DAB (Digital Audio Broadcast) Tangent Trio
Specifications of the radio:
Band |
FM and band III |
Frequency range FM Frequency range DAB |
87.5 ... 108 MHz 174 ... 240 MHz |
Output power |
5 watt RMS |
Powersupply |
12 Volt dc |
Antenna connection |
F-connector |
Audio connections
|
3.5 mm jack for headphone 3.5mm jack aux input 3.5mm jack line output |
weight |
2.4 kg |

Here in the south-west of the Netherlands, close to the Belgium border, only the Belium radiostations can be received in DAB
The radio gives in the display that there are dutch radio DAB stations, but is unable to give any sound since the switch to DAB+ .
That means the radio is unusable for the reception of DAB transmissions.
That is why it fits, however only a couple of years old, very wel between the ancient radio's.
For more info about these transmissions see
www.radiozenders.org/dab
On a spectrumanlyser these transmissions look like:
Inside of the receiver
The receiver compizes 2 PCB's :
Powersupply and LF : |
TDA7266 and 5Volt and 3Volt powersupply |
RF and processor : |
Gyro-1122 board |
Controlpanel |
|
Gyro-1122 Board
On this board there is the FM and DAB receiver.
More data about this board you can find
here
This board is unable re receive the L-band.
Demodulation of the DAB signal is done by a DSP (TMS320DRE200) of Texas Instruments.
I was unable to find datailed info about this DSP because it was already out of production.
Some info about the DSP processor is
here
A couple of key componens on this board :
DSP processor: |
TMS320DRE200 of Texas instruments |
clock oscillator for DSP |
16.384 MHz |
clock oscillator |
24.576 Mhz |
flash-memory |
39VF020 2Mbit 256x8 |
varicaps |
BB202 of NXP (marking L2) |
Pictures of the dsp-board :

Frontpanel on which the module is mounted :

With mounted module :

PCB which is mounted on the backside, with 3.3 volt and 5 Volt powersupply and audioamplifier with TDA7266: