostly ‘all or nothing’ meaning that most of the stations either tuned in perfectly or barely at all so I had no use for these tools but it’s nice to have them available. Once you have tuned into a particular station you have the option of changing between mono and stereo reception and toggling a ‘de-emphasis’ setting to improve the audio. Here’s a short video of me using the radio, switching channels and so on, all from my C64. Alternatively, you can use the cursor keys to move up and down the list and press ‘return’ to select one. The first 10 presets can be quickly accessed by simply pressing the corresponding number on the keyboard. These presets are saved to disk when you quit the program. The radio will not automatically retrieve channel names but once you have tuned in a channel you like you can press ‘C’ to store it and assign it any name you like (up to 12 characters) and save it into one of the 16 available slots. Alternatively you can nudge the tuner up or down 100Khz at a time to fine tune a station yourself by using the ‘U’ and ‘D’ keys. You can initiate an automatic channel scan up or down the FM frequency by tapping ‘ ’ and ‘:’ respectively. This is basically a list of all the channels you have stored and the names you have assigned them.Īs the C64 FM Radio is digital rather than analogue, tuning in to stations is really simple. In the strip below (providing you have set it already) the current date and time will be displayed.įinally below all this and occupying the majority of the screen is the channel preset/listing area. If you have stored a channel in a ‘preset’ and named it then that will be displayed too under ‘Station name’. Moving across to the larger section on the right we can see details about the currently tuned channel along with the volume level and signal strength. 50us de-em – ‘de-emphasis’ 50us or 70us setting that can help remove unwanted noise/interference.Stereo – Shows whether channel is playing in Mono or Stereo.Scan – Indicates if the radio is currently scanning for a channel.CPOWER – Power status (Green=ON / RED=OFF).The top-left portion of the screen is dedicated to showing the following 6 things:
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