Digital FM Receiver Module, Icstation Radio Receiver Module Digital Stereo Board LCD Display DSP PLL 76.0MHz-108.0MHz Green

I received the Icstation Digital FM Radio Wireless Receiver Module and I am very pleased with its capabilities and performance. It is mostly intuitive, but on reading the manual which you can view online by scanning the QR code that is supplied with the unit, I discovered that there are some really advanced features that this module offers.Before reading the manual, I started by connecting the unit to USB power using the micro USB connector on the module. The display came on with the FM frequency on the display. The right hand knob allows you to tune in the radio station and the left adjusts the volume. I plugged in some earbuds into the headphone jack and was able to listen to the tuned station. There was a fair bit of static, but I figured that this was because I didn’t have an antenna. The manual recommends connecting a 75cm (30 in) wire to the antennal connection. I connected a 10 inch wire which I could extend later if needed. This cleared up all the static and I was listening to music.The sound quality is very impressive and the clarity is very good. After reading the manual, I discovered that there are quite a few advanced features which I have not yet explored, but I will do so when I have more time. I will try and find a housing for this module and attach a speaker so I can have a stand-alone portable radio with digital display.Overall, I am very impressed and happy with this unit and would recommend for the novice or advanced hobbyist.

I purchased this board to experiment with a bit for another project I'm working on. On opening the package, I saw a PCB that was very cleanly made, and the assembly looks to be very well done. I was interested to see if it worked as well as it looked.I first noted that the .PDF file on the Amazon site wasn’t readable on my phone where I was working for some reason, but fortunately, you really don’t need it for a basic hookup. It’s dead simple to set this up, and the short version is, it works very well. I’ve since checked, and the problem was just with my phone. The file is perfectly readable on the computer and it has rather complete instructions. Not your usual half-English eye test chart.The board is powered through a standard micro USB port on the edge of the board. You just plug it in to either a phone-type charger, or a USB battery pack, and plug in a set of earphones, and you’re off and running.The blue backlit display lit up immediately, and showed the current frequency tuned. I found that I couldn’t receive anything but static until I attached a wire to the ANT connection, and after I did that, it picked up dozens of stations immediately. I was pleasantly surprised that the sound quality was as good as the board looked.The instructions indicate that you can connect speakers directly to the board, and an onboard amplifier will run up to 3W output into 4 ohms impedance.It has a signal strength meter just above the frequency window to show you how strong the tuned station is, and there’s a selectable “squelch” function (which they call "AMCAP"), which mutes the static when you’re not tuned to a station. This is accessed by a “long press” on the FREQ knob, and the same to turn it off.The board is also capable of interfacing with an onboard serial TTL interface, but I haven’t tried to use that. The instructions in the .PDF manual are pretty complete as to that functionality. There are several user configurable settings available through that interface.All in all, this board looks very well put together, worked right off the bat, and appears to do a very nice job of receiving FM radio, even though I live in a rather weak semi-rural area away from any large cities.

I have this little guy on my desk, work no problem for basic usage, though I want to use the TTL interface and although I can read from it when i manually adjust the Volume or Tune...it doesnt respond to commands I send, listed on the instructions.If you plug it up via USB to a computer, it goes into PC Mode, and the know control my computer audio, but i have found no way to access the music source from USB, and this is found NO WHERE in the documentation I have

The media could not be loaded. Great little FM radio module. All you really need is DC battery power and a speaker or two. It has a built-in amplifier already on board, so no need for an external Amp. There is a solder pad on the board for you to select if you want stereo or mono. It came with absolutely no instructions, so I'd assume it's stereo by default, and if you want mono you just bridge that solder pad. That's what I did and it worked..You do need to solder a length of wire to the antenna pad on the board in order to get multiple stations. Also has a 3.5mm headphone jack.No, it's not a Bose acoustic wave machine, but it is perfect for building your own FM radio in a box or chasis of your own design.

My old analog tuner just gave up this last week so I did a search here and found this thing. Got it today, just hooked it up and listening to Philip Glass Piano Concerto #3 right now. For something so inexpensive it's shocking how good it sounds. The bass in the piano is there and I didn't think it would have this kind of range. Paired with my JDM Denon amplifier and JBL monitors, it just works. Very happy and would buy it again. I have a few hours of listening ahead of me tonight. One note, I tried a steel wire for the aerial at first, didn't like it. Found some thin copper wire laying around, it did the trick.

Extraordinary performance and sensitivity with a vertical 3-foot (1meter) pole or wire as an antenna. One key advantage of this DSP based design is that the mute and stereo functions are manually set. The mute arrived disabled by default and the stereo arrived always on by default. This feature is important if you desire to listen to a noisy station that would otherwise be muted out in other DSP designs. In this respect this module functions like an analog tuning, except that the tuning is exactly selected digitally.I have not explored any programmable features. Used a pair of AA batteries. The current draw was 19mA after the display light automatically goes off. This light adds about 3mA to the power draw.